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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1879
Page
3
The issue promotes Dunham and Leichhardt goods from cement to cook stoves and shoes plus photo frames. It announces Dr Chase recipe book and a lecture by Mrs. L H Washington. Readers are urged to return library books and there is election commentary and remarks on local politics.
Anamosa residents recall a social gathering hosted by Mr. and Mrs. OC A Whiting on Monday evening with about thirty guests to honor the fifth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith of Cedar. The piece also reports political tensions within the local Republican Party and notes a temperance lecture to be given by Rev Gardner at Monticello A B Church.
R L Duer and family visit John Duer in Anamosa while Mrs Monroe and Miss Clark tour Cedar Rapids for the Musical Reunion and Convention. J Q Wing campaigns for the Republicans in Olin and Wyom ing. Mrs Carpenter and daughters travel to Wellsville Kansas for a three to four week stay. The Hubbard family moves to Cloud County Kansas with livestock and goods, while Moffatt the Canadian buys their former farm and moves in with his wife and five children.
An eclectic ad listing Coyle’s Gallery and Montrcelio Bank for retouched photos and Dr Warners flexible hip corsets at dollar prices. A formal thank you from Mug Chris Stone to neighbors for support after the illness and death of her husband, with gratitude from the children. Moody Bros promotes a large stock of millinery and new styles.
Millinery opening events announced for Anamosa on Friday and Saturday October 24th and 26th with Mrs Kempsey and assistant showcasing the latest trims. Monticello ladies invited to special bargains and a 35 percent price cut at Jones Co. Moony Bros advertise Notions and millinery assortments. Public notices include legal updates from J Q Was and Fiske Monroe, with all clients urged to act. Brainard's Musical World October issue advertised, plus Towne’s Premium Art Gallery promoting Pictures and Picture Franks in Monticello Iowa.
From Lyon County Iowa October 8 1879 farmers report little grain saved threshing busy but yields poor wheat and flax around a peck per acre corn fair small grains nearly a failure drought and wet conditions blamed Dr Gurney Sheldon cites whiskey and quinine as remedy for diphtheria Obrien family suffers illness and a local correspondent hints at a visit from a young woman to Center Junction endearing note by A Soapy
A notice seeks a milch cow in exchange for a sewing machine. Inquiries may be made at this office for details and arrangements.
Roll of Honor lists students and teachers for the period Sept 8 to Oct 8 1979. Ebner Hicks Mary Preston John Shelley Nettie Sleeper Eugene Starks James Twansley Emma Velon James Walworth Bertha Bell Henry Berlin Jennie Fairburn Jennie Henderson Anna McConnon May Hickok Magegie Johnson Adelbert Sundhbouse George Yoran Luther Foster Principal Kare Curris Instructor names of pupils neither absent nor tardy in various rooms for the month beginning Sept 8 and ending Oct 8.
A pastor in faithful discharge of ministerial duties faced an unanticipated mass gathering of his church members who, along with their defenseless family, subjected him to an abrupt and relentless pounding. The incident suggests the M. E. Church in this city has notable peculiarities and the pastor was unprepared for the assault.
A late Friday parsonage gathering drew about a hundred guests bearing one pound packages. The event featured mingling and a surprise gift from Mrs. Condon, a pound of silver dollars presented to the pastor with a warm reply.
Council convened with Bailes and Paine absent. N W Austin named mayor pro tem. Claims approved: Hiram King street work 2.50 Dexter Page water works service 28.50. W H Pope work referred to finance. Geo Traines street work referred to street committee. Talleck & Co Hose referred to Fire. Water Works authorized to make special contracts. Adjourned for one week. Official signatures.
A Monticello resident writes from Fargo about northern Dakota life in 1879. He notes rapid settlement, strong wheat yields from 25 to 80 bushels per acre, large threshing outputs, and farm wages around 25 dollars monthly. He compares conditions to Iowa, mentions Local Democrat politics and yellow fever rumors in Jones County.
