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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1897
Page
4
Oratory Contest at Jones County Fair Promised Prizes
The Jones County Fair at Monticello plans an oratorical contest with Lenox College prizes offering a $380 annual scholarship and a $10 term scholarship. The piece urges broad student participation from district and graded schools, highlighting education value and Lenox’s strong record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Monticello
Lenox College
Opkinton
School of Letters
Lenox
Corn planting in full swing amid cool Castle Grove weather
Castle Grove notes a cool season delays corn planting but most fields have seed in the ground. Pay day at the cooperative creamery is next Saturday. Local updates include visits, farm labor, a Memorial day program, milk pay concerns, a house fire near Monticello, and community social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co-Operative Creamery
W. A. Hogan
Anamosa
John Burrock
Wm. Thomas
C. C. Curtis
Downerville
Tus
John Iévans
Robert Henderson
Monticello
Stevens
Edward Delay
Center Junction News Update and Local Clarke Notes
Center Junction reports Monday activity with Clif McMahan as caller and numerous visits. Ed Sprague and Ed Hartman visit kin and friends. Howard Shipley to Marion for railroad work. Lee Coder and Tom Sutherland in Cedar Rapids carpentry. Wh Moncrief shipped cattle to Chicago for over $2,000. Ida Lyons just returned from unspecified travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creamer Junction
Clif. McMahan
Felton
Geo. Sutherland
Hal Smith
Oxford Junction
Ed Sprague
Wyoming
Ed Hartman
Walsh
Mrs. Collins
Mattie Collins
McKelvey
Epworth
Howard Shipley
Marion
Lee Coder
Tom Sutherland
Cedar Rapids
Wh. Moncrief
Chicago
Ida Lyons
Local society notes and upcoming events in Onslow area
May 25 notes include visits from Clinton Maquoketa Monmouth Wellsville Ohio and Maquoketa trippers. School closes for summer. Traveling troupe to perform Uncle Tom's Cabin with a street parade next Saturday. Rebel Spy show last week for band benefit. Attendees at W C T U convention and 8 B convention reported. several sick list updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Paul
Clinton
Anna Klima
Maquoketa
Sadie Willard
Monmouth
Dra Stimson
Dubuque
Lew Klima
Gid Ellis
Pearl Hubbard
O. G C. Cooley
Jennie Smith
Wellsville
Ohio
W. C. Paul
Mary Carter
Lou Noyes
W.C.T. U
Olin
Edith
Maude Spooner
Susie Connel
C. FE. McDaniel
Mae Dewitt
Lydia Gilbert
Local Residents Note Visits and Changes in Langworthy
Langworthy notes include Mrs Geo Hubbard visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Walter Allen. Joe Ramsey of Amber calls on old friends. Miss Corn and Miss Stella Orr visit Mr and Mrs H Hughes. John Perrine of Monticello makes a short call. Mrs Hughes visits Anamosa to see her daughter Mrs Hlainie Strickell. Chas Guilford returns from Michigan due to ill father. Blodgett visits Maynard. John Jacobs of Waterloo reviews farm interests managed by Mr Pane. Archie Ackerman buys Brisco photograph outfit. Edwin Albertson of Kansas, nephew of local Albertsons, dies. he was a devout young man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Hubbard
Walter Allen
Joe Ramsey
Amber
Corn
Stella Orr
H. Hughes
John Perrine
Monticello
Hf. Hughes
Anamosa
Hlainie Strickell
Chas
Guilford
Michigan
Teo
Dlodgett
Mr. Blodgett
Maynard
John Jacobs
Waterloo
Pane
Archie Ackerman
Brisco
Edwin Albertson
Kansas
Henry Albertson
Cedar Rapids business men reject bogus advertising schemes
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes local business men shun fake ad schemes and Monticello clubs stop prizes and pictures to lure trade. Promoters claim Monticello is a easy mark, but merchants are wakening to wasteful spending and turning away fakes as city after city rejects them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
Elevated Railroad Etiquette in a Fateful Near Miss
In a New York Sun vignette a hurried man knocks a stranger’s shoe and transfers blacking to his trousers after a collision in an elevated car. The offended rider, initially stern, softens upon recognizing the other’s apparent sincerity and resumes reading with a poised foot ready to trip another passerby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
District Court Calendar Entries and Probate Proceedings
The judge’s calendar records numerous estate actions including final reports approved and executors discharged for the estates of Thos. Leonard Mary Black Ann Joslin James Sheridan Robt. J. Anderson Simon A. Mead and Elizabeth Tuttle. Guardianship reports approved for Frances G. Keenan and Mary E. Byerly. Will probates for Elizabeth Tuttle and Z. G. Isbell with executors confirmed. Numerous civil actions settled or pending with garnishee outcomes partitions trials and judgments across Cedar Rapids and related parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thos. Leonard
Mary Black
A. Strahlek
Dan’l. Poppe
Aug. Greenburg
Ann Joslin
Jas. Sheridan
Patrick A. Sheridan
M. P. Conway
Robt
J. Anderson
Frances G. Keenan
Elizabeth Tuttle
J. Wood
Mary E. Byerly
Simon A. Mead
James White
Geo. F. Clouse
George Francis Clouse
Watertown Shoe Co
George R. Moore
J. B. Johnson
Marvin B. Pool
Geo. R. Moore
J. F. Johnson
Caoldberg & Co
J. de. Johnson
Cedar Rapids Pump Co
A. O. Dreibelbis
Tasker
M. McAleer
Edear A. Hubbard
Wim. A. Hubbard
Isaac Schneider
Andreas Florine Ethal
Henry Stickney
al O
Mary J. Henely
Cedar Rapids National Bank
Mary FE
Cascade Bank
Jeremiah Dullea
Dominick Pousen
Frank Koppess
Sheridan
J. Re. Washington
I. B. Parsons
James Hart
J. A. Bronson
H. Paul
Elizabeth Witham
David Gilmore
District Court
Said Solty
C. R. Scofield
Elizabeth H. Scofield
Anamosa
Iowa
Bargain Large Trees Offered At Low Prices
Large Norway Spruce White Pine and Red Pine trees priced 20 to 25 cents per wagon load. Trees are heavy and fibrous rooted, suitable for windbreaks or ornamentals. Nursey offers three to four thousand barge trees, plus apple trees at cheap rates. Scorch Grove NURSERY Hoyer Bros Proor s Scotch Grove Jones Co Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Scorch Grove Nursery
Hoyer Bros
Proor’s
Scotch Grove
Jones Co
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