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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1906
Page
8
Mr Ed Rice visits county seat while Deatrick Co advertises spring shirts lace curtains and timothy seed. Miss Francy Schneider and Miss Minnie Matthiessen visitoan, C A Errickson Co offers millinery and seed, Hall's Hardware promotes fences and dress goods. Mr Russell Loveland visits in Ohio. Dr Redmond and Dr Puleston noted. local births and deaths mentioned along with sales and factory jobs.
Monticello shoppers read about millinery preparations for the Harrison Sisters and new store openings. The column lists sales, seed sources, furniture and clothing bargains, farm news, and local moves including Mrs. J. O. Lawrence and Mr. J. B. Keachie, with brief notes on a court case and public notices.
Miss Helen Brandenburg plans to move to Davenport with sister Emma to open a dressmaking shop. Chauncey Bates reports Monticello pioneers endure 20 below zero in South Dakota days. 52 people crowded a single road house. horses suffer cold. Repstein boy Raymond bitten by dog. doctor bills paid. Court verdicts favor defendant in Wood vs Witham. Rickels vs Feiken settled with costs. Dep. state dairy commissioner appointment for W B Johnson. move to Des Moines planned. Local caucuses nominate city officials. Deatrick Dry Goods prepares for March 24 move to Bidwell block. Infant Margaret Fahrni dies. Barbara Allen house burns. insurance details. Raymond Schaeffer graduates from University of Chicago with Bachelor of Philosophy.
In Monticello district court a 1871 decree of divorce for Isadore Beardsley from I. F. Beardsley is debated as the record was not entered. A “friend of the court” attorney notes a real estate transfer may require正式 entry. Also noted are obituaries and local notices including Mrs. Harriet Hunt of Sioux City, a mixed calendar of trials, and Blind Boone’s April appearance. Ora Takeman received a one year penitentiary sentence for a sexual assault.
At the city hall caucus last Friday evening Wm. G. Eilers chaired and I. B. Richardson was secretary. No candidate for mayor accepted a nomination after several ballots. J. S. Hall L. H. Lang George Schoonover Ed. Nevin and B E Lightfoot drew votes but none would serve. Other posts were filled by acclamation with several nominees declining later.
Elliott M. Chaplin died at his Sand Spring home on the 18th aged 71 years 9 months and 10 days after years of rheumatism. He resided near Delaware county for almost fifty years and was esteemed by neighbors. Funeral was held today at the Sand Spring Methodist Episcopal church. He was born in Fitzwilliam New Hampshire June 8 1434. He married Jennie B. Larzelere in 1860 and they raised eight children.
Frances I Bruce Burrell widow of Samuel T Burrell longtime Lovell House manager at Monticello died at Cantons Shaw home on Elm Street. Born December 14 1823 in Seneca New York she lived in Canton since 1862 with pauses and family notes she was active in needlework and social life and known as 80 years young Funeral at Shaw residence Sunday 2 30 pm Rev H D French officiating Greenwood Cemetery burial family asks to omit flowers
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