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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1903
Page
7
Monticello area notices list school closure yesterday through Monday, with local stores advertising goods and services for Thanksgiving. The page also contains town snippets on visits, sales, events, marriages, and local commerce.
The new time card for the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific lines yields no train time changes at Monticello and no service restoration. Officials consider reversing the Monticello Davenport passenger run to align with morning Chicago papers and evening return, with Agent Jackson to give his view.
Cast list for tomorrow evening's performance at the opera house under Mrs E V Monroe includes Hon Geo D'Alraye Gottlieb Bader Elmer Bigley Arthur Baker Samuel Gerridge Nellie Wales Esther Eccles Polly Eccles Lyle Hicks with scenes The Little House in Mayfair Matrimony Called to War Widowhood and A Soldier's Return promised with entertaining specials and home patronage in Monticello.
Monticello November meeting records the reading of last minutes and approval of bills for the TEACHERS FUND and CONTINGENT FUND totaling amounts including 6500 for salaries and 2009 for renewals. The board authorizes McCracken to purchase supplementary readers for the second grade and refers Latin and bookkeeping text changes to the textbooks committee. Obituary note for Harrison Dunning and local sale and livestock ads follow.
Stephenson farm two miles from Monticello center offers water timber and good buildings. Enquiries to Kik McLaughlin and Eby.
Mrs. Rachael Jennings wife of Platt Jennings died at her Monticello home last Sunday morning after a three week illness. She was 75, born April 17 1828 near Johnstown Ohio and married in 1845 in Licking county. They moved to Iowa in 1854 and to Monticello in 1868. She mothered seven children four survive Amy Price Clarence Jennings Alonzo P Jennings and many grandchildren attended funeral at Presbyterian church. Burial in Clay township cemetery. Reverend J W Innes officiated. Public sales announced nearby in Monticello with multiple farms and large quantities of corn hay cattle and machinery to be sold by various auctioneers.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railway offers round trip excursion tickets to Chicago at 8.10 dollars for the International Live Stock Exposition. Tickets on sale November 29 to December 1, return valid through December 7. A. I. Jackson, Agent. Poland China Swine for Sale. For Sale large Poland China boars and Brown Leghorn cockerels. 314 miles west of Langworthy J A Colton. For Rent farm about 190 acres in Lovell township near Monticello 218 Herrick Bauder.
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