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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 07, 1903

Page

7

Local Shops Highlight Bargains And Holiday Stock

Advertising notes advertise carpets at Eilers and Bolton and wash goods at Deutrick. H. C. Wills offers mens shirts and shirts waists while Burrichter's pushes summer underwear and Oxford ties. A library plan contract goes to Pat ton and Miller of Chicago, with other listings on real estate, greenhouse carnations, and a new store building contract at Anamosa.

Library Board Patton & Miller, of Chicago

Monticello News Notes From Town and Surroundings

Local items report Mrs. D C Jewett seriously ill with poor prospects, plentiful work in Monticello, and strong demand for day laborers. Shoppers learn bargains at Deutrick's and Eilers Bolton stores while residents travel to Minnesota and Kansas for work and land deals. The community notes a duck coat loss, a pocketbook theft reward, a bowling visit, and the death of Sloan Hamilton prompting family travel.

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Clergy exchanges and community notices fill Millbank page

Rev. A B Keeler and Rev C Warner preach and plan talks at Pleasant Hill schoolhouse with evening service at 8. Local ads promote lace curtains milked store sales at Deatrick's, KE Johnson Co store moves, new Monticello project, and Model flour. Church work resumes with fresco contract and dedication looming. refrigerators promoted. Har man Sandhouse recovering from pneumonia. fencing by Denning. Maquoketa beats Monticello Stars in bowling. Oakwoods cemetery cleaning offered. millinery and merchants urged trade. spring work resumes as farmers catch up.

Denning Peerless field fencing offers top advantages

Denning Peerless hog and cattle fencing touted as superior to rival field fencing. Hani's Hardware and U B Ghurea advertise products. Sunday services feature sermons on personal contact, crooked stick, and insincere service with junior society formation. Davis promotes refrigeration lines.

Denning Hall’s Hardware Hani U. B. Ghurea

Miss Sherman Weds Dr. Maxon in Cedar Rapids

Miss Sarah M Sherman daughter of Mr and Mrs H D Sherman formerly of Monticello married Dr Alonzo J Maxon last Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church of Cedar Rapids The Cedar Rapids Republican praise highlights her contralto voice and notes Dr Maxon has lived in Cedar Rapids since childhood and is a Iowa State University dental graduate with a fine practice.

Sarah M. Sherman H. D. Sherman Cedar Rapids Monticello Alonzo J. Maxon E. R. Burkhalter First Presbyterian Church of

Local Trades Promote Stoves and Fridges at Davis Hardware

Advertises Economy Sun stoves for heat and Automatic and Herrick refrigerators as top picks. Mentions Davis hardware showroom in town. Also reports escape of George Hogan from Cherokee asylum and recapture, with prior flight to Sioux City and town return.

Herrick Davis Hardware George Hogan Cherokee Asylum Hogan Sioux City Cherokee Scotch Grove

Jubilee Celebrates Behrends Fifty Years of Marriage

A large crowd gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Behrends on Bowen's Prairie for their 50th wedding anniversary. Rev. Mardorf conducted a service renewing vows as relatives danced and enjoyed a late night dinner and merriment. Separately, the 38th annual Jones County Sabbath School association meeting in Wyoming adopted plans and elected officers for future work, with Monticello named for the next convention.

Willie Behrends Bowen’s Prairie Mardorf German Lutheran Church of Wayne Jones County Sabbath School Association Wyoming Monticello John Wurzbacher Martelle A. O. Sones Anamosa L. M. Barrett Bec Treas M. W. Pulley Oxford Junction Home Dept H. J. Rehorst Cyrus Lamb Olin Jennie Newman J. I. Merritt Rynerson J. A. Doiitrick Margaret Davidson June Adams

Mrs Jonathan Hughes Dies After Long Illness

Mrs Hughes died at her home this morning after a prolonged cancer of the face. She had been blind for some time and bore the pain with fortitude. Survived by husband and four children, she recently lived with her sons Frank and Fred who cared for her. She was known as a kind neighbor and energetic woman.

