Local notices and business ads fill town chatter
The item sheet shows booster notices for Smiths Ice Cream Tryon's tea and coffee bargains and a music hall sermon in Kinsella Hall. It mentions improvements to L Gardiner tailor shop a new sign a lightning strike at Paine Creamery and upcoming meetings of the WTCU. In addition readers are urged to visit Gardner Wright for butter eggs tomatoes and fresh lime while Anton Matthiessen hawks mowers plows and windmills at the old Gill stand.
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Gardner & Wright
Anton Matthiessen
H. W. Gill
Excelsior and
Empire
Thomas Champion
Gale
Eclipse
Champion
Stover
John Deere
Local News and Notices From Monticello
Community items report Freddie Lewis with a broken arm after a horse fall treated by Dr. Mellett. The Jones County Agricultural Society list is in print and better than in years past. C E Wales plans rental housing on North Cedar Street. City Council orders R R Co hog yards cleaned monthly, provoking local debate over nuisance measures. Pineapples and berries advertised for Lou’s.
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Freddie Lewis
Alex Lewis
Bowens Prairie
Mellett
Jones Co. Agricultural Society
Jones Co
Freeree
C. E. Wales
R. R. Co
R. 2. Co
Monticello
Kitty Creek
Birthday party at Holston residence hosts a long list of youngsters
A Saturday party at Mr. Wm Holston's home celebrated Master Bertie Holston's tenth birthday and Miss Glennie Hickok's fourteenth, with many children named as guests and a display of lawn parasols and fans. Weather lore and a later forecast prediction by Prof Mansell followed by a retail listing and a note about a Wyoming Territory robbery involving Wm. Kairns and his family.
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Wmn. Holston
Timm
Bertie Holston
Glennie Hickok
Ernest Hickok
George Moulton
Winnie King
Maud Chesterfield
Bertie Starks
Henry Cutler
Willie Holston
Frank Robertson
Lydia Cutler
Frank Fitter
Mattie Hickok
Carrie Page
Daisy Noyes
Fred Holston
Fred Robertson
Big brick kiln fire at John Gibsons yard delays Cedar Street build
A severe fire at John Gibson’s brick yard destroyed the kiln with about 800,000 bricks, slowing wall work and delaying Cedar Street construction. Removal of Burnett House partition proceeds as rain and brick scarcity press on Lovell House plans.
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John Gibson
Burnett House
Cedar Street
Two Candidates for County Treasurer In Rome Township
The piece notes L. Easterly and C. H W. Derr as rivals for county treasurer with Easterly favored by Rome township and the county delegation. It also condemns a cow nuisance on Cedar Street and humorously lists local weather prognostications and town visits by residents, with brief notes on several individuals and social visits in Monticello and nearby areas.
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Rome Township
L. Easterly
C. H W. Derr
Easterly
Derr
Rome
Fasterly
Monticello
Engterly
Monticello Digests July 8 1881 Health Board Actions
Council resolutions require the C M & St Paul Railway to cleanse stock yards by July 1 1881 and monthly thereafter or city fees will apply. A health committee is formed. June city series financials show 125 drafts totaling 12 50. Local notices recount a street grading project and a mill operation restriction. A Cass township accident reports a man kicked and knocked unconscious by a horse with doubtful recovery.
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Monticello
RR. Co
CML & St. Paul
Counci
Servoss and Nash
Wood
W. Raesell
Feee
Carey
M. M. Moulton
J.K. Stillman
Justice Fous
Own
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Ae Saves
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Conat
Teen
Sunbury
D.F. Magee
Police
King
Jno
Mathews
Hibor
I H. Minnett
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Street
G. W. Dantie
R. Young
Page
Farley Street
Second Street
Krerepny
John Flaherty
Cass Township
Anamosa Letter Praises White Bronze Monument
A letter from June With Anamosa, 1881, to Mr. Quo B. Hearns-Dean expresses strong satisfaction with No. 84 White Bronze Monument. The writer believes it surpasses marble and hopes others see it, signed by Mrs. Kare Ennaarorn.
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Anamosa
Quo. B. Hearns
Dean Sin
Kare Enaaorn
Agriculinent Depot Sold and New Store Opened on Cedar Street
WW. Gin announces the sale of his old Agricultural Depot on South Cedar Street to Mr. Anton Matthiessen and the purchase of the Coxsee and Rigby stand. He invites old friends and patrons to visit as he offers improved terms and superior farm machinery from leading manufacturers.
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South Cedar Street
Anton Matthiessen
Coxsee & Rigby
Auction sale of Robert Hoge farm and timber tract near Monticello
Barker administrator offers public auction July 6 1880 for 280 acre farm on Grove Creek Castle Grove township nine miles west of Monticello with option to parcel land. Also 80 acre timber parcel six miles west of Monticello to be sold in parcels or as a whole. Includes notes on various patent medicines and cures with local druggists advertising and medical notices.
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Barker
Robert Hoeg
Yeelock
Acm
Robert Hoge
Grove Creel
Castle Grove Township
Monticello
Tirat
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