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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1907
Page
5
Various local items list visiting relatives in Miles and Cherokee, a birth in the Eilers family, tax payments at Lowell State Bank, moves to Westgate, and shopping notes at Burrichter’s and Deutrick’s. Events include a church singing by Miss Parkhill, a Texas-land man visitor, charitable oyster supper, and auctions.
Local items report a firstborn birth at the Ricklefa home and happy congratulations. Davis hardware offers 1000 rods of American fence at 16c per rod. Mail from Lena Altman and others remains uncalled for in Monticello post office. Community updates include theater, choir, farming services, and business notices across Monticello and Anamosa areas.
Reports cover visits of Hicks family to Hazel Green and Monticello kin, high school basketball results Hopkinton over Anamosa 24 to 12, a lunar eclipse vigil, a center junction chicken pie festival for Scotch Grove soldier monument, obituaries, a Montgomery marriage, library book gifts, and bridge foundation damage from moving ice on Maquoketa. Includes fair plans, private sale notices, and farm accidents with fence entanglements.
Langworthy Co operative Creamery will move secretary duties to John H Batchelder with office duties including buttermaking. Lewis H Batchelder will relocate to Springville in March to assist his brother. The Creamery Company, led by President John Dirks, produced 42000 dollars worth of butter last year.
February 2 to 16 Alsever's offers shoes at low prices including ladies shoes at 8 cents and children’s two pairs for a quarter. All winter footwear and hats sell at slaughtered prices with bargain sheets available. Estate sale note includes James S Applegate farm 200 acres near Scotch Grove station with two houses, barn, well, fenced, near a creamery. Enquire on site of Charles Applegate.
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