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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
5
Mr and Mrs C and Lee visit town. Reicharts promotes sodas and phosphates while Deatrick sells lace curtains and white dress goods. Cedar Rapids visitors Mrs Glen Hickok and Mrs M Clements noted. Resurrection and sale ads for hardware, ribbons, ice cream and incubators. Death of baby boy mourned by Mr and Mrs L C Lawriece.
Miss Maggie Rowe visits Washington while Emma Ott spends Sunday in Lost Nation. J A Dontrick and son Harry visit Zanesville Ohio, Fred Kempf resumes studies in Chicago. Central Lumber & Coal Co ships cedar posts. Mr and Mrs Cyrus Heisey welcome a baby girl. John Pond returns home for summer. Diamond Creamery expands cream hauling routes. Rena Northrup returns home from Marion. Social at C A Sutherland’s in Scotch Grove with ice cream and cake. A.G. Rodman house partly rented to Mr Keachie. Presbyterian ladies host kitchen shower next Tuesday. Sanitary Herrick refrigerator touted. Depot project promised by railways. H J Rehorst leaves Diamond Creamery. W J Anderson to take overseer role. Hats on sale. millinery reduced. Perry Scott visiting A V Scott. delay in Nebraska visit. Gratitude expressed by Fuller family for support during illness. Dr Puleston claims rupture treatment. Jennie Gilroy finishes state center work, summer at home. F B Bolton and J A Voorhees discuss Monticello electric railway. Notice: I will not pay debts contracted by Harry Skelley. Sarah Skelley.
The Methodist church will host a Friday supper with strawberries and cream in the church parlors. A cablegram from Queenstown reports the arrival of Megars J W Coxsee and Charles 8 Bidwell after a nine day voyage from New York. A car of Fresh Lime cement and plaster arrived at Davis hardware. Churches unite for summer Sunday services starting at 7:30 p m in the Congregational church with Rev Van Buren preaching. Miss Elizabeth Ambuhl wed Rev J J Janett of the German Reformed church in Sheboygan Wisconsin. They plan a California visit before settling in Sheboygan. Best Store for Nations and Fancy Dry Goods Deatrick's. Lyle Hicken leaves for National Yellowstone Park on a summer contract with a tour company operating a park route.
Mr and Mrs Henry Burrichter and Mrs D Dirkman of Lost Nation visit in Henry Burrichter family. Hopkinton dedicates new Presbyterian church costing about 15000 with 800 subscribed before dedication. Monticello Baseball Assoc reelects officers. Iowa Supreme Court upholds Harry Stuart desertion case. George Graves fractures leg after horse incident. local hardware ad promotes Herrick refrigerator.
Mr Adam Reichart and Miss Maude Palmer wed last Wednesday at 8 pm in the Methodist Episcopal church parsonage of Dant Palmer. The bride, a charming young woman, and groom, an industrious businessman who recently bought the Meyer Ice Cream Parlor, celebrate a hopeful future.
Commencement week closed a successful year for Lenox College with over one hundred attendees and four graduates. Andrew Carnegie offered to donate 25000 toward a 100000 endowment if friends raise 75000 more. Trustees started efforts and restored the chapel funded by Mrs. Merriam in memory of Charles Merriam. A separate note reports a fire alarm glitch in Monticello due to an electrical fault and weak new cells causing the whistle to fail until the circuit is restored.
E E Snyder the indicted Olin banker has come back to St Louis to resume his cashier job in a restaurant. He posted a five thousand dollar bond to appear at the next term of court and submit to orders then made.
Mrs Margaret Hilers of the county south of town died Tuesday evening after long residence since 1856. Born 1842 in Hazel Hanover she came to America at fourteen and married Gerhard Eilers in 1859. Survived by four sons Anton Henry William G and Pauli physician, with many relatives present at death. Funeral at German Reformed Church this afternoon. I will make a very low cash price on all kinds of harness for the next 39 ne days.
Mr F B Jerrard of Superior Wisconsin visits relatives in town and Mrs Paul Gruenstein of Chicago arrives for a home visit with the Inglis family. Olin and Anamosa liquor cases open. jury returns verdict against plaintiff. Monticello clock and bell troubles noted with Billy Sloan. Henry Clay Wills estate bequest to church highlighted. library hours and legal library protection act described. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea advertised for children.
The DeWitt Co. salve claims to penetrate skin pores and heal boils burns eczema and all skin diseases. It is sold by O. H. Soetje, a local druggist, and marketed as a genuine original witch hazel salve for pile relief as well.
Fare of 12.25 to Niagara Falls and return via Nickel Plate Road with travel dates June 18, 19 and 20 and return by June 24 or ticket deposit by July 14. Vestibuled sleeping cars offered with dining cars and American Club Meal Plan priced 25c to 1.00 plus à la carte. Write John Y. Calaban for information. Chicago offices listed.
Farmers can raise calves cheaper and better with Blackford's calf meal tan with mill. It is a perfect milk substitute. For sale by C. W. Brown.
Historic property known as Poggen Klaus Place for rent offers a good house and barn, recently repaired, with six acres of land within Monticello corporate limits. Includes pasture for a cow and is associated with Arte G. H. George.
Ticket details show $21.35 to Asbury Park N J and $21.35 return via Nickel Plate Road with passage through New York City. Dates cited include June 29 and 80 July 1 and 2 with a sharp return limit by August Stat contingent on ticket deposit. Chicago ticket offices listed at 111 Adams St and Auditorium Annex Depot La Salle and Van Buren.
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