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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
4
A July dispatch from Wyoming reports social calls and visits across Carroll Anamosa Hopkinton and Davenport. Topics include Creamery lease to J P Younger and farm cooperative plans, local baseball results, travel to Michigan and North Dakota, and notable illnesses accidents and birthdays in the community.
Miss Grace Griffith of Anamosa visits in Cass at Mrs. G. G. Ketcham's while Linn Grove guest Merritt Kyle sees Walker home. Numerous visits, family news, and a barn dance mark the week as residents remember the late W. L. Ketcham and attend his Congregational church funeral.
Cascade dated July 24 notes Henry McMullen in Armour and John Carrick of Castle Grove visiting the city. A group of former friends gathered at C. H. McComber's home last Saturday to share company and memories.
Onslow notes include Roy Cooley shipping fat cattle to Chicago, Carrie Miller visiting Missouri, and Mrs. Alice Chase improving after illness. Sunday School picnics, visitors from Chicago and Los Angeles, and local injuries and illnesses are reported. James Ward visits Arlington. R M Dott from Sioux City meets Hon. John Russell. KE J Jeffrie hires Nicholas House brother. Anamosa family ties mentioned.
Center Junction July 24 report lists residents and guests with weekend events. George McDonald visited Rock Island. Mrs. John Livingstone visited Wyoming. Mrs. J. F. Brown stayed with Mrs. T. Corbit at Onslow. Rudolph Ricklefs and wife at R. G. Lyons. Andrew McDonald and J. Courtney vacationing two weeks at Colfax. tas also notes visits to Monticello, Okoboji, Hopkinton, and Savan nah. Several youths and families, including Minnie Dawson Florence Smith and Miss May Paul, are mentioned with visits to friends and relatives. Amelia Weir fractured her arm. relatives from Mayfield, Maquoketa, and Center Junction hosted guests.
Rural Route No 2 reports residents visiting Monticello and Amber. Bartels on sick list. Poppe visits his girl. Fish and McBride trade in Monticello. Rickels hauls corn. Barley in shock and oats harvest begun. Jacobs sews for Hedden. Toenjes visits Monticello. Kearns called to Amber for a serious matter.
July chronicle from Clay highlights Miss Daisy Butler riding a new bicycle and visits by Mrs. John Corbit and Miss L. If Corbit. Mr. and Mrs. Id Franks called on friends last week. Mrs. Elizabeth Lydda of [da county] visits locals. Onglow and Bethel Sunday Schools plan a joint picnic near Bod enhoffer mill on Friday. Miss Mildred McClelland stayed with Mr. and Mrs. James Familton and rode horseback with Miss Blanche. Clifford B Paul, candidate for representative, enjoys broad respect among teachers, pupils, and residents and is said to have no mother-in-law.
Castle Grove July 26 residents report hog sales and a ready oat crop for the binder. Miss Minnie McLaughlin visited Monticello with friends. The S S club met at Eda and Olive Cramer’s home. Blanche and Harvey Hunter rusticated at Slarken farm last week. Mrs J H Hogg and son Harvey and Mr and Mrs Frank Howie attended a relative's funeral in Boeingville. Monticello visitors were guests of Mrs Harken last week.
Clelland Berlin born February 22 1884 Monticello Iowa died July 16 1906 in Radcliff Colorado after typhoid pneumonia. He lived in Central City and near Springville Iowa later moving west for health he joined the Christian church and Endeavor society and led the Y M C A reading room. Funeral held July 20 at Springville Parental home with about three hundred attendees.
Iowa Experiment Station horticulturalist Mr A Beach warns the second codlin moth brood often causes major damage to Iowa apples. Northern Iowa should spray around August 10 and southern Iowa about two weeks earlier to cover leaves where 75 to 80 percent of eggs are laid. Use Bordeaux mixture with Paris green or other arsenical poison before eggs hatch as directed in Bulletin No 85.
Business notice from Julia A Hagen announces the sale of Hennessy millinery stock bought at a bargain. Goods described as clean and stylish will be sold wholesale to clear space for new arrivals.
The Milwaukee road ended the daily passenger service north of Monticello from Calmar to Monticello. Davenport businessmen had pressed to extend the service to Davenport, fearing Cedar Rapids gains. Milwaukee officials cited a $15,000 yearly loss, noting long debate and mixed local reaction from Monticello and farms.
Mrs John McDonald of Washington township Jones county died Wednesday afternoon between 4 and 5 o clock from Bright disease after a recent serious illness. Born Katherine Fagan in Auburn New York July 1850 she came to Iowa with her parents and married John McDonald April 14 1884. Survived by husband three children William Mary Maggie and brother Eugene Fagan. Cascade Pioneer notes Loren Byam of Baker City Oregon visiting Monticello with ties to old Cascade families. Olin Recorder reports Cascade city council rejected a proposal to alter Catfish Creek, leaving the nuisance unresolved for now.
R M Heasty of Pleasant Ridge, long afflicted by appendicitis, was operated on last Friday at Finley Hospital in Dubuque by Dr J R Guthrie, assisted by Dr Ben H Chamberlain. The appendix was in bad shape but Heasty is recovering rapidly and hopes to leave the hospital soon.
Governor Folk told Jeffer son City merchants last week that honest business benefits from local advertising. He urged patronizing town papers to build the community and increase trade, saying exposure of wrongdoing will improve business when firms operate honestly.
The bulletin for the three months ending March 31 1906 reports 1 126 killed and 17 170 injured among passengers and employees in train accidents. Killed rose by 17 and injured by 52 from the previous quarter. Passenger and employee deaths totaled 174 versus 320 in the prior period.
Anamosa Sheriff Hogan says McWillam remains in a deteriorated mental state and will likely not live to witness his own execution. The comment was made while in the city on Monday.
A Los Angeles Times note urges voters to scrutinize a congressional candidate’s Roosevelt brand on campaign materials, distinguishing whether the emblem is permanently burned in or merely painted for a temporary purpose.
A collection of humorous quotes from Meggendorfer Blatter and others. Jests cover the Automo bile club, servants mischief, lovers in Italy, a poet’s child, and a seafaring navy pickle joke reported by the Atlanta Journal.
A Venetian hailstorm recently produced hailstones so large they killed cats on house roofs. The remark notes the extraordinary size and imagines a feat of coaxing Venetian hail across the Atlantic.
A London club event features Oxford and Cambridge swimmers with after races and a reception. A false rumor swirls that a beastly tradesman is among guests, later revealed to involve a high class manicurist owner who quietly joined the upstairs gathering after a race.
The Baltimore Sun notes Leo Wheat, famed musician, honors Edgar Allan Poe by raising his hat as he passes Poe's grave in Westminster Presbyterian church yard. The gesture reflects Southern Yankee reverence for the poet's memory.
Dialogue fragment from the Philadelphia Record notes a referential exchange about Nell and Belle and their attitudes toward appearances and complexion.
A fragment quotes a conversation about a man named McWhilligan noted for a limp and differing leg lengths. It mentions he is the father of several daughters of marriageable age and has a college son, as described in a Chicago Tribune column.
The Milan area hosts 300 silk mills employing 40,000 workers, 200 cotton mills with 25,000 workers, and 20 woolen mills providing 3,000 jobs, establishing its status as a key Italian industrial hub.
An English woman who found a dead mouse in a bottle she drank from died within a week of the shock.
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