Local Notices from Monticello and Surroundings
Various Monticello items report family events, business trips, births, sales at Davis hardware and the Model, new fabrics and house goods at Deatrick and Wills, visitors and callers, seed and feed notes, a baby burial, and unclaimed post letters as of March 16 1908. Names include Ferguson, McAleer, Lemon, Curtis, Rauch, Hagen, Beaugard, Paulgen, and Gearhart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Iowa
Chas. Gearhart
Mabel Welch
H. O. Steel
Mr. Swanson
A. Brudage
Lizzie Hiceler
Monticello Notes Mix Family Visits and Local News
Local items report Roy Peterson's week home from Coe College and Milo Guiles returning from Nebraska to Monticello. Waterloo visitor John Jacobs and piano tuner Frank Bingham are noted among townsfolk. Weather hints springlike showers and rough roads as March looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Peterson
Coe College
Monticello Journal Notices and Local News Roundup
An item reports Mr. Garrett Harms of Wayne township injured by a buzz saw with eleven stitches, and extracts insurance and local business notes. The court handles Naomi Hofacre vs City of Monticello as testimony continues, with expectation of a jury verdict soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrett Harms
George Tobiason
Wayne Township
Monticello
Naomi Hofacre
District Court
Dyersville Death Of Hobbs Old Scissors Grinder
George Hobbs, famed Monticello visitors’ scissors grinder, died in Dyersville last Monday afternoon. He was over seventy, frail for years, and hailed from Dubuque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Hobbs
Monticello
Hobbs
Dyersville
Dubuque
Democrats Nominate City Ticket At Weekend Caucuses
Democrats held city and ward caucuses Saturday night nominating a city ticket with H Tiarks for treasurer Albert Meyer for weighmaster Peter Young M McAleer and G D Elges for water commissioners and councilmen elected in each ward Gerhard Hanken Wm Podhaski and Andrew Bajasch led the meetings and Ike Schneider kept records with Bajasch renominated as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Tiarks
Albert Meyer
Pat Conner
Peter Young
M. McAleer
G. D. Elges
Gerhard Hanken
Wm. Podhaski
Andrew Bajasch
J. T. Lanigan
Wm. Stuhler
Tiarks
Stuhler
N. Maurice
Pat Connor
O. G. Meyer
Connor
Meyer
Maurice
Wm. Long
Ike Schneider
Death of Alfred Ransom Doxsee in Monticello Iowa
Alfred Ransom Doxsee aged 70 died at his Monticello home on Friday March 18 1903 after a long cancer battle. He was born September 27 1832 in Stark County Ohio and lived in Rolfe and Monticello before moving to Pocahontas County. Survived by wife and four children J W Doxsee Charles J Doxsee Clarence M Doxsee and Mrs Gwendolen Reed. funeral held at his residence with Rev W E Van Buren and interment at Oak Wood cemetery. He was a blacksmith by trade and a devoted family man, respected citizen, and Mason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Ransom Doxsee
Monticello
Iowa
Doxsee
Rolfe
Mr. Coxsee
Stark County
Ohio
City of
Massillon
Holland
New York
Alfred
Coxsee
Mary J. Bennett
Western Reserve
Lena
Illinois
Western Star
Sharon Center
Bowen’s Prairie
Coxsee & Rigby
Pocahontas County
J. W. Doxsee
Charles J. Doxsee
Jola
Kansas
Clarence M. Doxsee
Campbell
Californian
Gwendolen Reed
Charles
Mary J. Hayes
J. L. Coxsee
Rockford
W. E. van Buren
Methodist Episcopal Church
Nelly B. Turner
Oak Wood Cemetery
Organization of new school board and bids on opera house
The new board was organized with Hall as chairman Stirton and Tiarks as directors. Stirton elected president. Committees were appointed including Finance Buildings and Grounds Printing and Insurance Opera House and others. A Des Moines Bridge & Iron Works bid of 260 for fire escapes was accepted. Opera house bids were opened with Gardner Maurice low at 216 annually and a two year option at 405 with lease termination rights. Field offered a suspended globe for 16 with 80 day trial and was accepted. Adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Stirton
Tiarks
Coxsee
Doxsee
Inglis
Opera House
Fall
Des Moines Bridge & Iron Works
W. Koop
A. Kempf
L. Gardner & A. M. Maurice
Gardner & Maurice
Republicans of Monticello Hold Nominating Meetings
The Republican party schedules a city hall meeting at 8 PM to nominate for weighmaster, park commissioner, and three water commissioners. Each ward will nominate a councilman at 7 PM at designated venues: Ward 1 city hall, Ward 2 building, Ward 3 Kellum building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
City Hall
Third Ward
Kellum
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Express
East First Street
Home News
Doutrick’s
Whittaker
Oklahoma
H. C. Wills
Walter Ferguson
Don McAleer
Nebraska
Madras
Tamoka Coffee
A. E. Heitchen
Anamosa
Monarch
Davis’ Hardware
Conrad
Deatrick
Nelson Curtis
Winterset
G. W. Curtis
Soetje’s
Louis Beaugard
Sabula
Geo. Paulgen
Bowen
Timothy
Mies
Laura Rauch
Lisbon
John Hagen
Northwestern Name On & Buggy
Davis
Wm. Rohn Hag
J. O. Lawrence
Chestnut Street
G. M. Coykendall
Waterloo
Martin Kehoe
Mr. Coykendall
Milo Guiles
Tamoka
John Jacobs
Frank Bingham
Nellie Fitzpatrick
Times Force
Delmar
Wills
Chas. Stockwell
Express
West End
Charley
Congregational Church
C. C. Warner
First Ward
Deutrick’s
Mumma
United Brethren Church
Maquoketa
Carnegie Library
Davenport
Lovell Block
Electric Light Company
Hall’s Hardware
Joe Haffacre
White Lilly
Lily White
E. H. Johnson
Johnson & Co
Johnson
Farmera
U. S
John Hollar
Clinton
German Reformed Church of
Presbyterian Church
Church of Latter Day Saints
W. A. Mirick
Dr. Mirick
Johnson Brigham
Brigham
Iowa Library Commission
Fliat Street
Conner& Hogan
Guy Hogan
Bacher & Abel Drug Store
Brown
North Branch
Milwaukee Road
Cedar Rapids
Calmar
Northwestern
Eddie Losso
Eldora
Hat
Richard Dawson
Dawson
Mr. Dawson
Geo. Tousley
H. Chadwell
N. Kehoe
H. Bohlken
E. Hoag
Podhaski
Alfred R. Doxsee
H. ©. Wills
Sele
McCall's
C. H. Schipman
SouTh Sipe First St
Monriceuxo
Board of Education
Ffull
I Pond
A. Matthiessen
T Kane & Co Works
Monticello Wixpress
Conner & Hogan
RP Smith
Monticello Electric Co
R. P. Smron
Buch
New Home Co
Bellabie Furniture
W. L. Nelson Co
Chicago
James Co
O. H. Soetje
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!