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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
2
Center Junction notes illness and births, moves, visits, and community events. Measles affect several families. a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J A McDonald. Local residents attend weddings, sales, picnics, and a moving picture show.
The record lists residents and visitors including Miss Florence Maders in Chicago on millinery business and Miss Grace Schamel returning home from Mt. Vernon. It notes court business by N. W. Hutchina and R. M. Corbit, a Denver visitor Mrs. Maggie Field staying with D. A. White, and favor for E. M. Babcock as representative. It reports marriages, social events, and moves with several families changing homes and properties.
The article notes farm adjoining town moves with Louis Buchmal occupying Koch’s former premises and Chas Sherman returning to his Center Junction area. It mentions prior reports on muddy crossings and broken sidewalks, a new shovel purchase, and an ordinance restricting keeping swine near dwellings without written consent. It hints at possible future swine relocation.
Castle Grove reports include grand jury travel by James Hogan to Anamosa, box social proceeds of 14.75 from the leap year event, Lutheran box social raising over 30, and plans for school elections and caucuses. Community visits from J. W. Innes, Rev. G. Weise departure, and various local business and insurance meetings noted.
Cascade items record visitors from Dubuque Farley Epworth and Nebraska plus farm purchases and new arrivals. Jacob Sperner buys a Prairie Creek farm for 5400 dollars and Mrs Maria Parker dies in West Cascade with funeral planned for the 6th inet. Jeremiah Connolly, an Irish native long resident, dies aged about 80 and is buried near Dubuque.
The Onslow area reports sick residents improving as the Henderson brothers return from Oklahoma. W D Livingstone moves to Archie Henderson’s house while Belden Dennigan works at Onslow Commercial Co. Bert Russell heads to Cedar Rapids to clerk at the Globe hotel. Mrs. Sandhouse and Mrs. Foust visit their mother Mrs Wim Overly.
Will Holtz will move into it soon. At the W. D. Livingstone sale a colt sold to Oak Peck for 495, and a yearling plus a sister brought 155, totaling 650 from the dam in two years. The dam’s price topped out below Livingstone’s expectation. Wm. Gorkey moved to the Silsbee farm he bought from the heira, Jos uechenck moved to a farm west of Wyoming, John Stickly took Overley’s farm, and Charlie Overley’s family returned from California.
Amber residents report travel to Cedar Rapids and Monticello on various business and social visits. People moving include Will Craig to W T Daly’s house and J C Stickley to Overley’s Scotch Grove farm. John Pierce attended Garret Reed’s funeral and George Bailey wed Florence Buckner near Fairview last Wednesday.
Alex Sutherland shipped a car load of cattle yesterday. John Lange is ill with neuralgia of the head and ears. Williard Himebaugh cut his foot badly last week. John Stauth and Carl Pawson shipped three car loads of household goods and machinery to Canada this week. Mrs. Alex Sutherland returned from Missouri Saturday and his mother is recovering. Mr. W Royden traveled with a car load of goods en route to Missouri where they will settle. George Frerichs and Henry Bohlken returned to Coleridge Nebraska Tuesday with Miss Lottie Rickels who will spend the summer there.
The Castle Grove township Republicans meet at School House No 2 on Saturday March 7 1908 at 1 o clock to elect three delegates for the Republican county convention in Anamosa on March 14. N B Noyes reports seed shipments and eye specialist Dr Coffman will be at Lovell house March 25 for free eye exams.
Twenty years ago in February 1888 Monticello and nearby saw a range of notes. A leap year dance at Kinsella hall, a harness shop shift to Red Oak, a township Sunday school convention on the 18th and 19th, and births and marriages including Mr and Mrs Martin Thoeni’s daughter and the marriage of Dr W W Hunter to Miss Lillian E Winner. The Express pressed for passenger fare cuts to two cents a mile and Rev Moffitt led a revival at the U B church yielding 35 conversions. Nicholas Wernimont died aged 82, Ea Hall’s wife died aged 23, and Rev J W Clinton lectured on Garfields and Guiterans of American Society. A shortage of health and travel persisted in the year’s notes.
Advertises multiple properties for sale by James A. Voorhees including an 8 room house with furnace and barn, 160 acre Jones county farm, 6 room cottages, 80 acre farm with big lot, and 7 to 130 acre farms. Promises snap bargains and invites buyers to come see to “make some money.”
Center Junction Iowa shop advertises shoes washing machines wringers timothy and clover seed rubber boots farm prices and top fruit, introduces premiums from April 1 and offers a free silverware set with trade. It promotes hardware paint Meyers hay carriers gas engines and a second hand separator.
A list of Howard and Fayette county Iowa farms for sale details multiple parcels with sizes from 120 to 820 acres. Prices range from 56 to 100 per acre with first class improvements and current year rentals. Terms available by address inquiry.
Petition filed by Fred L Berlin and represented by J W Doxsrr. The notice is prescribed and approved and ordered published in the Monticello Express for eight consecutive weeks. Judge F O Ellison of the District Court, Eighteenth Judicial District, signs.
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