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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1902
Page
7
Daily items from Monticello list Cloak Sales by Doutrick and Hicks & Eilers, relocations including Art Warner to Walker and H. C. Bohlken to new bank rooms, plus visitors Minnie Sleeper in Chicago and Dr Paul Eilers relocating to Alburnet. Auction plans for Fannie Dickerson estate announced.
Accounts owed to David Goldstone may be paid at his old stand or at the Lowell State Bank. Deutrick's announces a full attendance at the Rebekahs meeting next Wednesday November 5 with social time afterward. Hanken leases his 200 acre farm near Monticello to William French and may move. Dancing lessons offered by Professor Dunbar if a class forms. Special cloak sale at Hicks and Eilers October 31 and November 1. Law offices moving into Monticello State Bank building. Reed to fill Inglis vacated offices. Daisy Waugh and Bert Millsap wed in Wyoming. Local notes on fashion, church services, and political speeches. Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies in New York City aged about 84. آورد
Mrs Bebb offers chrysanthemums to benefit the Women's Union Missionary library which receives new books for free access. A large sale will be held at the M McLaughlin farm Castle Grove township on Wednesday November 5 with 41 head of cattle 4 horses 85 shoats hay straw grain and farm implements to be auctioned by W A Hogan.
A mix of small town items covers Sunday trading fears, a district court tax ruling by Judge Thompson, and a possible supreme court appeal. Other notes include theater promotion in November, horse sale reports, stove bargains, a license-related arrest, a serious animal injury, a Hopkinton football venue change, a wedding with 175 guests, osteopathic visits, and a recovering parish worker.
Farmers around Springville and Monticello confront sharp selling tactics by cloth peddlers now active in Linn and Jones counties. The sellers used a $5 blanket to lure buyers, then tout 25 yards of calico at a cent per yard as a deal, packing a full package for $48. Some customers never received their goods or got altered items with extra charges, sparking calls for embezzlement charges at an indignation meeting in Springville. The text also notes a wedding in Monticello, a Fourteenth Regiment reunion in Anamosa, and various local property listings and notices.
The Junior League of the Metho dist Episcopal church hosts a Halloween social on Friday evening featuring a program with music, a ghost drill, dialogues, recitations, a farce, and performances by listed cast members. Admission is 10 cents.
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