Monticello Notices and Sales Roundup
Wm Abel bought another carload of horses at this place last Monday. Hicks Eilers clearance sale. Wills Deatrick offer stock-taking sale with low prices. Remains of Fay Seeber buried in Deming New Mexico. sister wished burial in Monticello. Earle Barker dies of typhoid fever at 29. widowhood for Kittie Wright with two sons. Anamosa visitors and local illness updates noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Abel
Fay Seeber
Deming
New Mexico
Monticello
Manchester
Earle Barker
Corbit leaves Lenox for Michigan law school
R M Corbit of Onslow leaves Lenox college after years of study and heads to Ann Arbor Michigan to pursue a law course. Verena Schneider returns from Winthrop and denies false elopement rumors. Monticello banks publish an official statement showing strong financial health and surplus funds. A traveling theater troupe departs, drawing mixed local chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Corbit
Onslow
Lenox College
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Tax lists to be available at Monticello State Bank for six townships
Copies of the tax lists for Wayne Scotch Grove Castle Grove Richland Lovell and Monticello City will be at the Monticello State Bank in a few days. Taxpayers may pay there to avoid a trip to the county treasurer. Mr Casper Gadmer and sisters Dora and Anna Gadmer of Cherokee county visit their grandmother Mrs Gadmer and aunt Mrs Louis Rieger. children of Henry Gadmer formerly of Castle Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne
Scotch Grove
Castle Grove
Richland
Lovell
Monticello City
Monticello
Casper Gadmer
Dora
Anna Gadmer
Cherokee County
Gadmer
Louis Rieger
Henry Gadmer
Improvements and notices in Jones County news
Mentions C P Henderson improving a grocery store, thanks from the Kline family, and a county teachers meeting planned for Feb 11. Reports illnesses of Rev Staebler, marriages at Ryan church, and a Cedar Rapids wedding. Auctions, legal dismissals, local shortages, and town row fines noted alongside obituaries, veterinary talks, and hog cholera discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Drinkwater
Town State Veterinary Association
Des Moines
State Agricultural Society
German Mutual Insurance Company report for 1898
The German Mutual Insurance Company of Wayne township filed its 1898 report. Risks in force were $674,037 on Jan 1 1898 and $699,877 on Jan 1 1899. Last year’s losses paid totaled $445 with total expenses including losses at $708.07 and insurance cost per thousand $1.01. Longtime president Geo H Balster and secretary Harm Harms have led the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
German Mutual Insurance Company
Wayne Township
Geo
H. Balster
Harm Harms
Monticello Briefs and Notices Highlight Local Life
Cedar Rapids visitor Mr J B Hall calls in Monticello while Mr B M Baker returns from Boston. Douglass Smith improves from illness. Mrs Welch dislocated hip but recovering. Public sale by J W Poppe Feb 8 selling cows grain and farm goods as he moves to Ledyard. Dispatch rumors Iowa regiments to be mustered out. Germans visit from Lemars in Monticello area. Scotch Grove nursery line connects Scotch Grove Hoyt’s and Schoonover. Iowa Supreme Court meets. Jones county cases listed. Jacob Boner jailed 80 days for embezzlement. third offense liable to felony. Mrs Mellette dies at Ravenna Nebraska. funeral at Anamosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Poppe
Center Junction
Poppe
Ledyard
Kossuth County
Scotch Grove
Hoyt
Iowa Supreme Court
Des Moines
Jones County
Ora D. Pitkin
E. Peet
L. Schoonover
Osborne Bros
Ella
Jacob Boner
Justice Ricker
Boner
D. H. Liddy
Liddy
Davenport
Mrs Platt Jennings Visits Cedar Rapids Relative
Mrs Platt Jennings left for Cedar Rapids last Wednesday to meet her brother Jackson Harris from Nebraska and plan a visit at Monticello. Harris left Monticello 42 years ago and has not returned. Mrs Geo G Platner of Center Junction died last night at 6 with pneumonia after a week of grip. She was the daughter of Thomas White and survived by husband and two children. funeral tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
John
Ravenna
Nebraska
Mellette
Frank
Platt Jennings
Cedar Rapids
Jackson Harris
Monticello
Mr. Harris
Geo. G. Platner
Center Junction
Platner
Thomas White
Monticello Auction Plans and Local Crime Report
