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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1904
Page
8
A survey of items including clothing, linens, yarns, and groceries at Doutrick s and Eilers Bolton s. Notices of travel, pension grants, illnesses, sales, and public auctions follow with names and locations across St. Louis, Manchester, Chicago, Iowa towns, and Superior Nebraska.
Local notices report Andrew Nimmo and a wife traveling to Chicago, new births for Ernest Shelley's family, shopping at Bilers Bol and Davis Hardware, and calls on former friends. Various lectures, dances, and church services are announced, along with promotions for Ferndell products and Monarch stoves.
Mr. H O Brown of Estherville Iowa a former Monticello resident was in town last Tuesday to see friends. He reports his father O J Brown who once ran an implement business in Monticello died three years ago.
Fred Hasler plans an auction four miles northwest of Monticello on Friday November 18 selling 26 cattle one horse 13 hogs 1000 bushels of corn 160 shocks of corn 200 bushels of barley 24 tons of hay farm machinery and other articles. The issue also covers Jones county election results summaries and a concert at the Presbyterian church to benefit the Junior Endeavor society along with notices on book sales and a local obituary.
Manager Stuart J Elgin reports a large expansion with 426 telephones in Monticello and surrounding county served by the local exchange. Free service is offered to non subscribers within town, while a ten cent charge applies to non subscribers dialing distant parts of the county. A list of recent subscribers, including A Helken, Harm Folkers, Paul Rettig, Carl Schoon and others, follows.
A Monticello reader cites Shuert Hardware Co of Hickory selling a carload of paint that measured seven pints per gallon. Devoe Co warns against whitewash substitutes and notes a Thanksgiving excursion ticket sale by the Chicago Milwaukee rail line. Dissolution notice updates Hunter Erricksen business split. Cedar Rapids Republican plans a modern two color press for a twenty four page paper.
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