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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1907
Page
4
A community diary records visits from Monticello and Wyoming, dances at the opera house, stock shipments, calls by Dr. Drinkwater and a traveling salesman, and town events. Notable items include the Carson sale, a skating hall plan, cemetery meeting, and the impending Kingsley marriage.
Local items report W W Craft of Fillmore and Jno M Lauser of Worthington in Cascade. Farm commerce shows Co operative Creamery paying 33 cents for December milk and poultry earnings around $6000. Several local residents face illness, travel, or family events including a marriage, adoptions, funerals, and a paralytic stroke.
Mrs. I J Sokol visits her children in the northwest. Merwins plan Sioux Rapids as future home. CG Butler party visits with L Butler family. Frank Fowlie of Clinton reports his wife improving. Rev. McClelland's Beth el group dines with the parishioners. McClellands enjoy local popularity. County papers offer the Farmer's Tribune, scholars note its stoppage. Scrub brush sellers return, likened to Mark Twain's dog chasing a coyote as county rights—worth about $8,000—draw agents into the sales drive.
D J Hogan shipped stock from Prairieburg on Tuesday. Wilder paid 31 cents for butter for the last half of December. F C Cramer attended the assessor's meeting in Anamosa on Monday. Mrs D W Cunningham to entertain the ladies aid on Thursday. C T Bates of Wayne township has been buying stock locally. Gladys Hosford visiting grandparents in Monticello. Mr Isaac Orcutt seriously ill at son Leslie's home. Mrs Alexander Davidson nursing a sore thumb but improving. Miss Jessie Davidson of Monticello visiting Castle Grove friends. Mrs Robert Smith and sister of Wayne Nebraska guests of A W Cramer family. Miss Bertha Harken teaching in No 4 this week for Eda Cramer sidelined by mother’s illness. Alex Iving, spending weeks locally, left for Lone Tree to work on a stock farm. Mrs A M Fairbanks improving with hope of recovery.
Rural Route No 2 reports visits and work in Wayne Amber Scotch Grove Anamosa Monticello Langworthy Pumpkinville and Cass. Includes hog and corn deliveries earnings of 6.15 per hundred at Wayne, people visiting relatives and a death Tobias Tobingsen and a lively dance at Wallace Grey’s home with plans for a Chicago trip.
Scotch Grove January 15. Mr Valentine Eby spent a few days with his brothers this week. Mr J G Krause visited teachers in the county asking them to hold socials for the benefit of a soldiers' organization.
The community discusses a cemetery monument near the Presbyterian church. Local residents and visitors include Ray Fairbanks at Chas A Sutherland’s home, Lyman Moats visiting Center Junction, and Ilenry Rickels visiting Ladehoff parents in Miss Mildred Sutherland and Nona Brainard’s company. A. Sutherland farm residents travel plans, a move to the S H Clark place, and James Mspy with Margaret Sutherland and Minnie Livingstone host a fundraising social for the monument. Jasper Hutton and Anna Rogers of Hanover Illinois wed at the Presbyterian parsonage in Savanna and visit the area.
Amber report lists Joe Bailey attending Lenox College at Hopkinton and Frank Farragher traveling to Goodland Kansas this week. Supervisor J K Wale of Cass visited on business. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Carl Iden yesterday. Peter Lincoln plans a move to South Dakota soon. Shelled corn shipments are high this winter. W A1 Davis visited his daughter Mrs John Bailey after coming up from the Junction.
Manager Rosenthal presents new films and songs next Tuesday with prices at 15 25 35 cents. The Downerville Creamery bonds 2500 to assure patrons payment for cream. Bijou company returns Tuesday with new acts and the same prices. Box office receipts show steady audience support. Farmers’ Tribune offer included with Express for 1.75. Weather notes and local sales ads wrap up with estate sale near Scotch Grove and tax lists at Monticello Bank.
London Spectator reports cod in Amsterdam aquarium tanks exposed to strong light develop extraordinary eye overgrowth. Every fish in the tank becomes nearly blind as eyes enlarge rapidly over months to adapt to light. Dr Johnson quips that hope triumphs over experience in a widower remarriage.
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