Road and bridge committee reports various repairs
County supervisors audit progress on district roads and bridges. Projects include repairs in Jackson Madison Scotch Grove and Lovell townships with costs, warrants, and county material credits. Also noted are public buildings warrants, poor farm accounts, farm inventory, and a fee reconsideration move with adjournment set for June 25 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hon. Board of Supervisors
District Road and Bridge Committee
Jackson Township
T. I. Platner
Carter’s
James Sinkey
Hanssen
Sackett’s
Eby Bros
A. Sanford
Rickless
Howard Leech
Eby’s Mill
Pender Bridge
Dolphin Farm
O. P. Hanssen
A. McDonald
Oxford
Geo. Lodvina
A. F. Dollit
Jas. Lindsey
Frank Burda
Rome
Geo. Curttright Et al
Geo. Huber
B. F. Stout
Geo. Lane Et
Hale Township
Hale
Rome Township
R. C. Detthman
Chas Wooded
D. O. Clay
Clinton Bridge & Iron Works
Oak Lumber
Nebraska Bridge Supply & Lumber Co
Citizens Savings Bank of
Olin
D. A. Clay
Hon
Board of Supervisors
Committee On Public Buildings
Hollister Lumber Co
Coal Court House
B L Matson
Bert Myers
J K Hale
Court House
Anamosa Lumber Co
R. M. Peet
Shawbridge Fairview Township
N. Tabor
E. W. Harrison
Fairview Township
Greenfield
Fairview
Wm. Flaherty
Stuhler Sons Co
Brown farm near Amber sought after for bargain sale
A 200 acre farm one and a half miles east of Amber known as the Brown farm offers 35 acres of timber with rest in cultivation and tame grass. It includes a good house barn well mill corn cribs granary and outbuildings. It will be sold for less than neighboring farms. Also offers other county land bargains in Hutchinson Lyman Stanley Brule and Charles Mix counties with relinquishments available. EE M Fadden Morrison Illinois endorses Shallenberger treatment.
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Amber
Town
Hutchinson County
Miller
Tland County
Lyman
Stanley
Brule
Charles Mix
Arduser Land Co
Kennebec
Lyman County
Olin
Jones County
Iowa
Scotch Grove
Monticello
Wyoming Township
Miraculous Cure Reported By Pennsylvania Family
A Pennsylvania couple, H. M. Adams and wife Henrietta, report a miraculous cure for their child’s eczema after seven bottles of a blood medicine and body building tonic sold at OQ. H. Soetje’s drug store. The ad Mixes testimonials with promotional lines for Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar cough syrup and Rocky Mountain Tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Adams
Henrietta
QO. H. Soetje
Kennedy
O. H. Loctije
Local Notes From Cascade and Nearby Towns
Cascade gossip reports visiting relatives from Waterloo Dubuque and Malcom. J F Anson Jake Lees return from Dubuque jury service. Several visits from Miss Clara Huntington Marguerite Atherton and Miss Leta Wilcox. A mass at St Marys welcomed Rev John Breitbach. A banker reception in Cedar Rapids praised by Commercial Club. Married news for Carrie Sullivan and Raymond McCune. Car mishaps include a broken toe at the new St Martin school and a runaway team damaging harness and wagon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cascade
Cascade Creamery Co
Roche
Pierre
J. F. Anson
Jake Lees
Dubuque
Clara Huntington
Waterloo
Huntington
A. M. Tanner
Malcom
Iowa
Rogers
W. G. Wise
Wise
Marguerite Atherton
Leta Wilcox
T. H. McQuillen
Ludwig
C. H. Huntington Sr
W. HH. Huntington
St. Martin
Frank Lchroeder
Spring Valley
John Breitbach
St. Mary’s
David Rogers
Colorado
Cedar Rapids
St. Louis
Carrie
W. T. Sullivan
Raymond McCune
Dickson Beatty
M. A. Buchan
Grundy Center
W. Ff. Craft
Fillmore
Onslow News Briefs And Local Happenings
Seigel Overholt and son George traveled to Chicago with stock. Vera Paul returns home from Coe College for vacation. Commencement at Iopkinton attended by W. J. McCready and wife. Mrs. Bert Mackrill and baby visit in Platt. Mrs. Ben Paul of Blairstown visits relatives. Bert Walters and family visit Judd Huyck’s in Newhall. Berry picking at Hoyt Lros. M. O. Felton and Indiana visitor call on Monday. Niles, Onslow Bank president, in town Tuesday. Lizzie Vincent and daughter visiting relatives. Wilson Walters visits Maquoketa. George Miller’s soda fountain now open. Beggs of Prairieburg and Magshberry of Youngstown visit Johnston brothers. John French visits with uncle J. N. French and W. H. Orr family. Presbyterian Children’s Day exercises well attended. Krouse and family visit A. B. Steyne. Steyne is Krouse’s sister. Mrs. Belle Osborn leaves for Verndale Minnesota after visit. Onslow to celebrate. J. W. Coxsee to give oration. Glick’s band and Will Sear’s cannon. Cement sidewalks expanding. steel culvert installed on north Main. Mrs. O. C. Johnston improving under Minnie Dawson care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onslow
Seigel Overholt
George
Chicago
Stock
Vera Paul
Coe College
W. J. McCready
Iopkinton
Bert Mackrill
Platt
S. D
Newhall
Judd Huyck
Hoyt Lros
M. O. Felton
Center Junction
Indiana
C. L. Niles
Onslow State Bank
Lizzie Vincent
Belle Plaine
Krouse
Belle Osborn
H. J. Streeper
Verndale
Minnesota
J. W. Coxsee
Glick
Will Sear
Woodyard’s Corner
O. C. Johnston
Minnie Dawson
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve Endorsed as Best Remedy
The advert proclaims DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as the sincerest tribute to superiority due to its imitation. It claims the salve is good for burns, scalds, chaffed skin, eczema, tetter, cuts, bruises, boils and piles and notes it is highly recommended and reliable. Sold by O. H. Soetje.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
