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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1903
Page
7
Hilers Bolton shelves feature cheap beast flour and furs while Deatrick’s promotes cloaks and heaters. Local visitors include William Abel of Chicago and Elmer Hoag from a Chicago trip, with Miss Helen Booth visiting Nebraska. Community notices cover underwear, dancing school, post office uncalls, and a potential Marengo canning plant investigation by local business men.
A long reading list of local events includes a funeral in Greeley for Miss Josie Martindale daughter of Rev J P Martindale, several marriages such as Miss Genevieve Dautremont to Mr John Barnett, and community notices across Monticello: sales, auctions, canning plant report, rummage sale for library funds, and a meeting of the Business Men's association. The text also covers farm sales near Center Junction and Onslow, market apple notices, and local carriages of public interest.
Barney Leesekamp moved a team from Scotch Grove to East Monticello and tied the pair at noon to feed. While feeding one horse backed into a cistern, dragging the other in. Both animals died. Leesekamp, a poor man, cannot afford the loss.
Last Friday Adam Reichart's traction engine crashed through a wooden bridge near Monticello. Supervisors settled damages for 100 dollars. The Monticello Electric Co. failed to renew its contract, leaving city streets dark as talks to cut costs with cheaper lighting proceed amid debate over arc and incandescent rates.
In Monticello Iowa on November 9 1903 Mrs Francis J Corbin thanks M 8 Rizer Supreme Secretary of the Knights and Ladies of Golden Precept for a one thousand dollar draft paid by Laurel Lodge No 64 secretary Miss Nelle Haeussler. She praises the officers and recommends the life insurance society to all and wishes the lodge and order continued success.
Monticello residents protest a new Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul timetable affecting service to Davenport, Oxford Junction, and Marion. The revised plan cuts morning and southward links, delays freight moves, and disrupts court term travel, prompting a circulating petition by business leaders to restore prechange trains 97 and 90 and reroute through Monticello.
In Alburnette Iowa at the Hickman home on October 28 Miss Laura Hickman wed Elbert J Gilmore and Miss Sarah Hickman wed Harry H Newell. The event united four of the community’s young people in matrimony.
A railway offers round trip tickets to Chicago for 8.10 dollars from November 29 to December 1 with return validity through December 7 in connection with the International Live Stock Exposition. Minnesota education exhibit features photographs of gardens created by grade school pupils.
Advertisers promote York state apples as the finest in the city urging residents to stock up this season for winter. They emphasize quality and availability from local suppliers.
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