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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1897
Page
7
A collage of small notices and social items from Monticello listing visits from Miss Amy Mettee and Miss Vera Smith, shopping deals at Wills Deutrick Hicks, promotions for shoes and cloaks, a Sunday preaching, a house for sale or rent, and local residents visiting family or moving to Chicago. Includes farm and quarry rock notes and watch repair services.
Miss Maude Arnold returns from Michigan to join Sumter closing out sale bargains on heavy oil-cloth. Chauncey Bates moves to J. S. Hall hardware. Wills Doutrick offer blankets and ether goods. Hicks Eilers advertise shoes and clothing. A Business Men's meeting at K P hall is set, with dress goods rates announced. A wide mix of orders, auctions, and new lines fills Monticello commerce as residents travel and shops push sales and repairs.
Mr. Andrew Marvin of Cleveland and his family visited Lon Jennings early this week. Marvin, a Cleveland lawyer and Sunday school activist, gave a well received address at the Christian church last Sunday evening.
Wayne visitor Miss Nellie Dunham plans to stay through Christmas at sister Mrs. F P Stuhler. A switchyard crash near Oxford delays freight. a Diamond Creamery car wrecked. Local auctions and creamery plans emerge as Monticello residents organize a Farmers Co Operative Creamery Company with officers elected. Tramps spottings, weathered goods ads, and Masonic lodge officer appointments fill out a busy note-filled scene.
Monticello and neighboring towns see sharp price cuts on dry goods and clothing with several firms selling below cost to attract customers. News notes include closures of the Sumter store closing out blankets and fabrics, a brief misadventure of a soft drinks entrepreneur, and local notices of deaths and upcoming community events. Mrs. Susan Anthony, former Monticello resident, dies in Chicago at age about 88, survived by a son and a step-son. The paper reports on politics and local business stakes, including a potential contest over sheriff Hiram Arnold’s election. A Presbyterian holiday fair and chicken pie supper is planned for December 1.
Mr B D Haeussler arrived back this morning after a trip to South Dakota.
The undersigned offers his shop for sale. For particulars enquire on the premises or of Robt. Henderson. 19wtf W. M. Preston.
A discussion cites Professor W. Z. Ripley arguing Europe hosts at least three distinct racial types, challenging Aryan and Caucasian labels. The note surveys European racial history hints and previews future analysis while presenting modern sociopolitical facts from Britain Germany and Boston and Maine railroad color upgrades and New York domestic service association.
Council meets in regular session with roll call and minutes approved. Weighmaster reports October drafts and the city attorney collects five dollars from A D Kline for cleaning the Central House. A two person committee to inspect water services is appointed. Adjournment to next Saturday. Bids invited for eighty tons of hard coal with delivery at multiple towns by Nov. 22, 1897. Music house manager to visit Monticello area for instruments. Brick ten room residence for sale via Sumter & Sumter store. inquiry made by David Samtrr.
Foreman farm located in Castle Grove is for sale or rent. Enquire at Monticello. Also notices of unclaimed letters in Monticello Iowa dated Nov 9 1897 list names including Jackson C C Slevin Louis J L T Alexander P M.
Hoyt Bros of Scotch Grove Iowa propose to plant and care for evergreen windbreaks on farms in Jones county with two year establishment risk assumed. Payment optional after trees prove well established. They also sell established apple plum and cherry trees and advise using sound rooted varieties. Visitors welcome correspondence desired. Report of warrants drawn Nov 1897 for Monticello Iowa city funds follows.
The article discusses the origin of the word Dixie linking it to Dixie land and a Manhattan estate, then traces its drift into southern speech via Emmett and circus talk. It also notes Sheffield Tech School findings on steel tempering, showing subcarbide iron causes hardness and that tempering dilutes the compound, challenging prior shock theory.
A fragment ad promotes night robes and women's flannel wrappers with a selling tone attributed to a local store gimmick urging purchase at Wills and Don trick's.
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