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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1907
Page
4
Readable fragments describe a small event or notice involving Micelle Exerese and a family matter with a referenced Peteter. The text is fragmented but indicates a minor, local notice or notice-like item with minimal context and a single action.
CORRESPONDENCE reports a flurry of visits and business in town including Morley’s Dave Robertson and Canova’s C E Countryman. It notes harvests, property sales, upcoming church services, a public sale near Center Junction, and a broken leg incident from Central City.
Onslow on November 25 records J H Huock visiting with daughter over Sunday and notes a new girl at J D Neel an's. Mrs Edna Franks remains very low with poor prognosis. J A Tracy traveled to Chicago with three cattle cars, Wiliams accompanying him. Perry Scroggie joined a hog shipment from his farm. J W McCready, ex cashier of Onslow bank, visits town. Thanksgiving dinner planned by Methodist Episcopal ladies in the opera house. Mike Supple returns after breaking a limb cast removal. Mrs Abrams leaves home. rents her house to N J Paul near town. C L Butler sold his farm and plans California winter. Vera to stay in school. Martin Carstens sold farm to Louis Holtz and moves to town. bought Finch property on Amamosa Ave from First National Bank of Wyoming. Grant evangelistic meetings grow in interest. converts meeting Friday will mark end of his stay before moving to Early Iowa.
Cascade items show Michael Folliard in Dubuque and P H Gross visiting from Dubuque. Walter Russell returns from the Black Hills while Peter Dowlinger of White Lake visits. Rev A M Tanner is in Newark South Dakota and David Rogers plans westward land work. Ray Knox returns from Sai Pan tent to spend winter. Dr D M Finley improves and D 3 Seery fractures an ankle skating. Mrs Eliza Drewlon of Dubuque also in town.
Reports from Castle Grove include Chris Specht building a wood house for Mr. Crowley and a sale attended by G J Hicken and Specht north of Monticello. Lovell township residents Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Davidson visit Castle Grove friends. Local sales at Langworthy drawing crowds. Rev P B Slocum delivered a discourse at the chapel. Miss Eva Brazelton and Miss Clara Noyes start winter terms in Monticello districts 3 and 5. Elsie Noble returns from Coe College Cedar Rapids for Thanksgiving break. Grace Noble also set to return. Fred Harken sustains a broken collar bone after a horse accident near J D Poppe's. taken home after medical care.
Center Junction residents hosted or visited relatives and friends including Will Bucher of Winthrop, Tom Bell planning a New York move, Mrs Ed Duncan and son Hearst in Monmouth, Lyman Moats moving into Thos Bull’s former house, and passes by Grace Moats Scotch Grove Nelle Livingstone and Marguerite McNeilly visiting nearby towns.
A December 5 sale near Anamosa lists 9 horses 70 cattle 90 hogs and 2500 bushels of corn with farm machinery and terms of sale. Monticello school board notes Nov 26 approve bills, renew teacher contracts, and issue a duplicate October order.
The Opperetta Contest of the Seasons, directed by O. Crane, will be staged tonight at the opera house. An entertainment by the little folks features a chorus of children with many named performers including Myrtle Phelps Jennie Matthiessen Libbie Thoeni Florence Thoeni and Grace Podhaski. The Seasons’ Attendants and chorus members are listed with numerous child performers filling roles and participants.
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