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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1897
Page
7
Our peculiar facilities for buying the best goods and paying cash enable us to offer the lowest prices. Our expenses are minimized so we can sell at the most reasonable prices with quality. Remember us for Crockery Glassware Fire China Jewelry Clocks Watches Cutlery and House Furnishings. Call us.
Rev Geo Rettig visited Wheatland last week. Ads note furniture and clothing sales with Hicks Eilers hosiery and Hall’s Hardware closing out refrigerators. Local visits include the Klinkner brothers of Cascade and Deputy Clerk J A Hartman of Anamosa. Several people travel for visits across Cedar Rapids Davenport La Grange Marengo and Chicago.
Monticello patrons learn of local visitors including Dr. Sarles of Sparta and ex senate leader Ingalls en route to lectures. Store promos from Wills & Doutrick and Lon the Grocer draw shoppers to lace goods and pickles as postmaster Flouston begins Broadway service. Community notes mention camping show guests, weather observer Matthiessen, and a busy calendar of sales and circus outings.
Major Noble G winner and wife return from Illinois window displays for a short vacation. T T Smith of Alexandria and two sons visit with J B Smith family. Mrs Geo Keniston of Coldwater visits Schoonovers with her children. Dr C J Wilson of Fulton Iowa promotes cancer treatment. Mary E Leyden returns home from J W Coxsee law office to Independence for vacation. Col B H O Meara arrives to review circus excursions. T A King returns from Chicago to Omaha with George children headed for DeWitt Nebraska. Stuhlken reports theft of firearms and gear by suspected tramps. Wheatland Gazette notes prison escapees amid baseball and boxing ties. Goldstone Bros discount summer wear. Reverend Alfred E Street preaches and previews mission talks. Charles W Starks weds Elsie Corkhill on July 8 with Squire Pond officiating. Washington appoints Jones county pension board surgeons. Local merchants install plate glass and arc lighting. A boy accidentally starts fire at Schaeffer’s store. blaze contained. Evening union services schedule announced through August. Mr and Mrs H Rosa of Lake Charles Louisiana visiting Monticello en route to Chicago. Weather and heat noted as oppressive.
The north eastern Iowa conference of the Lutheran Missouri Synod meets at Rev F von Strohe’s church for two days with ministers in attendance including Busse Dubuque Beer Fairbank Burmeister Hampton Dom mann Westgate Hunendschke Sumner Hemann Elma Kautz Fredericksburg Richter Gamer Scherf Strode Walfram. Mr C M Brown reports the death of his step mother a former Wayne township resident. Eliza H Brown who died in Trinidad Colorado at 64 with funeral arrangements in Dodge City and organs. Hot July weather dominates local notes with three-day heat and brief showers bringing relief and a final cool night after a stretch of high temperatures.
The premium list for the 44th annual Jones County Fair issued by The Express lists Monticello as the site from August 24 to 27. Officers include President E. Hicks and Vice-president A Kempf both of Monticello. Treasurer J B Hall and Secretary G E Bishop of Monticello. Marshall W J Garrison of Wyoming. Township directors cover Cass, Oxford, Richland, Scotch Grove, Wyoming, Hale, Castle Grove, Wayne, Monticello, Clay, Rome, Fairview, Washington, Jackson, Greenfield, Cascade. The exhibition will be at Monticello city park, noted for its natural amphitheater. Special attractions planned and railroads to run special trains. Premiums liberal to attract exhibitors. Elder Devol will speak at the opera house next Sunday morning and evening with two sermons. Also notes Mrs J L Sheean and family traveling to Salt Lake City. Governor Drake injured on capitol steps. F W Hossfeld appointed consul to Trieste, Austria.
The Nickel Plate Road offers a single fare round trip for the Photographers Association meeting at Celoron New York on Lake Chautauqua from July 12 to 20. Tickets sell going July 11 and 12 and return July 16 to 20. Three through express trains daily and full patron amenities announced. For details contact J Y Calahan Chicago depot address 111 Adams St Chicago NJ 212.
The Ringling Bros show drew large crowds and three trains to Monticello last Saturday. Receipts exceeded the prior year, merchants benefited, and officials praised the exhibition as upscale and orderly with notable Japanese balancing acts and trained elephants. Also advertised are piano sales at Hazard building Monticello and farm listings in Iowa with credit terms.
A notice urges cultivating or mulching trees planted last spring and invites readers to consult Hoyt Bros for fall planting guidance and safe varieties to set in autumn. The item emphasizes completing tree planting to improve home appearance.
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