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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
7
Monticello listings show sales at Deatrick s and Eastwood Chase s with low prices on hats flowers and dress goods. Visitors include Hazlet Anamosa Kimball and Fryberger with reflections on local shops and summer wear and a model can supply salt oil meal and feed.
Rev D B Staebler visits Epworth Seminary as part of the Conference visiting committee. Dozens of townspeople and visitors listed through Monticello and area. Attending events include Odd Fellows decoration services and school board plans for opera house improvements.
Forest Matson returns from Chicago as authorities crack down on unlicensed peddlers. Local items report visits from Lisbon and Monticello residents, club meetings, and family travels. A series of accidents, rabies cases, and summer plans around Lovell township, Cedar Rapids, and nearby farms are noted along with harness sales and a Pasteur treatment update in Chicago.
D I Gops Toun Henry Zimmerman and Meta Helgens wed this morning at Harm Helgens home in Wayne township. Rev Mardorf of the Lutheran church officiated. The couple will live on a Monticello area farm. Nellie Turner, music teacher at Lenox College, plans to travel with the Quaker City Quartet as accompanist and elocutionist next season under N L Baker. Cool summer goods advertised at Burrichter's.
Last Saturday the district court adjourned with Monday resumption planned. Judge Treichler will hear Schoon over-Osborne arguments on Wednesday while Judge Remley attends State University commencement. Next week jurors and attorneys face the State vs J Schneider trial Tuesday June 12 and ongoing criminal cases.
Mr and Mrs D C Jewett suffered severe injuries when their buggy overturned after their horse shied into a ditch near the Kiburz place. Mrs Jewett endured a deep forehead gash requiring five stitches and extensive hand lacerations with twelve stitches. A fractured little finger risked amputation but may be saved. Dr Hunter treated them and they were recovering as well as possible.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers excursion fares for the Lenox College commencement, a fare and one third for the round trip to Hopkinton. Tickets on June 13 and 14, with return allowed until June 16. Mrs. Clark Byam visited Hopkinton Tuesday and was accompanied home by Mrs. Wheeless who spent Wednesday in Monticello.
The article notes Ransom Calkins, longtime division freight and passenger agent for C M and St P Ry, will become first assistant freight agent for the Milwaukee Road with Chicago offices on June 1. He retains Des Moines division supervision until a successor is named and succeeds A B Bridges in Chicago. The State Register described the new role as demanding, overseeing general freight, tariffs, and key commodities across the system.
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