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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1896
Page
7
Local items report Rev Waite visiting Anamosa and Miss Sadie Franks being sick. Ads note Wills Deitrick store dry goods, Lon’s potatoes at 25 cents, Hicks Hilers stock, and Overing Stockwell wares. Various visits to Cedar Rapids, Omaha, Oxford Junction, Maquoketa, and Manchester are listed along with upcoming events at the Presbyterian church and Epworth league social.
Readable items include social visits Miss Carrie Litten and Miss Delia Hennessey visiting Onslow and Van Horne. Local trades advertise offerings from Wills Deutrick's and Lon's. A crime scene in Henry Zentner's dive leads to a knife wound. Community events feature a Knights of Pythias reception for Col Noble Winner and a Langworthy wedding.
Attendees at the Willitta lecture in Anamona included Mr and Mrs W A Doron and several Misses Jennie Van derpool Edith Curtis Jessie Fawcett Jennie Rose and De Marte. Excursionists to Florida enjoy sunny days and perfumes of the state. Mrs Herrick and Mrs Hall joined the National Editorial excursion at St Augustine and plan to return Saturday. Imperial paper patterns free at Wills and Deutrick's. Club ladies meet in Marion with Mrs O S Thompson. Carey Wright leaves A Kempf drug store. successor is Bernhart Schotta. The Jennings firm extends thanks as they enter another year in business. Rohn and Hogan fight over control. H M Carpenter named receiver. Absent abroad at the Masonic ball were Rosa Collister Templeton Padfield Booth Watters Babcock Livingston Livingston Bopp Anna Bopp Kline. An inventory sale starts Feb 1 at Wills & Deatrick's. A tramp incident leads to wood-for-dining policy: no food or lodging until wood is sawed to pay. Kline family visits Mrs Egger and prepares to move to Illinois. Tramps proliferate. marshal enforces work-for-food rule. Mrs Alrichs, mother-in-law of Jacob Matthiessen, is ill with lung fever.
Mr J A McLaughlin of Castle Grove lost his residence and goods to a fire. He carried 1500 on the house and 500 on household goods with the State Insurance Co of Des Moines. the adjuster settled the claim for 1850 to his satisfaction.
Imogene Royden youngest child of Mr and Mrs F W Royden died Sunday at six in the morning from inflammatory rheumatism affecting the heart. The two and a half year old girl was beloved by family and community. The body was taken to Rockton Illinois Jan 22 for interment accompanied by her parents and Mr Farward of Edgewood.
The Masonic banquet and ball last Friday drew 125 attendees from five thirty to eight, followed by a social dance for 34 couples. Dominic's Italian band from Dubuque provided music, with a harp encore and guests departing at three in the morning.
The Monticello board of education met with members Stirton Hunter Hosford McCannon Kacher present. Minutes were read and approved and bills were authorized for Thachers' Fund Louis Hines tuition, Contingent Fund E Pond rennernd 82 000 Insurance P Ferguson labor Jn Bacher Co erasers Stuhler & Sons lamp chimneys and other supplies. Adjourned by R P Smra See.
A list of unclaimed letters remains in the Monticello Iowa post office and was advertised January 27 1895. Names include A W McVay Delbert Smith Peter Wolf Henry R L Alexander P M.
A seven or eight room frame house with cellar out kitchen wood house stable fine garden fruit spot alley behind house and four lots of ground will be sold at a low price and on easy terms. Enquire of J B Smith.
Mrs L E Fulton offers 83 acres in section 26 Monticello township part of John Skelley estate for sale. Enquiries go to E E Hicks Monticello. Also for sale a frame house on lot 188 Main Street south of Proctor's store with five rooms and a stable. Heirs estate sale with half cash and remainder on time if desired. Call J B Smith. 29w3
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