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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1898
Page
8
A Mount Pleasant style Monticello column compiles visits notes sales events and local notices. Items include Cedar Rapids visitors and residents ill and well at home farm sales leases auctions dress goods groceries and upcoming weddings with names like Hicks Eilers Goldstone Bros Wills Deutrick Monck and Brown.
West Bend resident Mr. W L Brown spent days in Monticello visiting his mother Mrs C B Brown and other relatives. A harness break caused a short runaway without damage to Marshal Lee’s horse. J A Suhr & Sons and Mrs Rachel Sumter relocate to Chicago with Monticello friends bidding farewell. The Fair and church services, local graft commentary, and new goods at Hicks & Eilers are noted along with several visits, a street medicine incident, and a revenue license dispute at the fair. Mrs Herman Monroe visits from Riverside and her husband plans a Colorado trip. Souvenir china advertised by Hicks & Eilers.
Major Farwell ended a nearly thirteen month absence with a late Thursday night return from Europe. He toured most of Europe and northern Africa, avoiding only the Scandinavian Peninsula Russia and Spain, spent summers in the north and winters in Egypt and along the Mediterranean. He met friends at the fair grounds and planned visits with his daughters in Cedar Rapids and Monticello before heading to La Junta, Colorado to see his son Marcus.
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