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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
7
Sheriff Hogan visits town on business as Carrie Clark, Florence Hefner, Nellie Kellum and others spend Sundays in Cedar Rapids or nearby. Vendors at Deutrick's advertise linens, blankets and dresses while several residents travel to Chicago, Dubuque, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Amber and Greeley. Housing, store openings, post office uncalled letters and church remodeling also appear in the Monticello scene.
Local residents travel and visit across Monticello with mentions of Brazelton Des Moines trips and winter plans for families. Notices include a farm for sale near Monticello, church events, a river freeze and break, obituaries, and routine business ads from Deatrick's and Hicks & Ricklefa's.
Obituary notices for Mr. Charles E. Bronson a Manchester lawyer and senior editor of the Manchester Democrat dies of kidney cancer. Community items include entertainment plans by Frieda Gruenstein Iola George and Lena Haengsler in Amber Center Junction Prairieburg. health updates on Mrs. Barney Magee. Edison and Victor phonograph at Locher Brothers. a reform school case involving William Haeussler. coal ad by J A Voorhees Coal Co. travel plans of Mr. Charles Howie to Lusk Wyoming. farmland moves of Mr. Alexander Davidson. honey sales by C B Darrow Jones Co. Kiburz brothers to build fishway at Central City dam. a judge orders partial dam destruction unless a fishway is built. tax-dodger investigations by Judge McCoy. Dr. Coffman eye exams in Davenport. Independent football game at Monticello on Thanksgiving. Mrs. William Sloan’s birthday celebration. telegraphy training ads. Wadick the auctioneer opens office post Taft election.
Adolph Bohlken of Wayne fell from a bog rack seat while driving hogs to Monticello. The seat tipped, he landed hard, and a surgeon set the forearm fracture. E D Miller of the John White farm near Monticello sells to F L Brown for about 5000. Brown will take stock and possession soon.
Andrew Watt and his sister Ella suffer a runaway when a loosely parked automobile left on the roadside near a beat en track forced the horse to bolt. Ella escaped unharmed as the buggy was demolished and the авто mobile lacked a number tag under state law.
Monticello on November 18 in a special session the board elected Florence Babcock to the Seventh grade and fixed her salary at 47.50 per month. Anna Balear will earn 45.00 per month starting the winter term. The board also voted to reelect all teachers whose terms expire after three months and then adjourned.
The exhibit car of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway bringing fruits and farm products from its Pacific Coast extension will open to the public in Monticello Iowa on Tuesday November 24. Admission is free and booklets about the new country are available from F A Miller or George B Haynes in Chicago. The region along the line is reported fertile with good crops and low land prices, offering homestead opportunities near new towns.
Good farm for rent in Madison township covering 187 or 210 acres. Well improved and highly cultivated. To arrange a viewing call O. W. Prestons Livery Barn Center Junction Iowa or write to T. Is. Canty Rock Island Illinois.
Andrew Steiner offers a woodhouse seven room 12 by 20 foot house with a double lot and city water. Outbuildings are in good condition. Located at 2064.
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