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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1896
Page
7
Local notices announce Rev. David Street preaching at Moore schoolhouse Castle Grove at 4 PM next Sunday. The University club meets Sept 16 at 8 PM. Various ads promote Lon's tobacco, tailors, Koop Hicks shoe fasteners, and clothing sales. Social items include a marriage at Mrs Pangburn's, and visits by Mr King.
Jacob Suter reported his safe blown open more than a year ago with title deeds and notes missing. A few days ago the items were recovered in a tile yard, weathered but in reasonably satisfactory condition.
A local vendor promotes Lon's as a trustworthy trading spot urging shoppers to avoid unscrupulous quacks and bum traders and to patronize Lon's for fair treatment of all customers.
Mr. H A L Bigley grew a healthy crop of large peaches on a garden tree near Langworthy. The tree received no protection this season. He plans to protect it this winter to encourage another harvest next year.
Monticello residents hear McKinley support and plan Wayne county cavalry club. Auction sale of Anna Soetje goods at Lovell house rear. Miss Mamie Keenan wed in Dubuque. Mrs Moffitt dies in Helena. local calls for German language speeches by Gustav Rahn. operatic comedy In Old Madrid at Opera House praised. Cloak Room offers new fur capes and jackets.
The letter from Cadet Horton Stickle mentions a Monticello Iowa native and Miller Pope's son. Fresh handbills advertise a street lecture on politics from religion and temperance advocates, disrupted by a pro KeKinley crowd. The Tornado melodrama scene and Chicago praise follow with local theatre dates and a note on Mrs. Ann Clarke Allen's death.
The docket lists numerous civil cases including W H Smith vs Sarah Vanderbilt Monticello State Bank v F C Hall et al and State of Town actions. A young man Wm Wilds of Anamosa was killed last week in Marion yards while breaking for the C M & St P Ry Co.
A group of Republicans met at city hall last Thursday evening to form a McKinley and Hobart club. Officers were unanimously replaced, a constitution from the national league of republican clubs adopted, and a committee formed to gather membership signatures. Nearly 100 torches and uniforms are on hand, with additional flambeau volunteers to be outfitted. Over 200 members already enrolled, including former Democrats, aim for a large McKinley plurality.
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