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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1909
Page
2
Wyoming and Center Junction items list visits by residents to relatives in Davenport LeClaire Monticello Cedar Rapids and Anamosa plus social events church services and a school board meeting. Notes include a forthcoming Davenport eye specialist visit and a town election cancellation due to earlier legislation.
Onslow reports visitors including T T Yebo en route to Stamford South Dakota to visit his daughter and tend property. Nebraska guest David Brown visits grandparents E B Brown. May Paul from Cedar Rapids attends Business College. Isabell Smith visits Clinton. BE Anderson of Madison Village buys steers from Orr and Streets. Horse sale planned Thursday the 18th. Mrs Carr widow of Geo Carr dies at daughter's Canton home aged 90. Funeral by Lightfoot with Bethel cemetery burial. Stanley Livingstone secures Rock Island road stenographer post in Cedar Rapids showing strong local support.
Castle Grove March 17 notes a special school board meeting held last Wednesday. Several local residents are mentioned including Miss Una Trevors illness and return of Miss Katie Caspers from relatives. Others report measles, cattle transport to Chicago, and family updates from Mrs. J. A. Howie and Mrs. King.
Miss Hester Hutton shopped in Monticello. Mrs. R. P. Clark and Kitsy Clark visited Center Junction. Kent Moats from Epworth visits his parents. R. P. Clark bought a driving horse in Monticello. Mrs. Alex Sutherland returned home from Canton. Harrison Loomis spent time with his uncle E. L. Himebaugh. Nellie Sutherland closed a term in district No. 2. Adolph Leesekamp and Henry Doring moved onto Rob Clark's farm near Eby's mill. Hazel Eby ill with appendicitis. George Moats, rural mail carrier, braved bad roads on foot. Will Sutherland fox hunted in Richland and hunted dogs later. Mr. Sweesy sent copies of the Weekly Signal from Weiser Idaho. John Lange installed a gasoline engine in his shop. B L Hoyt tested electricity and stood on his feet, proving the experiment.
J A Supple visits St. Louis. Dixon Beatty is unwell. Mrs J P Beatty of Richland seeks Dr Dunham for ongoing treatment. Dr J P Lane in Dubuque last Friday. H T Lynch of Independence seen on Cascade streets. W W Stamilton of Cedar Falls visiting J F Anson family. J B Lees, about 50, died after falling from chair. A W Aitchison lost a horse valued at $200 found dead. Margaret Moran born 1825 in Ireland died January 11 at N M Shaffer residence.
A resident of Cascade township for about 50 years died recently. The funeral was held at St. Martins church on the 18th. She leaves a daughter Mrs N M Schaffer and two sons Henry and James, all of Cascade. Mrs I Sears and daughter Catherine reside with Kingsley and Fairburn in this place.
A London writer mocks the idea of esquire as a mere self assigned title. He notes many gentlementing to wear silk hats and insist on esquire when addressed, though few are legally entitled to the medieval honor.
The London Standard notes a string of mixed metaphors used by politicians and journalists. It highlights the ex chancellor Rueble calling tobacco moisture a thorny subject, Austen Clamberlain’s line about harvests coming home to roost, and Wart-Dyke’s two famous howlers about Lowther and barbed wire. It also cites a labor member’s rope in the Lords and an Irish member’s iron red tape complaint as examples.
A young man tries a flattery line to two joined girls. He claims the handsome one is paired with the homely one to enhance beauty. The girls blush, deem him a flatterer, and depart separately, each half pleased and half sorry.
A quick call urges the druggist to sell Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal healer. The ad claims it cured burns cuts boils and foot injuries for a whole family and features O. H. Soetje as the seller.
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