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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1896
Page
8
Davenport resident W R Weir visits family in town. parasol and mitten sale at Eicks and Eilers. Goldstone Bros promotes boys suits and muslins while Wills and Deitrick offer linens towels and cloth. Long's cash offers draw crowds as July 25 events loom. locals travel by bicycle to Delavan Wisconsin and Minnesota for harvest work. Stuhler shop opens extension in Hazards building. Des Moines Daily Capital advertised as daily news source.
Local notes report an oratorical contest at Jones County Fair this fall with a Lenox College scholarship prize. Items mention church sermons, saloon arrests, remnant sales, and community notices across Monticello and Oxford Junction.
A Monticello region summary reports nearly one inch of rain, visitors from Kansas City and Denver, a horse incident injuring Rudolph Jacobs, a hand injury to a Langworthy resident, burglaries at Sumter & Sumter, a traveling elocutionist Ada Hurst, medical visits by Dr. A E Kegley, and a deceased ex Senator General George W. Jones. Also noted are a city hall meeting appointing committees for the Monticello commercial league and various visiting arrangements.
The first clocks were made by Eli Terry in Plymouth Connecticut in 1793. Connecticut wooden clocks gained fame nationwide. If your old wooden clock watch or jewelry needs repair take it to Parrott next to the railroad with over forty years practice.
Rev Geo Devol of the Christian church to open a series of meetings in Monticello. A tabernacle 48 by 64 feet is being erected opposite the Central House for his accommodation. He is praised as a capable speaker and preached at the Monticello opera house last Easter Sunday inviting locals to attend. McClures August issue features mid summer fiction by Octave Thanet Crane Ross Thomson and Eliot with Crane’s hero from The Red Badge of Courage aged but brave.
Caroline Heisey wife of Henry Heisey Sr died at 78 in Monticello after a stroke. Born May 5 1823 in Northampton County Pennsylvania she moved to Iowa in 1869 or 1870 and married Henry in 1875. She joined Evangelical then Methodist church and was praised for kindness. funeral attendees listed.
Garret Kline, once jailed for attempted murder in Castle Grove, Iowa, is captured in Highspire, Pennsylvania, and brought back to Iowa for a ten year term. A 1878 case details the murder attempt on Anna Rickles, with Kline’s flight and a bond dispute resolving in his arrest and return. Nearby, Rev. Geo E Scott’s arrest for seduction and a pastor’s past scandal unfold in Logansport and Waterloo. Mrs. Scott stands by him amid questions of marriage and sanity.
A notice lists two cows on the property noted as missing. One white and brindle spotted cow about eight years old with a bell, and one roan cow about six years old. Owners urged to call and reclaim by paying expenses. Signed by J. M. Stevenson.
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