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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1906
Page
7
The issue highlights a Vickery harness contest with a good harness prize and reading of the conditions. It lists visitors and trips including Mr C H Shipman in Greeley and Mr Henry Burrichter to Chicago, plus local ads for Davis Hardware Silk Sale and 48 cent Silk. It mentions Miss Daisy Noyes in Dubuque and Miss Winnie Long Chicago bound.
Monticello and surrounding towns show a busy week with grand jury sessions in Anamosa, visitors from Olin and Marion, shop talks on seeds and shoes, and a stream of notices on births, funerals, auctions, and business openings. Local residents include Noyes, Carpenter, Rathbun, Keough, and the Harrison sisters planning a Waterloo millinery store.
Mrs. Zimmer, about eighty, burned to death while tending a stove in her small room. Firefighters found her body after the blaze was discovered. she died hours later. A light note lists homesteaders leaving Monticello for Presho South Dakota and a local harness shop closing and accounting notice.
The funeral of Carrie Elizabeth Applegate Egger wife of Arnold Egger Jr was held at the Presbyterian church in Monticello with Rev J W Innes officiating. Interment was at Oakwood cemetery. She was born September 11 1874 at Clarksville Iowa and died after a decline since December. Surviving children are Laura Irene and Harold.
Announcement from Harrison Sisters: after leasing the Henderson building they will install a complete new stock of millinery with details to follow. Also note seed wheat for sale from Cascade Mills Bluestem and No 1 Northern by Thos Kingsley.
The March term at Anamosa opened with Judge B H Miller presiding. The grand jury is active and indictments against EB E Snyder, the bankrupt banker, are expected. Dockets show numerous civil actions and guardianship matters, with many defaults and alimony hearings scheduled through March 16.
At Vickery's harness shop Brown's old stand prizes include a solid nickel trimmed harness valued at 35 dollars a second prize nets third prize a fancy duster. Customers buying a harness of ten dollars or more may guess the shot count in a sealed bottle. A. B. Cummings and family extend thanks for sympathy and kindness in their time of sorrow.
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