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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1906
Page
8
Monticello notices list events and sales from Eilers Bolton Burrichter Davis hardware and Vickery including a March 9 Old Folks concert. Names include Mr Wilson Brazelton Mr Ed Howard Asa Logan and Mrs Frank E Pike. Also updates on sick lists gloves silks and a removal sale through March 14 with numerous local residents visiting or staying.
Local notices report social visits from Mrs. Morey of Ann Arbor and Mr. Ferguson's stroke, Vickery's harness sale, plans for an Old Folks Concert at Congregational church on March 9, and various auctions, prices, and personnel updates across Monticello including court term, theater plans, and new lunch room ownership.
Mrs White to remarry the husband she divorced years ago. Miss Lizzie Schoenherr returns from Colorado. County Treasurer J. F. Petcina in South Dakota at a ill brother. James Voorhees seeks Dyersville line right of way. Mrs Louis Wolf convalescing at Iowa Sanitarium. Ruth Disbrow joins eighth grade staff. Oberlin graduate. Knights of Pythias dance draws 100+. Mrs Jennie Sandhouse to move to Monticello. Lenox College students en route to Cedar Rapids for basketball. Hog market steady. local quotes $6.00-$6.10. A Mutzenburg family to Washington state. John Clark returns from west. health improves. Mrs Arnold Egger Jr. dies. obituary to appear next week. Transfer day reduces activity for abstractors. A. W. McDonald named Hopkinton bank cashier. new bank capital $25,000. opens April 1. Dr W H Burke of Prairieburg dies of pneumonia shortly after wedding to Miss Dolan. Dress Goods sale at Doutrick's before March 14.
Mr Frank E Vickery has assumed control of the C W Brown harness shop stock and is actively promoting the business to local farmers promising accommodating service and full display of goods. The city election is set for March 26 with a new mayor solicitor treasurer and three councilmen to be chosen.
The March term of the district court lists numerous law and equity cases. Many involve attachments notes accounts and foreclosures with several divorces and injunctions also noted among the docket entries.
Monticello listings show Matt Noyes shipping horses to Hartford and Wales & Howard spending 100000 on hogs. Alfred Noble returns with blooded stock. March 16 saw the marriage of William White and Jennie Smith. A late 14 birth tally for Rettig twins. School directors named and saloon raids with 100-dollar yearly licenses. Eight-year-old Johnny George drowns near Kitty Creek after 24 hours missing. Town exhibit plans and primary teacher ballots with candidates listed. Mayor race results with D. Sherman prevailing by 65 votes. other town officers elected. Three nights of school exhibitions featured students and performances including Handy Andy.
The text lists Ida Whiting Emily Lock wood Effie Whittemore Flora Hall and Marshall Davis as singers. It notes Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and lasts forty days not counting Sundays. Bucklin of Monticello Iowa seeks reliable men to tour this April season, no drunks or cigarette fiends.
The Monticello State Bank holds the county city and tributary township tax lists including Delaware and Linn counties. Bank officers will explain each taxpayer’s share of the public burden for the past year.
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