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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 03, 1898

Page

4

Local notices and social news from Onstow March

J C Overly is sick this week Fifteen cars of stock go to Chicago Anna Klima home from Clinton I O G T supper in opera house Geo Sokol family visit Mr and Mrs Bertecheck Mae Edwards visiting DeWitt family Geo Hanna ill but improving Many social visits and parties for birthdays and illness Odd Fellows surprise for DeWitt and move to Monticello Temperance sermon well received Moves to town by W C Paul Ernest Quantie and wife Clinton guests of John Russell and family Supper for Eugene Croker convalescent Six months laid up Croker still sufferer Conundrum supper at McIntyre guests Omer Carroll pleasant visit Mrs Tasker very sick then improving Mrs W W Skinner returns from California contrast Iowa climate Walter at Ft Sherman Idaho packing up for Ft Stephens Oregon Mrs Coburn death of mother of Coburn family interred Wyoming church service held There are many ready to go to Cuba sentiment grows War talk and calls for Sec Long to act generals in field planned engagements needs an able counsellor.

Onstow J. C. Overly Chicago Anna Klima Clinton Opera House Geo. Sokol Monmouth Bertecheck Mae Edwards Logansport Ind Ahab DeWitt Geo. Hanna John Russell Frank Johnson Valpariso The Odd Fellows Brother DeWitt Monticello van Buren W.C. Paul Ernest Quantie J. H. Feehan Anamosa W.T Tasker Kate Tasker W. W. Skinner San Bernardino Cal McIntyre Skinner Iowa California N. B. Noyes Walter Ft. Sherman Idaho Company H Ft. Stephens Oregon Columbia River P. J. Coburn

Local notes from Amber and nearby areas

AMBER March 1. Black Oak school closed last Friday. Ed Hartman moved to Anamosa. Mr Casteel sold his farm to James Brown for 50 dollars per acre. Delegation attended the lyceum at Bunker Hill Friday night. Lyceum at this place progresses nicely. W H Sanford attended the dairy convention at Topeka Kansas and visited relatives there. No services in the Reformed church last Sabbath due to the minister being absent. Mr Wm Brady and family moved to Center Junction today. Mr R H Miell to move onto Brady’s old farm. Mr and Mrs Herman Slaudutsky moved into the former Foust home. Welcome to our neighborhood. Good Templars and friends plan a sociable at Mrs Platner’s home Wednesday evening March 2.

Amber Black Oak Ed. Hartman Anamosa Casteel James Brown Lyceum Bunker Hill W. H. Sanford Topeka Kansas Reformed Church Wm. Brady Center Junction R. H. Miell Brady Herman Slaudutsky Ben Foust Good Templars D. J. Hogan Chicago Tra Monticello Castle Grove Peter Laude Union Township Delaware County Mary Davidson Kehoe Bros Chas Jas. Thompson Hazel Green C. C. Curtis Messrs. Johnson and Moulton Hopkinton C. A. Thomas John Haley Pennsylvania New York City H. E. Deischer Howie Byerley Gill Fred C. Cramer Shuttte Castle Grove N. P. Hanna Hanna Frank Clouse Cass Ionian Literary Society Sam Pfeil John Brown Mary Pfeil Alfred Laude Geo. Pfeil Iowa J. A. Deischer M. Hosford J. D. Poppe Mary John Zimmerman Wayne

Community News from CentER Junction March 1

Local notes report visits and illnesses including Will Brown at home over Sabbath and Mrs J F Brown recovering. Concerts, travels, and moves are described with families heading to Northern Missouri Floyd County and Southern Iowa. A charity pie sociable raised twenty two dollars. curfew law deemed invalid.

Castle Grove Notes in Iowa Township

Castle Grove Iowa notes report cattle shipped to Chicago visitors from Monticello and Hazel Green. Local schools closed terms with programs. The Ionian society elected officers and debated highway funding. A large wedding in the township united Miss Mary Poppe and John Zimmerman with about 200 guests.

John Winans Illness and Local Notices From Scotch Grove

Scotch Grove March 1. John Winans ill with lung fever. Emmet and Lyman Moats visit from Epworth. Carl Bolton recovering from measles. Miss Lizzie Shipley visits Center Junction. Lecture on John Knox by Rev J M Bolton March 6 at 7:30 PM. Sunbeam mission March meeting. Grace Manson president. Midland Monthly to feature Lieutenant Darwin R. Merritt of Red Oak, Maine incident. Death and navy details tied to the Maine. US debt per person noted.

