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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1913
Page
2
Wyoming Iowa reports a runaway horse in town colliding with a sulky and injuring a horse. The incident starts near the cemetery and continues through Main Street to the post office crossing. The horse owner lives near Center Junction. The piece also notes the death of Waldo Gossett age nine from pneumonia and details multiple local social events and visits.
Center Junction adds a new lecture season with the first program at the opera house on November 14 featuring Osceola Pooler. Season tickets cost $1 for four numbers and are sold at local businesses. H Cummings returns as section foreman, replaced by Ed Bethurem from Worthington who moves with his family. Sam Thompson hosts a young people's society gathering Friday with about forty attendees.
Prairieburg community updates include Mrs. A A Richley and Miss Marie Richley visiting Traer for a month Mrs. Wignall. Alva Whitney to move to a Springville Waubeek farm and Lon Shaw to work the old Whitney place. Mr and Mrs Charles Wood off to Waubsek then Fredericksburg. Mrs John Peterzelka back from Dexter MN reports satisfaction with investments. Linn Mills returns home reportedly partially demented. Verner Conklin moves to Hill farm. Ladies Auxiliary served supper in Baker building. Cemetery district B challenged by bad weather. Mrs Warren Whitney visits Mangold. Mrs John Lauser and children visit Sheffield IL. C H Hanold buys a new auto.
Miss Lara Johnston returns to work after her father O Johnston improves. James Robertson and wife visit Mrs Thomas MacMaster on the farm west of town while Robertson takes vacation from First National Bank. Jessie Smith and Ava Streeper return home from teaching, Mrs Boomhour and baby depart for Raleigh NC. Wm Dennison accompanies them to Chicago. Will Smith and family visit then depart. he is a Milwaukee fireman living in Marion. Dr Kneller leaves town for DeWitt seeking a fresh start. Mrs Eli Streets hosts sister Mrs Garret from South Dakota. Ben J Brown clerks at Hansen’s store. Carroll Lightfoot returns from ?
Canada trip with Mr. Edwards last March noted. Husking season just starting and corn growers set to begin this week. Miss Jennie Thomson stayed with her sister at the parsonage last week. Mr. Scotborn of Manchester visited over the weekend. W. C. Holtz spent much of last week buying goods in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hasler visited Maquoketa on Tuesday.
Castle Grove notes mention Road Hogs discussion from a supplement, with commentary on obeying state laws and autos versus team travel. Local society news covers Ladies' Aid reschedule to Friday the 7th with Mrs H Hahn, German parochial school start date misprint, and multiple farm and visit updates including A F M Caspers barn work, Hasford family outing to Cedar Rapids, A M Fairbanks business trip, and McLaughlin barn foundation work.
Scotch Grove notes October 24 announcing December 10 and 11 dates for a Country Life institute at the Scotch Grove church. Drs. Wilson and McNutt are authorities, with locals Mrs Bayles Mrs Thomas and Miss Ethel Rice cited. ER C Hughes shipped cattle weighing 1442 pounds value 8 75 per cwt. The W R OC will give a Hallowe en event.
Fragmentary social items mention a party at Nelsons home on Friday night, visits by Mrs F M Lemkie of Chicago, and Mrs W H Kilges with Edward Fadley’s misfortune from a broken collarbone. Daisy Maxon visits Mrs Will Clark, and Willing Workers meet at Mrs J W Callahan’s home.
Public records list several land transfers including J Heds Stutt and wife to Ellen J London and Maye London in Monticello for 2000 dollars and Henry F Kohl to Robert Walter Patten in Hubbell's addition near Jackson township for 65 dollars. Sheriff W A Hogan sells blocks in Lexing ton for 383 35 dollars and other parcels including Oxford Junction and Clay township tracts. mentions Linestones of several parcels and names Edwin A Green and John Rees among buyers and sellers with prices ranging from 1 to 26400 dollars. Kansas City Star note hints Hobson and Underwood political bottling comparison, not a formal sale.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $100 if it fails to cure and invite testimonials, with Toledo Ohio address for the firm F J Cheney & Co. and a note about Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
One of the oldest specialists on the road, licensed by the State, offers examination and consultation for chronic diseases of men women and children. He claims success where others fail, cures diseases without the knife, and invites all to seek help whether past treatments failed or not.
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