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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1898
Page
5
Local visits include Mrs. O C Hunter in Maquoketa and Mrs. D I Goldstone in Chicago. Ringling Bros circus set for Dubuque on July first. Burglary nets $100 at Hopkinton store. Warm weather goods at local outlets and new lace arrivals.
Community notices include camp meeting in Delhi on August 19 with Rev. David Street at Gill's school house next Sunday at 8. Footnotes report local commerce from marble monuments to grocers Lon's and Hicks Eilers. Obituary notes Mrs B L Matson dies in Anamosa at age 64 after long Jones county residence.
Local residents visit and travel remain prominent as Mrs E N Norcross now of Keota visits Monticello friends while Elbert Parrott hosts. Mrs Hughes of Scotch Grove battles paralysis and family rushes to her bedside. The Jones county Pythian picnic unfolds at Anamosa with D M Kelley speaking. A lightning strike damages a cottonwood tree near Curt Hosford’s home, no injuries reported. Community notices note sales, graduations, weddings, and local business promotions.
Miss Sadie Davenport of Monticello marries John Laidlaw at Mitchell South Dakota. Rev. A M Cuse injured in hammock accident. Dr James R Guthrie named to fill vacancy at State University medical college. Hobo burglar Kelley jailed in Cascade. Dirk Dirks, 77, dies near Amber after heart disease. funeral at Wayne church. Court deals with six youths in petty theft cases. potential reform school placement.
Auction and sale notices fill the page with bargains at Samter and Samter while Wilson firm sale passes to Rudolph Bohren at fifty dollars per acre. Church events, law notices, a deputized fish warden appointment for ex sheriff P C Babcock, military drill authorization for Norman Smith, and a domestic dispute in Richland township populate the day’s items.
Mr. Perry Sisson a longtime local figure died last Friday of mineral fever at his farm in Delaware County. He owned a farm with a spring he believed had medicinal properties and planned a sanitarium there. Born February 1831 in Wamburg New York he had married Josephine Brown in 1854 and moved west. He trained as a blacksmith and was survived by a brother Philander of Edgewood Michigan with limited other kin. Funeral services were held Tuesday in Monticello with Rev. David Street officiating.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway announces an excursion sale to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo on June 16 17 and 18. Round trip fare is 26 90 with return valid June 30 to July 18.
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