Scotch Grove John Winans Emmet Lyman Moats Epworth Carl Bolton Jakie Dreibelbis L. O. Sutherland Cascade Ladies’ Missionary Society Applegate Lizzie Shipley Center Junction John Knox J. M. Bolton Sunbeam Mission Band Grace Maxson Grace Sutherland Presbyterian Church McCaslin John Calvin Midland Monthly Darwin R. Merritt United States Maine Havana Merritt Red Oak Annapolis Naval Academy Lee Boyd

District court calendar lists numerous civil suits for March term

The district court has commenced many civil suits since December and books them for the March term starting next Monday. Cases include Hartman v Stingley New England Jewelry v Cornish & Co and many others involving individuals such as Shaw Kulhave Bracken and Boots among numerous parties. A romantic verse and a local shooting incident are also noted in the paper.

P J Hartman Andrew Stingley New England Jewelry Co Cornish & Co C Cooley Ex'rete J R Nichols T Shaw Matthew Bruce M J Kulhave Mary Bronck RS Russell I M Cripps Elizabeth Lochr CJ Allison Amanda J Barker Wm Barker Milton Beck

DeVore Piano Co offers free music catalogue and bonus copies

The Monticello DeVore Piano Co advertises a free instrumental and vocal music catalogue. Buy one catalogue copy for 25 cents and receive three copies of your chosen selection. Invitations issued for Ina May Harbison and Cyrus Hersey of Monticello on Wednesday evening March 9 at six o'clock per the Marion Register.

DeVore Piano Co Monticello Towa W. M. Harbison Ina May Cyrus Hersey Marion Register

Monticello to elect city officers March 28

Public notice announces a general municipal election in Monticello with voters choosing a mayor solicitor treasurer weighmaster assessor and multiple ward councilmen plus three water commissioners a park commissioner and related vacancies. Also notes changes in millinery business ownership and a bank tax list release for local townships.

City of Monticello

Residence for sale at First and Chestnut corners

Owner offers a seven room residence at the corner of First and Chestnut with good barn and fine repair. Terms to suit purchaser and inquiries directed to the owner. Also a brick ten room residence offered for sale with prompt purchaser possible, inquire at Samter & Samter clothing store. Goldstone Bros and David Samter listed in notices.

First and Chestnut Streets Samter & Samter David Samter

Unclaimed Letters and Local Ads in Monticello

List of unclaimed letters at Monticello post office advertised February 27 1898 includes Armstrong Lea Bunnell Win Grim Rutie Hicker Warner Miller Miss A D E Poxp plus for sale Lot No 1 original Monticello plat and house south of Proctor's bargain J B Sarr also sale notice for a fine residence inquire J E Hicks painting and wood finishing services by Jacob Jacobson shop 145 W First Street

Monticello Armstrong Lea Bunnell Grim Rutie Hicker Warner Miller Proctor J.B. Sarr First Street

Emigrant rates cut by Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway

The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers low fares from Monticello to Portland Seattle and North Pacific points at 32.04 first class and 27.04 second class to attract settlers to Western Minnesota South Dakota and North Dakota with carload emigrant movables greatly reduced. Information available from railway agents or J H Hiland General Freight Agent Old Colony Building Chicago. Backache signals kidney trouble and Dr Sawyers Akatine touted for kidneys. Gum trees of Victoria noted as the world’s tallest averaging 300 feet. Arnica and Witch Hazel Salve praised for piles hives scald-head eczema pin worms burns and cuts attributed to A Kempf.

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co Monticello Portland Seattle North Pacific Coast Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota South Dakota North Dakota Chicago, Milwaukee Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y J. H. Hiland Old Colony Building Chicago, WI Sawyers Arnica A. Kempf

DeWitt’s remedies and headlines from 19th century ads

A collage of patent medicine pitches and odd facts touts DeWitt’s Little Early Risers and Witch Hazel Salve for constipation piles skin diseases and coughs. It mixes medical claims with curiosities about ships, eels and dentists alongside One Minute Cough Cure and references to Dickens London and global health events.

J. H. Bacher & Co

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