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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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