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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1902
Page
7
Monticello area highlights include a Davenport trip for tomorrow morning, local visitors from Perry Buxton and Mrs. J. E. Gilmore, sales at the Model store, and various personal notices. News mentions Tamoka coffee, Kennedy crackers, and local property transactions alongside school and court updates.
Monticello items note Mrs. Geo Barnard of Dubuque visiting Mrs. O H Soetje and Miss Druet of Anamosa staying with Miss Edna Drury. Guests include Mr. John Welch at Anamosa Democratic convention and Mr. William Abel from Chicago. Sales and events feature Hicks & Eilers jars and a July clearance at Deatrick's, plus a Daven port excursion and a summer sale at Hicks & Eilers.
Messrs. Frank Eberhart and Richard Cartano returned from Cedar Rapids over Sunday and report their merry-go-round was damaged by the flood to about $500. Ed Monroe and Frank Starry stayed in Cedar Rapids last week to touch up the ponies and apply a new coat of varnish.
The Epworth League plans an ice cream social on the Methodist Episcopal church lawn Friday evening July 25. The piece lists local sales and notices on summer goods, real estate, and various community happenings.
At the Anamosa county convention on the 15th delegates were chosen for state and congressional conventions. The article also details kleptomaniac accusations against the Yousse family, a pigs and goods raid, a pending petty larceny trial, a local clothing sale, a telephone franchise issue in Monticello, a death in Washington township, a rental offer, and an arrest of piano tuner A H Hodson for robbery and attempted murder.
Old residents recall muddy streets, sloughs, and ponds along Main Street as railroad building and trenching for a sewer revealed ancient ground levels. Tales describe early depots on stilts, two frame buildings, a pond used for skating, and a historic walk from depot to town over swampy ground.
The article recalls early town life, a note by J. Jay Brown and local settler Haines, and urges Tamoka coffee at the Model. It also reports a steam heating contract for the high school awarded to George E. Shearer of Cedar Falls for 1697 with a September 1 completion and adds planned closets and sewer connections.
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