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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1907
Page
4
Correspondence from Wyoming Iowa reports visits and calls by M M Garrison John Anderson and others. Local items note the Hawthorne club guest Mrs Mabel Kirkpatrick, bank cashier election Park Chamberlain, school director races and recent funerals.
Cascade news notes visitors and residents in mid February to early March. Robert Lee of Muscatine Iowa visits relatives. Jno Pitman of Farley and the Kirchen family host guests. J B Aitchison and family visit the Lees. Wm Baird ill with threatened pneumonia. Jno Lowham and Jno Sullivan on sick list. workers move to Dubuque and a new sawmill opens.
Castle Grove reports numerous local movements and events. Albert Lben visits G. J. Heiken. S. M. Hosford sells hogs in Prairieburg. D. J. Hogan and E. J. Noble travel to Chicago with cattle or stock. Harriet Lubben visits relatives in Chicago. John E. Lubben reelected school director. a Farmers Mutual Insurance Association forms with James Hogan and others as directors. a social at Cramer home and northern lights display noted.
A compilation of district court actions including settlements, overruling motions, appointments of guardians ad litem, defaults, judgements on promissory notes, demurrers, cost bonds, divorces, quieting titles, and pleadings deadlines across numerous cases such as McLaughlin vs Bevana and Tyrrell et al v William et al.
Onslow on March 12 reports Misses Margaret French and Cleo Hutton visiting Davenport. School vacation underway as teachers stay at home. Migs B. Von Dorsten of Armstrong works for Mr. Kent the merchant. School election saw H D Hall and A D Jansen elected directors. Rev McClelland away on two week Texas vacation. Mr and Mrs Eli Streets return from Iron Hill after funeral of Mr Street’s father. Peter Abrams celebrated 75th birthday with family dinner. Lawyers Welch and Gorman attended to a suit from Clay before Squire Lightfoot. parties settled. Mr and Mrs F J Woodyard back from Virginia. Woodyard’s health and mind reported unchanged. Mrs Lincoln and two daughters prepare to join Mr Lincoln and sons in Stanley County South Dakota homestead trip. stock hay corn and lumber taken, neighbors to James Forsythe and Arthur Noyes. Mr and Mrs George Bottomstone visiting daughter Mrs George Lyon. Bottomstone previously drew a Rosebud South Dakota prize and proved up, then leased and returned to Iowa. Bottomstone notes South Dakota quarter section valued at $5000.
Amber March events note Joe Bailey returning from Lenox College Jasper Hultz moving to J L Brown farm James Brown back from Anamosa Dr Drinkwater in Jackson township David Robertson moving near Morley Mr and Mrs A Robertson at county seat Mr and Mrs Peter Robertson shopping in Anamosa J A Weiss selling out Weiss stock Wm Doyle dies at Anamosa Sanitarium funeral at St Patrick s Anamosa on Monday
Harry Staehle current Sand Spring school principal will teach in Earlville next spring and leave a vacancy at his present school. Directors will seek applications. A Milwaukee rail service change may end the mixed train from Farley to Cedar Rapids, with Monticello to Cedar Rapids service cut. Davenport train would cover Monticello to Farley trips. Union township spelling contest at Buck Creek school house drew a large crowd. winners: Rudolph Reggentine Georgie Keith Hartzel Milroy Johnnie Sullivan Roy Willard. Corn contest winner Michael Evers. runners up Clarence Brady Rudolph Reggentine. corn samples praised as very fine.
Public notice from Monticello Iowa states the District Court appoints and commissions the administratrix with the will annexed for the estate of Selim Worster deceased. Creditors must file sworn claims with the clerk within legal time and debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated March 7, 1907.
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