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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1898
Page
4
A clipped Monticello newspaper snip lists family visits and local commerce. Items mention a sick two year old with pneumonia, relatives visiting Worthington and Des Moines, and a flood of sales on fabrics, carpets, dresses, shoes, sausages, cameras, and groceries at Wills Deutrick Hicks Eilers Eastwood Chase Goldstone Henderson Stuhler CO Brown and other local stores.
A Monticello column itemizes events and notices including meetings for business men June 28, a Sunday sermon by Rev. Warner on Christianity in the Pacific, travel notices of residents visiting Omaha and Sioux City, ads for Colfax Mineral Water and shoes, a funeral for a Sand Spring infant, visitors from Davenport and Castle Grove, twine pricing, school excursion to Cedar Rapids, a Trans-Mississippi trip to Omaha, estate administration in Delaware county, and a closing sale at Sumter & Sumter with a June 24 lawn sociable hosted by the Loyal Rebekah lodge.
Rev. David Street is in Des Moines this week for a state congress of missions of the Presbyterian church and will not return until next week. There will be no preaching next Sunday at the Presbyterian church or at Moore's school house.
Mr. Wm. BR. Weir was re appointed deputy oil inspector with headquarters at Davenport. He has held the post through several state administrations, evidence of his efficiency. Local items note visits, sales, weddings, en route trips, and various notices from Monticello and surrounding areas.
A Monticello report details Hunter’s arrest for drunkenness and a 30 day sentence by Justice Ricker. The town sees street performers and a squeaky hand organ vendor amid multiple notices from Colfax mineral water to Dr. Drinkwater visiting Ontario relations. Anamosa hosts the Jones County Normal Institute with instructors listed. Barn fires at Jones County farm cause losses. insurance covers only part. Trade notes include cheap goods at Wills and Deutrick, and a subscriber letter praising The Express. Federal war bonds drive interest with three percent bonds of up to 500 dollars. three subscription packages exhausted at Monticello post office and banks.
Gerhard Monet and Minnie Monet were married on the 11th inst at the home of Herman Danneman. Mrs. S. T. Perley visited Anamosa last Saturday.
Ray Curtis eldest son of Mr and Mrs Charles C Curtis drowned while bathing with several boys in the Maquoketa River north of the park last Saturday afternoon. Despite heroic resuscitation attempts and swift recovery of the body by Oliver Kiburz, life could not be saved. Funeral services were held Monday. Ray would have turned 12 next September. The piece notes the river’s treacherous currents and recurring child deaths, and also reports on local militia drill plans led by Captain Norman M. Smith with officers Louis Gardner and John Smith, plus Rev. Shanks and Rev. Magee.
D Peters a 30 year old German resident of Madison township near Canter Junction was arrested on a charge of family mistreatment and paternity of his step sister a girl under fifteen who recently bore a child. He appeared in Monticello before Judge Icker and was remanded to jail after requesting bail to be set on July 6. The case prompts doubts about guilt amid Peters good character and concern from his family and neighbors.
W Brown offers three top buggies two road wagons and one double carriage with extension tap for sale at cost. All are fully warranted and ready for delivery to buyers in this line of business.
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