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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
6
A garbled page lists fair premium entries including items like Honiton lace and embroidery pieces from Anamosa and Manchester entries. It also shows an original notice from a District Court in Jones County naming multiple defendants and detailing a quiet title action over sections in township 85 north, range 1 west, with claims of unknown heirs and various deed records.
Auction note offers 110 acre Geo Henderson farm near Glass creamery at 85 dollars per acre if taken before October 1. Also 160 acres with 15 acres timber in Castle Grove Township Jones county offered by Mrs Eliza Lane at Monticello with terms by address. rent if not sold by October 15.
Advertises low fare travel from Chicago and other stations to California and Pacific Northwest destinations with $88 one way second class tickets and round trip sleeper options. Promotes agricultural and commercial openings along Pacific Coast extension and offers complete information via F A Miller, General Passenger Agent. Also quotes Electric Bitters endorsement by C M Harden of Silver City North Carolina as a cure-all for stomach liver kidney ailments and general weakness, sold under guarantee at O N Soetje’s drug store.
A. A. Felton of Harrisville New York praises Dr King's New Life Pills as the exact remedy he has used for years. The advertisement claims relief from constipation biliousness and malaria and cites a 25 cent price at O H Soetje's drug store.
Notice to all interested that final reports of executors administrators guardians and trustees in estates listed have been filed with the Clerk of the District Court Jones County Iowa. A final hearing and approval is set for Tuesday September 22 1908 at the court in Anamosa Iowa at which interested persons may appear file exceptions and show cause why reports should not be approved.
Plaintiff Harbison Orr seeks title to land in township 5 north range 1 west Jones County Iowa alleging prior adverse possession and color of title. Defendants Buckingham Perry and Rathbone interests are challenged amid assertions of misdescription lost deeds and barred claims under Iowa statutes. Court orders publication in The Monicello Express and sets Sept 21 1908 as the filing deadline.
In Jones County District Court 1908 Mackrid seeks to quiet title to the e 4 and sw 4 of the se 4 in section 27 township 84 north range 2 west of the 5th P M. against defendants Patty Reed Symons and unknown heirs claiming adverse interests. The petition shows open adverse possession by plaintiff and grantors for over ten years, requests no personal judgment, and notifies defendants to answer by September 21, 1908 or face default. The notice was approved August 11 1908 by Judge Milo P. Smith and published in Monticello Express for four weeks.
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