Monticello Express Advertises Subscription Price
The Monticello Express notes a weekly publication schedule with J W Coxsee as editor and proprietor and a yearly subscription price of 1 75 dollars.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1902
Page
4
The Monticello Express notes a weekly publication schedule with J W Coxsee as editor and proprietor and a yearly subscription price of 1 75 dollars.
F T Woodyard in town. Verda Lytton spent Sunday in Anamosa. F J Sokol and wife at home Sunday. Dye family visited Monmouth. W T Cameron heads for Oklahoma and Kansas. Will Lamey of Maquoketa stayed in town. Maggie Sears at Mt St Clare Clinton. Van Ness leaves for New York. A E Daugherty and wife with Mrs Lytton. Olive James hosted by Lou Noyes. Dr and Mrs K H Knittle in new rooms above Stimson's. Julia Miller sold restaurant. Henderson Bros. now in possession. Albert Hutton married Jennie Hayner Canton. to farm east of town. Corbit opens Onslow branch law office Saturdays over Stimsons store. Call for legal work.
John Livingston and W E Spurgeon return from travels to Chicago and Kansas respectively. Miss Myrtle Dreibelbis improves after illness. Prof Chamberlain to entertain for school library Friday. Heritage family planning Oklahoma trip. they will move back to Kansas. New baby daughter welcomed for Mr and Mrs O N Cook. John Dawson to Clinton to work for Curtis lumber firm. Mrs T E Canty and daughter Anna visit Chicago. Anna to attend Young Ladies Academy. K L G P lodge banquet well attended with compliments from visiting lodges.
Mr Baker visits town for the Davenport Republican. Dr Kirkpatrick is very busy. Robi White reportedly bought the Hoskins house on Green Street. A Brownell daughter is ill with whooping cough and pneumonia. Frank Rhodes of Davenport is seen about. Religious meetings continue at the M E church with hopeful results. Thomas Lindsey and relatives visited friends. G W Evans returns to Des Moines for inauguration recess. Burt Tourtellot travels west for a hunting trip possibly visiting his sister in New Castle before returning. Wm Guthrie of Cass county may sell his farm and move here. Ben Paul Post G A R installs officers G W Evans commander and others Posted.
Monticello visitors D F Hosford and Robi Wilson among those in Castle Grove. S M Hosford at Iowa assessors meeting in Anamosa. Mrs Hogan ill with pneumonia threat. Downerville ice house filled from Silver Creek. A W Cramer elected Sunday school superintendent. Robi Smith and family visit from Nebraska. Mr Smith brother of Mrs Cramer. Miss Kate Shannon funeral held at Immaculate Conception Church. C A Hall notified in Ottumwa of brother-in-law illness and death. Cass: Burton Brown with mumps, Tom Day ill, Frank Plume sick with grip. John Crawford kicked by horse. J J Richards sells farm to Fred Hultz of Wayne.
Mrs G G Ketcham hosts the aid society this Saturday. Henry Boyer of Anamosa works in the Cass Center creamery. Geo Benton plans to move to Wisconsin after buying land. Geo Treichler to hold a public sale January 27 before moving to Oklahoma. Mr and Mrs Ed Condit mourn the death of their second son Forest after a brief illness. He was a bright promising child loved at home and in school.
Obituary for Bernhard Edward Eiben born October 13 1875 in Lovell township died January 5 1902 in Allen Nebraska after rheumatic fever. Funeral at Sand Hill church Bowen’s Prairie cemetery. He leaves parents six brothers and five sisters. Also notices for a Vicksburg New Orleans excursion and Farmers Cooperative Creamery annual meeting in Monticello. Also farm for sale or rent and osteopathy lectures at Lovell house with free consultations.
Miss Jennie Sanford visiting Chicago. Jacob Schoon draws rock from Anamosa daily. Postmaster Weiss expands with groceries and purchases Stutt property. Amber boys attended Langworthy Hall dance and enjoyed it. Weiss installs ice setup and plans a cooler summer.
The Express presents halftone portraits of Representative F. J. Sokol and Representative A. M. Loomis of Wyoming. Both are well known in the county though neither has seen the picture. The Kodak snapshot was taken in Monticello last fall. Sokol speaks on the floor while Loomis looks skeptical.
Mr and Mrs W E Daley attended a Cedar Rapids poultry show and reported a very fine display. Town chatter centers on telephone service with a Jones County Telephone line expected to be supplied before week’s end. Hello Monticello hello.
Wayne Center notes include Henry Nolting renting a Harm Helgens house vacated by Dan Ackerman. Harm Husmann family visiting Wayne and Scotch Grove townships. Herman Bartels bought a team of horses from J. H. J. Stutt for 800 dollars and praises the gray team. H. E. Harris solicits for Jones County Telephone Co. gains rural line members Amber to Monticello. Mr. Kuhns of Scotch Grove shipped 35 steers to Chicago last week at 107 dollars each. sold for 7.25 per hundred. Few farmers beat Kuhns in feeding steers.
Valuable First street property in good repair leased for 80 dollars monthly payable in advance to May 15 1906. Sold at price yielding eight percent annual net on investment. Agents Hereick and Bauder announce sale and terms. Also notes Miles Camp estate Dubuque and 80 acre farm near Prairieburg Linn county with fenced land good water and buildings. New steam saw mill by S J Rice ready to saw from fence pickets to twenty six foot timber.
Mr Charles A Lewis of Center Point visited Monticello last Tuesday and stayed with Mr J A Griswold as Mrs Sarah Griswold and Mrs JL March from Artesian South Dakota accompany him. Mrs March 88 rode Monday's storm with youthlike spirit. M J Hogan to hold farm auction on Geo Rettig farm 24 miles southwest of Monticello January 24 including cattle horses shoats corn and implements. Maquoketa gains four rural mail routes and Monmouth two routes to be established immediately.
Original notice in a Jones County Iowa case files a petition by Patrick McKeever asserting ownership in fee simple of described lands in sections 36 and 1. The document names numerous McKeever and Barney heirs and alleges unrecorded conveyances, adverse possession, and statute of limitations defenses in dispute with defendants including unknown heirs of Horatio Sanford and James Dumphy among others.
280 acre farm two miles southeast of Sand Spring offered for sale or rent. Seller says lease failed due to missing security. Inquiries to Cascade Iowa care of John Seery.
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