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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1896
Page
2
The item lists weekly publication cadence with editor W Coxsee and proprietor and a subscription price of 1 75 for the year. It notes a Thursday date of October 29, 1896. The record appears as a brief notice of printing schedule and pricing.
A reader reports travels through South Dakota and northwestern Iowa, describes fire breaks in the Dakotas, irrigation wells, and land values. The narrator visits Alexandria Ayrshire West Bend Algona and Sheffield and notes local people, farms, and rail stops before returning home.
Amber brief: school closed for two week vacation. Leslie and Minehart drill a well for Mr Chas Belknap. Daily Bros shipped a carload of hogs. Elvidge and Kimball finish a county farm laundry. Sanford paid 55 cents per hundred for September milk. Welcome Mowry to speak Nov 2. Mr Kramer from Illinois organizing a Modern Woodmen camp with about forty members.
Scoth Grove residents report guests visiting Stone City and Lenox students at home over the Sabbath. Mr Dell Wright welcomes a newborn boy on October 22. Friends fear for Miss Anna McKean’s serious typhoid illness while she teaches music in a town.
About twenty five residents traveled to Olin on the 24th for a good time. Joseph Podhaski arrives as a first class harness maker, hoped to stay long-term. Mr. Magoon and family return from St Louis visit. Henry Carson moves to Robt Livingstons house. Jacob Courtney to take town house this week. A J Lewis buys Hall property and hires Ed Sprague as blacksmith. Sixty tickets sold for Anamosa. everyone to Monticello Friday. Judge Wood critiques free silver speech as a failed lie.
Rebecca Nelson born McBride in Coitsville Ohio October 29 1814 died October 24 at Center Junction Iowa near eighty two. Married Archibald Nelson October 31 1834 moved to Jones County 1855 two sons died in the Union war_survivors three sons two daughters. Funeral October 25 Center Junction Rev A W Smith burial Scotch Grove.
Town notes report Albert Doering returning from Cedar county Nebraska and Frank L Hicks visiting Coleridge Nebras ka relatives. The Methodist church will host the third in a series on Church and Creed next Sunday morning. Hen to Halloween on Saturday eve. A Monticello family mourns as Ed Brazelton's child dies. fourth child lost by the family. Mrs. C B McKean leaves for McEwen Tennessee to be with a sick daughter Anna.
A list of unclaimed letters remains in the Monticello post office dated Oct 26 1896 includes names like Bohlken Mary Isbell C G L T and Alexander P M. The Jones county case Culver versus Nipp ends with Judge Blair ruling joint ownership and equal division of property after 37 years together noting creditors costs and a settlement in 1872 with notes and bonds to be divided.
The Davenport Democrat reports the marriage of Miss Jessie Davison and W R Weir at the Davison home on East Front Street. Dr C H Weaver officiated in a quiet ceremony. the couple plans a home on Prospect Terrace and a brief Eastbound trip before returning.
Samuel G. Sloane of Charles City will speak at Cumming's hall third ward near the lumber yard next Friday evening October 30. A sound money Democrat supporting Palmer and Buckner, he appears under the National Democratic State committee. All Democrats in Monticello are invited.
Bids will be received by the under designed for 380 cords more or less of good second growth split wood sawed once or twice as directed and delivered to the different school houses in Scotch Grove township. The contract will be let at the Center school house at 2 o'clock p m on election day to the lowest responsible bidder. C M Hanna Sec
Proposals for furnishing 80 tons of hard coal for Jones county are due to E. G. Perr at Martelle by October 24 1896. Sixty tons of coarse egg coal must be delivered on track at Amber Iowa meeting specification or be rejected. twenty tons small range coal to be delivered on track at county coal house Anamosa Iowa.
Hour Bros of Scotch Grove Jones Co Iowa advertises a wide sale of surplus farm goods including 10,000 lbs buckwheat flour 83 tons bran 1000 bushels potatoes 800 bushels rye 60 tons Timothy hay one pair of mules one team of horses a top buggy 300 posts and 90,000 fruit trees plus grape vines and nursery stock. They say stock will be in cellars and unavailable after Nov 10 and pledge goods at gold standard values with a dollar tree for a dollar and fifty cent tree for fifty cents. They highlight fruit varieties suited to Iowa planting and claim to provide unbroken collection of fruit trees vines and plants through pre sale contracts.
Ocean steamship tickets offered via any steamship line crossing the Atlantic at lowest rates for first cabin second cabin and steerage outward and prepaid. Apply to A I Jackson Agent Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway at Monticello Iowa. Ideond
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