O. H. Soetje
The Vacation Widower Silent Sufferer in Modern Life
The piece profiles the vacation widower as outwardly carefree but inwardly unsettled after his family leaves. He loses the bachelor freedom he longs for as routines return, companions shift, and home duties loom. His smile hides deeper misery from a wife who values being missed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Inter Ocean
Boston
Redheaded man jailed for fare dispute on Brooklyn streetcar
In Brooklyn a defendant named Thomas Williams is held for 30 days after claiming an antipathy to red hair triggered violence on a streetcar. The judge notes 9,845 redheaded men in Brooklyn and jokes about redheaded guards escorting Williams to the black Maria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Williams
Brooklyn
Thomas
Japan Sets World Standard for Official Honesty
A Collier's Weekly reflection contrasts official integrity in Japan with China and the United States. It cites Li Hung Chang questioning an American official wife about her husband’s wealth and notes Mexico's president supposedly limiting wealth to under one million dollars, highlighting deeper corruption in China and Russia compared to Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Mexico
Li Hung Chang
America
China
United States
Russia
Collier’s Weekly
Mary Begins Chickens with In as Barn Incubator Experiment
A neighbor asks Mary if she has chicks yet. Mary replies they are making some, as her father tries raising chickens in a barn using an incubator. The anecdote, sourced from Lippincott's, highlights the curious early efforts in poultry farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Lippincott's
Tiny Tobacco Seeds Could Seed Acres
Tobacco seeds are described as minute enough for a thimble to sow an acre of ground, illustrating the remarkable small size and prolific planting potential of the crop.
Digestive aids and cures headlined in late 19th century ads
A stream of patent medicines and tonics touted to mothers and households, including Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar, and Kodol for Dyspepsia. Ads promise relief from appetite loss, sleep issues, and stomach woes, with testimonials and local drugstore sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
O. H. Soetje
Dr King’s New Life Pills Featured in Local Letter
J B Waterman of Watertown Ohio touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as curing his daughter’s epilepsy for over two years. Ad copy promotes best cleansers and life giving tonics at O H Soetje’s drug store and extols Harly Risers as a reliable laxative and cathartic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. N. Rawls
Bells, Tenn
Bucklin
O. H. Soetje
J.B. Waterman
Watertown
Local boy gains weight after using New Discovery for Consumption
Bowie Texas reports a 90 pound boy, W L Hill, doubling to over 180 after 12 bottles of Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. He credits the cure to the medicine sold by O H Soetje and notes a free trial bottle offer. Washington DC Post mentions the Missouri River eroding Iowa banks near Omaha. Missouri River erosion is cited as a factor for relocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie
Tex
W. L. Hill
Dr. King
O. H. Soetje
Washington D. C
Missouri River
Iowa
Omaha
Iowa Farms For Sale Across Counties With Various Terms
Numerous farms offered in Iowa varias counties including Jones Dubuque Delaware and Lovell. Listings show acreages from 8 to 1980 with prices from 35 to 87.50 per acre. Payment terms range from cash downs to 5 to 10 year financing at 5 to 6 percent. For further information call and see us.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovell Township
Monticello
Iowa
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Supervisors’ Proceedings
Wayne Township
Bigley Farm
Clover Leaf Creamery
Cass
Wayne Townships
McBride’s
H. M. Dirks
Oswald
Lang’s Mill
Wm. Wood
Berlin Mills
Castle Grove Township
Washington Farm
Cass Township
Linn County
Jones and
Linn Counties
Central Lumber & Coal Co
A. Matthiessen
Meek & Beam
Ccsesee
Matthiessen Bros
King Sr
P Hohn
P Bailey
J Dirks
Thos Dawson
Franks & Son
Harvey
drgeReere
James Chapman
Wells
Eens
Enone
Dohn Bulley
Aap
Alee Kelen Johnson
John Sutton and
WS Clark
A. Scroggie
T. A. King, Sr
McDonald
Ellis
R.A. Serageie
Halvys
AL Chaiy
Fdays
Falays
Matthiessen
W. J. Mills
J. H. Abel
Shallenberger
EE. M. Fadden
Morrison, Il
George Meredith
Despiser
Buffalo Express
O. ST. Soetje
Tennessee
Toledo Blade
Chicago News
O. FL
Soetje
Lincoln Star
Guardian
District Court of
State of
Henry Lain
Wyoming
Jerry Woodyard
Ke, Fereed
Murray
New Yor
City
Dubuque County
Farley
Delaware County
Monticello Realty Co
Monticello, la
J. A. Voorhees, M’gr
Mirick & Inglis
Physicians and Surgeons
Monticelo Bank
Fred Puleston
Eilers & Bolton
H. M. Reminy
James Remley
Remley
E. E. Reed
Burrichter’s Drygoods
Herrick & Bauder
Monticello State Bank
J. W. Doxsee
Lovell Block
E. Tarbox
Jones
Anamosa
A. M. Maurice
D. D
Dental Department
Drake University
Hominicat-American Land Co
Weyburn, Sask
Canada
Waterloo, Iowa
Weyburn
Milestone
Drinkwater
Regina
G. W. Eastwood
Lovell
Dr. Shallenberger
W. E. Shallenberger
Oakwood Blvd
Drexel State Bank
J. E. Bateman
W. First St
Monticello, Iowa
ST. P
Colorado and
West
Sioux City
Cedar Opis
Omaha St. Paul
Kansas City
Davenport
Calmar
Calmar Freight
Oxford Freight
Marion
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