Summer sales and social notes around Monticello town
AMonticello row of shop ads and social updates describe Douglas Doutricks store promotions Cool Underwear stockings and millinery sales at Deatricks Hall's hardware offers fresh seeds and twine Mrs W W Hunter hosts ladies gatherings and Miss Minnie Locher visits Baraboo while Mr J S Hall travels to Chicago Also referenced are Loyal Rebekah lodge officers installation July 10 and a family birth at Mundell residence with a ten pound boy. local canals include a model store canning goods and sportings like a Friday street concert by the Ladies band and a picnic by the Young Married Ladies Working band of the Congregational Church
Monticello News Roundup of Local People and Events
Monticello reporters note social visits and travel as Mrs. R. P. Smith hosts an afternoon party for friends. Local youth Mabel Marvin returns to Madison after university library work. J. P. Lane and N. Kehoe finish Creighton studies. Mr. C. W. Fuller assists in Nebraska. The Zimmer men farm sale brings $58 per acre, and Rev. W. M. Lemen leads Epworth League delegates to Independence. Also featured are shop goods, hats, seeds, and a dental/medical trip to Boston for Dr. Mirick, plus a barbed wire accident injuring a horse on J.G. Suter’s team.
Local notices and ads from a 19th century issue
A fragmentary column mentions health resort visits by F. M. Hickd and a note on recent rainfall. It advertises Golden Eagle clothing stock and low prices, harnesses and buggies, Deering harvesting machinery showcased by Richard Dawson in the Henderson building, plus visits by D. I. Gorpston and Max Rettig with relatives and colleagues.
Fourth of July Promoter Plans Hazel Green Celebration
Mr Frank B Dickey of Hazel Green Weat friend of Lenox promotes a Fourth of July event at Hazel Green with profits aiding the college. Prof Guthrie to deliver the address. The Monticello crowd enjoyed music at the post office corner last Monday. The Ringling Brothers prep for Monticello July 20 with press agent Coxey in town. Frances Katharine Litten, born in 1811, dies near Prairieburg at over 90, mother of several notable locals. The Monticello Woodmen invite all to the county picnic with baseball and amusements in the park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Frances Katharine Litten
Fred Litten
Prairieburg
Iowa
Approsia
Witenberg
Germany
Juitten
Twelve Mile
Cascade
Dubuque
Litten
Keenan
Elizabeth Trumbull
Franks
Wyoming
Fred Litton
Onslow
Dubuque County
Jones County
Ill and recovering Mrs. Marvin aided by sons
Mrs. A H Marvin at 88 fell ill last Friday but is improving after a family visit by her sons Montgomery of Manchester and Fred. A police raid on North Cedar street led to one woman and three men detained but released after the woman agreed to leave town. Fred Denio of Anamosa was arrested in Cedar Rapids for larceny and released after the case settled. Dr DeWitt A Paine of Eugene City visited on his European tour, noted for his Oregon asylum leadership. Local farming profits shown by Lubbie Ortgies and a school fund gain from John Balster after a confrontation with Katie Lubben ends with Balster paying a fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liss” Whittaker
Hopkinton
Squire Babcock
A. H. Marvin
Montgomery Marvin
Fred Marvin
Montgomery
Manchester
Fred
North Cedar Street
Fred Denio
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Levi Sampica
Denio
O. M. Brown
Brown
DeWitt A. Paine
Eugene City
Oregon
