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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1896
Page
7
Mr Al Kiburz visited Cascade last week while M W Herrick attends legal business in Marion today. Willa Deutrick and others shop Hicks Eilers with fashion sheets at King’s Cash Store. Notables include Mr Wm Abel of Chicago and Rev Father McCormick visiting Farley. Multiple updates on illness, business trips, and shops populate a bustling community page across Monticello Davenport and surrounding towns.
Sheriff Babcock and many visitors like Leroy Clark Grace Davis and Miss Anderson appear in Dubuque social notes. Wills & Deutrick advertise textiles while stock buyers buy horses for foreign markets. Fayre of groceries and local travel, illness updates and Leap Year social planned by Epworth league mark the town’s activity.
A brief notice describes oysters celery and fruits as light articles aiding digestion and promoting refreshing sleep. Procured of Lon Jennings, the Grocer.
McConnell and Stiner of Maquoketa have taken possession of the livery barn recently vacated by Warner and Bort and Mr Stiner is now conducting business at the stand.
Mr. Wm. Kline his wife and children of West Bend Iowa visit old friends nearby. He has sold his Palo Alto county farm and will move his family to Illinois.
The railroad company accelerates bridge construction with false work nearly finished and iron work readiness. Local updates include stage driver J A Titus repainting his wagon, Miss Mary Smith visiting from Oxford, and various community events from a masquerade to a Masons ball with proceeds.
Friday and Saturday last week surveyors worked near town to lay out the grade for a proposed new bridge north of town. Dubuque business men report funds raised for a new railroad. a meeting will be held today to elect officers and adopt incorporation articles. The W C T U plans a 3 PM meeting next Tuesday at Mrs Perley's to promote profitable, instructive sessions and invites all temperance-minded women to attend.
Mr John Roof and Miss Emma Bajasch wed in Dubuque on the 15th to surprise many friends. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Bajasch, is esteemed for domestic virtues. The groom works at J S Hall hardware. The town debate on telephone pricing continues as rivals offer cheaper service. A Cascade county teachers meeting is planned at the Columbia opera house on Saturday January 25. Strangers will be hosted by local citizens.
The second meeting of the Jones County Teacher's Association was in Olin on Saturday January 18. Supt Cowana proposed a committee of one teacher from each township to assist in mobilizing attendees for meetings. The group praised the hospitality of Olin and scheduled the next gathering for Center Junction in March. A separate note mentions a Castle Grove township fire that destroyed a residence, with $1500 house and $500 furniture insured, though most contents were saved.
D L Norcross died at his daughter Mrs J K Eaton's home Sunday January 12 186 after 84 years 10 months and 17 days. Funeral held Monday at the family residence with Rev Robert Bradley and interment in Keota cemetery. He was born February 25 1811 in Chesterfield New Hampshire married Elizabeth Randall had three children Edward Helena Annette. He practiced dentistry before later entering business and helped establish the Keota drug house with son-in-law Jasper Eaton now Eaton & Hulmes.
A frame house with seven or eight rooms, cellar, out kitchen, wood house, stable, garden, pool, fruit spot, and four ground lots behind the house. To be sold at a low price on easy terms. Enquire of J. B. Smith.
Mrs. L. E. Fulton offers 83 acre tract in section 26 Monticello township part of the John Skelley estate. Inquiries to Eb E Hicks Monticello. 24tf.
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