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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1903
Page
7
Community notices record visits and greetings across families and neighbors in Rock Island. Promotions for Hilers & Bolton and Deatrick/ Doutrick stores highlight sales on dress goods, millinery, and curtains while church events at the M E church outline harvest fairs and suppers.
Reverend William Dager, longtime Presbyterian pastor, will give a missionary address at Scotch Grove next Sabbath at 11 o clock. Likely Mrs Dager will speak at 7 30 in the evening on the same day.
Local column items from Monticello area include visits by Fritz Reuter and others, business notices for Deatrick's and Burrichter's dry goods, land sales by E Landherr, a 84th birthday celebration for Mrs Paulina Hosford, a juvenile accident near Monticello, and the death of Francis Eugene Hall with details of his family and funeral.
Miss Emma Ott succeeds Schoonover and Drury in millinery business and returns from Chicago with a new line of styles. Her trimmer Miss Spater brings deft dainty craftsmanship, and Ott invites invitations to view goods and discuss prevailing fashions.
The fair's poultry department expands with new coops and on site judging. Superintendents offer free care for exhibitor fowls where feed is supplied. A large display is anticipated under competent judging and organized exhibits. Rev Edward Lang and bride Miss Cook are mentioned amid marriage notices and local congratulations.
The Register and Leader shows a Walston reunion in Wyoming Iowa celebrating the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. N. Walston on the Wapsie riverbank. They raised fourteen children with twelve living and 37 grandchildren, 18 present, after selling a farm and moving to Wyoming about twelve years ago for rest.
James Skelley of Monticello died in Everett Washington on August 27 after heart disease. A veteran of the 26th Iowa, he served in Civil War battles including Vicksburg and Mobile and spent 61 years in Monticello. He left a wife Sarah and six children including Alva H. and James Jr. His funeral was held at the Methodist Episcopal church with Rev. W. E. Van Buren officiating.
Bennie Kellam won two prizes at the Anamona fair taking first place in the 100 yard dash for 12 year olds and second in the 160 yard dash for boys aged 12 to 16.
Residents summoned to join the Castle Grove cemetery grounds cleanup on Saturday September 12. Volunteers are asked to bring basket dinners and gather at the nearby school house as arranged by the committee.
240 acre farm in Castle Grove township offered for sale or rent with easy terms. Enquire on the place by W. A. Krueger. Also 96 acre farm one mile north of Monticello offered for sale on desirable terms by John Q. Skelley.
Center Junction hosts a Friday afternoon recital by Miss Edna Ellis of Mt Vernon at the Alden home near Wyoming. About forty guests attend as pupils present a French clock gift and a reception follows.
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