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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1897
Page
2
W H McKean and Mrs Mamie Stichler are noted visitors. Deaths of Mrs Ames and S L Gilbert are reported with biographical details and funeral arrangements. Local happenings include potato shipments, cheese factory history, a shooting match, and various visits by residents and relatives.
Daily notes from Cass detail J J Milne of Monmouth Sundaying in Cass and Shady Lane Creamery owner Will Crabb. School openings at Center Hickory Grove and Anamosa guest Miss Page, with teachers Miss Reed and Agnes Watt. Stock sale at Corning draws W L Ketcham and W A Hale. Ketcham family visits Monticello. Will Tule injured after a horse accident and under treatment at a sanitarium. Cattle, yearling losses noted. voters discuss ballot confusions post election and call for circular reforms.
Nov 21 notes report J H Lubben erecting a windmill and visitors from Monticello. Sewing and literary society meetings are planned for Dec 2 and Nov 26. Local couples visited Castle Grove. rumors hint at a wedding and a purchase at Bidwell auction.
Scorch Grove November 16 reports Mr and Mrs M Sweesy of Monticello and Mrs Isaac Ridings of western Kansas visiting relatives in Scotch Grove. They attended a social at Mr Adam Sutherlands. Minnie Clark stayed several days in Monticello as guest of Mrs N Sutherland.
Amber notes Miss Marguerite Ifall starts winter term at Black Oak today. Amber school began last Monday with H. G. Davis as teacher. Grandfather Bradley sold household goods. Rev Bretnall holds revival meetings in the M. and church. Mr Peter Strong has a well drilled plus Armitage sold gent's furnishing goods at auction. Sanford paid 85 cents per hundred for October milk.
Center Junction reports residents injured or ill from falls and pneumonia while others recover from illness. Local events include Epworth boys at home, Woodmen play December 3, and two upcoming Thanksgiving services with a church supper.
At Hampton the post office contest drew 677 votes from 800 patrons as five candidates vied for the office. T. H. Hacker, editor of the Chronicle, led with the most votes and will be recommended for the postmaster position under an agreement similar to Monticello.
Proposals to supply eighty tons of hard coal for Jones county are to be received at Martelle up to November 22, 1897. Sixty tons of course egg coal to be delivered on track at Amber Iowa and twenty tons of small range coal to be delivered on track at county coal house Anamosa Iowa. Coal must meet specifications or be rejected.
Trains formerly leaving Chicago at 10 35 am now depart 10 25 am. No 6 leaves at 2 00 pm instead of 8 05 pm offering through sleeping car to Boston arriving 10 20 pm next day. Evening train remains 10 16 pm. Coaches colored porters and dining car service unchanged. Rates lower than rival lines. J Y Calaman General Agent Adams Street Chicago H Turone C P T A Adams Street Chicago
A satirical column notes that marriage and politics mix oddly with gender roles. It jokes about women and marriage, men avoiding profit jokes, and the quirks of love, money, and daily life. The piece uses humorous reflections on courting and domestic life.
The Youth's Companion lists eminent contributors for the new volume including Gladstone Dufferin Reed Argyll Hoar Lodge McCarthy Kipling Howells Wilkins Mahan Peary and others. Subscribers receive a gold embossed calendar and weekly issues through January 1899, with a free 1898 contents announcement upon request to Boston.
The Geo A Gill farm of 220 acres in Castle Grove six miles west of Monticello is for sale or rent. Enquire on the premises. 222 Emes B Ginn. Choice Residence for Sale. A brick ten room dwelling offered for sale at Samter Samter clothing store. Enquire at Samter & Samter. DAVID RAMTER.
Commencing Sunday November 14 the New York and Boston express will depart Chicago at 10 25 a m instead of 10 85 a m as before The New York and eastern express leaving Chicago at 8 05 p m will depart at 2 00 p m The 10 15 p m evening train remains The 2 00 p m Chicago train offers through sleeping car to Boston arriving at 10 30 the next night Dining car service will feature seasonal delicacies For details contact J Y Calahan General Agent 111 Adams St Chicago IL or TW Thorne C P L TP A
Hour Bros of Scotch Grove Iowa offers to plant evergreens and fruit trees in Jones County with soil prep and two year establishment risk. Customers pay after trees prove well established and can fund upon farm where planting is done. Visitors welcome and correspondence desired.
Me AL Poure, manager for the Har wor Blish music house of Dubuque, will make regular trips to Monticello and vicinity. Anyone wanting a first class piano or organ will do well to wait for him. Abyssinia social code provides a fair chance to young married couples by forbidding the brides mother to visit her daughter until a year after the marriage.
Probate notice announces final hearings for executors administrators guardians and trustees in Jones County estates. Hearing set for December 6 1897 at Anamosa Iowa with exceptions to be filed at the District Court Clerk's office. Deputy Clerk J A Hartman attests to the notice.
Oscar H Fuller sues Mary Seventa and N Sevenksa for quieting title to the north half of the northeast quarter of section three in township eighty five north range two west, filed in Jones County Iowa. Defendants must appear before noon December 2 1897. otherwise default and decree as prayed will be entered.
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