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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1911
Page
2
Correspondence from Center Junction dated February 28 notes visits by Vera Smith and Kathryn Murphy and greetings from Bessie Scheib Ruby Berry and others. Town residents travel for weddings funerals and homecomings while local clubs and societies hold events and charitable teas.
Castle Grove, February 28. The town ship school election will be held next Monday. Local events include Dr. Hejinian visiting from Anamosa, a meeting of Farmers Mutual Insurance directors, and Patrick Hogan selling twenty acres of timber at $58 per acre. 59 hogs averaging 300 pounds were sold by J A Howie. Mrs. D W Cunningham and daughter Alice have mumps. Elizabeth Hogan plans time with Sheriff Hogan in Anamosa.
Onslow notes show frequent visits and moves as residents travel to Clinton Monmouth and Wyoming. New marriages loom as brides leave the area while locals relocate for work and starter households. The piece blends community updates with light social commentary on bachelorhood.
Miss Lizzie Kula clerks at Hanold store while Louis Smith returns from Marion as juror. Mail matter weighing starts March 1 for 90 days. Haley buys a Cass farm to move soon. A son is born to Mr and Mrs Dolan Jr. Raymond Richards weds Miss Theresa Connor at Cedar Rapids. Mrs J Drexler hosts ladies auxiliary dinner. Jennie Hall visits Richards home and travels to Central City. Henry Pillard surprised by relatives.
A group invited friends on Sunday for a bounteous dinner and best wishes for prosperity and happiness in their new home, with the couple planning to move on March 1.
February notes include illnesses of Mrs. Carrie McVay and Mrs. M. M. Banghart’s family, J T Conlin’s Washington Mills trip, and infant death of the Koppes child. Simon Tritten moved to South Dakota. several locals traveled West. Cascade Creamery re elects C J Elliott as butter maker. a runaway team damaged a saloon front. engineer Charles Spielman injured. births reported in Ottawa Kansas for Hardy child. Dwight Dominy and Mabel Lindeman visited Dubuque to see Mrs. J. B. Dominy. local people traveled and illness cases noted.
March notes from Amber report residents relocating to Fairview Springville Bramley area and Anamosa while observers attend a medicine show. Local men Philip Bailey Charles Gray and B D Herren visited the county seat and Mr and Mrs I D Morey attended a funeral in Anamosa.
Several local weddings are reported. Fannie Carson and F W Serbousek wed February 22 at the Carson home near Center Junction with forty guests and a Mendelsohn march. Anna M Weers and Ben H Bohlen married February 23 in Wayne township. Anna Behrends and Tobias Tobiason wed February 28 in Wayne township. Anna Gerdes and Henry Schafer married February 21 in Wayne township. Couples plan farms and look to community prosperity.
The notes report Cecil Cross in Cedar Rapids last Saturday and Doc Mirick as a Scotch Grove visitor last Friday. It mentions Willie Braz and a neck injury, then describes exam week and a new communication setup in the teachers’ office. It lists varied high school trades, freshman bookkeeping woes, and humorous cash-handling by freshmen.
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