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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
7
Dubuque visitors and business trips appear in local items. Names include M W Herrick, C A Ahlers, J S Hall, H C Wills, and J E Bateman. Occasional travel to Chicago, Minneapolis, Des Moines, and Aurora. Promotions for Doutrick s and Hicks Hilera stores appear with many product offers.
Monticello items note visits from Chicago residents and Iowa guests, summer sales at Deutrick and Hicks Eilers, and new millinery trades. The Jones County Fair schedule includes baseball games, horse races, and a September 18 excursion train from Fayette to Monticello. The union church services resume with missionary barrels presentation.
Various notices and ads. Rev W M Lemen visits Epworth with son Minor enrolled in seminary. dress fabrics and sale items at Deutrick's. Nurse Clara Bobleter visits family in Dubuque. lace curtains sale at Lovell Block. Junior Endeavor social at Fred Matthiessen lawn. sewing machine sale at Hubbards Han ken's. Mrs Stanley Howard ill in Monticello. pecan oil claims to cure horse sores. Rev J W Innes called to Reinbeck for ill father. church sermons and responsive services announced. baking powder can prize at Model. Modern Woodmen picnic at Wyoming with Monticello band. Monticello baseball vs Olin for $50 purse. Great Malleable Range offer. Henderson library dedication postponed. fair time hats at Deutrick's. burglars steal tools at Matthiessen's blacksmith shop. Angell's comedians at opera house Sept 15 week. one free Lady Monday with paid reserved seat.
Earl McCracken seven or eight year old son of Clarence McCracken Monticello school superintendent sustained a fracture of both bones in his left forearm last Friday afternoon while playing on school grounds. He was accidentally knocked over by a larger boy. The fracture was reduced and the injury should heal soon.
A L Ackerman, recent returnee from Langworthy, sold Wayne township land to Henry Hanken for about 71 dollars per acre. He bought 120 acres at Bolivar for 20 and 80 acres for 15 per acre, noting the farm’s value now 35 per acre. He meets Squire Davis and son Charles, plus Squire Tryon, once of Monticello, now well preserved.
Reuben Schnieder and Bessie M. Billings of Richland township married at Mrs. Abe Schneider’s Monticello residence last Sunday morning at 9 o'clock with Rev. W.M. Lemen officiating.
Henry Westfall appeared before Justice Babcock on a charge of stealing rings. The state entered a guilty plea, a $100 fine plus $12.80 costs were imposed and paid by his stepfather. He is to leave town and be returned to Fremont Nebraska after a visit in Richland township.
Susan Smalley Langworthy aged seventy died Sunday evening in Monticello after years of poor health heart trouble fatal hours earlier. Born June 21 1832 in Dublin Ireland she lived in Africa and Manchester before moving to the United States in 1866. She was married twice, mother of two by first marriage and twin daughters by second marriage who died young. She belonged to the Congregational church and the funeral was held Tuesday at Oakwoods cemetery with Rev. C C Warner presiding.
Nickel Plate Road offers round trip excursion rates to New York with tickets on sale October 8 to 6 inclusive and valid leaving New York by October 14. Reservations for sleeping car space and details available from John Y. Callahan General Agent at 113 Adams St Chicago.
Good condition storefront space formerly occupied by A I Chase furniture store. Elevator included and well located suitable for hardware or furniture ventures. Contact Mrs Mary Webber for details.
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