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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
8
A busy week features the Maquoketa and Manchester fairs with numerous visitors and social events. Residents and guests from Cedar Rapids to Chicago attend the gatherings while Deitrick's promotes mail and phone orders and new dress goods.
Monticello and nearby towns report fair week activities and visitors including Mrs George Greene Davenport and Mr and Mrs Edward Byerly Anamosa. Notables such as Miss Edna Drury and Dr McHugh of Chicago are mentioned with travel plans. A 280 acre Castle Grove farm is for sale or rent and county supervisors meet in Anamosa.
Miss Margaret Rickels leaves for Waterloo to join her cousin on a Calif ornia trip in search of better health. Miss May Coy of Dubuque accepts a mission teaching post in Porto Rico sailing from New York. The community reports strong corn canning output, 80 tons daily, and 75 workers in the husking shed. Reunions for Carl Kauffman infant buried at Oakwood cemetery. Rev Gruenstein marked eighteen years of service. Long item on Burrichter's store and local church praise. Monticello Realty advertises a 1280 acre South Dakota farm. school opens with a full staff headed by Superintendent Foster and Mary I Jarman. Mr and Mrs Isaac Orcutt plan winter in Laredo Missouri. Mr Orcutt 77 years old with weakening health. couple married 52 years and moving to daughter’s home for winter care. See new goods at Burrichter's.
At the home of Mr. and Mrs. R C Stirton last Monday evening pianist Carl Stuhler performed with Rev. B T Balear violin and Miss Nina Miller soprano. The program included Schumann Gottschalk Satie and Moszkowski pieces with piano duets and songs. Dr Coffman the eye sight specialist will be at Lovell House Davenport on Wednesday September 26 offering free examinations and glasses fittings from 9 am to 6 pm.
A large crowd enjoyed the fair with many pleased attendees including Mr. and Mrs. Snyder of Dixon and visitors from Center Point Marion and Delavan. Local residents and visiting families attended events, lectures by Mrs. Guyton were noted, and gate receipts rose with ticket prices up to 35 cents. The ball games featured Cascade defeating Center Junction 11 to 3 and Monticello topping Farley 7 to 4 amid a minor altercation at the grounds.
Major Howard Smith of Dubuque and his nephew Douglass HI Smith visit. Smith joined the first Jones County company in May 1861, likely among the earliest Jones county men to enlist, with Orrin Crane. The piece also covers horse racing results, a Jones County race plan, a wedding for Lavinia Greer to Rev. Howard Clarke Irvine, Lenox College graduates, and the Irvine ministry in Leeds North Dakota.
510 acre farm on the market between Monticello and Sand Spring formerly occupied by Harry Sandhouse offers easy terms from Herman Sandhouse.
Farmer Barney Magee offers 195 acre farm east of Monticello for sale or rent and a town house also for sale.
The Jones County Fair opened last Tuesday under good weather with promising platform attractions and strong Nelson family work. Ball games are scheduled daily with Monticello, Worthington, Anamosa, Buffaloes, Oxford Junction, Prairieburg, and Springville on the slate. The fair features poultry displays, evergreen varieties by Hoyt Bros, and a notable absence of gambling devices.
A list of Monticello area youths bound for higher education includes students headed to Iowa State College Drake University Lenox College Grinnell College Rockford College Coe College Pomona College Bayless Business College University of Illinois Iowa State Normal School University of Colorado Capital City Commercial College Highland Park Oberlin College Morgan Park Academy Northwestern University Moody Institute Visitation Academy Shattuck Military School University of Iowa and others. The report notes some omissions and mentions Mrs. Cora Sexton returning home improved from hay fever.
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