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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
7
Mrs. Donovan ill Closer social notes list visits in Anamosa Dubuque Chicago and Manchester. Hosiery and dry goods promotions. Calendar events include Children’s Day song service at Congregational church and June sale at Deatrick’s. Names include Voorhees Kettlitz Schatz Waugh Davidson Lang and Stirton.
Names of residents and visitors appear from Randolph Nebraska to Davenport to Dubuque. People attend meetings, commencements, and family visits. new store at Sand Spring. pasture for rent. multiple moves and health notes. a nurse nursing a patient. a sight of a Masonic lodge delegation. a Glove Fitting corset ad and a dental eye clinic visit.
Byron Eastwood and family head to LaCrosse to start the carnival season while recent graduates enjoyed a picnic together. Mrs Chase and children depart for Texas to visit relatives for two months. A.J. Maurice notes accounts due. Miss Nina Miller leaves Electric Theater. Prof Crane takes her stage slot. Joe Jock sustains a broken finger at the Jock restaurant. Shattuck Academy graduates attend Monticello exercises. Wyoming and Center Junction classes visit for group portraits. Blacksmith John Pealer dies after being crushed between switching train cars in Oxford Junction leaving a wife and two children.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson died last Saturday from congestion of the lungs and was buried Monday. Rev. J. W. Innea conducted the funeral.
Miss Aylo Thorpe of Hopkinton daughter of Mr and Mrs Perry Thorpe tied to Charles Davis of California in a nuptial at the parents home. Miss Gertrude Campbell graduated from Epworth Seminary with satisfactory scholarship reports and completed the philosophical course. Relatives from the city attended the exercises along with Daisy Davis of Sand Sprag and Bessie Hamil of Onseade.
J A Hall leads a petition with over half the frontage signed to pave First Street from the railroad to the old Peterson building by majority city council vote. Additional signatures aim to extend paving to Proator's store as the county plans new bridges on Sycamore Street and near Terwilliger place financed by $600 and $1,500 contracts respectively.
Dennis Dyer sold to O B Applegate of Weiser his residence and 20 acre ranch just west of the city for 10000 dollars. Applegate already owns the Marion Johnson ranch near the Institute adjacent to the Dyer property. The addition makes Applegate's ranch among the finest in the region.
Judge Treichler discharged the jury last week and in every tried case the verdict favored the defendant. The last case was State of Iowa vs Bert Stingray of Morley, with a continuance granted after a state surprise. Equity trials this week shift to Cedar Rapids due to witnesses near Lisbon and Cedar Rapids attorneys.
Peter Shaffer of Scotch Grove is in Anamosa today for a preliminary hearing on robbery charges. At the Pluckiger home, Shaffer, Pluckiger, and James Oltman shared a meal and sleep. Oltman’s pockets were found with eight dollars missing. A five dollar bill was later found on Shaffer, who says he carries money in his stocking for safety after past robberies. He is jailed in county custody, with an information filed before Squire Harvey in Anamosa. Shaffer has prior penitentiary time.
William Paul born September 4 1828 in Columbia County Ohio died June tot 1909 in Onslow Iowa in his 86th year. He married Francis Coburn in 1850 and moved to Iowa in 1855 settling on a farm near Onslow. He later moved to Onslow 1882 and remained there until death four months after his wife. He left seven children four sons and two daughters surviving, with three sons predeceasing him. He was a devoted Christian, joining the Ohio Presbyterian church in youth and living a consistent Christian life thereafter despite no local church presence in Onslow.
Joseph W Sherman born July 26 1892 near Center Junction Town died June 2 1909 at age 16 10 6 after typhoid and illness in WY and nearby farm He leaves parents brothers Earl Onie Paul Charles and John and sisters Myrile Monroe Robertson at home and in Anamosa Funeral held June 4 at the house conducted by Rev H A Dorcas Center Junction.
The May library additions include The Young Alaskan by Emerson Hough, Marching Against the Troquoiss by Everett Tomlinson, Williams of West Point by Hugh Johnson, Stickeen by John Muir, The Dolls House and Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, Aldrich and Stedman Complete Poems, The Poet at the Breakfast Table and The Professor at the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Studies in American Social Conditions by R H Edwards, Nettie Hazard, and Dr Puleston cures ruptures by the fidelity method with no pain or work disruption cited. Also advertised are White Dress Goods at Deutrick's and millinery at Doutrick's with discounts implied and a local business note from N B Noyes of Onslow.
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