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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1897
Page
7
Monticello residents report a string of visitors from Anamosa Cascade Cedar Rapids and Marion and Chicago observers. Local commerce highlights include new felt sailors 85 cents to 1.00 and a big closing out sale at Samiter and Samter with gowns silks and hosiery.
Residents return home from travels as local events fill the week. Mrs. Lillie Corporon visits relatives in Monticello. Miss Minnie Sleeper returns from Madison Wisconsin. Mr. Ben Miller hosts Democrats here. Church talks and harvest plans accompany sales, auctions, and society gatherings.
Mr M W Herrick left for Chicago last Monday night with the manuscript of a new edition of his Probate Law book aligned with the new code. He has labored hard on the work and may receive a substantial financial reward.
The young people's union met in the Presbyterian church with Rev Staebler of Hopkinton delivering a sermon on Fishing for Men. Rev A P Cooper of Wyoming will speak next Tuesday. Hicks Eilers offered $1 to $5 off cloaks. Mrs Daniel Starr and Mrs Ferguson visited local residents and returned to Omaha. Starr linked to Elder Starr and Civil War era politics.
Eldora educator W A Doron visits Monticello city events after Cedar Rapids round table duties with about a thousand teachers. Deaths of Maud Lightfoot and her brother Guy from diphtheria in Des Moines bring grief to their Monticello- area family. Local peddlers face license questions after attempted barter with Gerhard Eilers. Citizens discuss fish passage at Canton dam amid dam reconstruction. Shoppers warned about cheap goods at Sumter & Sumter and Wills Deutrick. Orr of Onslow recovers from a bridge accident, scarred but grateful. Jim Parrott promotes affordable spectacles. Anamosa Journal correspondents visit Monticello. Dyersville News-Letter notes Maquoketa visit.
A widow Mrs. Adeline A Bigelow Smith dies suddenly at sixty three from heart disease in the northern town area. Funeral set for tomorrow. Brief obituaries follow of J A Green of Stone City injured on a tramway bridge fall and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dison and Mrs. William Beatty visiting town. Joseph Lang dies at forty. Lon McVay’s deathbed scene described with six children and a missing husband. Local classifieds note sales and meetings including a cloak sale and a farmers meeting for a cooperative creameries progress. Includes shop for sale and business ads from Wills Deitrick and Robt Henderson.
I offer my brick residence containing ten rooms for sale. It is desirable property and I expect a prompt purchaser. Enquire at the clothing store of Sumter & Sumter. David Sumter. Home Seekers Excursions. The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers home seekers excursion tickets to Northwest and South points on Nov 2 16 and Dec 7 21 at one fare for the round trip plus 2.00. For full information call at the depot. Hon Leslie M Shaw Iowa’s next governor will address at the opera house tonight arriving on the evening train from the west and will be given a reception.
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