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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
2
Monticello visitors include C C Bart M G Alsever and KE Reed. James Good the congress candidate spoke Monday, pledging Republican reforms. Local obituaries record the deaths of Joseph Fagan and Jessie Howard with funeral details.
Local items list Oct 5 happenings: G H Rice travels to Rosebud distribution. Dehner visits Dubuque. O Connell heads to Rosebud. Eliza Niblo visits. Dr and Mrs Skinner return from Petoskey. Craft and Seery called to Dubuque for jury business. Farley mail service begins tomorrow. multiple visits by Chicago guests. a daughter born to Hamil family. R C Mutual meeting. Baptist association anniversary in Cascade with 45 delegates. Isa Vanzile visits from Jackson MS. W H Winans knee injury and risk of blood infection. cemetery fence completed and grounds beautified. two local house sales. infant son of Dr Lane improving after danger.
Onslow reports include Mrs. Lou Neelan and her son visiting from Plover, Miss Lou Noyes visiting Mrs. Ella Lamey Flanagan at Bernard, and Oliver Beckwith of Humbult visiting relatives north of town. The Royal Neighbors Bazaar is set for Saturday evening in the opera house. Mrs. Richards and daughter Mrs. Armstrong from Missouri stay with E. W. Chatterton, while rural carrier H. H. Roberta from No. 1 is in Chicago.
Clay items report Supple ill with typhoid fever as Miss Lizzie McMaster tends a broken ankle. Sheriff Hogan travels to Scotch Grove on business and visits Clay. William Moncrief of Anamosa visits relatives. The Chattertons celebrate their twentieth anniversary with guests, leaving two chairs in memory. Armstrong of Oklahoma visiting Chatertons leaves for Peterson. Mrs. Richards is the couple’s half sister. Armstrong will lecture on Siam in Bethel and Onslow with native costumes. she is a missionary there.
Castle Grove reports include John Cramer of Buck Creek in the vicinity last Saturday. Mike Slaley’s barn is completed and painted. Mr. and Mrs. William Hiller of Buck Creek visited Castle Grove on Saturday. John Barrack schedules an auction on his recently acquired farm for the 15th. Mrs. Byers and Mrs. O F Heaford of Monticello called on Sunday. Cemetery grounds were enhanced by work last Saturday. Miss Bessie and Miss Bertha Harken travel to Council Bluffs to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. J A McLaughlin travel to Stamford South Dakota to attend to affairs there.
J Dierks traveled to O Neil Nebraska on Monday. Mies Mary Farragher spent Sunday in Anamosa. Mrs M O Tool is ill but improving. Mrs Carrie Bradley of Des Moines visits here. I Q Powers went to Cedar Rapids to hear W J Bryan. John C Bailey moves goods into J A Weigs store room. Mr J KR Bradley and Mrs Peter Robertson visited in Canton on Sunday.
W G Wherry sold his farm and will hold a large personal property sale next Tuesday at the farm edge of town. Abner Kimball died Sunday evening at his home south of town in his seventeenth year. funeral Tuesday at Wyoming cemetery. Clarence Reade sold his business to Mr. Mosher of Hopkinton. J A Becker sold restaurant stock to K E Barber C J Ingwersen and R M Corbit. Many residents journeyed to Dallas South Dakota seeking homestead chances in the new government reserve. Ki C DeWitt and wife visited Mrs Martha DeWitt, and W G Chamberlain traveled to Des Moines on business.
Miss Margruette Aitcheson spent weekend in Cascade and Miss Frieda Decker visits Wayne relatives. Henry Hars and children visited Joan Rickless. Fred Burrichteyr helps Will with farm work as Will nurses a carbuncle. Henry Behrends and family visited Spence home. John Moore and family visited Pat O Shea. Hill Side picnic enjoyed by ten youths. John Moore’s Bowen barn raised with neighbors present. Henry Peters and Will Behrends returned from Dakota. Geo Nordman painting Quirk farm house. Diphtheria case reported at Wm Hungerford home.
Frank Atkinson of Farley secured the contract to carry mail between Farley and Cascade on a new seven day schedule starting on or before October. Green Bros. sold the King sley place on Cascade and Monti Cello road to D A English for 52 50 per acre, 180 acres. Miss Nellie Hennessy dies at Dubuque aged 24, a former saleslady at Levi s. Surviving parents and seven siblings. Henry Shimerda executor sold a 160 acre farm south of Wyoming to Henry Westphal for 125 per acre, a regional record, and an adjoining 80 acres to one heir for 100 per acre. Jones county land prices rise as demand grows.
Fifty years past August fifth the Atlantic cable was completed and many Japanese cities gained electric streetcars. The Arctic flora thrives under weak sunshine due to atmospheric electricity. Germany backs numerous small water power projects and Prussia logged 20 000 plants in 1898. A new moth trap protects Central European trees from the Russian moth. Two reflectors and a powerful fan light remote mountains, catching three tons of moths first night. Harriman plans three electrified lines over major western routes, costing about 40 million dollars.
Classified notices bid private sale of household furniture including three stores. Also listing 280 acre farm in South Fork township Delaware county with improvements near Sand Spring and Monticello, terms offered. Other farm for sale near Mexico Missouri and a 110 acre Geo Henderson farm near a creamery.
Two farms offered for sale one 80 acre farm in Scotch Grove township another 60 acre well improved fruit farm near town plus 10 acres of timber. Inquiries to Meade Sanford on site or Robt Johnson & Son at Anamosa.
Good Farm For Sale north west of Onslow offers 160 acres with new buildings and water. For Sale Thoroughbred Cheater White pigs from 5 to 12 months. Auction by G F Paulsen on John Schweitzer farm near Monticello with horses cattle hay and machinery. Eight room house on North Cedar Street near post office for sale by W D Magee. Enquire on premises 1814 Chas Vanderham.
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