W. A. Ovening
Paine
Europe
State Insane Asylum
Iowa
Lubbie Ortgies
Levi Hildreth
Castle Grove
John Balster
Langworthy
Monticello
Chris Dinklager
Balster
Katie Lubben
Katie
Chris
Babcock
Ringling Brothers to Exhibit in Monticello This Summer
Ringling Brothers World Greatest Show announced for Monticello on Saturday July 20. The program features Feely Family Holloway Trio and other aerialists, trained animals including twenty elephants, Nile hippos and a rare giraffe, with a grand street parade new this year. Fred Wenger drowns crossing Tibbetts stream during heavy rain. his body recovered downstream. Wenger, over sixty, Swiss-born, not related to local families, left no US relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ringling Bros
Nenagerie
Hippodrome
Ringling’ Brothers
Monticello
Arenic
Feely
Ringling Brothers
Holloway
Alvo
Boise and
Picard
Flying Fishers
Mile
Turnour
Garcinetti
Italy
John Rooney
Europe
America
Albert Crandall
Lockhart
O’brien
Fred Wenger
John Schweitzer
Richland Township
Tibbetts Farm
Wenger
Mr. Schweitzer
United States
Switzerland
Hopkinton Backing Monticello Bridge Across Maquoketa
W M Welch leads a petition urging a new Maquoketa river bridge. Supervisors from Hopkinton and Jones county discussed cooperation to improve access to Monticello for trade, with Monticello residents driving the request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinton
Maquoketa
W. M. Welch
Monticello
Darey
Carter
Jones County
Delaware
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Doxsee
Oxfords
Our
Pat
First Street
Home News
Lapies
Doutrick Store
W. W. Hunter
Ladies’ Band
Cool Dress Goods
Doutrick
W. B. Harris of
Walker
Mrs
David
Mundell
Hall’s Hardware
al. E. Bateman
Delhi
Deatrick’s
Minnie
Mary Locher
Baraboo
Wisconsin
Hall’s
David Mundell
P. C. Babcock
Wheatland
F. W. Buxton
Monticello State Bank
Rebekah Lodge
Deatrick
Mr. J
Hall
Chicago
The
Wonder
Eatswood & Chase’s
Congregational Church
J. A Deatrick’s
Geo. Schoonover of
C. D. Chase
Peter Smith
O. C. Hunter
Ray Schaeffer
Morgan Park Academy
T. A. King
M. H. Teeter
State Penitentiary
Shetland
Doutrick’s
R. P. Smith
Marcus Matthiessen
Mrs. A. Matthiessen
Oberlin College
Messrs
J. P. Lane
N. Kehoe
Creighton University
Omaha
A. Gow
St. Thomas
Canada
Wm. Drinkwater
Mrs. D. Campbell
Stuhler’s
J. A. Doutrick
M. L. Carpenter
Nellie
Hattie Coughlan
Samantha Cooper
Oxford’ Junction
Zimmerman
Castle Grove Township
Udo Kromminga
Eastwood & Chase’s
Richard Kimball
Central Electric Co
C. A. Wood
Mabel Marvin
Wisconsin University
Madison
Geo. Stuhler & Sons
C. W. Fuller
Cowles
Nebraska
W. M. Lemen
Bessie Kaylor
Grace Hayes
Anna Lemen
Independence
Fred Carson
City Park
Nellie Denio
Cass Township
Tue Express
Stacy
M. H. Teeter’s
George Himebaugh
Indianola
Wayne, Township
Eugene
Hugh Robinson
Lenox College
Presbyterian Church
Madigan
South Dakota
Innes
QO. C. Huntter
W. A. Mirick
Binghamton New York
J.G. Suter
F. M. Hickd
Golden Eagle
D. I. Gorpstons
J. H. Winsor
Clinton
M. W. Herrick
Winsor
Max Rettig
Camden, New Jersey
Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co
George Rettig
W. F. Ronn
Richard Dawson
Henderson Building
Salvation Army
John Pinkerton Starks
Sol Lowy
Jim Davison
Ringling
Mercury
Cyrus Heisey
Signal Service
W. D. Coxey
Coxey
Pacific Coast
Davenport
St. Paul
Children’s Goods
Jersey
H. C. Wills
C. H. Schipman
Merchant Tailor
Monricexxo
Oscar H. Soetje
Cassist
Chaser
Sherwin-Williams
Eastwood & Chase
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