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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1899
Page
7
Bremer county residents visit relatives and shop at Hicks and Eilers Model Grocery Hendersons and Stuhler offer bargains on shoes and fare. Mrs Coe visits Wm Jacobs while O Donnell discusses Buffalo Bill show. J A Doutrick travels to Chicago for dress goods. Cascade fair slated next week with a good time promised.
Mrs. W A Mirick and children return from an eastern visit pleased with the vacation. H W Gardner dies at Hopkinton after living in Monticello. Special prices on lace curtains at Deutrick’s. H C Wills hosts and notes visitors from Fairbank Iowa. Threads of travel include a SwitzErland party arriving safely. Edna Schoonover travels to Chicago for millinery work. Abe Bigley family moves to Monticello with plans to join in fall threshing. Lee’s Lice Killer empfohlen locally by C W Brown.
A large crowd of businessmen and families attended a Worthington harvest home picnic with a special train for transport. Notes include dairy farmer Herman Sandhouse selling his 120 cows at public auction on the 21st, and various local visits, sales, and upcoming shows.
Mrs. Jennie Chapman of Anamosa and Mrs. BE F Cossum with granddaughter Helen Cossum visited Mr. and Mrs. C W Hosford's home last week. The two women, once acquainted in Anamosa, met after 25 years apart. Mrs. Cossum's husband runs the Smithfield Gold Mine Leasing Co in Pittsburg and is based in Elizabethtown New Mexico.
Miss Helen Street resumes duties at Coe College Cedar Rapids Charles Lambert and Catharine Parrott wed at Monticello P C Babcock travels to New York Hicks Eilers buy out half of Sherman building Maurice Byerly marriage at Jefferson Town Philippines letter reports rain and army life public schools overflow in Monticello district seeks more teachers Mrs Paulina Hosford 80th birthday Festive family gathering and travelogue of a buggy ride near Stevenson Hopkinton Deutrick store promotes dress goods and millinery.
The township caucus attracted many voters as three contenders sought the county treasurer nomination. F J Peteina prevailed over J S Houser with a majority vote while a ballot plan to select delegates to the September county convention was approved. Delegates listed include J W Coxsee, M W Herrick, James Skelly and others. The Byerly farm sale fetched 9250 dollars. A Scotch Grove missionary meeting drawn about 20 members from the Presbyterian church with a missions collection.
The notice lists sermons at the Presbyterian and Church of Christ pulpits Sunday morning and evening with themes. It also mentions Y P 8 G 18 social at Jennie Alloway’s home on Sept 5, Epworth League gathering at Bessie Kaylor’s home on Sept 11, and a general opera house service with The Model Husband's Ideal Wife.
David Samter announces move to Platteville Wisconsin around October 1 and urges all debtors to settle accounts with Samter & Samter by September 20. Debtors are asked to call and pay promptly.
Two calves strayed from H. M. Benedict in Union township Delaware county one red June bull calf with a star in forehead and one red March heifer calf. Address Hopkinton.
160 acre estate farm of Johanna Tobiason is for sale or rent in Castle Grove township. Possession available March 1, 1900. Inquiries to F DT Zimmerman near Monticello. Also notice of a tourist sleeping car to California departing Monticello Saturdays. for full information call at the depot.
Frank C. Biss a longtime Monticello resident and shoemaker born in Sitomisle Bohemia July 20 1884 died at his Cedar Rapids home July 26 after a long illness. He came to Iowa in 1863 lived in Cedar Rapids Iowa City Monticello and Wisconsin and Kansas City and leaves behind two daughters Mrs Al Hogan and Mrs Vic Chambers two sons Joe in Kansas City Kansas and Frank in Wisconsin.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the Monticello post office as of September 4 1899 include Frances Bradley Miss Belle Teer B Geen Frank Johnson D FE Porn and P M.
Buy a farm in the famous Blue Grass region of Southwest Iowa at 25 to 40 dollars per acre. Write S Shoemaker Banker Fontanelle Adair county Iowa 23.
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