Monticello Area Busy with Visits and Local Spots
Oar Rathenau visited Manchester last Sunday while W. Co. Robn called on Cedar Rapids guests. Sheriff Hogan was in town on official business. Numerous residents visited Monticello from Anamosa Center Junction Cedar Rapids and other nearby towns. A dance at Kinsella Hall on the 17th benefits the band, and local shops advertise Deitrick’s wares and sale dresses. A Peter Hagen sale in Wayne township yielded 9.00 for 1908 seed corn. Prof J Edwards Fisher visited Monticello. warm sun reduces snow piles after three months of sleighing.
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Peter Hagen
Wayne
Township
Monticello Daily Notices Roundup in City and County
Local residents travel and visits abound with O W Fuller and Wm Fuller in town. Cowan returns to Highland Park College. several embark for Colorado, Indianapolis, or Cedar Rapids. Post office notes uncalled for letters. court term opens. various hires and transfers across farms and towns. The Farley line suffers snow blockage. conductor Higgings reroutes to Cedar Rapids.
Knights of Pythias Indoor Carnival At Parlor Dates
The Knights of Pythias will host an indoor carnival at their parlors on March 10 11 and 12 evenings. Admission is free and the public can expect ample amusements from the boys with nothing left to desire.
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Knights of Pythias
Death of J. A. Scovern in Carrollton Missouri
Word arrives of the death last Monday in Carrollton Missouri of J A Scovern son in law of Mrs Volney Hickok He is survived by his wife and six children Elmer E Hoag attended the funeral early in the week.
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Carrollton
Missouri
J. A. Scovern
Volney Hickok
Elmer E. Hoag
J. Edward Fisher
Regina
Lemiute
Handel
Bercouse—Guilmont
Vucul
Gregan
Wanted Good Girl In Small Family
A brief notice seeking a suitable good girl for a small family, with inquiries directed to the office for details.
Hog market tops at ten cents in Chicago yard sale
An eastern buyer paid 10 cents per pound in the Chicago stock yards for 60 hogs averaging 264 pounds each. The lot, sold by P. J L. Strohm of Cushing Iowa, brought $10.00 per hundred. Mrs Mulverhill, an inmate of the county home, died aged 80 yesterday noon, with interment planned at Temple Hill, near her former home.
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Chicago
P. J L. Strohm
Cushing
Iowa
Local Notes and Social Visits Ledger
J A Balsiger plans to move to Hettinger North Dakota after visiting relatives in Dubuque. City council met with routine bills and quarantine charges for Charles Turner awaiting county approval. Benton Fleming of Iowa State University visited Dr and Mrs Mirick while his wife visited, returning to Iowa City. March first saw transfer day with many land trades and loan renewals. Mrs W A Beary and daughter from Mechanicsville visited Mr Beery, who stayed over Sunday. family will move to Monticello when a suitable residence is found.
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J. A. Balsiger
Dubuque
Mr. Balsiger
Hettinger
North Dakota
Benton Fleming
The
State University
W. A. Mirick
Fleming
Iowa City
W. A. Beary
Mechanicsville
R. Britton
Knoxville Hospital
Jones County
Fred Florin
Shorty
Monticello
Odd Fellows’ Order
Rebekahe
J. L. Graves
L. Darling
Margarets Gowan
Belle
Cascade
Clark
George Cowan
Adelbert Sandhouse
Cowan
Boyd
Dun Vargel
William Clark
Farm Creek
Robert Qandler
Eloper
Peter Hagen
Oklahoma
Hogan
Hagen
March Events and School Program Draw Neighbors
On Bowen's Prairie Decker schoolhouse hosts a box social Friday March 11 with a three act home talent play Those Dreadful Twins and several specialties. Miss Sophia T Collins is the district teacher. Presbyterian ladies plan a opera house home talent show Tuesday night March 15 Scots history lecture by E P Fitch features sixty locals. Davis Hardware advertises tools from tack hammers to post mauls.
