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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1905
Page
5
Community notices from Onslow area include family moves Davis hardware promos Haney on sale of linens tableware and curtains local visitors from Boston Cedar Rapids Manchester and Manson new arrivals at stores and mills eyeing German heaters and stoves plus a newborn at Stadmueller home and millinery offerings at Deatricks and Hicks & Ricklefa.
Ill and recovering Mies Mamie McMahon at Anamosa sanitarium. Mrs A H Hanken visits Cedar Rapids and Waterloo. Dentrick’s promotes Wool Dress Goods and silks. Amanda Hosford rents 100 acres south of town. Congregational church sale and dinner November 22. Y M L W Band and church events announced. Education news from John E Foster and Melville. Hicks & Ricklefs advertise linens. Mrs Sweesy thanks friends for support. Overing anniversary celebrated with neighbors.
Mr. C. H. Chandler, a former Monti cello boy, is named president of a new Cedar Rapids bank. He also heads Chandler Pump Co. with noted success. The report covers local business ties and other short community notes.
The wife of William Porter died suddenly at home in Marion last Sunday morning while sitting in her chair reading her Bible. A former Monticello resident, she was Porter’s second wife. Rev. J. P. Shaw of the Baptist church conducted the funeral. Interment followed through Monticello to Edgewood yesterday morning.
Our Wyoming correspondent notes Dr and Mrs M H Calkins of Wyoming mark a golden wedding with warm tributes. The couple, pioneers in Jones County, are praised for mental wit, sympathy and character. Subscriptions offer The Express and Chicago Daily Tribune combo at 8 75 for a year with free new year for new Express subscribers. The town clock bell saga continues as a new tone replaces the churchly one and the old bell awaits recasting or repurposing.
Rev Dr Crippen lectured at the Methodist church while Cornell College reported a fall term with 600 plus students and a record 185 freshmen. The Carnegie library houses over 25000 volumes and future plans include a heating plant and gymnasium. A hypnotist act by C Warren Mac starring with William Reno opens November 10 at the opera house. Obituaries note the death of A Hebberd in Fallbrook California aged 77, with surviving children Ada Stewart Los Angeles D F Haman New York and J A Tulip Oceanside. Dr Edwin C Bidwell dies in Vineland New Jersey aged nearly 86. he studied at Williams Yale and served as a civil war surgeon before later moving to Vineland and then Monticello on a 1891 visit.
Mrs. Mary E. Kane aged 51 of Sand Spring died last Friday at her home after a two week illness. Born in Connecticut December 20, 1854 she came to Sand Spring with her parents as a child and married Martin Kane January 15, 1878. Funeral services were held Sunday at the Catholic church of Sand Spring conducted by Rev. John McCormick.
Five additional rural mail routes approved for Jones county take effect January 2. Center Junction covers 14 square miles serving 106 people, Monticello adds service over 28 square miles for 360 residents, Olin 18 square miles for 300 people, Onslow 18 square miles for 804 residents, and Oxford Junction 23 square miles for 308 residents.
James Boyd of Canton area announces a public auction on Thursday November 23 starting at 10 o clock. He will sell 63 cattle including 18 milch cows, 30 three year old steers, 38 horses, 87 shoals, 2000 bushels of corn and 200 bushels of oats plus farming implements. Capt Tarbox will oversee the sale and bankable notes bearing seven percent interest are the terms.
Mrs. Alonzo Hosford has returned from a trip to South Dakota. The brief item notes her travel and return.
Real estate transfer notes Mr Nic Starks sold his dwelling to Mr Killian Thomas. An unrelated classified line advertises millinery at low prices and dress hats made to order at Deatrick's.
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