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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1909
Page
5
Local notices list openings for Edison and Victor phonographs at Locher Brothers and new table linens at Deatrick's. Several residents visit nearby towns, and shops promote underwear, blankets, cotton batts, and dress goods at Burrichter's with additional entries on coal and wood supplies and industrial alerts.
Announcements include visits and travels of residents and visitors, farm sales and listings, auctions, and upcoming markets. Names mentioned include Mrs Ed Brazelton, Ray George, Elliott Beatty, Rev P Slocum, Milo Guiles, Tom Carson, Miss Anna Nordman, Miss Helen Pardon, and many others across Cascade, Monticello, and Delaware County.
William McDonald of Washington township passed through en route home from South Dakota where he bought land near Kennebec. W.H. Faragher, ex-Amber resident now in California, visited town Tuesday and praised the Pacific coast. Beginning Sunday evening services start in three churches the last union service of the season was held last Sunday.
News mentions the birth of a baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. B E Lightfoot in what appears to be a local notice. It also notes GQ W Eastwood in Canada and various social items including a surgical operation in Iowa City and evangelical meetings in Marshalltown Cedar Rapids.
Devtrick's owner F B Simpson visits from Jones County as Nebraskans consider Cheyenne County land deals. J A Voorhees advertises land tours to South Dakota and Texas. Clergy and editors pass through town with sermons and real estate pitches as winter returns with freezes and snow flurries.
Farmers near Monticello report hay thefts in the night with wagons hauling from outlying stacks. Cy Bert, owner of a hay stack, pursued the culprit and confronted a teamster willing to settle the score.
Five passenger car with runabout equipment including new tires folding glass front speedometer clock extra tire and tire holder with cover extra inner tube 3 oil lamps two gas lamps with generator tools and full gear car in fine shape offering special low price if sold in 10 days M G Alsever Center Junction Iowa.
A special Friday evening train is being organized to enable Cedar Rapids Sunday meeting attendees to travel there and return the same night. Participants should report their names to F B Bolton to guarantee the train, which would depart at five o clock p m and return after the services.
Mr and Mrs David Smith of Oxford Mills and formerly of Monticello faced a divorce suit before Judge Smith. The judge took the case under advisement and reproached them for their marital differences at their age noting the husband could not use his army life as an excuse for his language toward his wife.
Editor Cole of the Olin Recorder traveled through town last Saturday with a sectional fishing pole but failed to catch croppes. He did carry a pretty young daughter, a bright note amid stories of elsewhere. The piece also reports the death of Triot Beatty in Loveland Colorado and his funeral in Monticello led by Rev. J W Innes. Interment followed at Oakwood cemetery. A Milwaukee train near Anamosa struck a buggy injuring John Birk, who was thrown fifteen feet but survived.
Dr and Mrs M M Teeter traveled to Waterloo last Saturday night for the funeral of Algernon D Halleck Mrs Teeters brother and a long time general agent for the Illinois Central railway with headquarters at Sioux City. He was found dead in bed and believed to have died of heart failure at 56. Dr Teeter returned from Waterloo last evening.
District court continued in Anamosa with Judge Smith presiding over equity recitals. A consolidation case between A B Buiham of Oxford Junction and John Reily of Delaware county centers on a 600 acre land swap known as the back bone for an Oxford Junction lumber yard.
Students face exams as a serious mood settles over the week. Cedar Rapids hosts a teachers meeting and a Billy Sunday talk. two days off granted in thanks to staff. The senior class will buy pins after a debate over pins versus rings, while freshmen hold a late party at Hall's hardware store.
Walter Allen, longtime employee of the O. M. & St. P. Railroad in Monticello, drowned after family searches. Born 1849 in Alton near London, he faced years of hardship after his daughter's abandonment, leading to severe melancholy. Funeral held at Gill Street home. survivors include wife Mary Hatch and seven children with five living. He had worked at the coal shed since 1881 with an exemplary service record.
Fannie Gillilan widow of John W. Gillilan of Castle Grove township died at the Independence state hospital last Tuesday afternoon after a battle with mental derangement and physical weakness. Born November 14, 1860, she was married in 1884 and survived by two sons, Earl and Newell. Funeral services were held at Prairie Hill chapel and interment was in Oakwood cemetery Monticello. Cascade Pioneer notes Hiller Koob bought the Banghart farm for 115 an acre and related transfers. Washington Post comments on city farm exodus due to more variety of leafing in the city.
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