Local Trades and Visits Highlight Civic News
Mr. F C Nevens sells separators for W F Rohn and a Washington Heights emphasis on sales at Eilers Bolton’s. Judge D McCain of Anamosa visited town last Tuesday while Mrs Vic Chambers of Cedar Rapids visited friends here. Numerous ads note sales on lace curtains ribbons and hats at Deutrick’s and Burrichter’s, with various prices and promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. McCain
Anamosa
Vic Chambers
Cedar Rapids
Earl Hollister
Local Notes Highlight Visiting Relatives and Shifting Trades
Mrs. Binford stays with her son for months while Marshall Ross visits his mother and brother in town. Various notices include shop work openings at W. F. Rohn harness shop, calls for Mandy Lee incubators, paint upgrades at Central Lumber and Coal, and shop updates from Hicka & Ricklets. Community events row: sermons, church conferences, rail job transfer, and upcoming picnics and ball game between Castle Grove and Monticello.
Local notes from town and county life mixed
Dr W A Mirick in Chicago for a medical convention. Straw berry Point and Greeley visitors. Smith and Hickman visiting in town. Edith Curtin left for Minneapolis for three weeks. Fireworks, dances, visits, and travels of residents including Ahlers, Himesbaugh, and Arduser family. Public works crews load gravel for ballast. a court acquits a man charged with assault. Center Junction defeats Monticello by one run. Lenox Hopkinton summer school attracts over fifty teachers.
Bebb Family Heads West Tour and Exposition
Mr and Mrs Morris Bebb and daughter Louise left last Monday for a western tour. They plan a week in Portland to visit the National Park exposition, then sail by ocean steamer to San Francisco. The final week of vacation will feature California natural wonders.
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Morris Bebb
Louise
West
Portland
National Park
San Francisco
California
Lee's Lice Killer and Local Church News
Lee's Lice Killer advertised for sale in Monticello by C. W. Brown. Rev. L. A. Swisher of Hopkinton will leave for Cedar Rapids Trinity Methodist, having served Hopkinton less than a year. Monticello baseball club plans a July 4 game with Cedar Rapids Dundees, a professional team, predicting the summer’s fastest game and a large grandstand crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
E V. Claypool
Methodist Church
Fayette
Lee
Monticello
C. W. Brown
L. A. Swisher
Methodist Church of
Hopkinton
Trinity Methodist Church of
Cedar Rapids
The
Baseball Association
Cedar Rapids Dundees
Dundees
Local Boy Injured by Lumber Fall at West Yard
Four year old Lyle Adams son of David Adams suffered a serious injury when a pile of dimension lumber toppled in the lumber yard west of the railroad last Tuesday. He remains unable to move but is reported improving and hoped to recover soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle Adams
David Adams
Lyle
T. H. Dunn
Excelsior Springs
Missouri
Dunn
the Express
Mr. Dunn
Swiss minister travels to New York to aid insane youth
Rev. EB Gruenstein left for New York to accompany Rudolph Bauman, recently declared insane and confined at the county farm. Gruenstein raised 60 to cover travel costs and plans to place Bauman aboard a ship to Europe for return to Switzerland, hoping home life will restore his health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EB. E. Gruenstein
New York City
Rudolph Bauman
Bauman
Gruenstein
America
Switzerland
Rev. Gruenstein
New York
Europe
Creamery Incentive for Farmers in Peak Milking Season
Farmers urged to send milk to the Diamond creamery offering top prices during peak production. A small price increase at this time yields a big gain, so traders are advised to use a hand separator and route cream to Diamond for max returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diamond Creamery Co
Iowa
Col. Eliza Stimpson Dies at Prairieburg After Twenty Six Years in Castle Grove
Mrs Eliza Stimpson died last Thursday in Prairieburg where she had lived since 1893. Born October 30 1830 in Carlby England she moved to Ohio at twenty three and married Thomas Stimpson. The couple farmed in Castle Grove until 1898 then retired to Prairieburg. Survived by husband and son John Stimpson of Cass township. Funeral Saturday at Prairiehill cemetery Castle Grove. Blanche and Harvey Hunter visiting at Marsailles Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Stimpson
Castle Grove Township
Prairieburg
Carlby
England
America
Ohio
Thomas Stimpson
Prairiehill
Tragic drowning accident claims young Egan
Harry Egan, 16, son of Thomas and Mrs Egan, died after diving from a spring board into a river back of the fair grounds. He struck shallow water, buried his head, and sustained fatal injuries. he died the following Monday after being treated at home. The incident follows his recent return from school where he was a high school student and night operator for Jones County Telephone Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Egan
Thomas Egan
Fair Grounds
Harry
North Chestnut Street
Thomas Harry Egan
Hopkinton
Monticello
