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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
7
Local brief lists a string of shop offerings and visits in Monticello. Items include lace curtains at Lovell Block, Confectionery at Kranz, Model store specials on shirts and coffee, and winter sales at Hicks Eilers and Hall Hardware. Social visits feature families from Davenport, Marion, Cedar Rapids, and Boone.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Perrine on July 4 morning. Various social visits and events are noted from Monticello including Rev. Hugh Robinson visiting from Madison, and Rev. J. W. Innes with his ill father at Reinbeck. An ice cream social by the Presbyterian Y P S C E is planned for July 11. There are notices of sales, auctions, and local commerce updates, plus remarks on train delays after a July storm. Several local residents move or travel, and a wedding guest list is provided.
Monticello reports vacation home visits from Dr and Mrs George Inglis and their children to Troutdale Oregon. Local sales advertise summer goods at half price Hicks and Eilers with closing out dresses. Monticello Electric Co expands plant with a 100 HP engine boiler. Poultry house at Armour Co Monticello to operate daily with market prices. A Fourth of July accident near Sand Spring injures Marsh Neal risking eye sight. Police note a burglary at Conductor Pike's house with eighteen dollars stolen and suspenders taken. Golden Eagle Clothing House promotes summer stock in Jones county.
Mrs. Fred Kellum was struck by a lightning shock last Sunday evening while seated in the open door of the Hall restaurant. She lost consciousness until three the next morning but recovered quickly and was out the following day.
Mr John Carmichael and Miss Minnie Cassady were married last Thursday evening at the bride’s parents home by Rev C Warner pastor of the Congregational church. The bride is the second daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Cassady. The groom served in the Spanish American War and works as a clerk for Geo Stuhler & Sons. Tur Express offers congratulations and wishes for happiness and prosperity.
A varied Monticello item list includes a hand injury from a tin can, a Kennedy crackers display at the Model, a Kellum divorce trial that ends in reconciliation, umbrella and parasol ad, a colt breaking its leg, a tribute to Henry Harbison, Tremain barber shop opening with grooming and shampoo services, lice killer ads, Campbell’s debt problems and potential bankruptcy, Lee’s Lice and Mite Killer promotion, and the burial of Ursula Guyon and her seven month old baby with a German Reformed funeral.
The Monticello paper notes James Mead from Center Junction tangled with Cedar Rapids exile, a Salvation Army misadventure, 1901 tax lists, and the death of Mrs. Mary Mundell in Walker with funeral honors. It also covers Baade and Sherman jailed for disorderly conduct after a street altercation.
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