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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1897
Page
7
The item lists numerous offerings from Bidwell including fruit jars jelly tumblers stoneware and flower pots. Advertisements urge readers to call and see. Other notes mention Rev Devol preaching next Sunday partial solar eclipse sightings and various local visits sales and arrivals around Monticello Iowa.
Mrs J A Doutrick returns from Missouri visit and news of harvest progress. Vendors promote Summer Drygoods at Wills and Doutrick's, with threshing underway and oats yields reported. Local storms cause damage in Cedar Rapids and Manchester while items include births, store upgrades, and parish updates.
The pension examining board organized at Anamosa yesterday electing Dr J E Gilmore as chairman Dr L J Adair secretary and Dr Fitz Patrick treasurer Fifteen pensioners were before the board for examination. Community notes report family moves sales and local events including a church excursion and a fatal train accident in Franklin Grove.
Will Rieger shows signs of recovery after a severe brain injury from an accident chronicled in Tax Express. Obituary notes report the death of Mrs. Anna Helgens and other local updates include a public spectacle by Bogardus, Monticello fair acts, and early Jones county milling history with Donald Sinclair.
A compilation of Monticello events from July 1866 featuring church sociables at FE G Frost's residence, the Congregational church land purchases, bids committees, and the Jones County Teachers Association meeting led by county superintendent T R Carpenter. It notes a Fourth of July basket picnic at Clark's grave, a civil case with a jury disagreement, a surge of new dwellings, and various local happenings including marriages, removals, and small-town incidents.
The Ladies Benevolent society sponsors a Friday two team baseball game at the city park with no prize for winners but public disgrace for losers. Umpire JT M Carpenter presides at 2 30 pm. Selected players are listed for Anti Pats side. Also bus and rail fare ads and store promotions appear in the brief column.
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