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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1905
Page
5
Home news item notices record Mr E Heisey visiting Lisbon sister. Several visits described with Miss Ambuhl, Miss Noyes, Mrs Baker, Miss Labben, Mrs Reichart, Mrs Drury, Miss Lovellia. Shoppers urged to try Sodas and Cream Maple, plus lace curtains and millinery sale at Deatrick and Eilers Bolton. The Anamosa Bank increases capital, and various sales and visits across towns noted.
Residents report visits to Coleridge Omaha and Portland while local stores advertise reductions on ribbons lace curtains and remnants. Prominent names include Mr W R Keough Mr Herman Tiarks Mrs Mabel Hunter Mrs Rudolph Lemke and Rev J W Innes with events like an ice cream social and a talent show announced along with store sales at Burrichters Deitricks and Eilers Bolton.
Monticello page reports includes travels of Mr. and Mrs. Northrop at Clear Lake and wedding of Mrs. Mary Rueger to Fred Garms hausen in Davenport. Railway land purchase along gravel pit. local bargains at Burrichter's. various visits in Wisconsin and Europe. City updates include a new 60 HP boiler at pumping station and road work south of town. Baseball plans with Cedar Rapids visit and pineapple sales ad.
The column reports T H Dann returning from Excelator Springs Missouri after facial cancer treatment with substantial recovery. Ed Wells of Anamosa faces forgery charges, and Wilson ahead of grand jury after a coerced arrest. Barney Hicks dies in Dexter creamery accident. Wedding of Bertha Van Buren to J Arthur Young in Monticello sections. Several legal rulings, auctions, and community notices follow, including church matters, real estate, and local sales.
A small cyclone cloud drifted northeast above Cass and Castle Grove on Tuesday evening amid hot humid weather and heavy rain. The sight vanished after forming smoky rings high in the sky with no ground contact, described as inky black and balloon shaped with a dangling finger.
Four hundred eighteen acre farm in one block lies one mile south of Monticello Town. Property offered for sale by owner includes entire tract and is marketed as a single parcel.
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