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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
3
Monticello area correspondents visit Cass with calls and calls about local people. Details include births, deaths, baptisms, and social visits, plus a railroad accident injury and a settlement. It notes L. B. Ketcham funeral, Mr. Woodyard injury and $7500 settlement, and local church and society events.
James I. Hanson serves on the petit jury in Dubuque. Geo. D. Sailor spent the weekend in Dubuque. Mrs. EK. 8. Newcomb visits her daughter Mrs. W. W. Hamilton. Delegates from Cascade attend the Dubuque county convention in Montrose. Rev. W. G. Halbert and Mrs. C. G. Wallace attend the Lamont Baptist association. Matthew Moore born in Queens county Ireland 87 years ago and died last Saturday. buried at St. Martin's in Cascade. Jacob Lees Jr. born Cascade May 15 1884 died by accidental gun discharge at home. He leaves parents a brother and sister. Community expresses sympathy.
Miss Pearl Barnts of Monticello visits Bell Moncrief in Center Junction as residents note several social calls. High school pupils practice for a May 30 entertainment while the Monticello team briefly stopped here on their way home after a loss to Maquoketa.
Onslow reports May 15 events with Orlando McDaniel and spouse leaving for Spirit Lake for the season. Superintendent Paul visited relatives at the lake over the weekend, C A Hutton sold his livery business to a Wisconsin man named Mubbell, Fred Monroe of Providence over Sunday visitor to cousin J P Mall, Mrs Edna Franks returns improved from a seven week visit with her parents at Newhall, N B Noyes erects a new structure.
May activity includes Wilder paying 20 cents for butter fat in late April, Mrs. Margaret Noble hosting the Ladies' Aid, Sheriff Magan visiting Castle Grove with a sister from Anamosa, and Walter Ferguson of Monticello doing carpenter work for J. L. Siebels. A Rocheste r seed firm representative, T K Barnes, worked locally. Fred Fahrni joins the Jones County directory. W R Keough and R Redmond painted Harkin farm buildings as changes to the Jones County Telephone Company directory spark comments about color coded numbers and new prefixes locally.
Rural Route No 2 notes Clara Zimmerman on the sick list and Mrs. Henry Wooster slowly recovering. Wayne operates four grocery on wheels. Local visits include Harm Flarms, Chris Scheer, Andrew Casper, and the Balster and Hussimann households. A barn dance at HI Dirks' new venue drew a good crowd, and Henry Dirks wed Mrs. Traumhenkamp at Sand Hill parsonage with Rev. Schuetz officiating. Jam planting progresses with some plowing left.
Amber May 16 reports J C Bailey in Anamosa Mon Alex Dirks in Cedar Rapids. Jessie Dann saw his father and sister last week. Mr and Mrs Alex Robertson at the county seat Monday. Frank Bailey’s horse died en route to the creamery. Mr and Mrs John Schwartz of Des Moines visiting relatives here. Elsie Trimble of Monmouth visited Grace Farragher over Sunday.
Travel options from Chicago via Nickel Plate or New York routes to Boston and New York with multiple stops and return extension. Fares range from 19 dollars to 24 dollars depending on route, with meals 35 cents to a dollar and through Pullman service to major cities. Reservations and berths handled by John Y. Calahan, general agent, Chicago.
In Oxford Junction the school election reelects all grade teachers and promotes Miss Josephine Sutherland from assistant principal to principal at regular salary. The vacant assistant post will be filled later. Sutherland earns praise for efficiency and pupil goodwill. A separate report notes a death in the west railroad yards, a young man named Thomas Hennesy killed while attempting to board a departing freight.
W. W. Myers secures a large lumber contract to Monti cello duster factory and will haul by team. Cornell and Lenox played a 2 to 1 ball game on the local field Tuesday afternoon with the Methodists prevailing after a tie through nine innings. Geo. Coppersmith sold his Hazel Green business to G. W. Barnes and will relocate. An excursion from Manchester to St Paul is set for May 22 by the Congregational church Ladies Aid Society, fare 3 dollars, departs 5 AM from Manchester on the M and O. Rev. E. C. Reeve arrived from Tacony and visits his parents. he will attend the Des Moines Presbyterian Assembly and spend two months in Europe starting June after leave.
Four hundred eighty acres of tillable land with loam soil and clay sub soil. Includes a house barn and shed with water and nearby free wood. West Sully County location in South Dakota priced at 5000 dollars. Also offers a three year lease on 900 acres of adjoining grass and hay land at eight cents per acre. Contact Weet Land Co Pierre SD. agents wanted.
A breeder promotes two young stallions as fine prospects for breeding. Asa Logan invites patrons and new buyers to inspect and consider the animals for future breeding at his farm.
Travel ad lists a $19.00 Boston round trip with $1.00 extra from Chicago via Nickel Plate, valid May 21 to June 9, plus New York excursion rates. Return by July 16 with ticket extension. Contact John Y. Calahan, General Agent, Chicago. Also sale: one thoroughbred shorthorn bull calf and two high grade short horn bull calves offered by S. M. Hosford.
Nickel Plate Road offers direct and New York City connections to New Haven Connecticut from Chicago. Advertises June 2nd 3rd 4th and 5th travel dates with extended return limits. Requests contact at Room 298 No 118 Adams St Chicago for details.
A new Irish recruit in a grocery store handles a customer request for crumbled cheese intended for a Welsh rabbit. The clerk, Pat, asks in Irish flavored slang if that is what the staff feed them on, reflecting a humorous exchange from Lippincott's Magazine.
A rural weekly editor touts his paper while the long haired bard retorts that poems are worthless. The editor counters with sarcasm about trading poems for the newspaper, highlighting a humorous exchange reported by the Chicago Daily News.
The Norwegian parliament is the storthing the Swedish regs dag the Servian shupshtina the Greek houle and the Bulgarian so branje.
An editorial argues that despite vast nineteenth century scientific progress, knowledge remains limited and uncertain. The piece notes theories are fluid, many questions about space time matter and life remain unresolved, and future investigators must decide what the twentieth century can uncover.
A newly married Swiss couple ascended Mount Nora to have a wedding breakfast high on the summit. The champagne froze solid and the health of the bridal couple was chewed instead of drunk.
Citing Russell H. Chittenden, the article notes that the average man with light to moderate work needs about 116 grams of protein and 3 050 large calories daily. It outlines typical portions like roast beef, potatoes, and bread to meet nitrogen and fuel targets, and contrasts a more plant based diet with similar nitrogen content. The piece argues that dietary nitrogen and energy align with standard civilized norms despite food variety.
C. A. Errickson & Co. advertises canned apples priced at 35 cents per gallon. The notice highlights a bargain on preserved fruit goods available through the company.
The ad touts Dr. King's New Life Pills as a cure for constipation, headaches and dizziness. It promises rapid relief and notes a 25 cent price at O. H. Soetje's drug store. Also advertises Bettendorf all steel wagons for sale at Davis's hardware.
A. C. Stickel of Miletus W Va credits Bucklen's Arnica Salve with avoiding a dangerous operation to remove a malignant ulcer the size of a hand from his daughter. Persistent use reportedly cured it. Cures cuts burns and injuries. 25c at O H Soetje's drug.
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