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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1880
Page
4
Cilla Paper of the City and Conny P published by John Blanghard and O. Diet & Co. supply the weekly issue for Ind. readers.
Monticello items note E Austin lands large barn contract for Alfred White. J Gibson braces for brick kilns and tile works with prebooked orders. Rail changes shift Davenport line night trains to day. Burns editor Jerome Allen leads Geneseo publication. Water project in three tenement houses proposed. ship canal talks circulate. Post Office at Castle Grove named Argand by J H Hopkins. Monticello newspaper list expands to eight weekly papers. Local events include a blackberry social at Kinsella Hall and lodge renovations at Palmer block. A Monticello lead prospecting note hints at ore near Maquoketa River.
The Water Works Commission adjourned for lack of a quorum. Repairs proceed on Lovell residence. magnify harvest oats duties and a new roof. Auditors finish dam inspections for fishways funding. laws and road lane copies available from township clerks. Creamery rents boost Monticello economy with about $180000 yearly milk disbursements. Town photographers and galleries tout quality work at fair prices. Community picnics, clock maintenance, caucus calls, and social visits fill autumn days.
An offer describes a 100 page treatise by B. J. Kendall and M. Enosburgh Fall on horse diseases, symptoms, causes and treatments, a drug table with doses, poison notes, a horse aging engraving, and 65 engravings of sick horse positions.
The Monticello Glass Ball Club hosts a Friday evening event at their grounds on July 16 featuring fifteen balls and an eighteen yard corda shot trial and a Rotary trap led by Noyes. Additional lines indicate scheduling detail and participant codes for a later session on July 28 with competitors such as Gregory and Thorpe listed in fragmented form.
The 1870 and 1880 censuses reveal population gains and losses across Jones County townships including Fairview Monticello and Oxford while noting the inclusion of Stone City and local quarries. The analysis explains why Fairview shows a large township gain but a smaller town gain in 1880. Net gains are given for townships and towns, with Monticello showing 12 659 in a given period and references to the penitentiary affecting counts.
A crowded mix of shop signs and testimonials promotes oils, paints, harnesses, coffee gear, watches, dyes, cement, and eclectric medical oils. Notable sellers include Soetje & Tiarks, Lorentzen, Grassmeyer, Shafter, Podhaski, and F. Grasameeyer. Endorsed remedies claim cough relief and spavin cures with Kendall’s Spavin Cure.
The Republicans of Monticello township hold a caucus at City Hall on Saturday afternoon July 31st 1880 at 8 o clock to select fourteen delegates to the County Convention at Anamosa August 8th and consider forming a Garfield Club. The Republicans of Wayne township meet at Center school house Saturday July 31st 1880 at 2 o clock PM to elect seven delegates to the County Convention at Anamosa August 3rd.
The Republicans of Castle Grove township meet at Castle Grove schoolhouse on Saturday July 31 1880 at 2 PM to elect five delegates to the County Convention in Anamosa on August 8. The Republicans of Scotch Grove township convene at Center schoolhouse on the same date and time to elect eight delegates for the Anamosa convention.
The family of Frankle Halleck Sarles mourns after the death of their ten month old child. Funeral services were held at the residence and a large procession accompanied the coffin to the cemetery, reflecting public sympathy and the family’s sorrow.
An old advertisement promotes a liver and kidney remedy claiming instant relief and including a “Kidney ort” product sold in Monticello by Soetsic and Tiarke. It markets a dry vegetable compound making six quarts of medicine, plus a parlor arnica salve by J. J. Bacnin & Co. Also notes dairy coloring carrots and annatto by Wells Richardson & Co for higher prices.
Mrs. and Mr. 8 E. Saaraves of Monroch express heartfelt thanks to dear friends who contributed arranged flowers and helped at home of sorrow and for making Frankie's grave green, dated July 26 1880.
Mr and Mrs C E Wales invite friends to a lawn concert sociable on Friday evening August 6 at their home. The Concert, directed by the Ladies Social Society of the Congregational church, features city talent in vocal and instrumental music. Ice cream and cake will be served. admission 25 cents. By order of the Society. Mary Marvin Secretary.
A farmer oriented notice promotes Kendall's Treatise on the Horse as a reference for stock ailments and remedies. It offers a free copy to every horse owner who pays in advance and highlights the book as an index of disease with symptoms causes and treatments, plus dosing tables and teeth engravings.
January 24 1880 bids invited for piles and ties for the Iowa North-Western Railroad road-work to begin within ten days. Bids to be presented to Mr. W W Young or Gro Ronen president in Monticello.
Advertises a specially made hearse available to the public on reasonable terms. Includes a blunt epitaph and a ragged medical ad offering Kidney-Wort as a cure, with assorted local notices.
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