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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1880
Page
6
Publication note from The Express showing Thursday edition schedule and business office at O Duer Co. block with staff references.
The column highlights local updates from Iowa towns including breedings by Charlie Wales, advertising moves by W F Bingham, and Doxsee’s Fourth of July address. It reports Olin and Anamosa papers on local journalism ventures, Monticello Post Office class change and a cannery note, plus a strong case for mutton farming with D R Carpenter’s 116 ewes yielding wool and lambs worth at least 400 dollars, signaling mutton as a rising regional crop.
Public notices report retail changes and community events in Monticello including a Trinity Commandery funeral plan, the dissolution of Bacher & Thompson with Bacher & Co continuing the drug and goods business, and an upcoming rail vote outcome. The piece discusses road funding, voter qualifications, and republican principles amid local politics and business consolidations.
Mr P O Babcock and family visit Mrs Foster in Indi blinds. Mrs J M Sleeper visits Correctionville for six weeks. Miss Lulu Gibson returns from Illinois. F B Dugar departs on trip for Broom and Feather Duster factory. Robert Sturton resigns drug store post to join a railway engineer corps. W M Ruggles attends railroad election result. Capt Carpenter and others attend Democratic Convention in Cincinnati. Kate Curtis vacationing in Independence then Ames for commencement. C W Gurney from Camanche misses railroad vote due to high water. F A Whittemore delays return to vote on railroad tax. Mrs Wim Nash and sister in New York State. Billy works for railroad in Lake Crystal. John Russell returns from Wright county. discusses land interests. Rev J M Albrook visits Epworth Seminary president. praises institution. Geo Runkel leaves for Chicago. road work to start. seeks office space. Alfa Campbell returns to Indianola. may join Marshalltown Public School. Ed M Thompson leaves Bacher & Thompson. joins J M Shaffer as salesman.
Davemont Iowa June 20 1880 To the Editor of The Express argues consciousness as central to reality. He discusses matter and force as inseparable and proposes an idealistic entity arising from the interaction of external and internal realms guiding mental development.
The text discusses a distinction between voluntary action and involuntary reflexes within organized life. It posits a structural harmony guiding evolution of forces, linking ideal and real forms, and describes nature as concrete and not merely created, shaped by material forces and molecular energy, attributed to E. S. Bannows.
A Monticello visit by Sells Brothers Millionaire Con federation is lauded in press reviews. The St Paul Pioneer Press and other papers call the display large and varied with sea lions rhinoceros camels elephants lions and rare birds. Critics praise performers James Robinson Cobb and a full troupe of acrobats jugglers and riders, noting courteous staff and prohibition of candy and lemonade nuisances. The St Paul review declares the show grand and honest and the public applauds 10000 to 12000 spectators brain.
At the bride’s parents residence in Montielly on January 24, M Mr. Barnhill married Miss Minnie Ames with Rev. J N Smith officiating. The couple left by the evening train for St Paul.
Monticello Georgia June 24 1880 contracts for piles and ties for the Iowa North Western Railroad are offered with bids due within term days to W W Young or Gro Runken president of the dissolution notice. Also notice dissolves the partnership Bacher Thompson by mutual consent with John Bacher taking over all claims and continuing the business.
Butter and eggs at Shaffer's New Drug Store. Shoes at F Reichenbachs for one dollar. Hair brushes at Shaffer's Trunks. Podhaski's Harness Shop offers items in low prices. Lorentzen supplies fresh butter. Farmers urged to sharpen plows at W Presrox shop with guaranteed satisfaction.
A fragmentary advertisement touts a durable edlewalk as the cheapest and promotes selling flogging in rough or cut. claims constant fresh home in loads at kiln prices by W. H. Proctor. Also touts John Lorentzen flour from the state’s most complete mill with five years of customer satisfaction claims.
Attorneys in Ananoosa offer Abstract Books of all lands in Jones County and provide promptly furnished abstracts of title. They have built a specialty in Real Estate law and practice.
An announcement promotes a custom hearse by Staugs of Dexter Livery Stable for public accommodation on reasonable terms. The piece also markets various patent medicines and household products from multiple vendors, including Dr Price remedies and Kidney-Wort, with notes on purity and practical uses.
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