Monticello Social Notes and Local Visits
A compact roundup of Davenport and Monticello society updates. Recaps include Miss Maggie Hogan hosted by the Lane sisters in Argand, Mrs. M. W. Herrick returning from Chicago, Mrs. Cyrus Heisey attending a cousin’s funeral in Marion, and various travelers visiting relatives in York Neb and Pomeroy. Minor business visits and sales promotions are noted along with tax payments at Monticello State Bank and a local laundry sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyrus Heisey
Marion
Monticello News Briefs Include Socials and Visits
Local notes report a church social at Mr. Jerome Brazelton’s home on Tuesday evening November 97. The Forresters hosted a dance at Kin sella hall last Friday. Dandelions were picked in Monticello yards on the 21st amid the fall weather. Mrs. Dwight Smith visited her injured brother Albert Leclerc in Hopkins ton after a runaway accident. Thanksgiving preparations include mince meat at the Model. The Deatrick Store advertises dress goods and notions. Mrs. Chas. E. Little plan a winter visit to friends in the South. The Castle Grove Ladies Aid will serve an oyster supper to fund a new chapel. Ahlers family member Lettie visits from Bellevue with sister Bertha staying for the winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight Smith
Ladies’ Aid” Society of
Castle Grove
Elmer Orcutt
Thanksgiving Ball Promises Irish Italian Orchestra Tune
Local notices advertise a Thanksgiving ball at the Pythians Castle Hall on Tuesday November 27 with the Italian orchestra from Dubuque. Wright’s store promotes old fashioned buckwheat and winter goods while Roblin’s offers fur coats and blankets. News items mention a cotton plant at Eastwood and Chase’s hardware, a furniture offer for Lovell House, millinery sales, and a soap prize at Maple City Soap Co. Census figures place Anamosa at 2891 and Monticello at 2104 with penitentiary inmates counted separately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pythias
Dubuque
Narrow escape as man dragged by freight car near Monticello
George Hogan barely escaped serious injury after attempting to grab a moving freight car in Anamosa area. He slipped and was dragged a distance before losing grip, the car wheel rim severing a toe on his left foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hogan
Anamosa
School funding law urged by Superintendent in Monticello talk
Superintendent Clifford Paul visited Monticello last Friday to press rural and independent district boards to fully fund the annual per scholar book purchases for school libraries. He praised compliance by district townships and noted only a few independent districts object to the expense. Anamosa plans winter entertainments led by Hamlet with John Arthur in Hamlet’s Shakespearean role Hamlet heads a Denver Times praised cast under Slayton Lyceum Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Paul
Monilicello
New York Stock Co
Shakespeare
Denver Times
Edwin Booth
Slayton, Lyceum Bureau
Farmers Institute program at Olin with talks and horse show
The Farmers Institute at Olin on November 26 27 28 features music invocations by Rev Nathan Potter Rev H D Wilcox and Rev S J Carter plus discussions on the best cattle breeds home styling and dairying profits. A horse show chaired by A J Dalby offers diplomas for best coach draft and general purpose colts. The program includes school acts from the Olin public schools and photography promotions by H W Haaren Monticello photographer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muate
H, D. Wilcox
J. A. White
Frank Tasker
W. E. Bovey
Turspanyy
A. J. Dalby
J. Carter
Ida Austin
Mina Zink
C. Lamb
Music store offers sewing machines pianos organs and repairs
Overing's Music Store at 127 Main Street Monticello Iowa advertises bold ball bearing Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines pianos organs and second hand organs as well as a New Home sewing machine. Watches clocks and sewing machines repaired with satisfaction guaranteed. Church notices list U B church Sunday school and services at Presbyterian church and Moore school house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler & Wilson
Overing’s
Main Street
Monticello
Unclaimed Letters and Local Notices at Monticello
A list of unclaimed letters remaining in the Monticello post office is advertised. The item mentions patrons Chas Cochran Mrs J Crilly Daniel Cave D E Pono P M Craven Beck Co with dates Sept 3 4. The report also notes local theater praise for a two hour continuous show by Thelma and Bonnie Beck. Thanksgiving Day is announced for next Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Chas, Cochran
J. Crilly
Daniel Cave
D. E. Pono
P. M
Craven-Beck Co
Thelma
Bonnie Beck
Jon Daum
M’gr
Buffalo Center
Opera House
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fess
Dr. Reed
HOME
E. G. “Drury
Blankets
Hicks & Eilers
James “Abel
Davenport
Deutrick’s
Maggie Hogan
Argand
Lane
H. C. Wills
Yarns—Hicks & Eilers
Fleishers Yarns
Deatrick
H.C. Wills
A. I. Jackson
Fayette
Messrs
M. W. Herrick
John Welch
Doutrick’s
John ‘Behrends
Pomeroy
Bowen
Jacob
Arduser
Cloaks
Volney Hickok
Lucian C. Rice
York, Neb
Feathers—Hicks & Eilers
C. E. Wales
Deatrick’s
Express
Haney’s
E. Sarles
Boscobel
Wisconsin
Hubbard & Hanken’s
Minnie Sleeper
Chicago
Eugene Gilmore
Herman Zubler
Switzerland
Gerhard Pecks
Lemars
Wayne and
Richland Townships
Zilly
Ed. Kohl
Hanken’s
the. P
The
Christian Church
Jerome Brazelton
Névy
Forresters
Kinsella ‘Hall
Oh. C. Wills
Gale
Carrie
Page
Hone
Chas. E. Little
South
West
Virginia
North Carolina
Herman ‘Tiarks
Ed. Smith
Fairbanks
Town
Newagatherer
Sare
A. Fine
Charlie DoxseEr
Frank J. Hinds
Nina Joslin
0. R. Rickey
County
Sewall Farwell
Tor
Deitrick’s
Michael Hofacre
Hicksville
Ohio
G. W. Miller
D. I. Gomstone
Lettie. Ahlers
Bellevue
Isaac Rigby
Bertha
A. Eer
Mpf
Wright
Lang
W. F. Roblin
Eastwood. &Chase’s
Marshall Davis
Langworthy
Mr. O
Hunter
Maple City Soap Co
Gratia Hicks
Kate Perley
Berwyn
Illinois
Miss+ Perley
James
Iowa
Tur Express
Herman’s
One Price
One Price Clothing Store
Mary Collman
Herman. Zimmerman
Wayne Township
Rev. C. Mardoff
South Dakota
Jack
Ae Herman
Ray Schaeffer
Morgan Park ‘College
Chicago University
W. EF
Roun
Romley
Sam Jones
Presbyterian Church
Jones
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Sioux City
Golden Eagle
R. A. Rickless
R. Bidwell
D. I. Gonpstonn
Herman
Farmers’ Institute
Olin
Nathan Potter
Mall Peet
Poland
Robert Norton
Ben Hoyt
Cyrus Lamb
Monroe
W. Brownell L.mcdonough
D. M. Grif
G. W. Lathrop
John Howat
Welton
J. Cart
Robt
Taglis
Bunge
H. D. Wilcox
Hagen
H. W. Haaren
U. B. Church
Moore School
Ulls’ Central Block
C. H. Schipman
South Linz Finst Sr
Sale
Hubbard & Hanken
John Laidlaw
Jessie
Alexandria
W. F. Bingham
Sarah M. Dawes
Aberdeen
8. E. Sarles
C. W. B. Derr
County Recorder
W. C. Monroe
Scarh. Soetje
PD Juszist
Chemist
Chaler IN
Sherwin-Williams
Eastwood & Chase
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