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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1897
Page
7
Various items announce vacations for students, sales on clothing and undergarments, special offers on overcoats and corsets, and social visits. Listings mention Hicks & Eilers, Wills & Deatrick, Goldstone Bros, Sumter, Van Meter, and local residents traveling or visiting nearby towns and states. The new telephone line connects Monticello to surrounding communities.
Local brief items report Mr and Mrs J W Doxsee visiting Chicago for Thanksgiving with relatives Dr and Mrs C L Fawcett. W S Tasker from Chicago visits Monticello customers. Hicks Eilers advertises shoes. Whatsoever Band promotes Xmas dolls. Monticello to have night watch with C S Corwin patrolling. Gospel meetings at United Brethren church. CentraBlock store offers dress goods and cloaks. several Mason City visitors for hollow brick at new creamery. Sumter closing sale beefs up cloaks. Mr C S Bidwell held a successful auction. Mr B C Mayo of Boston visits Baker family. Arlington orchestra hosts dances biweekly. Overing Stockwell jewelers hire German-born Frederick. Geo Barnard of DuBuque visits O H Soetje. Klondike investments mentioned. Sumter closing sale goods showcased. Mr Charles H Winner leaves for Marengo to run jewelry store.
Mr Milo Guiles visits Illinois for three weeks and an agent is sought. Mrs Dennis Delay loses a handbag in Monticello, found and returned. A 40-car train derails near Hopkinton Delhi. one passenger delayed two hours. Bonanza in woolen underwear at Hicks Eilers. John McDeonald robbed near Cascade. a gold watch and $2.50 stolen. A Cascade cemetery monument for John Ford. Wills and Deitrick Dry Goods praised. Uncle George Snowden loses a driving mare after Cascade trip. Gilbert Opera Co. visits. Ed Graves and wife encountered familiar faces. Dress stays and cambric sold cheap. A stock yards fight results in battered looks. Mrs Carson Peters injured in a Runaway near Sand Spring. Shoes sale at Sumter stores. savings offered. Mrs Frank Pierce and Forest Matson return from Missouri. Eva Taylor joins them. City election moved to last Monday in March. mayor and officials to be elected citywide. Winter gear advertised for people and horses. fur coats and horse blankets offered. Deaf harness man C W Brown promotes affordable goods and thanks customers.
Mrs. Melissa Weir visits Cascade for a month with Mrs. Kingsley as Mr. and Mrs. Sandhouse tour Onslow to see ruins and visit relatives. A fire destroys a barn and horse of Wm. Greer, with $800 insurance. A holiday fair opens December first at Smalley Building and a Junior Society forms with 88 members. A hobo named Harvey Yale is arrested for stealing an overcoat and jailed for 380 days.
The Monticello Iowa post office race concluded with Daniel J. Pond receiving 425 votes, Anton Matthiessen 210, and O. R. Ricker 180, totaling 855 ballots. Ricker withdrew before voting, leaving Pond the certified winner by 20 votes after judges rejected 108 ballots and upheld the initial tally.
The article notes selection of Pond by multiple local figures as the likely candidate for a position. Daniel EK Pond, born 1841 in Providence, Rhode Island, grew up in Worcester Massachusetts and served in the Civil War from 1861. He later settled in Monticello, holding several offices including county supervisor and treasurer for the Diamond Creamery Co, with a long record of financial integrity.
A shop is offered for sale by the undersigned. Inquiries may be made on the premises or of Robt Henderson and W M Preston regarding particulars.
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