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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
8
Local Monticello News Shows Sales And Visits
A flurry of advertisements and social notes from Monticello Iowa highlight sales at Hicks Eilers and Wills Deatrick stores, with specials on cloaks, table linens, shoes, coats, and boys overcoats. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Bennett of Marion and Mrs Belle Cowan of Cascade. Dr F L Cummings of Hopkinton and John Webber the Cascade druggist. The Epworth League sociable and a Masonic lodge banquet are noted, along with a sheriff’s sale and the weather delaying mail carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business Men’s League of
Monticello
John A. Deutrick
Gadies Benevolent Union
Mesdames Miriek
Stuhler
Rohn
Sehnetter
Messrs
Northrop
Schaefer
J. A. Deutrick
Our League
Business Men’s League
David Street
C. R. Scroggie
Scroggie
G. W. Eastwood
Mary J. Jarman
Miss Jarman
J. W. Coxies
W. A. Mirick
Local notes and notices from Monticello and surrounding towns
Monticello and nearby communities report visits by Mrs Inglis and friends, births and marriages, piano purchases, sales at Sumter & Sumter, and upcoming church suppers. Local families welcome guests, while businesses promote sales on muslins, shoes, and tailor-made suits. An auction and a new monument are noted as prominent local events.
Notable Local Moves and Winter News from Monticello
Monticello pages report DeVore Piano Co. guest M H Wilcoxon invited to Washington to visit President McKinley. Mrs Wilcoxon related to the President’s wife. Wm Dearborn seeks petion signers to curb penitentiary warden’s discretionary stone giveaways. Lectures, sales, and coasted youth on the west hill narrate the town’s winter bustle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. H. Wilcoxon
DeVore Piano Co
Freeport, Ill
Washington
McKinley
Wilcoxon
Wm. Dearborn
Monticello
Stone
Levi Fuller Murder Trial Convicted After Second Hearing
Dennis Springer of Fruithurst Alabama reports Levi Fuller once Monticello man was convicted in a second trial and sentenced to 30 years in prison after a prior life sentence was overturned by the supreme court. Springer cautions Fuller may seek another trial due to a juror who served on the grand jury. Mrs Springer’s health remains very poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Springer
Fruithurst
Alabama
J.B. Smith
Levi Fuller
Monticello
Supreme Court
Springer
Snowstorm Brings Heavy Snowfall in Iowa Area
The region experiences two consecutive snowstorms with winds creating deep drifts and near blizzard conditions. Trains halted and mail runs delayed, with one fatal collision near Alburnett. overall damage minimal as roads cleared quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Alburnett
Manchester
Cedar Rapids
Sweet
Simpson in Cuba urges relief to end war swiftly
Boston businessman G W Simpson, Cuba special commissioner, reports to Secretary Wilson and the president that relief measures could hasten an end to the war. He cites tired officials, Cuban and Spanish, and widespread suffering in Havana, with skeletal crowds and crying women. He notes only profiteering Spanish officers oppose peace. The piece ends with a local aside about Parrott, a longtime jeweler and clock keeper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Simpson
Boston
Diamond Creameries
Monticello
Cuba
Department of Agriculture
United States
Boston Evening Transcript
Simpson
Havana
Washington
Wilson
Mr. Simpson
Spain
House and Carriage Painting and Finishing Services
Jacob Jacolson advertises house and carriage painting paper hanging and frescoing with natural wood finishing as a specialty. Prompt neat work by appointment at shop 145 West First Street.
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First Street
Lot No 14 Monti cello plat and house sale South of Proctor's
Auction notice for Lot No 14 original Monti plat and house on the lot offered for sale south of Proctor's. Names A bargain and B Saris appear in the listing indicating bidders or sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Proctor
S. A
B. Saris
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