Jones County Telephone Company
Mysterious Hat Exchange Baffles Iowa Officials
County Auditor W J Mills and deputy James Abel report receiving a brown hat via express with a joke from Minnesota. They mailed data in exchange for hats and charges, with Mills admitting to sending some pages. The prank has city officials puzzled and the hat fits Mills. Fred Grassmeyer returns from a visit with daughter in Randolph Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Mills
Express
Ole Oleson
Minnesota
Iowa
Jones County
Milla
Farwell Seeks Eye Treatment in Iowa City
Mr S S Farwell is in Iowa City receiving treatment for his eyes. officials express hope for his quick recovery and restored eyesight. A landowner states camping on his property will cost twenty five cents per day and prohibits camping without payment. mention of Jacob Killias and a price note appears in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. S. Farwell
Iowa City
Mr. Farwell
De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve Ad Promises Healing
An advertisement touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as penetrating the skin to antiseptic rubefacient and healing influence. It claims relief for boils burns and various skin diseases and offers a remedy for piles, with HB C DeWitt & Co as makers and O H Soetje as the retailer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Witt
HB. C. DeWitt & Co
O. H. Soetje
Draggixt
Pogpen kiana place for rent near Monticello
Advertisement offers for a well repaired house and barn with six acres of land within Monticello corporate limits. Includes pasture for a cow and contact with G H George at 421f. Also promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Ten tonic for children and claims strength and health benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cross
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Monticello
G. H. George
Nickel Plate line tickets to Asbury Park big sale noted
Fares offered at 21.35 dollars to Asbury Park New Jersey and a return price of 21.35 dollars via Nickel Plate Road. Sales dates listed as June 29 and 30 with late July 1 and 2. Tickets valid through New York City and available at Chicago offices 111 Adams Street and Auditorium Annex Depot La Salle and Van Buren streets.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Nickel Plate Road
New York City
Chicago City
Adams St
Auditorium Annex
la Salle
van Buren Streets
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J. W. Doxsee
Oxford
Hicks & Guyan
Home News
F. C. Nevens
W. F. Rohn
Eilers & Bolton's
Dentrick’s
Reichart’s
San Bonnets
Deutrick’s
T. M. Redmond
J. E. Bateman
Kansas
Plymouth
Hall's
Madelia’s
Burrichter’s
Mr. Edgar Hubbard
Adam Reichart
Eilers & Bolton’s
Mrs. A
Loveland
Benton County
Deatrick’s
Co. W. Brown
John Reichart
Cascade
Kers & Bolton’s
Mr. A. I. Jackson
Puleston
Sun Umbrellas! Deutrick’s
Harry Tremain
Maquoketa
Messrs. R. ©. Strnton
W. G. Eilera
Hall's Hardware
Fannie Neal
Robert
Olla Hogan
Iva Hearn
Henry Schlemme
Marshall Ross
Horton, Kansas
Mrs
Anna Ross
John Ross
Paul Rettig
Mr. Rohn
A. L. Chase
Postville
Roy Farmer
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
George Redman
Mandy Lee
Central Lumber and Coal Company
L. D. Morey
Andrew. Bajash
J. M. Hofacre
South Dakota
Colfax
C. A. Erricksons & Co
Dwight Smith
Jettie Hogan
Castle Grove
Hicka & Ricklets
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
M. A. Breed
Barrichter’s
OQ. di Northrop
Clear Lake
Thomas Kingsley
Davenport
Weir
Hall’s Hardware
George G. Drury
Marion
Kansas City
Lawrence Schoonover
George L. Schoonover
Catherine
Lovell
C. A. Errickson & Co
Victor Dautremont
Nebraska
Laura Stoddard
Creighton
Marengo Republican
Methodist Episcopal Church
E. V. Claypool
C. A. Errickon & Co
Lawrence Pride
Elgin
Illinois
Porky
Shady Lane
Blackford
W. A. Mirick
Chicago
Shelton Hickman
Alburnett
Edith Curtin
Minneapolis
Della Arduser
LaPorte City
George
Anna Hazard
Mary Petcina
Farley
Florence Herring
Colorado Springs
Colorado
A. E. Himebaugh
William Stahler
Oo. A. Ahlers
John
Bellevue
Mr. Johnson
Arlington
Miss Marvin
Diamond Creamery Company
Roy Henderson
Harry Stabler
Shattuck Military Academy
Max Vorie
Ladies’ Missionary Societies
A. Matthiessen
Olin
Board of Supervisors
Fred Balster
Wesner, Nebraska
H. F. Burrichter
Lost Nation
Children’s White Bonnets
M. H. Teeter
Waterloo
Dr. Teeter
Town
Harry Sanderson
Wayne
A. G. Albertson
Justice of the Peace
Plymouth Hall's Hardware
Center Junction
Center Junction Boys
Lenox College
Ware
Miller
Beam
Gibbons
Mike Sharron
Ralph Gaylor
William Anderson
Justice Himebaugh
Mike
Anderson
Gaylor
D. D. Young
Los Angeles
Mr. Young
Scotch Grove Township
Mercer County
Pennsylvannia
Andrew
Jackson County
Blanche
Harvey Hunter
Marsailles
Tilinoias
Killian Thomas
Springville
Dexter Page
Henry Warner
Voorhees
Marshall Lee
First Street
Stuhlers
Stablers Store
Warner
Thomas
Mr. Lee
Fred Grassmeyer
Paul Buol
Randolph
Jacob Killias
Eilers & Bolton
Mother Goose
A.B. C
Hubbard & Hanken’s
C. H. Schipman
Icello
South Sinux First St
Lowell Block
McCall Patterns
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