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Decker
Bowen’s Prairie
Sophia T. Collins
The
Presbyterian Church
John Knox
Mary Stuart
E. P. Fitch
Monticello Boosts Local Industry and People in Iowa News
Martin V. Kehoe attends a Des Moines hardware session with Hall Manufacturing exhibit as the company expands employing 25 workers. Legal matters include E M Carr in town for Arch Livingston will case in Delaware district court. Also notes church gifts, canvassing prizes, and travel reports from Byerly and Hogan.
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Martin V. Kehoe
Des Moines
Hardware Association of Iowa
Hall Manufacturing Company
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebrated for Behrends and Zimmerman
The Behrends Zimmerman couple marked 25 years of marriage at Bowen's Prairie home with 126 guests including Rev. C Mardorf who officiated at the original ceremony. Mr Mardorf spoke warmly and Mr Behrends replied as presents were given.
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Henry Behrends
Lizzie Zimmerman
Bowen’s Prairie
C. Mardorf
Mardart
Behrends
The Tiger and the Lamb at Monticello Opera House March 9 1910
Review praises Col M J Warring's production calling the play intense and surprising with a clean humor. It notes the Tiger as a churlish foe and the Lamb as a sweet heroine who loves another, delivering a vivid, poem like dialogue and a gripping drama. Also reports the death of Mrs Rhoda Schoonover at 79 from a fractured hip and gives brief obituary details.
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Col
M. J. Warring
Opera House
Monticello
Iowa
Monticello School Plans 8000 Bond Vote for Heating Plant
The Monticello school board seeks voter approval to issue about 8000 in bonds to build a central heating plant on the Jennings site. The plan reduces fire risk, removes basement boilers, improves ventilation, and saves fuel. district finances are sound with 3416.98 in cash on hand. Directors George Inglis J H Bateman I A Hefner F B Bolton J W Doxsee urge public support for the essential improvements.
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Monticello
Jennings
Netcott
Twenty Years Ago in Monticello March 1800 Highlights
The Express recounts March events: D. L. Davis in Chicago on business, Henry Nordman dies at Independence, Mrs. Nelson Curtis moves to Correctionville, John Lane dies at 19, Joe Petcina opens a Monticello grocery, William Shelley wed Jennie Balcome, Dakota relief aid from William Schodde, Rev J E Montman to close Monticello and Scotch Grove work, Cedar Rapids arrest for bogus check, school board elected, Miss Luja Rohn dies after illness, hay fire near Monticello, J S Hall creamery in Castle Grove with 5000 pounds milk daily, 43 creameries in Jones county, Louis Thomas found dead of natural causes, town officials elected including mayor Alexander and several officers.
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Monticello
the Express
D. L. Davis
Chicago
William Abel
Henry Nordman
Scotch Grove
William N. Mayberry
Nelson Curtis
Correctionville
Woodbury County
Iowa
John Lane
Eliza Lane
Joe Petcina
McGowan
William Shelley
Jennie Balcome
David Ralston
William Schodde
Libbie Robertson
Pennsylvania
John Gibson
J. E. Montman
Presbyterian Church
W. F. Carlin
Williams
Cedar Rapids
Monticello State Bank
Sle
John McConnon
Frank Doyle
W. W. Hunter
Aoe
LujJa Rohn
Lena Rohn
John Shover
Hall
Castle Grove
Jones County
Louis Thomas
Maquoketa River
L.T. Alexander
KF. W. Koop
William Stabler
T. J. Peake
James Young
Lou Sherrer
H. M. Carpenter
EH. EK. Hoag
W. WH. Samels
James McWilliams
Tax lists available at Monticello State Bank in multiple counties
The Jones county tax lists are now at The Monticello State Bank with tributaries in Delaware and Linn counties to Monticello. Readers are invited to call and inspect the records.
