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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1906
Page
9
Home news notes events and sales in Monticello area. March 9 concert reminder to remember, plus R removal sale at Deutrick and bargain counters at Burrichter’s and Stuhler’s. Local people Mr. Wilson Brazelton and Mr. Asa Logan on sick lists and recovering from pneumonia.
Local items report a well attended Royal Neighbors supper raising about 30 dollars and a forthcoming Old Folks Concert at Congregational church on March 9. Notices note shorthands on weapons, sales at Vickery, and various visits, illnesses, and travel of Monticello residents.
Frank E. Vickery has taken charge of the C W Brown harness shop stock and promotes trade to farmers in the area. The city election is set for March 26 with officers including a new mayor and councilmen to replace several incumbents amid low voter interest. Nearby obituaries note the deaths of George Fairburn in Los Angeles and Charles A. Cummings in Omaha, with funeral plans in Monticello.
The record lists new cases entered in the March term for law and equity matters. It includes numerous attachments, notes and accounts, foreclosures, divorces, and injunctions involving parties such as Bates Gaines Streeter Hammond Byerly Houge Kidwell Anamosa Wells Shaw Ketcham Merritt Carroll Peet Kramer Coppess Reed McLaughlin Bevans Dulles Westphal Lange Jones Gaines Faragher White Hasler Coppess Sawyer Atwood Cornish Long Wilson Anderson Hinrichsen Winrichen Bebee Vernon Carpenter Merritt Miller Wyckoff Hogue Ryan Biggart Hagen Hagen Coppess Sawyer and others across various named entities and relations.
Monticello notes for March 1876 record travels by Matt Noyes to Hartford with horses, major hog profits by Wales and Howard, Noble bringing blooded stock, a Scotch Grove marriage, twins born to the Rettigs, and several local officials elected or chosen. The town faced saloon raids, a $100 annual license, a drowning accident of eight year old Johnny George near Kitty Creek, and preparations for a Centennial display in Des Moines. School elections on the 20th produced no choice, with six applicants listed. The mayoral race favored Hf. D. Sherman over C. J. Wales by 65 votes, plus listed town officers and a three night school exhibition featuring local performers and a star turn by Isaac Austin in Handy Andy.
The piece lists Ida Whiting Emily Lock wood Fislie Whittemore Flora Wall and Marshall Davis as mentioned singers It also notes Lent began with Ash Wednesday and ends Easter forty days later excluding Sundays It cites season work for show season with a preference for sober men and opens in April O J Bucklin Monticello Iowa The Monticello State Bank lists tax lists for the city and nearby townships plus Delaware and Linn counties and offers tax burden information for the past year
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