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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1909
Page
3
Wyoming residents and visitors are listed with occurrences from Jan 19 including visits by Mrs J F Franks and A J Lewis, business callers, health concerns, bank meeting outcomes, and a fatality. The note updates on store hours, medical exams, mining curios, social events, and church activities.
A roundup of residents visiting nearby towns and hosting gatherings. Cedar Rapids visitors A J Smith and D C Livingstone traveled to Wyoming and Onslow. Miss Elva Collier heads the J T club Friday while Mrs Marl Stingley hosts the KKK event Wednesday. The Sunday dance attracted a large crowd and several locals, including Will Sutherland and Mrs Bieber, were noted in town over the weekend.
Mrs. Charles Walsworth is very ill. Miss Lou Noyes visits Lisbon aunt. Max Lamey sails to Spokane for store job. 10 lb boy born to Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Walters. Mrs. Pant fractures a hip after a fall. Noyes plans “good deals” for readers. Granddaughter of W. H. Alexander improves in Stanwood. Seven cars of stock shipped this week by Johnston Bros and others.
Castle Grove items report George Minnis ill and ice producers active with blocks from Silver Creek. Cattle shipments by Jas Lahey from Amber. Frank Byrnes returns from Ames short course. Several farm transfers and visitors including Moss, Delays purchase of Topping farm. The Howie family funeral in Castle Grove follows Robert Howie’s burial in Colorado.
Notes show Jan Cassade and others ill or on leave across Colorado, Dubuque, Des Moines, and Cherokee with several births and injuries. Names include Aitchison, Skinner, Freeze, Bairdie, Simons, Patterson, Miller, Wandever, Gearhart, Hatch, Loy, with social and family updates.
The Misa McCuskey piano class presents a diverse program next Wednesday evening January 27 at the opera house. Miss Anna Mae Vawter will read a piece, and reserved seats are 25 cents at Sodtje's drug store. The lineup features marches, polkas, songs, piano solos, theatrical scenes, and pieces by Bach, Chadwick, and Grieg with performances by Ruth Inglis, Lucile Chase, Olive Cartano, and others.
A string of real estate transfers records numerous deeds across townships and towns in Iowa including Oxford Junction Monticello Anamosa Olin Wyoming and Martello with prices ranging from 900 to 9500 and payments by cash and other considerations. The notice ends with a local retailer Alsover's Center Junction advertising mittens blankets and underwear and a help wanted ad seeking a good light work girl.
A list of petit jurors summoned for the March 1909 term of the district court. Names include Ambuhl Andrew Lovell, Brown J I, Fairview Byera C C, Monticello Berner J J, Oxford Bruce Clint Cass, Bebhrends Henry Richland, Brady Jack Jackson, Chatterton H P Hale, Chatterton R W, Clay Cole M Fairview Cropp Roy Monticello Eimergon Fletcher Rome Eby J M Scotch Grove Edwards E J Oxford Ellison S H Greenfield Ellson I F Greenfield Gooley N P Cass Green James Madison Green J F Fairview Heiken G J Castle Grove Herren B D Wayne Hearn Dan Monticello Holub Frank Oxford Ireland James Hale Leamon Noble Hale Martin Wm Richland McCormick James Madison May James Jackson Northrop CJ Monticello Newell S C Wyoming Peet Clarence Greenfield Rubl John Fairview Russell J F Fairview Remley AL Fairview Rockstad GP Monticello Scroggie RA Clay Skinner AJ Oxford Siver AJ Greenfield Wood AG Hale Wilcox Edwin Wyoming.
A list of individuals drawn to serve as grand jurors for the year 1909 is presented. They are summoned to appear at the courthouse in Anamosa on March 2, 1909 at 10:00 a.m. The names include John F. W. Allen, J. W. Byerly, A. C. Burroughs, M. M. Franks, Lister Hale, Thos. Sutherland, Geo. A. Woso ba, and others from Madison Greenfield Castle Grove Scotch Grove Washington and surrounding areas.
The Klondike Creamery Co. stockholders and patrons meet at the creamery in Monticello at 1 p.m. on Monday February 1 to elect a treasurer, secretary, seven directors, and handle other business. Secretary Rudolph Bohren signs for the Board of Directors.
The Dubuque Times Journal reports Governor Carroll outlining a wide program for Iowa including amendment of many laws to prevent confusion, reform of primary elections, taxation review, school law revision, and expanded public commissions. He endorses tariff revision and resource conservation while avoiding factional conflict and omitting certain Garst recommendations.
Five years after Lenox graduates were praised by a state university dean for their solid preparation, Hopkinton’s Miss Edith Anderson departs for Berlin to study German language and literature. Anderson, who taught in Oelwein, resigns to join her brother Rev. Harold Anderson, a Princeton Seminary scholar in Berlin.
Here you are a six hole range high closet pouch feed reservoir large oven a Rona baker for only 33 dollars at Alsvers Center Junction For Sale a large two story wagon and blacksmith shop Left corner in the city Good opening for the right man Inquire of 23 of W 5S Garrison Wyoming Ia Infants OUnderwear Doutrick a
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