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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
2
Wyoming Iowa dispatch lists numerous society and business items including a public sale on the Wm Overley farm set for the 28th next Tuesday. It notes visits, lectures, concerts, bank election results, death of Edna Franks, and Oklahoma bound Fred Mead with details on engagements and travels.
January reports list D J Kingsley in Prairieburg and Jno Fisher in Clay township. Garryowen's Patrick Burke and Bernard's J J Houlihan visited for business. A C C C board paid 31 cents for December butter fat. Obituaries note Mrs James McLaughlin of Garry Owen and Clara Streng of Cascade township. A boy discusses trials at Farmers Institute. Anamosa pastor Rev Dutton spoke on boyhood troubles. Accidents include Allie Freeman breaking her arm and Charles Miller wounded by a stray bullet with unknown origin. Alfred Hunter visits Cascade. Wichita wife death linked to kerosene fire.
Onslow reports visitors including Mrs T J Corbit in Chicago and Wm Henderson with his son. Dr Stoffel attended service Sunday. Station Agent Roe notes 25 stock cars shipped this month. Royal Neighbors host hotel supper Saturday with prices 15 and 20 cents. O B Walters received two car loads of machinery. Will Dennison returns from Connecticut with Mrs Campbell.
Mrs. Dell Wright visited her sister in Wyoming. Ruby Berry of Wyoming visited friends here. Miss Grace Moats visited Center Junction. George Bohlken has recovered and is out again. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Hutton spent Sunday with the Huttons' parents. Miss Shepherd of Hopkinton visited C A Sutherland's. Mr. and Mrs. Wm Mead of Manchester visiting Fred Sutherland. Local residents attended a Monticello wrestling match. Del Hutton moved to Wisconsin for year work. Neighbors visited James Kearna Tuesday night. Many attended lectures in Center Junction opera house this week. Today the wedding of Miss Freda Lang and Mr. John Coleman at the bride’s parents’. Emma and Lottie Nickels and others from Anamosa visited Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sutherland visiting family before moving to Canton area. Dan Sutherland Sr. learned of his brother’s death in California while on business in Idaho.
Town residents report Cast e Grove activities including Frank Miller and family visiting Cass and a move by C Chapman Jr to a Delaware county farm. Several people travel for work or visits to North Dakota Nebraska and Scotland. A basket social at school No 4 raises 14 25 with Miss Blanche Noble teaching.
In Wayne at the German church Rev. Mardorf officiates a ceremony. Mr. George Dorsey and family visited Mrs. D. P. Murphy in Anamosa. R. Rieken and Herman Hanken returned from Pomeroy after attending the Hanken double sale. James Kearns advertises a February 5 public sale including a Morgan stallion Captain Ethan, grandson of Ethan Allen.
A fragment lists Duroc Jersey sired animals due to farrow mid April. Notes include barred Plymouth Rock Silver faced Wyandott and Rose Combed Brown Leghorn roosters. Location cited Rural Route 27 Cas anda Tawra GAUG.
Notice asks debtors to settle before January 20 as the business will close. Tax lists for several townships and Monticello city are at Lovell State Bank with tax due January 1. Half paid by April 1 allows six months for the second half. Also announces ongoing newspaper rates and a farm for rent near Onslow with contacts. Meals served day and night by Lambert Bros.
A conductor praises a stout woman with a monkey hat for exiting a streetcar safely. The thin man agrees, noting her confident descent and hoping she will land on the street and not in the mud. The stout woman calls to George and leads him off the car.
A graveyard near Hamburg on Westerlind Island houses unclaimed sea-bodies washed ashore. Dedicated in 1855, it has held over sixty nameless remains. In 1888 a stone reading The Home of the Homeless was raised, and each grave is marked by a black cross.
Property listing noting a sale in Linn County located one mile south of Prairieburg with no other details provided.
A New York Press quotation compares Thumper to a parrot that repeats remarks until context makes them seem apt. The dialogue with a statesman highlights witty commentary on public life and social perception. Errickson & Co. ad noted.
The issue promotes hardware, shoes, farm supplies, cream separators, candy, and grocer items with low prices. It reports a local anecdote about Rev. Dr. Hall witnessing a drunk man and a near accident involving E. W. Beck on a railroad crossing.
Amber reports activity across towns with residents traveling to Onglow Monticello and Jackson. Dick Williamson ships hogs today while Alex Robertson returns from Clin ton. The Amber creamery paid 29 cents a pound for December butter fat. James Brown returns from Texas with guns and buys land. Airs show attendance includes Mr O T Ruhe and Mrs Porter at Cedar Rapids poultry show.
Community items report Job Candler working for P G Hagen in Pumpkinville and hog sales last week. Entries note visits, travel to saw mill, vacations, sanitize progress, and a wedding for Will Zimmerman and Miss Freda Husmann. Events include a farewell dance by D A Slife and family.
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