Correspondence from Onslow area highlights visits and local updates
Local notes report visits by John Hosin and Mrs. Kinney, a Priscilla gathering, and travels of Frank Overly and Joseph Tomlinson. Mentions Thanksgiving dinner plans, a vacant dentist opening, hotel renovations, and health updates. Death of Michael Malone and recovery news for Ben Johnston follow. Rural mail route issues in Jones County discussed with criticism of Hawkeye’s accuracy and route planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onslow
John Hosin
B. Richardson
T. J. Kinney
Martelle
Dr. Knittle
Frank Overly
McAllister
Hopkinton
John Dennison
M. E. Church
Opera House
Stoffle
William Eckler
Mrs. Lytton
Anamosa
H. D. Hall
Minnie Dawson
Center Junction
Michael Malone
Clay Township
Temple Hill
Ben Johnston
Clinton
Chicago
The
Express
Burlington Hawkeye
Jones County
Hawkeye
Rural Route 2 Community Notes and Visits
Rural Route No 2 November 28 reports residents in Monticello Anamosa and Scotch Grove visiting relatives and attending dances. It notes business trips to Cascade and Cedar Rapids and a bridge issue to improve north road access. Clover Leaf Creamery board praises buttermaker Walter Rizer and plans a pond for ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrett Schoon
Monticello
Ernest Kellogg
Pete Hagen
Anna Dorsey
Anamosa
August Jacobs
Ella Balster
Gusta Null
Delaware
James Kearns
William Ricken
Wallace Clray
Barbara Wolf
Pete Wolf
William
Henry Ricken
Wallace Gray
Cascade
Mary Bohlken
Sand Spring
Henry
Lena Nipp
Oda Schoon
Scotch Grove
A. B. Jacobs
John Moore
Bowen
John Jacobs
Waterloo
M. J. Kearns
Frank Farragher
Amber
Angeline Lyons
Peter Wolf
Charles Gray
Belvidere
Illinois
Dorsey
P. D. Murphy
Clinton
Clover Leaf Creamery Co
Walter Rizer
Rizer
Castle Grove Local Briefs Show Quarantine Lifted and Illnesses
Castle Grove notes list Master Walter McAleer on the sick list and Norman Davidson spraining his wrist last Saturday. Quarantine has been raised at George Miller's. Mrs. O. F. Hosford of Monticello spent last week in Castle Grove. Thanksgiving will find most corn in cribs. Miss Lulu Howie returned to school in Monticello. Miss Mamie McAleer began the winter term in No. 2. Fern Howie, Olin and Linn Howie have been ill. School started in district No. 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Grove
Walter McAleer
Norman Davidson
George Miller’s
O. F. Hosford
Monticello
Lulu Howie
Mamie McAleer
Little Fern Howie
Olin
Linn Howie
Local Notes on Purchases and Meetings
Monday activities include Mrs Iva Hearn of Monticello teaching in town. Mr Livingston of Center Junction visited last Saturday and bought a driving horse from George Davidson. A F M Caspers sold a gray team to C C Bart of Monticello weighing 8600 pounds for 400. A Thanksgiving social was planned at the home of 8 C Pfeil, but a line omission hid the location. Methodists holding meetings in the area may lose nothing due to the error.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iva Hearn
Monticello
Livingston
Center Junction
George Davidson
A.F. M. Caspers
C. C. Bart
8. C. Pfeil
Center Junction Community Notes Amid Illness and Travel
Center Junction updates include Howard Leech seriously ill with typhoid fever and Mrs. Frank Schoon improving. Posts moved to Watson store and locals mention visits to Monticello Amber and Epworth seminary. Nurse Minnie Davson cares for William French at Onslow. Nellie Albertson resumes teaching at district No 8 Scotch Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Junction
Howard Leech
Margaret French
Belle Lyons
Bertha Moncrief
Anamosa
Ellen Mead
Scotch Grove
Frank Schoon
John Weir
Monticello
Watson
Charles Livingston
A. W. McDonald
Mayme
Elsa Cotler
Belknap
Amber
Harvey Young
Epworth Seminary
Emerson
Epworth
James Young
McDonald
Bevans
T. Dawson
Milwaukee Track
W. H. Pangburn
W. W. Hunter
Minnie Dawson
William French
Onslow
Nellie Albertson
Langworthy
Sentch Grove
Cass Town Social Notes and Church Service
November updates from Cass note illnesses and recoveries including Mrs. Frank Miller and Mrs. Harry Wright. Visits from E R Moore Amber Misses Cora Sandhouse Mate Nordman and others to Cass and surrounding towns. Thanksgiving service planned at Cass church while Rev Braincombe lectures draw praise and anticipation for next talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass
Frank Miller
E. R. Moore
Anamosa
Charley Walterbach
Dakota
Cass Church
Will Altman
Amber
Rev. Cresswell
Perry
Mike Marek
John Vanda
Dubuque
Kiburz
Monticello
Harry Wright
Ben Herron
Henry Nordman
Cora Sandhouse
Mate Nordman
Ralph Zimmerman
Iowa City
J. W. Frazier
Sandhouse
Willie Smith
Braincombe
New Library Additions Feature Wide Range of Works
The Monticello free public library adds books for boys and girls and adults across genres. Notable items include works by Cox Palmer, Lang Andrew edited Blue Fairy Book, Keats Complete Poetical Works, Fyffe History of Modern Europe, and Deschanel Natural Philosophy. Several legal notices and district court cases accompany these listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Arnold & Gilbert
Cox
Palmer
Swett
Sophie
Littlest
Lang
Andrew
Bailey
M. A
Morley
M. W
Beard
D. C
Hope
Arthur
Manuel
Sorrento
Inman
Henry—Delahoydes
Johnson
A. F
Arizona
Kirk
E. 0
Dorothy Deane
Richards
L. E
Margaret Montfort
Peggy
Joe Hildegarde
Snow White
Stowe
H. B
Pussy Willow
Sweet
Captain Polly
Trowbridge
J. T
Jack Hazard
Wells
Carolyn
Woolsey
S. C
Eyebright
Little Goslings
Yonge
C. M
Daisy Chain
When a Girl Seeks Stage Fame Then Kitchen Roles Mock
A girl who recites in the parlor is urged to join the stage by friends who praise her talent. On stage she faces a second push to return to the kitchen, insisting her art is misunderstood.
