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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1907
Page
5
Monticello items report post office job for Harry Hoag, piano sales at Deatrick's, and visitors from Anamosa and Cedar Rapids. Citizens import bargains on dress goods coal lumber and hats, with Carthage notices on rent, sewing goods, and a forthcoming eye examination by Dr Coffman at the Lovell House.
A long list of residents and visitors is recorded with travels to Anamosa Des Moines Sioux City Cedar Rapids and other towns. Local business ads promote Apex field fence and Davis Hardware while reports note school openings mule races farm sales and canning operations at Monticello.
A local notice reports the adaption of Quincy Adams Sawyer for an October 4 performance at the opera house. The story is on sale at Sadie’s Drug Store for 39 cents, with a brief update on Mr. C. S. Bidwell’s sore hand showing signs of blood poisoning from a self-treated pimple.
Midshipman Raymond Thomas of the U S Naval Academy at Annapolis enjoys a short furlough visiting his parents Dr and Mrs John G Thomas. The item notes his expected rapid promotion after sea duty and mentions other local notices including a wedding James Laura Chapman and Nels Peter Nelson, a diamond ring for Charles Baylor, and community efforts to fence a schoolhouse. It also covers tent meetings in Center Junction led by S B Evangelist Frank Schroeder with nightly services through September 15th.
At the Hopkinton Harvest Home Monticello defeated Cascade 5 to 2 in six innings before rain halted play. Cascade got help from Maquoketa’s best, and Joseph umpired as a large crowd heard a speech by Sen. J. H. Trewin.
Mrs. Dayton Cunningham narrowly escaped injury when a horse pulling her buggy ran away in Monticello last Monday. The buggy was wrecked and the home damaged as the horse stumbled on a hill and freed itself at Suter's corner. Henry Matthews married Millie Luebke on August 22 at St. Paul and the couple then arrived in Monticello.
An Anamosa prisoner named Neuvilles, jailed in Monticello for advanced intoxication, tried to trigger a fire alarm by setting a room fire and shouting fire through a barred window. Marshal Lee subdued him with a cuff and chain, preventing escape amid smoke, as observers watched a later surge of railway surveyors near Monticello.
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