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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1905
Page
5
Miss Nellie Carpenter visits Chicago and many towns advertise goods from Doutrick's and Davis Hardware. Promotions include pillows, winter millinery, dress goods at Bilers Bolton's, Penn Family Safety Oil, Kranz chocolates, silk fabrics, and various home goods. Several residents visit relatives and travel counts appear in district notices.
Local tidbits report visits from Mrs. Clarence Simpson and Mrs. Margery Carroll. district court in Manchester. notices on rural delivery changes. creamery closures. new waists and skirts at Hicks. several travels and visits across Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa. parish, charity, and social updates. Frances McFarlan’s dog bite concerns. multiple ad blurbs for German Heaters and Ferndell coffee.
Thieves stole three bushels of corn from Ed Howard and Will Waugh after partly husking it. Three Monticello boys face malice for Sunday mischief including breaking windows, kidnapping pups, and a confession linked to a father’s name. Auction of farm stock and equipment set for October 20 near Monticello. New railroad timetable shifts for through traffic and local service. Unclaimed express packages to be auctioned in Sioux City with names listed. Monticello Canning Co. paid farmers for sweet corn delivered. top yields reported across dozens of acres with average returns around 14 dollars per acre plus fodder.
Property includes 270 acres cultivated with nine fields fenced and watered by a stream. Features a seven room house with barn complex, granary, corn crib, smokehouse, scales, cattle and hog facilities, windmill and cistern. Inquire of Jacob Turnis Jr Route 27 Cascade Iowa. Also notes local 1875 Monticello items and events.
Dexter Page longtime Monticello resident and machinist died at home last Tuesday at age 69 years 11 months 14 days. Born Groton MA November 3 1835 he moved to Monticello in 1869 with wife Mary Howland to start a foundry and machine shop. Survived by widow Mary and children Frank Carrie and Addie McConnell, with funeral at his home conducted by Rev. M A Breed.
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