J N Hanna announces a farm auction near Monticello with livestock corn hay and implements to be sold on February 1 after which he travels to Willow Springs Missouri. A break in at the Lone Star saloon yields cigars whiskey and an empty keg as a rash of thefts haunt town with measles affecting schools and homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. N. Hanna
Seymour Bennett
Monticello
Hanna
New York
Willow Springs
Missouri
Lone Star
Villian
Death of Mrs. Jane Beatty of Richland Township
Mrs. Jane Beatty born in 1815 in County Tyrone Ireland died at her daughter Mrs. F W Kingsleys home between Monticello and Cascade after long illness. She married David Beatty in 1846 and lived in Richland township for over 52 years. Survived by husband and four children. funeral held at Cascade Baptist church. A life of faith and charity noted by relatives and church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Beatty
David Beatty
Richland Township
F. W. Kingsley
Monticello
Cascade
Beatty
Jane McCartney
County Tyrone
Ireland
Philadelphia
West
Baptist Church
The
Church Notices and Sunday Sermons
Presbyterian church next Sunday morning will feature a sermon on True and false teaching concerning Regeneration with an evening service at 7 30. M E church plans a morning sermon on The gift of the Holy Spirit when and how is it received and an evening talk The virtue of a corpse. Church of Christ announces morning The Sin of Ignorance and evening Popular Amusements with a young people invitation. Congregational church will present A gentleman and Jesus in the evening and Endeavor day observed next Sunday. Library books are nearly ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
M. E. Church
Stabbler
Church of Christ
Jesus
Notice of Dissolution for Wills and Doutrick Firm
Public notice states the partnership Wills and Doutrick will expire February 1 1899. All accounts owed to the firm must be settled before that date. H C Wis J A Dovatrick Monticello December 15 1898.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wills & Doutrick
H. C. Wis
J. A. Dovatrick
Monticello
Dunham Farm for Rent in Monticello City Limits
84 acre Dunham farm within Monticello city limits available for rent. Enquiries directed to 3011 F. P. StoHer in Monticello. Mr Clarence Jennings of Springville visited Monticello last Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunham
Monticello
F. P. StoHer
Clarence Jennings
Springville
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the Express
J. W. Doxsee
Home News
Levi Hildreth
Lucian Rice
Joseph King
Ira Forman
Wills & Deitrick
Messrs
W. D. Sheean
E. R. Moore
Heinrich Harms
Hicks & Eilers
Lettie Ahlers
Bellevue
Isaac Rigby
Henry Freese
Bowen’s Prairie
Henderson
P. B. Mills
Fayette
B. D. Haeussler & Son
John Miller
Frankfort
Rhine
Wills & Deatrick
Verena Schneider
Winthrop
Wills & Deutrick
C. P. Henderson
A. D. Kline
T. J. Cowan
Prin. C. E. Stimson
Wyoming
W. B. Gregg
Jones County Teachers’ Association
D. S. Staebler
James Delay
Catherine Beacom
Ryan Catholic Church
P. H. Ryan
M. Beacom
Ryan
John Delay
Glenn Kiburz
H. H.wycoff
Building and Loan Association of
Marion
Henderson’s
F. J. Zimmerman
Johanna Tobiason
Andrew Yousse
August Eggers
Yousse
Youssee
Tur Express
Er. N. Howard
Express
Hicks & Hilers
A. Heitchen
Mr.Heitchen
Heitchen
Margaret May
Baltimore
Charles
Stella
Congregational Church
Millikan
J. 8. Hall
Mr. B. M. Baker
Boston
Douglass H. Smith
Havana
Washington
Iowa
Illinois
Lemars
Dyersville
F. D. Helgens
Oltmann Doering
Philip Luebben
Anton Bilks
Jacob Nannen
Will Colmann
Meta Theilen
Gertie
Emma Colmann
John Null
Shnke Moehlmann
A. H. Marshall
C. A. Thomas
G. W. Leake
State Board of Health
Lon’s
Lou Jennings
Marie
Chicago
Philippine Islands
George W. Moulton
Tommy Atkins
South Dakota
Jade
Sweet Marie
Emily Smith
Jenifer
Alabama
Emily M. Smith
Baptista
Emily
Jeni
Christ’s
Council Proceedings
Council
Young, Suter
Heisey
Bohlken
Lightfoot
Schoonover
XK. H. Thomas
Ayes—Young, Suter
Nay—Heisey
Town Homestead
Farmers’ Institute
Poultry Farmer
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Journal
Humane Alliance
John Rickels
John M. Lange
Doutrick
C. H. Schipman
South Sipe First St
Monticrixo
Nellie Hanna
Monticello High School
David Street
Mamie
Oscar H. Soetje
Craszist
Chaler IN
Sherwin-Williams
Hubbard & Hanken
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