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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1906
Page
4
Wyoming July 9. Mies A H Hewins of Cedar Rapids visits town along with H C DeWitt of Davenport. Several residents and visitors are noted including Newell’s illness and the loss of a barn to fire at the Ma combber family and other local movements and visits. The report also mentions school changes and Creamery stockholder meeting.
The Cascade community reports a July 4 family picnic hosted by the Huntington and visits from neighbors. The Cascade Bank renews its charter after annual meeting on the 9th and other local notes cover harvest progress, travel, guests, goats introduced to brush lands, a broken nose incident at Garryowen, and local social events.
Notes from Onslow Iowa dated July 10 record travels and health updates. W A Mackrill prospects in South Dakota. A young son born to Chas Walsworth's family. Various residents report illnesses recoveries and travel including Mrs Krause typhoid concerns and Mrs Dolley limb fracture after a carriage accident. Community events mention a July 4 celebration and arrivals from Los Angeles and Oklahoma.
Cass, July 11. Miss Jessie Wright visiting. Several residents report illnesses and social visits. Ed Darrow purchased George Colton’s farm. Raymond and Grace Sandhouse spent the Fourth in Cass. Various relatives and friends from Anamosa Wyoming Marion Epworth Cedar Rapids and New Brunswick are mentioned with hospitality events and society gatherings.
Residents and visitors gather for gatherings honoring Miss Ethel Brush of Wyoming and Rev Brimcombe on his fortieth anniversary. Picnics and visits mark the Fourth of July as W L Ketcham suffers a serious fall injuring him on the return from Jackson.
Dr Gorman from Anamosa visited Dorsey home on Sunday. E L Himebaugh of Scotch Grove traveled to Wayne on business Tuesday. Early oats near ready for the binder as ideal weather continues. Henry Rodick and wife in town Tuesday. Eliza Black and son visited Monticello last Saturday. Will Craig of Cass joined Eliza Black at the Ross home last Sunday. Rev Schuetz and wife returned from a Wisconsin outing last Saturday. Farmers leverage good weather to push work. Mrs James Kearns returned from Lake Okoboji while Jim stayed home. The bowery dance at George Zimmermania on the Fourth drew large crowds and joy.
Castle Grove reports Sheriff Hogan visiting on Sunday. Wm Hiller of Buck Creek and W H Laude of Monticello were in the area on business. John Dietker and family visited from Bowen’s Prairie. Mrs Barbara Grass of Chicago stayed with the Davidsons. Berry patches near Hopkinton attract locals. Martin Geiken found a silver watch and seeks its owner. An ice cream social at Mrs Noble’s on the Fourth raised 10.10. George Davidson remains at a South Dakota homestead and plans not to return to Iowa. his cow went missing.
Mrs. Guy McDonald spent the Fourth at Marion. J R K Leggett will seek work in Kansas. Miss Nona Brainard visited with Mabel McMelly. Mrs J F Brown and Miss Lillian Livingstone visited Hopkinton. Myrtle Livingstone returned from Rock Island. Albertson and Langworthy visitors with the Weirs. Local youths attended a sociable on D Sanford's lawn near Scotch Grove. Miss Sanford and Miss Crief entertain guests this week. The town’s boys remain patriotic amid post Fourth cannon fire. James Leech’s tile firm received a five carload order from Maquoketa. An ice cream sociable is planned on the Presbyterian church lawn July 14 with an eight o'clock program. Our ball team loss to Monticello by one run, led by pitcher J R Leggett.
July reports from Amber describe Wil Daly hauling bailed hay to Anamosa and Frank Bailey joining Farmers Telephone. Nick Schmirtz of Anamosa works as a blacksmith for Aug Siebels. Residents traveled to Coggon and Onslow for Fourth of July celebrations. Julia Carson remains at the Anamosa sanitarium in poor condition. Ella and Mary Brady plan a visit to Idaho next week to see their brother Edward. Mrs. James Robertson ill Sunday but improving.
Win A King reports from San Francisco on two months after the quake. He notes rapid changes, new makeshift buildings, and a city in recovery with a wide improvised business scene and ongoing shortages but no aftershocks in two weeks.
Monticello Iowa minutes show the board of education in regular session. They approved last meeting minutes and financial reports, paid bills for census and diplomas, elected J N Peterson as secretary and Miss Ruth Oxley as second assistant principal, set aside funds for library, authorized destruction of old vouchers, and adjourned.
Notice of Sand Spring Co-Operative Creamery Co sale to highest bidder. Also July 3 city council session with mayor and all members, June receipts 18.50 weighmaster, funds summary, licensing revenue, resignations and appointments, sewer work bills, and local boilerplate notices. Ripe olives and C A Frickson & Co. label.
The Cedar Rapids Business College in Cedar Rapids Iowa is hailed as the best equipped business and shorthand school in the West with a staff of twelve teachers. Catalogue and school information are available on request. The county board of supervisors adjourned in Anamosa and ratified a Richland township bridge contract while proposing changes to Catfish Creek to reduce bridge maintenance costs. A conduit plan was offered if Olin pays about 1000 dollars. Radioro or radium gold is described as a new alloy with goldlike luster and high hardness and ductility, reportedly cheaper than copper, invented by Ugo Travagliai.
A Berlin physician profits from internal nose corrections with local anesthesia and no visible marks. Gen Roop reports rising Russian infant mortality, from 20 per 1000 in 1800 to 50 plus today, forecasting continued decline only with reforms. A quip notes hay fever and a doctor’s light reply.
A collage notes camel transport in eastern Africa aiding inland trade, a humorous exchange about giving versus receiving a receiver appointment, and a relic on branded leather now used for horseshoe pads. It also mentions a London style club inhabitant and a joke about a boy crying after his father’s fall.
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