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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
7
Reed Hayden visited Davenport after a Cedar Rapids trip. Numerous residents from Anamosa Fayette Farley and Manchester visited Monticello and area towns this week. A Sandhouge farm auction is today. Deutrick's and Deatrick D G Co advertise goods and services.
Local residents are listed with travels and visits from Cedar Rapids Des Moines Anamosa Olin and other towns. People attend family visits hospital stays and sales. a Miller property auction nets 675 dollars. health officials urge smallpox vaccination for unprotected residents.
Superintendent B. F. Van Vliet of the C. M. & St. P. Ry. Co. departed north yesterday morning as railroad men endured hard days and mounting anxiety in the wake of current disruptions.
Mrs Eldrada Hubbard hosts her brother Scott Redmond sister Mrs M K Winnings and two nieces Mrs Edith Lowrey and Miss Myrtie Redmond in Minnesota.
A Errickson Co offers a money back guarantee on Dinner Party coffee if a pound costing 20 or 25 cents is not better than the coffee customers have been using at a similar price. Return and refund instructions are provided.
The former boys plan a February 2 dance at Eagle Hall Monticello inviting all to attend. The issue also notes hog buyers facing a stalled market, a coffee ad, Burns birthday talk, travel to California, and various local church services, physicians, and business updates.
A collision on the hill Saturday evening saw the Clark bob collide with a cutter driven by Mr. Waddick. The cutter suffered damage and local youths who coast may be required to contribute to a purse to cover the loss or be barred from using the highway for this sport. Coasting had been popular due to good conditions.
Rural carriers will not collect loose money in rural mail boxes after February 15. Payments must be enclosed in envelopes or coin receptacles. Householders are advised to keep postage stamps on hand.
The Hickman-Bessey Company appears at the opera house for three nights starting January 31. Mr. Hickman is a comedian and playwright who produced several plays last year including The Call of His Mate and Sweetest Girl of All. He keeps copyright on his works and will star as Hare-lipped Bill in The Call of His Mate, a western drama, while opening with Thorns and Orange Blossoms, a witty modern drama.
Residents on the hill in the western town reported a bright object with a tail after sunset last Friday. Some said Halley's comet, but experts note Halley is not visible naked eye until April and debate whether the sight was a new comet or zodiacal light observed from Yerkes Observatory through cloudy skies.
The Hall Manufacturing Co a Monticello firm starts January 1 with a $50,000 paid up capital evolving from J S Hall s earlier operations The Hall Benedict Co produced a patented hoist Mr Benedict retires with about 2000 yearly royalty Hall uses funds to build a factory and produce wire stretchers steel baskets and related items The firm seeks employee ownership and growth under steady management
A rumor suggests Nos 9 and 10 could run around the horn via Monticello, giving Monticello and Anamosa direct Chicago links with no extra crews. supporters say Davenport area riders would gain two daily trains, while Cedar Rapids to Calmar via Anamosa would shift routes. officials warn it is unconfirmed.
High School Notes recount a Valentine Day masquerade at Lydia Bader's home for the Senior class. Mr. Foster spoke about students who quit school to teach before graduation, a topic said to affect girls more than boys. Other items mention Miss Hasie Hoag's Europe trip and teaching at Bellevue College, plus various student outings and church society activities.
Selections from The Express recall local life in Monticello and nearby areas in January 1875. Births marriages and deaths include H H Acker’s son and Albert J Livingston’s death at 18, with several wedding notices and a legal firm formed Monroe & Herrick. Local Grange officers elected and market prices listed for Wheat Butter Eggs Hogs Corn and more.
Herman 8. Hering, a lecturer on the doctrines of Christian Scientists, spoke last Sunday at the opera house before about two hundred listeners. He defined Science as exact knowledge and Salvation as deliverance from sin disease and death, arguing the science of salvation offers freedom from all evil.
The speaker emphasizes working out salvation as a mental, ethical process beyond belief alone. Salvation involves liberation from evil through transformation of mind, distinguishing spiritual Mind from mortal mind and critiquing healing by suggestion versus divine Mind healing.
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