Local Notices and Social Vignettes from Monticello
A snapshot of small town life with names and places: Miss Carrie Clark at Anamosa. Doutrick's corsets and winter hats. Mrs M W Herrick visiting Chicago. Theodore Rohn to Chicago and Milwaukee. Iris paint advertised. Fred Slanson returning from South Dakota. Model store features fruits vegetables and Cream flour. Monticello State Bank tax lists for 1901. church service note. Tamoka coffee. German heater ad. Knights of Pythias event with Italian band Dubuque. Burrichter's groceries. births at Castle Grove. Deutrick's “Busy Store” tennis wear. Editor B W Shephard visit. barber trade inquiry. Mrs Emma Hazlet leases Commercial hotel at Wyoming.
Monticello Notes and visits fill town life
Mrs. O H Soetje visits Chicago. Mrs Elias Ely and Mrs Geo Brown visit Marion. Local ads mention Burrichter's goods and Deatrick's silk items. Various residents travel to Maquoketa Chicago Glasco St Augustine Mori... Reverend Lang visits Monticello. Cornerstone of Presbyterian church slated next Tuesday at 2 pm. Services planned at M E church with Rev W E Van Buren preaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elias Ely
Geo. Brown
Marion
New Presbyterian Church
Abel boy injured after trapeze fall at fair
Master Geo Abel, son of Mr and Mrs Jas Abel, fell from a trapeze attempting fair tricks and now suffers a broken collar bone. The piece notes the Malleable Range offer with up-to-date features and a handsome range.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Abel
Jas. Abel
Lang elected deacon and assigned to Worth County
Rev Edward A Lang formerly of Monticello and Allison was elected to deacon’s orders and to full connection with the Upper Town conference of the Methodist Episcopal church of Marshalltown during the past week. He will be stationed at Worth County during the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward A. Lang
Monticello
Allison, Town
Upper Town
Methodist Episcopal Church
Marshalltown
Worth County
Strawberry Point Visit Prompts Local Events In Monticello
Mr Enno Barrack of Strawberry Point visits the area as a basket sociable is planned at Frog Hollow school house district No 6 Cass on October 10 1902. Evening church services unite Congregationalists with Methodists to greet a new pastor. The month also brings milling and millinery openings and several marriages and sales announcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Enno Barrack
Strawberry Point
Frog Hollow
Cass
Mildred Ladd
Congregational Church
Herman Tiarks
Oldenburg
Germany
Kronpsinz Wilhelm
Bremer
United States
Monticello
Clergy Appointments in Upper Iowa Conference Districts
The Upper Iowa Methodist conference announces appointments for Marshalltown and Cedar Falls districts. W M Lemen at Conrad E A Lang at Kensett D B Staebler at La Porte City Rev J C Magee, son of Capt and Mrs D F Magee, reappointed presiding elder of the Cedar Falls district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper Iowa Methodist Conference
Marshalltown
Cedar
Falls
W.M. Lemen
Conrad
E. A. Lang
Kensett
Staebler
LaPorte City
J. C. Magee
D F. Magee
Cedar Falls
Monticello News Briefs and Local Notes
Two weddings are announced in Monticello a recent ceremony at the German Reformed church and invitations for Dr Norman Marshall Smith and Crissie Benton at Plymouth Church in Minneapolis. Wood shortages ease prices. lumber from Worthington sells at 8 50 a cord and Monticello hopes for sunshine and better roads. The Ladies Aid thanks merchants for a sale raising three to four hundred dollars and invites shoppers at Matthiessen Bros. A Salvation Army band plans barracks if space is secured. Monticello has seven churches, eight if counting saloons, amid ongoing political organizing, a Savanna Journal note on Ed Doyle’s slow recovery from a Milwaukee injury, and a Dyersville note praising Al Kiburz, Brown Dick, and Cascade track records. Dr H K Patton will offer free osteopathy consults at Lovell House Sept 26 and following Tuesdays and Fridays, treating rheumatism, joint stiffness, backache, headaches, and respiratory issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Marshall Smith