Symphony of Living Aims for Quiet Wealth and Kind Character
A quoted manifesto on living well with modest means and inner refinement. It contrasts wealth with riches and urges study, calm thinking, gentle speech, frank actions, and listening to nature. The text cites personal influence as a scientific fact and notes moral strength can influence others. It ends with a line about science defeating mosquitoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Campbell
Remains of a Hero Find Our Hero Lost Grave Restored
Gen Horace Porter recounts the effort to recover John Paul Jones remains from a neglected grave in a distant city. After years of study and delays, negotiations secured three month options to enter the abandoned cemetery and remove the body for an honorable American sepulcher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Paul Jones
United States
Horace Porter
John Paul Jones
Century
America
Train schedule fragment with mixed city pairs and times
Fragmentary timetable shows routes among Chicago East Omaha Colorado West St. Paul and Kansas City Davenport Calmar Oxford Marion. Times listed include 6:05am 8:30am 6:35pm 9:24am 6:25pm and 6:55pm with several unreadable segments and partial station names.
Zurich Creates Medical Borough With 40 Doctors
Zurich city authorities confiscate public health burden by forming a physicians borough. Forty doctors will be approved, salaried at £500 yearly, to attend patients. Annual fund raised by a poll tax of four francs fifty cents on 112000 inhabitants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zurich
Switzerland
Also Mentioned on This Page
the New Library Books
Peabody
A. P
Wright, C. D
Deschanel
Lincoln
J. C
Orton
James
Bryant, Stratton and Packard
Richardson
G. F
Keats
John
Fyffe
C. A
Swinton
U. S.—General Land Office
Louisiana Purchase
Keith, Marian—Duncan
Levi S. Norris
State of Iowa
John Akers
E. Snyder
State of Towa
Thomas F. Finn
Hol. Graines
Ward Witham
Harry Stuart
I. EB. Snyder
Snyder
W.H. Sanford
Robert White
Lewis White
Shaw & Dutton
Fred Bodenhofer
Mary E. Dunn
Robert H. White
W.M. Welch
Courtland Chapman
William H. Harrison
I. V. Miller
I. L. Davis
P. G. Mohn
William Brier
Kiburz Bros
O. C. Hunter
W. A. Telegraph Co
H. W. Kettlessen
Thomas Hood
International Harvester Co
T. McLaughlin
International Earvester Co
John Sayen
George Starry
Town of Olin
William T. Shaw
C.D. Grim
Frank Pepin
J. L. Prouty
Leona A. Tart
Va. C
L. M. Carpenter
August Eggers
Farmers & Merchants State Bank
John Twarchman
J. R. Clay
Conrad Hotz
T. K. Paul
J. M. Paul
Lamey
W. H. Paol
W. J. Lamey
L. L. Gee
C. W. Murfield
W. H. Curtis
M. J. Long
Harriet. Sellars
Christina Brown
Ethold
Bickerstaff
Mary Brown
Ethold Bickerstaff
Mable G. Hall
John Jefferson
Mary E. McBride
Edward McBride
City National Bank of Clinton
J. W. Hall
George Collins
James H. Grover
Lowell Black
Eliza Black
Dorchester
Hugheyz& Dodd
William Donahue
Hughey & Dodd
Jettie Prosser
Irene Bills
Jemima Wasson
H. F. Connery
Julia A. Miller
S. J. Smith
Elizabeth Brogan
Adam Kramer
J. A. Bronson
Henry J. Herren
Obadiah Faragher
John C. Rueger
Helen A. Booth
Daisy B. Hall
Jacob Zumbrunen
A. G., Zimmerman
Gretje Siemers
A. C. Albinger
Maria Hicks
Silas Sams
Henry C. Wills
Rebecca Kipp
J. G. Bixler
Henry Frusmer
John Boner
Ann H. Rogers
Maria C. Brush
Casper Husmann
Daniel FE. Hammond
Laura
Simpson
John TL. Finch
Deitrick
Earl V. Deitrick
John H. Harmset
Elocution
William Henry Channing
Mexico
Science
Washington
New City
Juliets
Stuhler’s
High
ST. P
Beein Omaha
Colorado
St. Paul
Kansas City Davenport
Farley
Calmar Freight
Oxford Freight
Marion
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
New York
Diamond Creamery Co
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
F. A. Miller
Johnson-Stuhler Clothing Co
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