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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1907
Page
2
Correspondence from Wyoming reports residents travelling on business and in church matters. Notes on farming delays due to corn readiness, a wedding in town, and treasurer Pearson praised for tax collection. Des Moines Baptist convention edition details officers, votes, and regional church-group proposals.
Onslow notes include Mrs Edna Franks sick list and school vacations for Carrie Miller and Jessie Garside. Mrs Josie Berdichek Williams visits town, Miss Mary Fagen improves in Anamosa sanitarium, and Mrs Bessie Richardson returns from summer visit. Local pastor exchanges sermons with Rev Hoffman of Wyoming U P church. Mr Potter, new M E pastor, impresses listeners. Curry and Howard show underperforms financially. An amusing transcription error anecdote recalls a deacon reading a garbled sermon text.
Mrs J A Howie returns from Greenfield visit. Mrs A Starr of Oelwein visits her mother Mrs Noble. Mrs Alexander Davidson unwell for weeks. W H Laude of Monticello builds cement tank for D W Cunningham. Foundation laid for I D McLaughlin barn addition. J W Gillilan to cement floor his near completed barn. Wilder pays 32 cents per pound butter fat at Downerville creamery in October. Mrs Roy Cropp of Monticello visits Alexander Davidson family. Farm for rent 120 acres in Cascade township Dubuque county at 3.50 per acre. Peter Dondelinger White Lake South Dakota offers contact. J A Voorhees offers land in Canada or Texas in northeast and southwest regions.
The next term jurors summoned to appear at Anamosa court house on Monday December 9 1907 at 10 o clock are listed with names and towns including Fairview Monticello Wyoming Richland Cass Clay Madison Oxford Madison and Anamosa among others. Each juror is designated by surname given location.
Mrs Horace W Gill died in Yankton South Dakota at 9 30 last evening from a paralytic stroke suffered Saturday morning She was born Damiette Celestia Toles in Wethersfield Vermont and married Horace W Gill in 1853 They moved from Monticello Iowa to Yankton in 1888 She is survived by her husband and daughter Mrs W F Bingham of Monticello Her son disappeared years ago The funeral will be Saturday at 10 am from the family home with Rev Stevens officiating X Dr Coffman eye sight specialist visit noted
A Turkish husband uncovers his cruel behavior after taking a second wife for convenience. Melek Hanum endures provocation until a candlelit truth reveals his mistreatment. Remorse and understanding lead the couple to lasting harmony in old age.
A scrambled travelogue describes wonders from Fort Davis Texas to Singaung Burma and Iceland. It notes a poisonous mountain vapor in Hunter Mountain Texas, magnetic iron ore mountains in Burma, healing springs for lovesick hearts, a Java upas poison, boiling mud fires, and snowy lakes in Switzerland and Iceland. It mentions a Finnish weather stone and a fencing ad from Davis Hardware.
A farm of 160 acres in Richland township advertises good repair and fencing with grassland. Listings include White Leghorn roosters for sale with bulk prices, various livestock breeds, and rural Cascade Iowa routes. Also a opportunity ad seeks a local representative for a magazine subscription list, plus notes on an uncanny plant named the land octopus found near Lake Nicaragua.
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