Jonathan Hughes Hughes Frank Fred

Monticello Council Adopts Appeals and Fares

Monticello city council held its regular session and voted to appeal the Naomi Homcreva case to the supreme court. The meeting tracked finances with scattered fund balances and reported petty revenues. A sidewalk petition on Seventh Street was read and laid over, library site buildings were assigned for disposition, and duties to address sewer extensions were assigned. A death and funeral of Frederick Schweitzer highlighted the civic obituary notes, while burglars captured in Fayette faced 18 months at Anamosa penitentiary for tied thefts and linked church breakins.

Naomi Homcreva Monticello Supreme Court Meyer Seventh Atreeet Library Board Tucker and Matthiessen Fayette Fayette County Anamosa BE. H. Johnson & Co Church of the Sacred Heart Johnson

Millinery Sale Offers Ten Percent Reduction

Beginning Saturday May 9 and continuing one week Scuoonover and Drury announce a ten percent reduction on all millinery goods.

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the Express J. W. Doxsee L Wei Yitoe East First Street Home News Doutrick’s Edith Curtis H. ©. Wills Tamoka Edgar Hubbard Massachusetts Eilers & Bolton's W. H. Dearborn Stone City Deatrick Eilers & Bolton Joseph Reiger Deutrick H. C. Wills John Perrine Grand Street Burrichter’s Silk Deutrick’s Alfred Tucker Acorn Deering Harvesters G. W. Eastwood Sam Eberhart West Bend Weatern Iowa Eilers & Bolton’s Arthur Whitney Davenport Oxford Mundell’s Fred Loop Lovell Block Cal McClain Zwingle Dubuque G. W. Curtis Omaha George D. C. Jewett Burricchter Mra Jessie Pratt Mrs. M. Hofacre Loren Palmer Minnesota Lost Nation Rhatigan Richard Dawson Finder Hilers & Bolton Kaytor & Jacoss C. Kehri Gerd Harms Andrew Kasper J. A. Deutrick Charles J. Coxsee Iola Kansas C. H. Lorrie C. E. Little South Virginia North Carolina Joe Hofacre Branchos Frank Keck Maquoketa Keck C. C. Hunter J. S. Hall E. M. Loop Hopkinton Loop C. E. McDaniel Lake Okoboji Model Grocery Lovell Township Nellie Lane Irene Ezger Jas. Rhatigan Jas. Hofacre Rachael Hofacre Floyd Minhart Murville Minhart Dewey Rhatigan Jones County Ahab Dewitt J. D. Young Sloan Hamilton A. B. Keeler Cass C. Warner E. H. Johnson KE. H. Johnson & Co Millbank South Dakota R. W. McFarland Presbyterian Church C. 8S Bipwetu Herman Sandhouse Oakwoods Cemetery A. Matthiessen People’s Store Doutrick Davis Charles W. Brown Florida Mr. Brown California Brown Castle Grove Dant Palmer Klondike Creamery Co Palmer Co-Operative A. F. Carrier Council J. Bader St EU L. Aldrich A. M. Barnts Fred Slaugon A Paty J. Coyle Ees Electric Co the Schneider Ben Kellum D. Magee Bert Clark Altman J. Repstein CEH Jones Co. Times Monticello Express A. R. Doxsee Lins Frederick Schweitzer Canton Bern Switzerland Elizabeth Glauser United States Richland Township Mr. Schweitzer Schweitzer Europe T. B. Balcar Bowen's Plastie Mia Magdalena Zimmmerman Louis Winona County Chris Schweitzer Elma Wisconsin John Schweitzer Freeport Illinois Scuoonover & Drury Park Mills C. H. Schipman South Sink Finer Sr W. P. Nelson Go F. Bf. James Co O. H. Scetje Deering
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