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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1903
Page
7
The Anamosa county board meets this week while local merchants advertise lace curtains wash goods hats and dress fabrics. Notices mention visits by Mrs. Carl Doron of Minneapolis and Miss Julia Wilhelm returning to Monticello alongside sales on carpets lace curtains and sun burners.
The page lists visits and social updates from Monticello area families including Mr Jacob Reuger in Davenport and Mrs D G Hazard at Farley. It promotes Burrichter's 5012 store for groceries and wallpaper, H C Wills fabrics, Lilers Bolton carpeting, and Davis hardware. It notes births, travel, and business moves, plus Lenox College commencement speakers and alumni events. Several items reference Canadian homesteading interest and a Jones county insurance case.
Jones county news column notes no Fourth of July celebration planned in the county. Local events include new swing act in Waukon with Cartano Eberhart and partners, a Monticello ball game win by the Indians, a California trip by the Parrotts, and engagement of Dunkley canned goods. Also reports on Dr. Norman Smith, Rev Gruenstein, rheumatic St. Vitus dance case, candidate Riggs, Plymouth twine, Hawkeye saloon foreclosure, Monticello deaths, dry goods advertising, Synod visit, Annapolis entrance exam, and crop outlook with gopher and squirrel control push and June rainfall impacts.
Carl Mohl of Lost Nation and Lena Burrichter wed yesterday forenoon at the bride’s parents home on Bowens Prairie. Rev. E E Gruenstin of Monticello German Reformed church officiated. Due to the groom’s father’s death only close relatives attended. The couple will reside near Lost Nation.
The Monticello High School commencement at the opera house featured a decorated stage, a choral opening, and solos. Salutatorian Fred Wales spoke on socialism while Elmer Bigley praised science, Iva Barnts warned of aging, and other graduates addressed energy, civilization, the new woman, panics, and the force of habit.
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