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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1896
Page
2
Jan 11 local notes describe improved roads, skating, and a timber lyceum reorganization. Visitors include Dr. Drinkwater, Mr. Markham, and Mr. Scripture. A farm show and Farmers Institute are mentioned along with a house fire at J A McLaughlin's, insured for 2000 with 1500 on the building. repairs and apologies feature in town news.
No snow. J. R. Morrison was a Monticello visitor last Sunday. Mrs. Johnson visits with her daughter at Springville. John Hassenpflus was a Spring Valley visitor yesterday. The Co operative Creamery Co are packing ice this week. A Berlin auction drew many last Tuesday. H. P. Thompson of Delmar Junction was in town a few days last week. Since hog prices rose Mr Reichart ships one to two carloads daily. The password on our streets is Trave you a cold yet Nearly everybody has one and some are quite sick. Reichart and Turnis new firm brings many runners and traveling men to town but they are jolly fellows.
The Osborne Bros. shipped hogs from Amber. The little child of John Baileys is reported to be quite sick. Mr. Sanford paid an average price of one dollar per hundred for December milk. W. H. Farragher is receiving stock of farm machinery for the season. Mr. Sanford finished ice harvesting packing about three hundred tons. Rev. M. Blodgett and David S. Palmer hold meetings at the M E church. Mr. and Mrs. J N Remsey were in Chicago attending the bedside of their mother Mrs Perryman. Mrs. Perryman of Amber lies at the point of death at the home of her daughter in Chicago.
The Castle Grove community reports several illnesses including la grippe cases and Mrs. R. Redmoni with a lung trouble while Mrs. Jas F. Laude and Mrs. R. Shear recover. The Argand Literary Society advances, a new US mail wagon arrives, horse losses and a fire at Wm Galligan's home are noted, and a district No 5 liter ary society forms with meetings in the new schoolhouse. Supervisors consider tax values for horses versus other animals prompting questions.
Robi Wilson visited Monticello last week while Rev. Macintosh preached in Marion and Rev. Steabler led M E church services. College activities include prayer day January 31 and a Music hall entertainment next Wednesday. President Robinson leads growth. several new students arrive. illness mostly mild grippe. James Harper died near Hillside at 84. born Shade Gap Pa in 1812. married Matilda Jeffries, 1852. remarried Julia Larrabee in 1863. funeral at Presbyterian church conducted by Rev. Macintosh.
The Woodstock Improvement Association secures the Oliver Typewriter Co of Chicago to locate a plant here with a $200,000 capital. The deal includes a factory site and $7,000 stock subscription, to run five years. Executives Granger Farwell R S Peale Douglass Smith and Lawrence Williams led negotiations. Production expected by early next year with large labor needs.
A quotation from W D Howells in Century argues that human conditions shape behavior not human nature. It contends society can progress by transforming conditions, not altering intrinsic human nature, using the crustacean shedding its shell as a metaphor for risky but necessary change.
A humorous dialogue touches on medical advice and a prescription for an opiate. The doctor reveals the medicine is for the wife, not the husband, in a punny exchange.
A street car driver visits a town physician who prescribes bread pills and distilled water, then declares the patient needs plenty of outdoor air. The driver laughs at the doctor’s seriousness, remarking he is the one who needs air. The exchange highlights humor over medical certainty.
The Philadelphia Record recounts Abraham Lincoln's early postmaster role in a tiny Ohio town. A postoffice consolidation later moved the office to Salem and Lincoln reportedly returned $17 in government funds, saying he never used another man's money.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in the Monticello Iowa post office, advertised January 20, 1895. Names include Abbey A L Burnham L R Bohlken Henry Johnson Elmer M Turney H K Didoro Salvatore Graziano Filippro Giuseppe Lamantia Kenla Antonino L T Alexander P M.
Estate heirs sell a five room frame house with a stable on lot 138 in the irregular plat of Monticello on Main Street south of Proctor's store. One half cash, balance on time if desired. Call J. B. Smith. 29w3.
A long list of property transfers in Monticello and area towns shows numerous deeds, lot and section descriptions, and shares conveyed between private parties and banks. The excerpt includes a district court notice in Jones County from March Term 1898 detailing partition actions among David Holmes, Fannie Holmes, J. W. Callahan, and others, with specific shares allocated and mortgage lien considerations.
Special execution levies real estate of Louis Starry to satisfy Campbell debt. Sale set for January 25, 1896 at 10 a.m. in Anamosa Court House. Also original notice in March 1896 district court for Emily Nichols et al. to answer private sale of 49.5 acres in Section 10, T84, R2 West, under a decree. Default possible if no defense by March term.
The partnership between Phelps and Miller is dissolved by mutual consent. A. Phelps will continue the business. The San Como Guatemala church foundation has shifted seven inches due to growth of two large white zum trees.
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