Crissie May Benton
Plymouth Church
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Dr. Smith
R. P.smith
Allison
Iowa
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Presbyterian Church
Matthiessen Bros
Salvation Army
Monticello
Ior
Savanna Journal
Edward Doyle
Doyle
Savanna
Calmar
Milwaukee
Dyersville
Dubuque
H. K. Patton
Anamosa Institute
Reverend Lemon Receives New Charge in Conrad
Monticello friends announce Rev. W. M. Lemon will lead a new charge in Conrad where the salary rises and a parsonage is provided. Conrad, with about 500 residents and two churches, will gain a handsome new Methodist structure as Rev. Lemen begins duties next Sunday. He will return to Monticello next week to move his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Innes
Reinbeck
Monticello
W. M. Lemon
Conrad
Methodist Episcopal Church
Lemen
Exciting horse routine and late news from Monticello area
One of Leroy Clark’s horses caused a scare on First street when it bolted toward the post office corner. Andrew Steiner leaped from a wagon to safety while the Clark boy steadied the horse to halt the animal in town. Also notes mail routes under rural delivery and a local legal case verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy Clark
First Street
Mr. Clark
Andrew Steiner
Clark
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Express
J. W. Doxsee
Pingree
Governor Shoes
East First Street
Home News
Carrie Clark
Anamosa
Doutrick’s
Cyrus Heisey
M. W. Herrick
Chicago
Theodore Rohn
Iris
Fred Slanson
South Dakota
Deutrick’s
Mrs. Johnson
Perry, Iowa
Wm. Long
M. H. Teeter
Waterloo
Denver
Colorado
Dakotas
Eastwoop & Chase
Knights of Pythias
Kinsella Hall
Band of
Burrichter
Hopkinton
Carl Brazelton
Castle Grove
B. W. Shephard
J. H. Tremain
Wyoming Journal
Emma Hazlet
O. H. Soetje
Deatrick’s
Harvey Richardson
Center Junction
J. L. Scholl
Maquoketa
Burrichter’s
Ike Schneider
Montana
Edward Lang
Columbia
Shetland Floss
Deutrick
Mr. Milo Guiles
Henry Rettig
Marseilles
Illinois
Black
I. F. Steiner
A. W. Steiner
W. F. Roan
O G. Meyers
Bocobel
Wisconsin
Fannie Perkins
Burmah
Methodist Church
Fred Stuhler
St. Augustine, Fla
Mrs
F. S.dunham
George L. Lovell
Grace
Mr. Lovell
Harp Coal
J. A. Voorhees
Mary Marvin
Alice Fulton
Manchester
Louis Hepp
Holstein, Iowa
Hepp
Julia Duffy
Amana Society
Gruenstein
Magley
Indiana
Synod of the German Reformed Churches of the
Northwest
C. ©. Warner
J. A. Dentrick
Richard Dawson
Dubuque District
Earlville
Eastwood & Chase’s
M. E
W. E. van Buren
Geo. F. Wilkens
Robt. Taupert
Las Vegas
New Mexico
Edna Thomas
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Raymond
Annapolis
Maryland
Schoonover & Drury
Thos, Tracy
Babcock
Matthewson
Smith Building
O. O. Watson
Place Deutrick’s
Monticello State Bank
Charles City
Ed. Turnis
Knoxville
Miller
Schoonover & Drury’s
R. Bohren
Klondike Creamery Co
Sean
Hiram Lampman
Proctor Woodyard
Nebraska
Chas, Stott
Mintinery
Opinina
Emporium
Jacob Widmer
Anna Grenewald
German Reformed Church
John Lurkeng
Marie Carstens
Mardorf
John Johnson
A. C. Albinger
Priges
Emory Leggett
Shoemaker
Scotch Grove Township
Herman Zubler
Vrena Schneider
Zubler
Suter
Worthington
Republican County Committee
Central Committee
Belknap
Wm. Sutherland
Scuth Grove
F. J. Sokol
Onslow
Arthur Fairbanks
Messrs. Fagan
Washington Township
Kettelson
Wyoming
D. A. Clay
W. A. Cunningham
Jasper Ramsey
Prairieburg
Springville
Daniel Cartano
Tun
Daniel A. Cartano
Spokane
Wash
Bis
Cartano
Naomi Hofacre
Arthur Hall
Chadwell
Perry
Matthiessen
Lowell Block
H. C. Wills
Drygoods
Lovell Block
Dnd
Union
C. H. Schipman
Merchant Tailor
First St
Scar H. Soetje
Druszist “Chemist
Dhasha IN
Sole Agenta
Sherwin-Williams
Firgt Atrhat
Eastwood
Chase
Arora
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