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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1896
Page
2
Willie Chamberlain visits Maquoketa. Mrs. Lindsey and family come to Perry. Ed Hernon welcomes a baby. public schools open with 168 enrolled. local moves, marriages, and a free silver debate draw parishioners. obituaries mark Ina May Moore at 22.
Miss Jessie Davidson will attend Monticello school this fall. HB Clark opened the fall term of district No. 2 on Monday. Will Hibbar and S M Hosford visited Anamosa last Sunday. The Wapsie Valley fair drew a few locals to Central City last week. Peter Caspers spent several days with relatives in Wayne township. Mrs John Poppe of Wayne.
Sam Lightfoot starts housekeeping in Mrs. Bohler's home while County Clerk McQueen attends Mr. Walters funeral. Noyes leaves for Cedar Rapids as grand juror and Corbett goes to Hopkinton for college study. Brown family to Des Moines for fair and Kansas visit. G A R encampment visitors suffer minor injuries in car accident. D A Walters dies at 69. Masonic and I O O F services held. buried at Scotch Grove. survived by wife and son.
Local notes from Center Junction recount greetings from Bert Milner of Wyoming and visits by E E Overly, Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Preas and others. A Republican delegation heads to Monticello to hear Bob Cousins, while the McKinley club grows and a missing free silver speaker stirs curiosity in Wyoming and Anamosa.
Amber September 8 remarks report the Amber school beginning last Monday with Clara Moffit of Anamosa leading. Parsons the Kansas populist spoke Friday evening at the school house. Dr Potter contemplates moving to Viola soon. Black Oak school opened last Monday with Lillian Farragher as teacher.
Miss Margaret Hall teaches at Mazel Green this fall. John Edwards buys the S B Hale farm of 120 acres at 55 dollars per acre. E J Farragher visited the Maquoketa fair last Thursday. Monticello fair attractions please attendees. Mrs Hans Lahn breaks her arm. Dr Adair set the fracture and she recovers. Cora dodges frost and looks to be a large crop. Gustav Rahn scheduled to speak on sound money at M FE church Amber Saturday September 19. Germans invited.
Geo McKelvey was called by telegram from New Jersey on a brother’s death. Mrs W G Condit and Miss Bessie visited at Olin last week. Manny Tarbox went to New York with his uncle. Kizra Ketcham left for New Jersey Friday. Mrs P Hanna expected back this week. Mrs F O Plume is in Missouri. Isaac White of Clear Lake visited Capt Crane on the 6th. White is 76. J Brainard visited his sister in Waukegan last week. Fred Brainard and Elmer Ketcham bought corn binders this year. School opened at the Center last week with Rev Bealls son as teacher. Fremont with Mrs C M Bordwell as instructor.
Illness of Judge Thompson's wife prevents his Sept term. Judge A S Blair of the Delaware district will preside during the coming week. Census notes include births at B Behrends Bowen's Prairie and to Mr and Mrs John Balster Richland township. Mrs Oscar Tr Soetje attends Mamie Keenan wedding in Dubuque. Mr W A Doron attends State Normal trustees meeting Cedar Falls. The Practical Tailor System promises latest designs. Mrs J A Franks moves millinery shop above A Kempf's drug store.
Monticello Iowa city council in August 29 1896 session adopts a ten mill general levy a two mill bond fund and a two mill water tax to cover expenses debt and water works. A special tax against listed lots is also approved.
The patent office is mocked as a crank pen with many impractical devices. anecdotes recall plows with grape ammunition, a cyclone house, a tapeworm trap, an illuminated cat for rats, a heat insole shoe, and dog tail fans. Electric gadgets inspire theft detectors and door keyhole finders, with notes from the Washington Star.
A 140 acre parcel located three miles north of Anamosa Iowa will be sold at reasonable prices. Interested buyers may call on or write PennyMan Bros Anamosa Iowa for details.
A Washington Star poem laments a lover who promised devotion yet betrayed the narrator at election time. The speaker recalls shared moments and moonlit walks only to see Mehitable Jones win by a tied ballot. The verse frames personal trust as a casualty of political loyalty.
James Weir notes through microscopy that feigning death is widespread from microscopic actinophryans to humans. He describes actinophryans folding their cilia and sinking in a drop of water to fool water lice, then reviving after danger passes.
A Springfield observer recalls General John C. Black and Judge Emerson debating a pensions case in Danville with a hush and tears turning to laughter when the jury is urged to sing psalm 115. Other anecdotes include reflections on civilization versus barbarity and a physician's remark on longevity.
Listing of land transfers including Romsey and Maxwell in Fairview, Ramsey in Wayne, Baestrom to Oden in Fairview, McConnon to Doxsee in Monticello, and more. Transfers cover sections and blocks across Monticello, Fairview, Wyoming, Cass, Onslow, Richland, and Smiths Add areas with values from 100 to 5000 dollars.
City clerk J. F. Petrina sworn to file a complete list of warrants drawn for Monticello Iowa August 1895. Items cover General Funds and Water Works Fund including payments to Abel Smith Kiburz Miller Carter and Monticello Electric Co with amounts totaling $190.71 and $216.75 respectively. Mayor A Mattinnessen attests to the report.
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