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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1904
Page
2
Wyoming items show numerous visits and business trips across Clin ton Cedar Rapids Onslow and Anamosa. town officials election reports postmaster Loomis appointment cemetery board officers and local accidents and deaths noted with March weather and social events.
Onslow notes report Isaac Overley on the sick list Ira Foreman has quit work and returned to Monticello Mrs Helen Lamey visiting her daughter Mrs H D Hall Spear and son John visiting Mt Vernon Rev Van Ness Charles Paul station agent at Stage California visiting his people Edith Spooner improved at this writing Charles Miller here settling affairs
Castle Grove Iowa notes record several moves and visits including George Miller moving to the old Miller place and Nathaniel Chapman taking J A McLaughlin’s vacant Rocky Hill house. Died is David Hennessy of Boulder township. A basket social at T F Laude school raised 11.75 dollars. Trustees invite bids for township highway supervision with resident bidders and bonding. Farmers favor in house road work over contractors.
Center Junction news reports Charles Davis confined to his room due to illness. L A Dreibelbis of Canton visited among friends. Elmer Andrew drove to Center Point the previous week and returned the next day.
Monticello figure James F. Fagan visits Cascade while W A Fairburn searches for investments in Taylor county. David Beatty, Sr. recovers from illness. Reverend E S Horton is candidating at the Presbyterian church. West Cascade’s Dominic Delmer ill for eight weeks. Benjamin Winans injures his left great toe cutting wood near Fillmore. East side property activity promises big town changes. east side school program in Crawford hall raises 25 for school supplies. spring term to continue with same teachers. Letter from Rev A I Case of Rockford, Iowa, to the editor discusses reciprocity with Canada, politics, and a proposed debate among farmers and editors.
A sequence of brief mentions covers visits and activities in Temple Hill Cascade Anamosa and Whitewater township. Individuals named include Joe Murray Miss Rose Supple Kittie English Joseph Kenny Mrs John McDonald Ed Connolly Jim McMullan George Leonard and Ben Winans with items such as jury duty activity sales announcements and wood cutting.
Amber reports Mrs. Philip Bailey is ill and Mrs. Ingram is poorly. Gee Michaels moves to Stone lly while J F Livingston ships hogs today. Johnnie and Iola Kairns visit grandparents. The late snow benefits clover. Willie Bailey visits Fairview. Peter Robertson elected Black Oak school director last Monday. George Schoon heads to North Room today for a homestead.
Born October 27 1822 in Fairview Ohio Misa Sarah Elizabeth Bohler married James Bohler December 1 1842. They had eight children five living three deceased. The couple moved from Ohio to Indiana in 1851 then to Jones county Iowa in 1854. Bohler served in the Civil War until 1865 and died February 1866. She raised her children solo during wartime and remained active in church life in Onslow Iowa.
An obituary notes the death of Martin Buol of Dubuque at 41 West Sixteenth Street after six weeks illness. Born in Davos Switzerland in 1833, he lived in Monticello Iowa before moving to Dubuque in 1891. Survived by wife, children Paul Martin Abraham Leonard Casper and daughters J A Bardill A Loetscher and adopted daughter Mrs Paul Arduser, six brothers and one sister. Funeral Tuesday at 2 PM at First German Presbyterian church Linwood burial private.
Ed Slauson moved to Virginia with goods for a new farm. his wife will follow. Frank Good in Masonville recovering from pneumonia. Tim Sullivan and M. Rielly awarded road contracts in Union township and Hazel Green. J. J. Kirkwood announced as candidate for supervisor to fill the late Legassick’s term. Community commentary contrasts working couples with unemployed men and rough street life.
The house passed the bill banning horse tail docking last Tuesday by a 65 to 15 vote. Representative Peet of Jones County cast a vote in favor of docking.
Employment notice seeking female workers for a feather duster factory. Steady work offered with inquiries directed to the factory location.
A British consulate junior, sent to interview Li Hung Chang, shouted back in Anhui to Li in a public hall. The viceroy answered in the same loud voice, shocking onlookers. Li then signaled the man forward, and they ended the encounter on friendly terms with Li smiling and inviting him to sit nearby.
Professor Herman Spencer argues in Booklovers Magazine that slang embodies national humor and honesty. He claims it rejects bathos, exposes fakes, and wields blunt satire against abuses, aligning with the people’s instinctive expression in modern culture.
In Adolf Kussmanns memoirs a Heidelberg banker, famed for haughty manners, befriends anatomy professor Dr Nubn in a train and asks intimate questions about the heart. He later visits the dissection room and, hours after, kills himself by stabbing his own heart.
English painter Copley commissioned to paint a Bristol merchant and his wife. The merchant then asked to include his deceased wife in the portrait. He enters half mourning and half wedding attire, explaining he has lost his second wife and wishes the lady who now leads the table included. The three wives appear in the painting.
The notice promotes property rent insurance by G. W. Eastwood and meat delivery across the city. It advertises Haenasler & Co for lace and ribbon sales and Eilers & Bolton's for New York apples. A Detroit Journal item notes a log cabin exhibit at the St Louis fair and jokes about transporting the White House.
Mr Solomon Lem Marugg of Bowen's Prairie died this morning at two o'clock. He came from Switzerland about 20 years ago and bought the Stauring farm. He was about 60 and leaves a widow and several grown children. John Harrington visits his sister Anna in hospital at Iowa City after her earlier surgery. Principal Crawford visits Center Junction schools. Mrs Don McAleer visits Manchester.
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