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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1879
Page
2
A ragbag of local items appears from Monticello and vicinity. Readers are told of political caucus plans in Wayne township, sales on summer goods, and art gallery promotions. Various brief items cover a Miss D Cassady’s stroke, a racehorse death, a curious canning claim, and a cheeky swindle tale from Anamosa with Lucius Vehon.
Recurring oddities from a neighbor newspaper include cryptic lines about hunting and a tale of Davenport, a railroad worker, attempting a 100 mile walk in 22 hours on the Monticello track. He collapsed with 41 miles left after 20 hours 55 minutes, an amateur showing notable endurance. The piece also previews the 26th Annual Jones County Agricultural Exhibition ahead, praising local crops and livestock and urging countywide participation.
Alex Stevenson, Stonticelloy Win. Cline, Monticello. Class C entries list numerous competitors from Scotch Grove, Castle Grove, Cass and Madison, with premiums for a Brass Band at Pair Grounds. Personal mentions note Rev John Rice in town, Miss Ella Tryon visiting Strawberry Point, and local trips by Geo Schaeffer, Fred Grassmeyer, and others. Brooks to present corn seed and agricultural notes from Towa.
I offer for sale my house on Cedar S1 in Monticello with two lots, a good well, barn and cellar, a quantity of fruit trees, and a desirable location. Enquire at my office on First street.
The Davenport & Northwestern Railroad is absorbed by the Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul system. The sale finalizes in New York with Button Bonn and Merrill/Cary handling negotiations. The line will operate as a branch of the CM St Paul, with bonds transferred and directors reshuffled, affecting Monticello and local shippers. The Mil. & St. P. gains a larger traffic footprint in the state.
July 25 1870 council meeting minutes record unanimous approvals for printing bills to John Blanchard G W Stunt and Palmer and Paine plus work on reservoir and committee appointees to investigate a Lovelace case. Ordinance No 90 on street grades read and adopted. motions to prepare profiles and allocate water pipe freight payments and building needs follow.
The programme lists an Anthem Sing O Heavens and be Joyful O Earth a duet piano and violin Miss Grassmeyer and Mr Leichhardt a solo The Blue Alsatian Mountains Mrs Monroe an Anthem Wake the Song of Jubilee a duet piano Musket Galop Kittie Gardner and Rosa Bissie a Quartette Whither Little Maiden a duet piano and violin Miss Clark and Mr Leichhardt a solo Let Me Dream Again Mrs Monroe an Anthem Remember Now Thy Creator Refreshments will be served and no pains spared Everybody invited.
The Woodstock township directors in Wright County were induced to contract for lightning rods for five one story schoolhouses at $236 total, despite rods costing $2.50 each. Indignation led to a meeting, director resignations requested, and Judge Chase of Webster City hired to enjoin payment and defend the township. Thirty six men signed to pay their shares.
Mixed notices report the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Charles Showers, and the death of Mrs. Duncanson from consumption near Scotch Grove. Corners of Linn and Jackson townships note local elections and rail/telegraph developments with political commentary from the Tipton Advertiser and Davenport Journal.
Jones County Normal Institute announces its sixth session at Wyoming August 1 two weeks. Renowned instructors including C B Aldirtgh Prov Luther Foster W K Weld Kate Cuntis W W Morse will lead courses in didactics physiology grammar arithmetic reading geography and penmanship. All teachers in Jones county urged to register opening day and stay for the program built on the state time course.
Local salon team from the Ifairdressers will stay several weeks at the City Motel and offer full service hair styling. The Sara toga Wave style gains special emphasis as a rarely seen look in Chicago.
Property offers 40 acres cultivated with 24 acres timbered, a good house, two barns 24x40 and 20x80, granary, and an inexhaustible stock water supply. Includes a bearing orchard with apples, cherries, plums and other fruit. Fenced pastures and meadows, suitable for building sites. Inquiries to Warren Dodge or John Dodge Greenville Clay Go Town NB. Also notes on various patent medicines and tonics advertised in the issue.
An elderly physician says a recipe from an East India missionary can cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous complaints. He will mail free of charge the preparation and directions in German French or English to anyone who writes with a return stamp and paper name to W We Bite At 149 Powers Block Rochester NY dated 20 13.
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