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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1899
Page
7
Cedar Rapids visitors and local buyers frequent Doutrick's Hicks Eilers and Wills for dresses skirts and hats. Shown are sales on beaded belts umbrellas and summer corsets with prices and shop locations listed. Also noted are feeders wind insurance and travel notices among residents and visitors.
Monticello scenes feature Mrs Ed Glasser of Maquoketa visiting with her sister Mrs O C Hunter and local callers Hicks & Eilers praised for good prices. Numerous brief notes cover family visits, shop events, and July sales at Deatrick's while city plans a sanitary sewer and a park dining hall during the fair week.
Miss Mary E. Leyden departs for Independence for summer vacation returning early September. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. Henry Graham and child with Miss Noble Dixson from Peoria to Sioux Falls visiting Mr. W. H. Proctor. Mrs. Jennie Porter arrives from Alton to see her parents. O G Meyers hosts a visit from brother Paul Meyers the young lawyer and city attorney of Boscobel Wisconsin.
Hazlet and Soetje have added electric fans to improve ventilation for large audiences. Noble's dramatic company opens the season during Fair week, traveling in a private car with seventeen people, special scenery, a big band and orchestra, and a new line of plays. The company is expected to be a profitable attraction for the opera house managers.
The Sioux City Journal reports the death on the 16th of Dr Albert E Gregg of liver disease. He practiced in Sioux City about seven years and was married to a former Monticello girl Mamie Kinsella. He was a Presbyterian and a Masonic lodge officer.
A five or six year old boy, grandson of a farmer near Independence, IA, pulled into a hay rope pulley by a moving horse suffered partial finger loss and burns. Dr. Hunter treated him. Separately Edwin Pepin, 19, died in Independence Insane Asylum from Brights disease after epileptic illness. body moved to Monticello for burial. In the east town, a family quarrel led to Boner confronting the Gissi family. Boner’s son attacked by Gissi girl and mother, Boner restrained the mother, and legal actions ensued with Boner discharged and Mother Gissi kept under good behavior probation.
Mr. Deidrich Poppe of Castle Grove township found a saddled, bridled horse tied to a fence and, after inquiry, located the owner near Prairieburg. Separately, about 80 railroad laborers refused work for a breakfast, complaining of meals in boarding cars costing 8.50 weekly. about forty continued to strike.
Mrs Caroline Byerley widow of Peter Byerley suffered a severe arm burn when her dress sleeve caught fire while lighting a stove at her Monticello home. A rug smothered the flames and doctors expect a favorable, though extended, recovery. Also reported is the Kansas City marriage of Nellie Drury to Rev Edward Lang and the death of Mrs Eva Hawkings in Pomona after cancer.
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