Monticello Express Briefs October 25 1900
Local year price per year noted as 1.78 with a Thursday issue dated October 25 1900. Contents appear as brief notices and community items typical of a Monticello newspaper page.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
2
Burglars, fires, and civic plans fill Manchester pages
Manchester neighbors report burglaries troubling residents while a Davenport incident reveals a Mrs Anna Brauch suicide. Local towns discuss a Marion fair fund and Cedar Rapids carnival impacts. Iowa events include Coe College loss to Lenox, a Marion lawsuit over sewer damage, a deadly accident in Iowa City, and malarial fever at Ames. Real estate and farm listings appear for Monticello Ryan and Sand Spring areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Brauch
Davenport
Coe and Lenox
Hopkinton
Coe
Rally Day Planned for Monticello Castle Grove Sunday
Sunday services announced with Rev. David Inches preaching at the Presbyterian church. Rally Day on November 4th will unite Monticello and Castle Grove township Sunday schools. Morning sermons focus on Sunday school work. noon meetings and a children’s session follow. evening gathering for parents and teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Inches
The
Presbyterian Church
Monticello
Castle Grove Township
Local notes detail farm work and community events
Corn husking has begun. Haley built a new corn crib and McLaughlin installs a reservoir. Barrack reshings his house this fall. Shear and Lande loss a fine heifer last Monday night. Forest Matson closed his Monticello school in No 2 on Friday. A basket social at R Shear's brought proceeds over a hundred. Masons work on the new church with committee A W Cramer J A Howie and Mrs Margaret Noble. J J Noble is treasurer. Mrs Thomas Cunninghlam died Sunday afternoon October 31st 1900 after a long illness. Dora Promley born in Ireland 1821. married Thomas Cunningham in 1848 after emigrating via Mother of Waters. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm Rev Innes presiding. remains at Prairie Hill cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haley
F. D. McLaughlin
John Barrack
Shear & Lande
Forest Matson
Monticello
No. 2
A. W. Cramer
J. A. Howie
Margaret Noble
J. J. Noble
Earth
Thomas Cunninglam
Dora ‘Promley
Ireland
Dublin
Belvidere
Ilinois
Thomas Cunningham
Waters
Cunningham
John Nelson
Prairiebnre
John Dillan
P. W. Cunningham
Castle Grove
Hume Twomley
Alexandria
South Dakota
Eliza Krueger
Innes
Monticello Presbyterian Church
Prairie Hill Cemetery
Amner News Roundup Sees Local Growth and Visits
On November 23 J Farragher had a well drilled and J N Ramsey followed with a well on his farm east of town. Miss Lillian Farragher ended a successful term of school last Friday. J P Younger visited for creameries business and paid 92 cents per hundred for four pound September milk. Mrs Martha Worster of Algona and Mrs Marion Bellows of Decatur county visit relatives in Amner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.H. Sanford
Self Addressed Postcard Gimmick Reveals Domestic Scheme
Two men in a post office discuss a postcard addressed to the holder. It exposes a hoax card system used to mock fines and reveal a mythic society run by men to control wives. The joke expands into a London News yarn about unexpected opposition to orders during a Prieska incident with a girl at a farmhouse door and Lord Kitchener’s staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sitechener
Kitchener
Rightman
London News
It Met Requirements Farce Line by Charles Hoyt
A humorous exchange from the playwright Charles Hoyt about Nat Goodwin and the play Nathan Hale. Hoyt jokes that a friend dislikes Goodwin and would enjoy his death, prompting Hoyt to tease that the friend would not want to miss the last act where the character is hanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hoyt
Nat Goodwin
Nathan Hale
Hoyt
Mr. Hoyt
No Hat or Frock Coat For Churchgoer Says Husband
In a humorous exchange a wife insists on church before attire, while a husband counters with mock reverence toward primitive fathers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the quip about organ pipes and humble altars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Criticism of split infinitive usage sparks editorials
The piece reports Dr. Grier of Sirshine college defending strict English usage against inserting qualifiers between to and the infinitive. It cites letters and examples from Burns Byron and others, notes newspaper influence, and urges adherence to no words between infinitive and preposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grier
South Carolina
Sirshine College
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Southern ‘“Seceders
Due West
Cleveland
J. Altheus Johnson
Washington Bar
Erskine
Burns
Cotter
Byron
Childe Harold
Presbyterian
Supreme Court of the
United States
Congress
Matthew Arnold
Washington Post
Proposals for Furnishing Wood for Scotch Grove Schools
The undersigned will receive proposals on election day November 6 for furnishing about 45 cards of hard dry second growth wood to Scotch Grove township schools. Wood to be saved once or twice as needed and delivered to designated schoolhouses. Proposals accepted after 8 o clock p.m. at the Center schoolhouse. G. J. Waules, Secretary Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotch Grove Township
Executor's Notice in Jones County Iowa Estate
Public notice states the District court of Jones County Iowa appointed and commissioned the undersigned as executor of the estate of W T Proctor deceased. All claimants must file sworn, clearly stated claims with the clerk within legal time. Those owing the estate should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Monticello Iowa September 27 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Jones County
State of
Iowa
W. Tt. Proctor
Monticello
Towa
Appointment and notice in Jones county estate case
Dersigned has this day been appointed and commissioned by the district court of Jones county Iowa ex ecutor of the estate of August Rohn Sr deceased. All claimants must file sworn statements with the clerk within legal time and those owing the estate should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Monticello Iowa October 6 1900 Argust Ronn Jr Executor M W Herrick Atty for the Estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Jones County
August Rohn
Monticello
Iowa
A. D
Notice to creditors of Wm P Sanford estate in Amber Iowa
The district court of Jones county Iowa appoints executor of the estate of Wm P Sanford deceased. All creditors must file sworn claims with the clerk within legal time to be allowed or proved. Debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Amber Iowa October 2 1900.
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