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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
2
Local letters from Wyoming recount town visits by Noyes, Reed, Loomis, Kimball, and others. Notes mention sheriff campaign support for Johnston, a new livery barn lease, Monticello fair impressions, and upcoming sales. Community updates include school, college moves, and recent sermons.
Local notes express strong support for T. G. Richardson as Jones county schools superintendent with broad cross party backing. The item also reports Lena Carfield’s typhoid death in town and criticizes traveling opticians while recounting a Saturday Sunday School picnic and a child friendly boat ride near John Inglis' place.
Onslow residents report travel and visits from Lydia Gilbert in Chicago, John Smith from Illinois, and others visiting Tipton, Battle Creek, Rockwell City, and De Moinea. Local education updates include new principal G. W. Dunham and teachers Clara Noyes and Grace Maple as the village school begins.
Castle Grove reports Alexander Davidson and D W Cunningham have been ailing. P H Evers builds a silo near Delaware county. Mrs G J Heiken and children visited Bowen's Prairie relatives. Miss Grace Noble travels to Cedar Rapids for Coe College studies. L M Millsap of Anamosa promotes Graham Nursery Co in Mechanicaville area. Misses Gladys and Blanche Fairbanks head to Mt Vernon for Cornell College. second year for Gladys. Wm Hiller had gall stone removed in Rochester hospital. recovering. John Barrack sells 200 acre old McDonald place for Canada land. purchaser named Mr Brady at about 95 dollars per acre.
Sept. 9 notes include Carsten Petera building a large cattle shed and George Nordman painting a barn for C. Decker. Mrs. W. W. Morse ill with quinsy. Chas. Moore returns from Dakota visit. Carpenters start a barn for John F. Moore. Amber visitors at H. Behrends. Anna Reuter and Behrends family back from Pomeroy. Route 3 praises its industrious young ladies marketing six acres of sweet corn.
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