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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
4
Onslow notes visitors from South Dakota and Wyoming as well as local moves and family milestones. Mary Fagan and Frank Howard deaths are reported with funeral details and insurance notes. long retrospective section covers twenty five years ago events and local civic bids for street work and water main laying in 1908.
A.M. Fairbanks builds a hog house and corn crib while Harry Fairbanks suffers typhoid fever. Miss Lizzie Luken visits family. S. M. Hosford attends the Minnesota state fair and Republican committee work. Funeral for H. M. Troy draws crowds. Elsie Noble to teach in Madison SD. fall school openings announced with list of teachers. Wm. Hiller’s condition cited as improving slowly after an attempted operation is deferred.
Land around Worthington sells for 110 to 115 dollars per acre. Maud and Maggie McHough of Cedar Rapids visit Cascade with others. Ed Reddin of Garryowen reportedly dead in Independence. Al Hutton touring Iola Kansas City and other points. Kean family and Finns in Des Moines. Mrs. Jane Groves of Savannah and William Groves of Nebraska stay with Sam Patterson. Rev. W. C. Hallbert ill in Jefferson. Several residents journey to South Dakota. Cascade and Dyersville played a 4 to 1 game at home. Alvin Hunter of Jefferson dies. funeral in Cascade. Michael Koppes injured in wood saving machine in Dan Seery’s shop. Lewis McGarill dies by drowning in Imogene. Cousin of Mrs. Conlin. Sorrow heavy on Mrs. Conlin’s family.
For sale a high room house located on North Cedar street one block north of the post office. Inquire of W. D. Magee. Lef.
Farm for sale Henderson farm 110 acres near Glass creamery priced at 850 dollars per acre. Additional 160 acre farm with 15 acres timber in Castle Grove township Jones county offered by Stef Mrs Eliza Lane. Special train to Strawberry Point and return September 10 from Monticello 7 50 a m returning 8 30 p m details from Jackson agent.
Advertises daily low fares from September 1 to October 31 to California and Pacific Northwest destinations including San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Seattle Tacoma Spokane Victoria Vancouver and more. One way second class from Chicago to major cities at 38 with liberal stopovers and 7 sleeper berth to coast. Free complete information. F A Miller.
It cannot be beat for stomach liver and kidney troubles says C M Harden of Silver City North Carolina. He praises Electric Bitters as an excellent medicine for weakness lame back and run down conditions and for chills and malaria. Sold under guarantee at O H Soetje's drug store for 50 cents.
A narrative recalls Patrick Henry's March 28 1775 Richmond oration with fire in his eyes and bold lines about liberty or death. The piece shifts to a cautionary epigram from George Gray and a barber's tale of hair used to make strainers for syrups, then comments on Greek sculpture and feminine ideals across eras.
A Glasgow Herald item recounts Brewster arriving home late to a curtain lecture from his wife. He forgets to turn off the gas, slips out, returns two hours later to find his wife still scolding, and jokes about her obliviousness.
Harbison Orr sues in Jones County Iowa in a four week publication notice to defendants seeking a quiet title decree. The petition claims Orr owns the described parcels in township 85 north range 1 west and 2 west of the 5th P M, and seeks estoppel against all adverse claims plus a judgment quieting title in Orr. The notice warns defendants to appear by noon September 2, 1908, at Anamosa, Iowa, or default will be entered. The petition details extensive chain of title challenges and statutes of limitations. The case is approved for publication in The Monticello Express.
Richard Harding Davis launches a campaign to keep waste paper off Chicago streets. The piece praises authors who feel a public responsibility and promote civic cleanliness.
The ad quotes Mr A A Felton of Harrisville New York praising Dr Kings New Life Pills as exactly right. It claims relief from constipation biliousness and malaria and notes a 25 cent price at O H Soetjes drug store.
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