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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1897
Page
4
Archie Stimson of Maquoketa visits Onslow and a home talent play The Rebel Spy is planned. A May wedding at the M E church unites Wim Mackrill and Miss Margaret Reade with detailed decor and bridal party. Bridge repairs and road issues dominated local concerns as high water eroded the west approach and delayed broader district improvements.
Center Junction and nearby areas report visits by Mrs Felton and Mrs Dawson to Viola, and Charles Overly of Albert Lea Minnesota here visiting relatives. A street music night by local youths, band plans for Scotch Grove and Center Junction, and a Dunham concert are noted. A student graduation class dispute is mentioned. Modern Woodmen plan an ice cream festival May 15. Miss Inez Gilroy’s funeral is reported from Monticello. In Wyoming news, Grace Walgon and Maggie Paul visit Onslow, and J W Wherry renovates his home. School board retains teachers, and local improvements include new sidewalks.
In Clay on May 11 J L Bader runs his creamery full blast again while local farmers begin planting corn. Mrs Chas Scroggie of Hopkinton visited Clay friends last week as Louis Meade and George Shroyer work in a saw mill near George Owen. Mr John Streets and wife from Monmouth visited Scotch Grove friends Tuesday. Lizzie Dennison attending school in Hopkinton was home briefly. Pat Wallace near Ozark was badly kicked by a horse Saturday night. Mrs J L Bader and children spent Sunday in Cascade with sister Mrs Kahern. The frequent trips toward Ozark suggest an upcoming wedding for a local couple.
Castle Grove notes report plastering at John Haley’s house planting corn by residents James F Laude plans 12 acres of potatoes. Miss Ann McLaughlin’s condition stable. Rev David Street of Monticello visits. Local meat and fish wagons circulate. Services to be held next Sunday at Deer Creek schoolhouse. Johnnie Waddick improves with good recovery prospects. A Castle Grove teacher faced grief over discipline during a funeral. A Guiles dismissed district No 2 school for Miss Inez Gilroy’s Monticello funeral. Several residents attend Mrs R W Henderson’s Monticello funeral. Complaints rise about county procedures.
Miss Lottie Sweesy and Miss Jammar Steger of Monticello will report on the North West Board meeting at Rock Island during the Sabbath service at the Scotch Grove church. The Woman's Missionary Society urges all ages to attend and hear the report. Mr. Robt. McVey of Cascade visits A. Sinclair’s and recalls years since he last visited Scotch Grove, praising the area as a charming spot.
From 4 59 to 7 47 p m Friday May 14 the Epworth League presents a supper at the M E dining parlors with music by the Kid Orchestra. The event offers a tasty supper for 25 cents and invites all to attend for a grand time and relief from indigestion and dyspepsia through entertainment and food.
The Jones County Sunday School association in session at Anamosa postpones the Wyoming educational meeting to fall to join the Jones County Teachers' association. On May 19, 1897, at 10 AM, Coldstream farm hosts a public auction of about forty five high quality stallions mares fillies and geldings from distinguished breeding.
A Washington dispatch dated May 6 notes the first experimental export of butter from the United States. Three quarters of a ton were shipped from New York City for sale in Europe. Butter from Windsor Vermont and Monticello Diamond Creamery was packed in tins and cases. The Agriculture Department will manage packing and shipping to ensure quality and proper storage abroad.
Notice announces a meeting of John QO. Duer Post on Saturday May 15 at 2 p m. to arrange Decoration Day and conduct any other business. Full attendance requested and all former comrades invited. By order of Commander.
The Monticello school board, by a five to one vote, added the previously cut month to the calendar. The retreat was checked and the change welcomed as a sign of progress, with hope for further improvements.
John Jay Chapman in Atlantic praises Emerson for inventing a speaking style that blends pause, illumination, and transcendence while noting his occasional disjointness. The narrative then shifts to a mass murder aboard a steamer as Armenian victims are beaten to death in full view of officers and passengers, with bystanders offering no intervention.
The Nutwood Driving Club of Dubuque will host a major race meeting during the Woodmen’s convention from June 1 to 4 across from the picnic grounds. Prominent western horses will be entered, with expected crowds over 50 000. A Jewell Nursery Co advertisement seeks a local salesperson for Minnesota grown trees with steady pay. Also noted are bargain California round trips from June 29 to July 8 at $25, with return by August 15.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Co will sell excursion tickets to Clear Lake Iowa every day until September 80th for travel. For further information call at the depot.
Scorch Grove Nursery offers 8 to 6 foot Norway Spruce White Pine and Red Pine in bulk loads at 20 to 25 cents each. Trees are heavy for shipping with fibrous roots, ideal for windbreaks and ornamental planting. Four thousand trees available, plus best apple varieties in large cheap lots. Hoyt Bros proprietors.
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