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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1897
Page
2
The Monticello Express notes Castine Grove visitors, local school term start, and hog losses from cholera. It highlights Calvin Berlin in Grundy county near Laredo and Trenton cattle feeding, Merfore stock near Chillicothe, and a humane act by Mr Siegel Webster aiding stranded New York travelers en route to Independence.
Miss Lizzie Dennison visited in Hopkin ton last week while Grace and Rose Maxson visit Hale relatives. Florence Frey of Monticello visits grandmother Mrs Sackett. A church social is planned at Ada Sutherlund's Thursday evening. Union Praise Service in Presbyterian church Sunday at 7 30 pm by Ladies Missionary Society and Y P S C KE. Mr Lawrence Glenn and family arrived to spend winter with his parents. An old man and woman with son of about fifteen seek shelter by the roadside overnight.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening invites all. Misses Fish of Aquuiesa visiting. Revival meetings concluded after three weeks. Med Trish of Springville bought Fowler Glass store. Mrs. Carl Albertson ill but expected to recover. James Clark reportedly sick. School started Monday with a good teacher in charge. Parents urged to visit. Whitige unable to move house. Wallis Havin ill and sympathies extended. Thieves entered Fowler Glass, stole shoes and wear. Six youths admitted to church on probation last Sabbath. Baptism planned next Sunday at 2 PM with several to be baptized. Those seeking infant or adult baptism to attend next Sabbath. Epworth League to reorganize Friday evening at the MOE. Large crowd hoped. Monticello and Hickory Grove youths expected. Remember the evening. Those interested bowling and socializing welcome.
Nor dh O NSLew and J L Gilbert on sick list. Ailments include scarlet fever in town. authorities tighten measures. Melvin Spencer named administrator of late data Lamey estate with partner Lames. local rebuilding and new brick stores planned. various contracts and transfers discussed. Anecdote on President Lincoln ends with a locomotive analogy.
A poem contrasts love with duty and faith in action to fight wrong. It envisions a wildwood nest of beauty and strength where love guides moral purpose. The speaker, with a partner, seeks to prove great love through self sacrifice and holy living, even unto death.
An article warns cancer is a blood disease heredity may cause it and early sores require prompt care. It presents S S S as a proven blood remedy, sharing a testimonial from Robert Smediey of Ocala Georgia and urging readers to seek treatment and request free books.
An 1890s digest mixes a travel dinner description at Birs Nimrud with a Pretoria church scene. The host shares Turkish dining quirks, while Kruger and a sturdy Dom Paul figure in a brief social vignette. A child teases a grandfather over a deformed stovepipe hat in London fun.
The poet Lord Tennyson died a wealthy man with a personalty of 286000 dollars. His early publishers Strahan Co. paid him 25000 dollars annually for the privilege of publishing his poems plus an additional royalty above the usual ten percent.
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