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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1897
Page
3
Mr M McLaughlin visited the county seat last Monday while Hicks Eilers advertise carpets and new dress goods. Hicks Hilers promote leather and shoe sales as Wills Doutrick push muslins and shirtings. The Masons held a banquet and dance, and Rev Street plans a Sunday sermon.
Senior class visited Scotch Grove for geology. Local deaths birth and travel news include Duffin family, Mrs Rider, and the Langs. Ads promote shoes, curtains, electro silver cleaning, and a church sermon. Burglary hits Hopkinton. public supper fundraiser announced by Epworth League.
Obituary notes Louise Volkers of Sand Spring dies at twenty, funeral at Sand Hill church. Levi Hildreth ill in Buffalo hospital after leaving for the East. 15 cent supper at U B parsonage May 7. C R Scroggie named Monticello high principal. Lenox College graduate. Iowa Telephone Co. expands local exchange. Reads of street weather, sales, and school board reversal on eight month year. Local racing, wrestling, and bicycle events upcoming. Cars, carpets, hats, and clothing deals highlight the commerce notices. Absent family updates include baptisms and travel to Kalamazoo for a funeral and estate matters.
A 15 year old boy who stole money and valuables fled Anamosa staying near a German family for several days then his father retrieved him. In Aberdeen South Dakota a four year old child of Mr and Mrs Britting died after illnesses. funeral held at the Catholic cemetery in Monticello. Guards searched for convict Peach at Monticello penitentiary after a suspected tunnel escape.
Mrs. Robert W. Henderson died at Hehnemann hospital Chicago after a surgical operation for a long illness. Born Lillian Sanderson in London in 1874 she moved to America at seven and raised a daughter Irene with husband Robert. Funeral conducted by Rev A M Case at Monticello Congregational church. Also reported are the death of railroad man George Duffin after a switch-yard accident in Davenport and a cemetery board meeting discussing macadamizing the Kitty Creek road. Langworthy, Ark resident William A Langworthy dies in Yellville Arkansas. Mrs G H George hosts a lunch in honor of Mrs Adaliza Davidson of Oberlin Ohio.
A group of southern state movers passed through near the Maquoketa River by Lang's mill on Sunday. After a domestic dispute a woman, believed to be the wife of one man, tried to drown herself. pursuers halted her near the flume and she was lured back to camp. Bystanders described her as mentally weak and uncontrollable.
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