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The Monticello Express lists subscription pricing under editor J W Doxsee, noting a yearly rate of 81 75 dollars.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1901
Page
3
The Monticello Express lists subscription pricing under editor J W Doxsee, noting a yearly rate of 81 75 dollars.
Correspondence from Wromine and Onslow dated October 22 reports illness recoveries and visits by residents. Names include Patrick McNamara Belle Ash Rev A P Cooper and W H Shapland. Community updates cover school closure, moved families, real estate activity and building progress on the Stimson block.
Miss Lena Preston relapsed after typhoid fever. A recent local dance drew poor attendance. No Presbyterian sermon last Sunday due to the pastor's East visit. Rov Ellis family welcomed. children to join the school and Sunday School. Roy Leggett ill five weeks with typhoid and rheumatism. slowly improving with Dr. Richards. Mrs Dawson, Mrs Canty, Miss Buck and Mr Gillilan attended the Northeastern Teachers Ass’n in Cedar Rapids. reports from Dr Kent’s west trip look favorable.
Listings show multiple land transfers in Castle Grove Rome Two Jackson Two and Scotch Grove with values from 2600 to 12000 dollars plus a 5 day sale limit under Nickel Plate Road service. Also notes 15 and 20 day round trip tickets to Chicago via Pan American, and an estray bay mare in Scotch Grove with expenses due.
The Express offers ten yearly American Boy subscriptions to the first ten boys under 17 who submit correct answers to ten questions. Questions cover Jones County history, land surveys, U S postage stamps, presidents who dueled, and Hong Kong geography. Entries must arrive by November 16, 1901.
A mixed set of land transfers in multiple townships with names like Rome Two Scotch Grove Hale and Anamosa, plus utility and sale notices. Also includes water rent reminder from Richard Cartano and farm sales notices for Cascade and Central City with livestock and farming goods offered.
The device promises cleanliness and uniform heat day and night using soft coal slack siftings or lignite. It stays lit all winter with only three attendances per day. A ton of cheap soft coal replaces a ton of hard coal and produces few clinkers. The fuel savings in one season reportedly pays for the stove as it burns gas from half of the soft coal wasted by other stoves.
Bids will be opened at the Center school house on election day 1901 for about 45 cords of second growth hard green wood to be delivered before April 1, 1902 to Scotch Grove township school districts. Right to reject bids reserved. 1614 G. J Wuates, Sec’y of School Board. Also includes miscellaneous 1901 town notices and notices of rail fares and land sales.
A Monticello livery driver says two men robbed him near the cemetery Friday evening about 7. He fled the rig, leaving the team with the robbers. the team was found about 11 tied to a telephone pole. Misses Myrtle and Majorie Monger plan a California trip with their uncle John Adams of Dubuque to be away about three months. They will then journey through Mexico returning via New Orleans in February for a charming and instructive trip.
The piece notes Ella Wheeler Wilcox opposing women proposing and urging men to be proactive. It mentions a one night Inter Ocean feature with Dr and Mrs McIlrath and a Monticello trip as John Larkens plans winter travel to Germany. An ad promotes Radiant Home Air Blast Heaters by Eastwood & Chase.
Open bids invited at A Matthiessen's office in Monticello Iowa Wednesday October 80 between 1 and 4 pm. Farm comprises 80 acres with a good house outbuildings well windmill. Right to reject bids reserved. Also notice of 220 acre John Clark farm two miles west of Monticello offered on easy terms. Lovett State Bank notes buggies for sale including Henney Buggies and second hand buggies offered cheap.
The former Dublin lord mayor spoke in ornate terms and closed with a striking metaphor. He warned listeners they stood on a precipice that would weigh on their necks for all their days.
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