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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1896
Page
5
Escaped from Sing Sing announced for next Monday evening. Several local notices mention visits, shopping, and Thanksgiving plans including Ellison, McQueen, Campbell, and Farwell families. Prominent ads promote yarns, blankets, cloaks, fur coats, practical tailoring, and funeral-sized catalog notes.
Local ads and short notices. Ed Hoyt discusses evergreens for the Northeastern Horticultural Society in Osage on December sixteenth. Stores promote gifts at Wills Deatrick and Henderson’s feed. Robes stolen from buggies. Diamond Creamery buys poultry. Y M S W E fair December 9 with supper and dolls. Charles Shipman touts fall lines. timber and wood prices rise. court activity noted. Cascade party rumor on mulet law. Gataway coats at Brown. Dr Kegley to visit December 8. mosaic bazar and chicken pie supper at Presbyterian women’s group.
Local notes report post office contest with E J Wood favored for appointment. Monticello marriages and births rise. a fossil discovery near Monticello noted as a new species. Also ads for Mitten, gloves, ribbons and theater acts at the opera house next week and a leap year warning to women.
Evangelistic services fill the opera house next Sunday with morning afternoon and evening sessions. Miss Daisy Corwin of Oskaloosa visits Monticello with Mr and Mrs Hazlet and may spend winter here. Local notices promote subscriptions to The Expre ss and Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean. Lenox college beats Western college 28 to 0 in football. The Monticello State Bank wins a suit in appellate court over a forged note bought through Omaha brokers. Evangelist Hartsough preaches at the opera house with services shifting church schedules. The Monticello Reserves face Monticello high school in a gridiron contest at 8 pm. The Demorest family mourns a late loss in Os kosh Wisconsin. The community notes various sales and local business promotions. A boy undergoes successful foot surgery in Chicago and will walk in a month.
The Monticello board of education met in regular session with members Stirton Hicks Bacher Noyes and Hunter pres ent. Minutes read and approved. Bills approved including Thacher Fund wages for Jarman Marvin Chrystal Hazard VanDerpool Hicks Greer Puncett Curtis Wheelock Young Sleeper and others. Contingent fund approved W B Stoan salary D E Pond insurance Sukes Co Cassidy labor Monticello Electric Co heating equipment issue note read from Fuller Warren Co. they will send a technician soon to fix the school building heating apparatus.
The Jones county district court clerk records November marriage licences issued. Couples include M McConaughy and Matie E Byerly. Thomas James and Ivan Lurdendorff. John W Cromwell and Elizabeth Phelps. Guy C Lovejoy and Anna M Libbert. Albert A Stewart and Jessie M Smith. Geo A Sweet and Lydia Crawford. Benedict Sherman and Ellen Brainard. Ottes Norton and Gertrude Layler. David Orcutt and Eva Schoenherr. W F Hubbard and Matilda Mayberry. Jas Collins and Jessie Utter. Jas M Dower and Mary A Foley. Willis Carter and Winifred Griffith. Patrick Spencer and Bridget Gillen. Wm Daley and Margaret Cavanaugh. Frank Batchelder and Maud Yule. J B McQuern, Clerk.
A sequence of real estate transfers is reported including Alfred Frey to He M Carpenter lot 155 RR add Monticello 20 Matt Noyes and CE Wales to Win Brazelton lot 381 RR add Monticello 300 E 8 Smith to Susie J Smith 6% nw nd oe sw sec 20 Greenfield 7000 Emery Leggett to Horace P Barber sections in Rome and related parcels in Jackson and Cass counties.
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