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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1899
Page
5
Monticello reports a busy scene at Hicks & Eilers as a clearance sale drives shoppers. Local notices list residents visiting Chicago Bellevue and Laurens, with weather notes and upcoming meetings at the city hall.
Mr. Jerry Richmond is very ill. Mrs. A. D. Kline visits Marion. Henry Rickels of Pomeroy visits Wayne township. Fannie Bailey of Marion visits Heisey. Julia Campbell injured and bedbound. Seymour Bennett rumored ill in Marion. Harriet Strelau from Dubuque assists in Dubuque firm. Cascade Courier notes T McAllister farm sale to Rev Roche for $20000. Cloaks offered at half price for ten days. Wills & Deatrick. Kellogg family visits from Clayton county. George Schoonover and family sick with grip. Baby born to Ed Kiburz last Tuesday died after two days. Jacques Monier sick with grip. Lovells visit from Michigan and Texas. Hawkeye saloon and J. O. Lawrence gain telephones. Clover club hosts reception with five-course supper. Arthur Baker underwent ingrowing-nail surgery with anesthesia. Musling Sheetings Linens offered by Wills & Deutrick. Anton Eilers and Rosa Younker wed at bride’s home. Mrs. Heminway critically ill with pneumonia, improving. Nellie Hanna recovering to return home. Ladies’ Wrappers and other goods at low prices. D. I. McIntyre visits Monticello. to Sioux Falls for butter convention. Elmer E. Hoag buys eight carloads of feathers for duster factory. Iowa and Illinois sources noted. Mrs. Chas. Hawkings reports farm purchase near White Church Mo. Weather pleasant. Corsets and gloves at closing prices. John H. Heisey sells restaurant and building to John Perrine for about $4000. Perrine previously managed the business. Heisey’s future plans not advised.
Dominick Marra 45, leader of the Italian band of Dubuque, died at Finley hospital last Thursday. Dancers in Monticello mourn his loss as he was famed for playing the violin on his knee and was regarded as the best in the region.
Cal McClain was arrested this morning charged with stealing a game cock owned by Fred Kellum. The Lowell State Bank announces tax lists for Monticello City Lovell Richland Scotch Grove Wayne and Castle Grove and offers tax payment services. Mr. D. D. Palmer left for Sioux Falls to attend the National Butter Convention and will visit his mother in Spencer Iowa during the absence. Theodore Rohn, formerly with the 1st Nebraska in Manila, received an honorable discharge and sails home, with a captain’s regretful note. Anamosa reports a white cap incident involving John Eastwood and masked assailants. Eastwood identifies some conspirators by voice, but none have been tried yet.
A noon fire in Dr. M H Teeters dental rooms caused smoke to pour from windows and was extinguished with a few pails of water. The doctor questions how the blaze started as his oil stove had not been lit. The item also reports on obits, wills, and local temperance organizing efforts in Jones County.
A local ad touts low prices at Lon Jennings store with value on white leaf flour one dollar per sack fancy California prune and medium raisins at one dollar for twenty pounds each. Head rice oats sugar peach apple butter syrup soap and more offered at a dollar per item or two for one.
Informations filed before Justice Ricker last Saturday charge James Chapman William Smalley and Frank Hughes with robbing the Hawkeye saloon of a half barrel of beer the week prior. Chapman pleaded not guilty and is held on $1,000 bail. Smalley and Hughes were discharged.
Levi G. Hildreth died at his Monticello home last Saturday morning at 62. He had been ill thirteen days with acute kidney congestion, endured with Christian patience. An active church member and adoptive father to Frank and Herman Hildreth, his will included a bequest to the Children's Aid Society. He was born June 20, 1837 in Chesterfield New Hampshire and came to Jones county in 1856. He married Nancy Morse on July 4 1861 at Monticello, worked as a carpenter, later owned a Castle Grove farm, and returned to Monticello in 1898. Survived by two adopted sons, Frank G. Hildreth and Herman Lee Hildreth. Funeral at M E church conducted by Rev Staebler, burial Oak Woods cemetery.
Monticello residents are offered the Dunham farm for rent within city limits. The 84 acre property is advertised with inquiry details directed to 3011 FE. P. Sumner in Monticello. Also noted is the death of the five month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Augustus Rohn from grip with funeral services conducted at their home by Rev E E Gruenstein of the German Reformed church.
A Monticello traveler criticizes sensational church sermon advertising, noting it deters attendance. The piece reports Keeley Institute data on 1000 inebriates, 88 percent women, with opium use among 188 and mothers of 346 children, plus occupational patterns and tobacco use. It also covers local bank deposits totaling 1,099,442.98 and per capita wealth, plus Harper's literary notes and questions about lodge influence on churches amid growing fraternal societies.
A historical note observes a drift where lodges provide social unity once offered by churches. The text clarifies it notes a fact about social change, not a prescription for remedy, and cites few groups becoming stronger as a result of this shift.
Joseph B. Smalley died at John Rigby’s home last Monday afternoon from consumption of the liver at age 55. He had long illness but attended to business recently, and died the day after a sudden decline. Funeral held yesterday at Oak Woods cemetery. Born Castletown Isle of Man, educated in Manchester England. Moved to Monticello 28 years ago and worked in hardware stores. Never married. family of six children all predeceased. Survived by Mrs Smalley’s Monticello children and three nephews in Australia. Lived with Rigby family for 25 years.
The partnership of Wills & Doutrick expires February 1 1899. All accounts due to the firm must be settled before that date. H C Wills J A Doutrick Monticello December 15 1898.
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