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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1897
Page
7
We continue for one week more offering the chance to view the display. Do not miss the opportunity to call at C S Bidwell's for details and access.
Dr Arch Hicks returns home to Tacoma last Saturday. Cascade fair ongoing with many Monticello residents attending. Slaughtered lard prices cut at the Star this month. Wills Deatrick's advertise carpets and dry goods. Local visitors include Mr H D Sherman Cedar Rapids and Dr Leffler La Porte City. Koor Hicks offer new tan goods and Underwear Fant. Sheriff Babcock reports civil suits for September term. Green tag sale by C S Bidwell with low prices. Goldstone Bros discount on light weight summer wear.
Mrs Cornelia Shelley and niece Fannie Allen visit Manchester friends Mr and Mrs Frank Mead. Presbyterian church to host Klondike Social at Mrs Eilers home. Hicks & Deitrick advertise fall goods and patterns. Mentions of wills and dress goods. Installments on local politics and court schedules. Community notices cover sales, shoes, piano offers, and coffee deals.
Notices cover moves of families from Oelwein to Monti and social visits in Clyde and Sioux City. It notes church events in Dubuque October 5 to 12, local business openings, a potential early morning railroad timetable change with sleeping car to Denver, and a mix of local incidents and minor accidents at the fair.
Premium list shows well filled entries with strong cattle and hog displays and good attractions. Attendance exceeded 8000 Thursday with solid weather and favorable trains. Officers praised for efforts. new officers elected. finances improved. Local notices include travel, fashion notes, and a melons burglary case with six melons found.
J L Sheean Esq a prominent Anamosa lawyer was found dead in four feet of water in the Wapsie River after going bathing alone Saturday. He likely drowned from a cramp and left his clothing on the river bank. Born in 1835 in Boston he moved to Iowa and practiced law with the firm Sheean & McCain. He was survived by six children and his wife Laura J Rawlins. Funeral services were well attended.
The Monticello City Council in an extra session approved a resolution levying ten mills for general and incidental expenses, two mills for bonded debt, two mills for waterworks, and a special tax on lot owners. The measure passed with votes in favor from Schoonover Heisey Bohlken Button Clark. An additional notice announced a Chicago line timetable change with through sleeping cars Chicago to Denver via Monticello and later to San Francisco via Monticello Omaha Colorado Springs Salt Lake.
A splendid residence offered for sale inquiry directed to J. B. Houser seeks buyers.
For sale or rent a farm of 167 acres with seven acres of timber in Castle Grove Iowa. Plenty of water and good cultivation with about half seeded. Cash rent wanted. Terms inquire near premises of town 10w2. Patrick Hogan.
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