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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1896
Page
3
The Monticello Express reports Onslow co operative creamery thriving amid strong milk supply. Local events include charity socials for South Mineral M E church, a cornet band ice cream fund drive, a successful Teachers Institute, and bond approval for $3000 waterworks. Also notes accidents, marriages, and Fourth of July plans with a busy town calendar.
June updates from Castle Grove include Frank Allison riding a bike and the rye harvest completed. A wedding at Scotch Grove, visits by Ann McLaughlin with Monti cello friends, and local accidents are noted. Arthur Fairbanks delivered hogs for 634.49 dollars, hay yields look better, and a rattlesnake incident is mentioned.
Mrs Henry Countryman visits relatives at Anamosa and Mrs James Hall of Center Junction stays with Mrs D A White. Mr and Mrs J A Bronson visit Lisbon relatives. Mrs G W Bottomstone returns from Marion. Haying and rye cutting underway with a better crop than last year. Wyoming baseball beat Miles 13 to 11. Master Herold Paul, son of J T Paul, broke his arm after a fall from a horse. he is recovering well. Epworth League concert at the opera house with Mrs J B Van Ness of Marion. Preparations for a grand town celebration next Saturday feature a fireworks display.
Renowned author Harriet Beecher Stowe, noted for Uncle Tom's Cabin, died yesterday at age 89. The obituary highlights her literary impact and public advocacy during a long career.
The Monticello Board of Education met to approve last minutes and authorise payments for labor water rent and overdraft. The Electric Co. proposed lighting the opera house with about eighty lights for 160 dollars, 25 from the lessee. proposal accepted. Adjournment followed.
Head Consul W A Northcoty announces a Modern Woodmen picnic in Monticello Park on Tuesday July 14 with local and neighboring camp members. Low railroad rates are planned and Lead Consul Northcott will speak. District officers W A Daron and J I Peteina lead the event with family activities. The Cascade Pioneer marks its centennial by reprinting the first issue from June 23, 1876, noting founder C H W Monger and later publishers of the Anamosa Journal.
A quotation about a vulgar man who is captious and jealous and reads offense into every remark. He grows angry and impertinent, suspects others laugh at him, and compels a string of self-assertive acts that land him in trouble.
The Reading Eagle reports muskrats are now widely eaten across Berks County. Ten years ago the idea was scorned, but muskrat meat is praised as cleaner and tastier than rabbit and is regarded as a first class dish by locals.
A London Tit-Bits snippet shows The Colonel remarking that he and Miss Flighty are alike in having figured in many engagements. The exchange highlights their playful banter about past adventures.
A Boston Journal note describes a woman celebrated for keen mind and plain sense who, shortly before a family death, imagines her sister who died years earlier appearing and combing her hair. The passage blends insight with a haunting vision as a precursor to grief.
A friend urged Lord Shand to skate. he argued judgment should not fall beneath dignity. The judge replied that skating is fine but falling would be beneath a judge.
A Minnesota lumberman lost a box of valuable papers when a freshet swept his Stillwater office away. He later found the box near his Donaldsonville Louisiana house after rising waters receded, its metal lining protecting the contents. The box had been believed gone and no affidavit was recovered.
Dr. E T Burton praises lemon juice as a hemostatic in epistaxis cases where a quarter strength lemon juice solution stopped nasal bleeding after nasal injection. It also halted ahemorrhage in an 80 year old woman with hematemesis and aided typhoid related intestinal bleeding though not causing overall survival in the exhausted patient. Claims include restored flower fragrance after starch depletion with sugar solution.
Jesse W. Weir recounts Lincoln as a New Salem figure who spun Indiana yarns and earned a clerkship. The piece notes his early earnings as an errand boy and his rise as a surveyor and postmaster, with anecdotes from his Illinois years and a notable lizard story in a rural meeting house.
Two notable men General Wager Swayne and I B Montgomery were mistaken for each other at the Shoreham due to facial similarity and artificial limbs. Congressman Walker of Massachusetts joked about mixing them up. A separate anecdote from Eagle Grove features a shy student admitting he has no dime to donate while a woman jokes about her missing purse.
The old school house of School District No 8 in Scotch Grove District Town ship will be auctioned on Tuesday July 7 1896 at o oclock p m to the highest bidder for cash. M C Hanna secretary. Also advertised is a stomach and liver tonic Vermifage by M D Sackett of Scotch Grove.
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