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Jones County
Monticello
For Sale Short Horn Bull and Clover Seed
Two year old Short Horn bull offered by Fred Harken of Castle Grove for sale along with clover seed.
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Clover Seed
Fred Harken
Castle Grove
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D. W. Doxler
E. G. Burrichter
Home News
W. CO
Sheriff Hogan
Suesine Silks
Deutrick’s
F. J. Cross
Mary Kehoe
Oxford Junction
William McAleer
Independence
Walter Kiburz
Kansas City
Monay
J. B. Zimmerman
Anamosa
Henry Schneer
Worthington
Black Petticoats
Dentrick’s
Inez Fagan
M. G. Alsever
Center Junction
Sophia Behrends
Ed Rice
Deitrick’s
John Noyes
Baldwin
George Graham
Frieda Gruenstein
Alicia Stansbury
Bert Hubbard
W. L. Hubbard
Kinsella Hall
James Abel
Boone
George Drury
Marion
BE. G. Drury
Deutrick D. G. Co
Francy Schneider
Iowa State Normal School
Harry Dice
John B. Eggers
Ford Petersen
Clarke Hubbard
Bertha Main
Hopkinton
Newton Parrott
Iva Burkett
Greeley
Prof
J. Edwards Fisher
Stuart Smith
E. P. Lorenzen
Olin
Cornelius Anderson
Jackson Township
Charles Foster
Reichart & Ferring
O. W. Fuller
Cowles, Nebraska
Wm. Fuller
F. B. Bolton
Ethel Magee
Messrs
George Hubbard
Stanley Allen
Colorado
Kate Maurice
Kat Stahler
Indianapolis
Emma Schmidt
W. L. Schuetz
Oora Sandhouse
F. Lubben
N. P. Clark
Cass Township
John Yousse
Kirkland
Windis
Mr. Yousse
S. M. Mosagard
Ed Fairley
O. R. Baker
Dora Zimmerman
Robert Neal
Newton Smith
Lena Tonnage
A. Gabler
Kansas
J. A. Voorhees
E. Heisey
Austin
Minnesota
Gerd Clausen
Saskatchewan
Catharine Ambuehl
Drake University
George Ambucks
Ed Porter
Edgewood
Henry Paulsen
Aberdeen
South Dakota
District Court
F. O. Ellison
Deatrick Co
W. J. Purchas
Diamond Creamery Company
Ogdensburg
New York
Hoag Duster Co
H. C. Hhrke
Lamont
Steward King
Herman Miller
Waterloo
Nina
Jefferson
Charlie Brock
Clyde
Ralph
Mary Porter
Davenport
Robert Henderson
Lloyd E. Sexton
Mart Rodman
William Petrie
Sand Spring
McLees Brothers
Castle Grove Township
Father McCormick
Davis’ Hardware
Rorabaugh
Miss Barry
Monticello High School
Farley
Higgins
Charles Turner
County Board of Supervisors
M. A. Breed
Davis
E. M. Carr
Manchester
Arch Livingston
Delaware District Court
Livingston
Lenox College
Methodist Episcopal Church
Edna Keough
Harvey Hunter
A. I. Jackson
Anamosa Sanitarium
Mr. Jackson
Frank Byerly
California
Sam Price
Sam
Price
Cleveland
Alaska
School Land Department
Guthrie
Wagner
Adelbert Soundhouse
Vinton
William Brown Austin
Sandhouse
Mr. Austin
Benton County
Milford Academy
Rhoda Schoonover
Philander Schoonover
Dora Brucks
Schoonover
Brucks
Mrs. Schoonover
Sherman
Wisconsin
Sycamore Street
George Inglis
J. H. Bateman
I. A. Hefner
J. W. Doxsee
Directora
Beery Bros
Capes
Sip
CEDAR _ RAPID
C. H. Schipman
South Cedar ST
Lovell Block Store
Hicks & Ricklefs
City OF
Boston
Boston School Board
A. G. Hanken
Roller Mills
Buck
Lang
H. Lang
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