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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1896
Page
4
Daily reads from Monticello list summer sales and errands at Goldstone Bros Hicks Hilers Wills & Deutrick Lon's and Eastwood CHASE. Local visits include Mr and Mrs Rosa Mr Philip Schlatter Miss Vera Smith and Miss Florence Gregory. A pocket book loss offer rewards and a note on the feather duster factory closure.
Monticello items report visits by Mr John Jacobs and others to Ottumwa Edgewood and Sumner. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Bradley Stuart. The Jones County Fair premium list is available. Lectures and local business notes from Goldstone Bros Eastwood & Chase and others fill the page along with travel, church vacation, and social news.
The column reports Dr Mirfick's best horse with a broken leg in the pasture and possible euthanasia. It notes visits by J K Groom of Portland representing Willamette Land Co and prune land interests, plus Monticello deaths and a quiet Fourth of July with local entertainments and a Woodmen picnic plan.
The Ringlings filled a three ring tent in Monticello with over 11 000 tickets sold and 9 000 in the afternoon crowd The exhibition was praised as first class with a large menagerie and famed acts including the Nelson family and Mons Le Fleur The show was clean in language and entirely free of vulgarity More than 3 trains were needed to move the vast equipment and this marks the third visit by the circus to Monticello with strong receipts
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