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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1896
Page
3
Hicks & Hilers carpets cheap report a sale while Goldstone Bros new huts arrive. A baby born to Mr and Mrs C M Brown of Bowens Prairie. Loomis visits Monticello. Lovell travels to Adair county. a boy bicycle mishap. Bohlken family loss. Crescent bicycle pageant. Onslow principal Perkins visits Des Moines office. Iowa Capital ad and prices noted.
Dr C B Rundle attends Iowa State Dental Society meeting in Marshall town and returns tonight. Local merchants promote sales from shoes to furniture and jewelry with circus tickets and discounts. A city ordinance enforces bicycle lights after dark. Notable mentions include court testimony in a will case and a Faust production date shift to May 13.
Local residents attend church services and Bible readings as Rev David Street leads Thursday evenings. Mr Charles N Hunt’s evangelistic meetings are summarized with notes on his Cedar Rapids tabernacle history. Married couples and fare updates appear amid shop promotions and circus bills through May.
The Delaware district court admitted the will of Christian Coon rad aged 115, but a court room clash over administration left the widow aged 81 and a son in law unable to obtain letters. Judge Blair appointed an outside administrator for the modest estate.
The Hubert Labadie grand scenic production of Goethe's Faust comes to Monticello Opera House Wednesday evening May 13. The company, among the finest, travels with about 20,000 feet of special scenery and complete electrical effects. Prices are 50 35 and 25 cents for children, with seats on sale at Bacher's drug store.
The Kirkart and Ryan's Great Eastern circus tours Monticello delivering top quality performances with no fakirs or gamblers, promoting patron safety. Also advertised is Phallas Prince stallion appearances at Al Kibura's fair grounds starting May 6 and weekly thereafter for six weeks, plus local ads for baking powder and post office notices.
A gas fumes ignition caused a wreck near Sycamore Illinois. Conductor L C Price died at the scene burned beside the track. He was age about 49, leaves a widow and three children, and had carried life insurance totaling 4000 dollars. The accident occurred aboard a Chicago Great Western Railway train en route west from Dubuque to Chicago.
Four prisoners escaped from the county jail last Tuesday night by sawing holes in cell doors and the roof. Escapees are James Mulgrew alias Bloodgood, Wmn Geary, Joseph Murray, and John Shaw, ages around 20 to 35, all held on burglary charges. Sheriff P.O. Babcock offers 25 dollars each for their arrest. suspects linked to Anamosa escape and Monticello store burglary.
Notice from J. L. Proury of Scotch Grove Iowa stating he has purchased and will provide the best jack ever brought into Jones county and will make further announcements hereafter.
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