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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
7
Anamosa area residents conduct routine business and social visits this week. Names include Elmer Hoagh, Louis Wooddick, Miss E Grace Young, and Mrs. Isaac Maxwell among others visiting Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Monticello, Dubuque, Manchester, Maquoketa, and Wyoming. Deatrick's advertises new fabrics and post cards while Edison and Victor phonographs remain on offer.
Residents travel between Oxford Junction Des Moines and Omaha while cousins, neighbors, and merchants exchange visits. Coal deliveries ease fuel fears as Deu trick store promotes winter sales and new spring goods at Deatrick's. A school box social, a church Endeavor Day, and a lively home talent play named Little Buckshot entertain the town.
Local items recount a boastful fighter from The Leader office, a Monticello insanity case, Miss Jennie Rieke breaking her leg skating, Grandma Nobie’s 81st birthday with 180 cards, Father Verba’s arrest and intemperate conduct, Jack Allen’s hotel misadventures, a supreme court ruling against A. M. Dillon Co. vs City of Monticello, Mrs. Carpenter’s Chicago surgery, A. I. Jackson’s hernia operation, heavy snowfall delaying trains, and a push to view Wagner aluminum ware at Davis Hardware.
A Geneva Nebraska speaker urged farmers youth to stay on the soil and pursue scientific farming. News covers several Monticello weddings including Miss Ethel Oest to James Farley and Miss Clotilda D Autremont to Harry Murphy in Montana. Also reported are business changes at Beery dry goods, Bolton departure, and Dr. J E Gilmore's ten year sentence with appeal pending amid community sympathy. Weather and historical snow data conclude the item.
Jones county tax lists now at The Monticello State Bank in Delaware and Linn counties tributary to Monticello. Call to inspect the records.
Mrs Charlotte M Meeker Telfair Smith widow of James B Smith died in Marion last Saturday evening the 16th inst. Funeral in Monticello at the Methodist Episcopal church conducted by Rev Roy V Porter. Interment in Oakwood cemetery. She was born Davenport Oct 15 1848 and married Jan 8 1871 in Davenport. She is survived by Grace Oline Marion I T Smith Canton SD and others. A sister Dora Muha Camanche was with her at death. She belonged to the Methodist church and valued its work and comfort. Funeral party included Charles A Cline Dora Muha Hthel and Marie Cline Marana Rice.
The week’s heavy snow blocked roads and delayed trains. The Calmar line reached Oneida after being iced in for days, with 66 passengers including a seriously ill woman en route to Anamosa. A burial party traveled on, while others sought lodgings in Oneida. Train crews faced forced detours and car rearrangements as storms eased, with snow depths cited from 3 to 4 feet and historical winter totals compared.
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