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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
7
A compilation of short items notes visits by residents to Dubuque Oshkosh and Ames, new goods at Hicks Hicks Eilers and Eastwood Chase stores, a Monticello Oxford Junction baseball game 14 to 6, and farm for sale near Monticello. Also mentions local events and sales including Tamoka coffee and lace curtains.
Monticello locals report illnesses and births, visits, and sales. Advertisements tout clothing, curtains, lace, undergarments, hats, and shoes at Burrichter, Model, and Wills. Events include an ice cream social at Elmer Noble in Castle Grove and Sunday church services with Rev. Warner. Mrs. Mudge and others visit relatives. farmers purchase horses, flour, and fertilizer. taxes due at the Monticello State Bank.
Two Monticello churches hosted visiting ministers last Sunday. Rev. F W Grossman new Lenox college president preached at the Presbyterian church, and Rev. Dr. J C Magee of Cedar Falls spoke at the Methodist church in the evening. Magee, son of Capt D F Magee, visited with his parents from Friday through Tuesday before traveling to Fayette for a trustees session at Upper Iowa University where he serves.
The Democrat William Jennings Bryan spoke Friday evening at the Monticello opera house under Presbyterian auspices. He criticized Republican policies and called for free coinage of silver while painting a utopian government, drawing enthusiastic applause from Democrats and quiet moments from populist listeners.
The 1901 abstracts indicate the Dubuque and Southwestern branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Co. lost $1,009.71 despite 89,227.72 in gross earnings on a 43.68 mile line. Operating expenses totalled 90,237.48, with much business likely credited to the mainline.
At the Methodist Episcopal church the 3rd quarterly conference convenes Saturday June 21 at 8 PM in the lecture room. All officers asked to attend. Sunday services include a love feast at 9:30 AM and a 10:45 AM sermon by Rev. H H Green D D presiding elder of the Dubuque district.
A country youth who courted a hillside household worker by late night tapping was stopped by nightwatch after a concerned neighbor phoned police. He faced Justice Babcock then released, the case recalled old times as he walked into the night. Also notes sale ads for hats by J A Deutrick and the drowning death of Simon Florine of Richland township at Dubuque.
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