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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1902
Page
7
A collage of local shop notices and social mentions including Doutrick and Deutrick promotions for lace curtains and linen towels, sale items at the Model and Lovell Block Store, and community events. Neighbors visit, fairs planned, and new businesses like Belle Devlin & Co. open with fresh stock.
Reads like a late 19th or early 20th century Monticello column with visitors notes and shop mentions. Highlights include Mrs A I Jackson visiting Fayette, Bertha Rigby visiting Mrs P A Nandle, Nellie Fletcher of Elgin visiting Mrs F P Stahler, and Mrs Jessie Pratt returning from Chicago. Local stores Deutrick and Burrichter advertise hosiery gloves and fabrics, while doctors Inglis and Mirick performed an appendectomy on Frank White. The Maquoketa school desk factory faces financial trouble. receiver C W Farr appointed. County politics note: Richland trustees misfiled vote returns affecting supervisor race between Peet and Cunningham.
Local items report Prof Dunbar visiting November 20 21 for dancing lessons in Independence. Water rents due by December 1 risk shutoff. Stadtmuller family moves to Monticello. Yousse planned auction near Monticello on November 18 with livestock and farm goods. Rettigs relocate to Lamar Missouri and Davidson eyes Alberta grazing. A yellow dog dispute ends out of court. Ray Schaeffer wins Chicago University oratorical scholarship. Boyd Deischer dies at 17 with funeral at Monticello Methodist Episcopal church. burial at Prairie Hill cemetery.
Mr and Mrs John H Morse of Gosper county Nebraska visited near Monticello at Woods and Orcutt homes then returned to Nebraska. Z W Montague of Vinton spent Sunday in Monticello guest of Mr and Mrs Henry Heisey. Tamoka coffee advertised. Model store owner I C Lawrence plans public sale November 19 with 80 milkers and other stock. Bowen s Prairie post office to close November 29 under rural delivery. Mary Murray 21 died at Geo G Schaeffer home after illness. funeral to Baldwin beside mother s grave. Frank Pike and wife returned to Monticello after visit to Maquoketa Excelsior.
City council met with all members present. October scale receipts totaled 2.56 and license collections reached 47.00. city clerk 4.00. poll tax and related sums 226.85. Bond for Water Superintendent A Hall approved. Various claims listed and paid including labor, hauling, engine use, repairs, salaries, and water rebates. Meeting adjourned after routine approvals.
Parcel transfers include Martha Ketcham, J H Ketcham Wim Paul, and others conveying sections 18 29 townships in 85 86 ranges with various grantees. Also notes on land in sections 6 and 36 and multiple blocks in Wyoming Monticello Marion and Carter additions. Plus Nickel Plate Railway Thanksgiving sale offers 150 mile radius travel, club dining, and sleeping car reservations. Mail unclaimed list for Monticello post office includes Rev Andrew Kern and others.
A mix of livestock for sale including Poland China stock hogs and two Short Horn bull calves from a farm west of Langworthy, Jones County. Also poultry buyers offering top prices with a poultry house in Monrvicei.to near Hubbard & Eberhart’s meat market and a poultry notice in Ryan Iowa. A 260 acre Delaware county farm two miles west of Ryan is available for rent with terms to be arranged. The Jones County Teachers Association meets next in Anamosa at the high school on November 22 seeking full attendance.
We express heartfelt thanks to friends who kindly assisted us during our bereavement. Mrs. Deischer Emma Driscuen.
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