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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 08, 1898

Page

3

Fall and social notes from Monticello area in September

Dozens of small items report social visits, travels, and shopping in Monticello and nearby towns. Mentions include Miss M Hallock in Chicago, Mrs Phettaplace entertaining in Cedar Rapids, Mrs W A Mirick visiting Independence, and Lettie Rigby visiting Maquoketa. Local stores push goods like blankets corsets hats and meat. The Democratic county convention is set for September 17 at Monticello.

Geo. Phettaplace 8. B. Card Cedar. Rapids Clyde Hunt Monticello Montezuma Dubuque

Millinery talk and local social notes brief

Miss Maude Arnold visits the city for millinery ideas and Mrs. Curtiss store plans. A baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Hubbard. Several locals travel, shop, and move. sales at Wills & Deitrick and other notices fill Monticello life.

George Hubbard

Monticello Skims Sept Meeting Notices and Local Happenings

A Monticello to Dubuque trip lists a 1.50 round trip for Black Hawk Tower excursion with lodges along the road. Congregationalists host Rally Sunday with a Sunday School focus and a 10 45 sermon by Rev J W Bissell. gambling and drunkenness sermons urged civic opposition.

Odd Fellows Black Hawk Tower Davenport Monticello Methodist Church J. W. Bissell Upper Iowa University

Monticello News Briefs Touch Iowa Soldiers Farmers and Schools

George Hogan of this town in Co. K 49th Iowa near Jacksonville was listed dangerously ill but recovering. John Eden acquires a 160 acre Nebraska farm from Albert Doering, exchanging a Scotch Grove Tuel farm and $700 cash. Mrs. Harris and family visit Mrs. Weir. Sam Harris built a farming career in Calhoun county. Hicks and Eilers display Monticello school china. enrollment totals 480. three lower high school classes 100. Republican caucus selects delegates. Miss Jewett widowed, marries John S Thompson in Lacon Illinois. Ward Inglis’ son injured by a hook while climbing a tree. healing well. Zimmerman loses 1000 bushels of oats and barley to fire. grain insured. Opened schools list teachers. board approves four year high school program. Local hunters warned against trespassing by Kiben, Kellogg, Ralston, Shatz, Allen, Lang, Rohn, Hoult.

John ‘Eden Graysmeyer Place Town Coleridge Nebraska Albert Doering Doering Tuel Scotch Grove Township

Republican Convention Nomination Briefs at Center Junction

The Jones county Republican convention met at Center Junction on the 7th to nominate county officers. Judge J. S. Stacy chaired the morning session with A. Matthiessen presiding. J. A. Hartman won clerk, and W. S. Barker led auditor debates amid multiple townships expressing nominations and ballots. The body rejected two central committee resolutions and adjourned for afternoon proceedings.

Center Junction A. Matthiessen County Central Committee J. 8. Stacy Anamosa Stacy Hoe Jones County A. A. Cole Olin J. W. Coxsee J. A. White FE. J. Wood E. ¥. Brown Washington Township J. J. Fagan BE. J. Wood Alison A. G. Brown Central Committee Rome Township Matthiessen Ellison J. A. Hartman Fairview Township Hale Hartman F E. Booth Barker Madigan Township Geo. Platner F.M. Hicks Monticello Township Houser Platner

Nomination by Acclamation Marks County Ticket

The convention nominated M W Herrick for county attorney Miles Cook for recorder and William Sutherland for supervisor by acclamation. D A Clay was chosen for supervisor to fill the vacancy after a brief ballot followed by unanimous approval amid cheers.

J. A. Hartmai Auiditor Barker Tevetseas AL Herrick Brecorder Ooo Miles Cook Yates Win Sutherland A. Clay Cook P.O. Babcock C. B. McKean Scotch Grove Township William Sutherland Mr. Felton Center Junction Warren Dodge Dodge Robert Inglis D. A. Clay Hale Township Felton Madison Township Clay Dalby White

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the Express J. W. Doxsee First Street Home News M. Hallock Chicago Gill Blankets Wills & Doutrick’s Henderson’s W. A. Mirick Independence Hicks & Eilers Lettie Rigby Maquoketa Goldstone Bros Bernhard ‘Huels Jark Threy Strawberry Point Wills & Deutrick’s James Milne Jr Monmouth, Illinois Jennings Wilhelm Siebels John Siebels Dewey Kathryn McKean Georges. Howard Clarence A. M. Waite Miles, In Methodist Parsonage Henderson Henry Mathews Yankton, South Dakota Mrs John Mathews Souvenier Chinn, Hicks & Eilers J. A. Suhr & Sons H. C. Wills Pennsylvania Feathers Wills & Deutrick’s BE. H. Hicks Ninirods Wm. Cahill Boston Mass Nova Scotia Wills & Doutrigk’s G. W. Simpson The Diamond Creamery Co Jimny Curtiss Lou Gibson North Manchester Indiana Wills & Deatrick’s Martha Rhineford Della Arduser Charles 8. Bidwell Leadville Colorado L. Farwell Freeport J. B. Smith Alexandria South Dakota T. T. Smith J. W. Roe Modern Brotherhood of America David Patton Marion Patton St. P. Ry J. W. Campbell Clyde Ohio W. A. Overing Sr George L. Lovell Grace Kalamazoo Michigan Kalamazoo College Perry Buxton Wheatland P. O. Babcock Lon Jennings Oscar H. Soetje E. A. Warner Muscatine Paul Warner Wool Yarns Sarah Smith Seward Clairmont, California Douglass H. Smith Clarence A. Thomas Minnesota Minneapolis Wm. Moore Rogers Omaha Exposition Mary E. Leyden J. WW. Coxsee J. A. Voorhees Secretary of War 49Th Iowa Regiment Christian Endeavor Society of the Congregational Church Rev, Wirner Harry Voorhees Cuba Libre Ralph Seeber Hicks & Eilers’ Crockery Department M. E A. Miller Oliver L. Postlewait John Carmichael Regiment Co. K W. H. Gregory Mitchell South Dakota M. J. Gallagher Main First Streets John Clark W. H. Proctor Robert Maurice Geneseo Illnois N. Maurice Maurice David Street Presbyterian Church George Hogan Iowa Jacksonville Samuel Harris Jolly Weir Harris Sam Tne Express Mark Tapley Calhoun County Monticello High School Scroggie Monticello Public Schools D. E. Pond F. M. Hicks O. R. Ricker W. G. Eilers Nathan Smith W. F. Bingham R. M. Hicks A. B. Tucker E. G. Drury Geo. Schoonover Carrie Jewett C. C. Jewett Sand Spring Lacon Ilinois John 8. Thompson First National Bank Inglis Ward Ustrank Willie J. Zimmerman Stutt C. A. Scroggie Mary I. Jarman Ass’t Mary Marvin Nettie Hazard Kate Maurice Lizzie Klein Caroline Hicks May Scales Jessie Fawcett Anna Noyes Kate Wheelock Nettie Sleeper Margaret Young Board of Education Gerd Kiben Fred Kellogg Win Ralston Carl Shatz Allen John Lang Gus Rohn W.H. Hoult Matt Neay Doutrick Wills & Doutrick C.H. Schipman Merchayh Sinzi First St Montiexyo Scar H. Soetje Crassist Chemist Chader IN Sherwin-Williams Hubbard & Hanken
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