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Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 24, 1913

Page

8

County Budgets and Public Works Report Detail

A long ledger style entry lists payments and expenses across departments and districts. It names Bohren and Finn districts with road and bridge work plus numerous suppliers, utilities, and county officers including salaries, materials, and jail costs.

Rudolph Bohren TJ Finn Mistrav CJ Murkelit HG Mitrav John Thomsen Daganp Ois Trav Aki Atkinson Jedar Rapids & Marion Telephone Co Wwastern Iowa Light & Power Co WA Hogan Towa Yeltephons Co Scott Hardware Co Hdwr W K Pearson John Rowen Jr Anamosa Eureka Iowa Telephone Co National Office Supply Co Overley Drug Co Oxford Mirror Pearson Star Printing Co Rbr Earl Boyer Hart Boyer Kate Maurice Ginn & Co Metropolitan Supply Co Afice Court Ilouse FM Bagley Hicgcl&p Co Fred Richmond Scott Hardware, Co JF Whelen ET Leete Fairview Wm Flaherty Walters Preston E Foley Fairview Township I Foley Dragging County Road P Brdge RI Giltrap Hill Anamosa James Graham Sumner Glass King Dragging County Road John Hasler A L Larson Chris Conrad WD McLaughlin J. A. McLaughlin It McConaugh King Dragging GA Peet Seth Ruhl Tom Short If Stover CO Stephens Vy Rimmers Jr S of River Bridge Murfield Anamosa Lumber Cc Post Andrew Burroughs Miller’s John Bredy Jackson Cave Draggis Flaherty Ley Risnstine Foley King Clinton Bridge & Ivroa Works John R Conley John Conley Palton Hale Eldred & Wherry Brdge John S Gable Up L Hanssen Wyoming Simpson Ireland Henry Kruse Wooder & S I Wilson U Williams King Drapping F. J. Hish Sigworth Geo C Lawrence Allogan Justice Court

Photo proof critique sparks blunt comeback in Boston

A woman in a photo proof session insults the photographer over her nose, prompting the photographer to insist his apparatus cannot fail. She retorts to fetch a working one, in a sharp exchange noted by the Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript

Pessimistic Thought Expressed in Proverbial Lines

A Cincinnati Enquirer reflection notes that every rose has a thorn that lingers after the bloom fades. A Ben Jonson line adds that folly exceeds bounds while impudence remains unrestrained.

Cincinnati Enquirer Ben Jonsou

The Eel, a Confidence Man, Hanged in Western Town

A deputy sheriff impersonates a missionary to trap The Eel, a notorious con man who posed as a Methodist minister. He is captured after a church fundraiser sting, the man’s loot seized, and local vigilantes hang him from a tree as justice. The preacher’s funds intended for a church are redirected to finish the building, now a town landmark.

Postofice Department Mim Board of Foreign Missions Hel Ehurch Abner Smith James Ridgeway India Tie Swartont Brother Edgeway Halles Indiat S&s Sid Tudia Mel Ife Tle Myers House Whey

Ormsby Case Reveals Misdirected Piques and Letter Game

Frederick D. Ormsby schemes to win his wife by anonymous love letters but learns his own handwriting betrays him. An attorney representing a supposed rival sues for $20,000 damages, only to reveal that both parties are the same man, Frederick D. Ormsby, leading to an odd compromise involving a pearl necklace.

Fred Ormsby Ormsby Ele Evenine Mere Mrs. Ormsby Thundersruck Sle

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Supervisors’ Proceedings Chas Gavin Patrick Hughes NB Lathrop JP Merrill Jinda Miller Eddé Turner Kate Nowacheck Bohren Will Aitchison Cerscade Road Andrew Armbuehl Cascade Row JJ Bailey Cascade Road Brdg Pear Schats Bohrken Schoonover Central Lumber & Coal Co Reuben Ely David Schneiter Wm Woods Cascade River John Hussman Schoonover Place Peter Robertson T Zimmerman Finn’s Len Bnol Military Road Richland Roy Bullock LE Balster FO Cramer McLaughlin Farm Cramer Will Flaherty Bohlken Clinton Avenue Newark News Chicago Wild West Monticello Wild Bie H. C. Bohlken H. M. Rumley James Nimley Remley & Remley Attorneys AT Law Iawa Main Street Masterly Hotel Willengags Atlanw Herrick & Rhinehart Horse Hospital George Albery Cedar Street First Street Fred Puleston Milers & Bolton W. A. Mirick M. D South Cedar St Iowa
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