A Republican caucus convened at 2 on a date in October. J B Smith led as collector nominee after a formal ballot with 66 votes. Smith 52 Rigby 1 Chand ler 2 Gurney 1. Alex Lewis re nominated for Assessor. J Bacher named Township Clerk by acclamation. Unofficial ballots chose Starks and Bentley for various posts. James Black elected Constable with 40 votes to 18 for Gurney. Central committee appointed.
Curtis Stone, a Bowens Prairie settler for about 28 years, died Saturday of typhoid pneumonia at age fifty nine. He leaves a widow and three daughters. born in New York, he built a farm, helped public improvements, and was known as a devoted husband father neighbor and citizen.
A hillside by the bridge shows workers from the road crew, led by a short stout supervisor in tow trousers. He leans forward behind the fence with a sly grin, chewing on a large tobacco quid as a wagon party passes by.
Odd scene has road workers arguing with a supervisor about traveling to Kansas to avoid road taxes and perceived bridge costs. A second item warns readers of Peterson's Magazine subscription swindlers posing as agents and selling bogus premiums. Also notes a marriage announcement for Alonzo Jennings and Apne Proy hover in Great Bend Kansas.
Remley and Brcanbrack, Attorneys of Anamosa, offer abstracts of titles in Jones County Iowa and prompt furnish abstracts of title. They specialize in real estate work and manufacturing creamery related powers for orders at Scotch Grove Station. Also handle blacksmithing and related tasks with guaranteed satisfaction.
Dairy farm for sale four miles north of Monticello comprising four hundred acres with good water and suitable buildings. Proximity to creameries and cheese factories noted. For particulars inquire at or address owner in Monticello. Also offering a Cedar Street house in Monticello with well barn cellar and fruit trees. Enquire at the office on First Street. July 80th, 1979.
An Iowa classified ad promotes cheap land along the Tenois Central Railroad line via the Great Town Company. It targets settlers and new entrants with special offers and war information, listing J. Bampson as land agent of D.A. C. RR Co. Storm Lake, Iowa.
Advertises a farm for sale four miles east of Monticello with a house barn well cistern and living water. Describes 80 acres in woods available in small parcels and 80 acres in Nebraska. Offers two thirds time on all properties and mentions sellers Turog Boucnen.
Lang proprietor announces a specially made hearse available for public use. It will not be run for any undertaking establishment and will operate on reasonable terms to accommodate all.
Public notice warns against buying the tract at the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of northeast quarter section 11 township 86 range 3 west of the P M containing 5 acres known as the Looney place. Written contract with Jeremiah Toone and Johannah Looney and their heirs names the only purchaser. Guo H Wurre.
Live agents wanted to sell Dr Chase's Recipes or Information for Everybody Enlarged to 648 pages with over 2000 household recipes. It is a household necessity selling at sight. Greatest inducements for book agents. samples by mail postpaid for $2.00. exclusive territory. Address Dr Chase's Book Printing House Ann Arbor Michigan.
The Tiarks filed in Jones county auditor's office for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in Monticello for medicinal mechanical culinary and ornamental purposes. They have filed the required bond and the petition will be heard by the Board of Supervisors on October 2, 1879 at 9 o'clock A.M. by Auditor Romer Dorr.
An 80 acre Jones county firm near Montluallo offers 64 acres cultivated and 35 acres timber with buildings and stock water, listed with Warren Dodge and John Dodge. Also advertised are a saloon on Ril rout Nt near Burnett House, Dr Price products, and various patent medicines and household goods with promotional claims.
An OCR damaged ad-filled passage pushes Kidney-World with claims to cleanse the body and relieve disorders like gravel. It promotes Picaya and a Ginger Tonic from Socte & Plarks, selling $1 bottles or 16 cent samples, urging readers to buy for many digestive and nervous symptoms.
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