The Express Official Paper of City and County
The Express, the official paper published each Thursday by John Blanchard, serves as the city and county notice medium for public notices and local government announcements.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1880
Page
4
The Express, the official paper published each Thursday by John Blanchard, serves as the city and county notice medium for public notices and local government announcements.
Farmers begin hay harvest and rail grade work advances in Jones county while Monticello sees new telegraph lines and a growing shop scene at Wallace M Preston’s machine shop. Local arrests, church socials, and a horse theft report round out a lively summer update.
The upcoming Monticello event schedule includes a Jones county Normal Institute meeting next month at the Monticello Opera House. Community notes report on religious pulpit exchanges, local railway changes, a 46 person Theatrical Troupe arrival, and ongoing town development projects.
The Fourth of July promises celebrations across Monticello and neighboring hamlets with picnics lawn parties and a baseball game between Monticello and the Wyomings. The Eureka Onslow correspondent attacks a Sunday article in Tim Express while local editorials defend liberty of speech and question Sunday observance. Personal notices name several residents visiting, traveling, or returning, and remarks on Monticello’s railroad tax vote and regional development.
AMBER June 28 1880 To the Editor of The Express John Darrow of Jackson Township died last Saturday January 26 from consumption He was a beloved man leaving one son and six daughters The depot at Amber was broken into last Tuesday about 6 o clock and $145 stolen The writer laments Mormon harassment and grief over the loss
Dissolution notice states the partnership Bacher & Thonpoon dissolved by mutual agreement with John Bacher to continue the business. Numerous ads push goods from Shaffer's Drug Store to Grassmeyer's, Lorentzen, and others. Multiple medical cures and farm products are promoted, including Kendall's Spavin Cure and Kidney-Wort, with notices for a cow loss and a jeweler expanding stock.
News report details the sinking and fire of the steamboat Zavanahak near Randatta Island while en route from Peekskill to Glen Cove New York. About thirty bodies recovered and fifty believed dead from a crowd of around four hundred aboard. Survivors include Charles A. Dana and other notable figures. luxury mill and political figures noted among the saved.
In Montermo Ta on January 24 1880 bids are invited for piles and ties for the Town North Western Railroad construction. Bids may be presented to Ma W W Young or to the president in Monticello Gio Rungin.
Keemiey and Brcanbrack, attorneys, have prepared a set of abstract books for lands in Jones County. Abstracts of title are promptly furnished and practice in real estate law is a specialty.
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