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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1906
Page
8
Miss Nettie Eilers visits Monticello relatives. Dwight Smith leaves for Pomona College. Mrs. Wm. Allen returns from Adair and Warren counties trip. Advertisements note Deutrick and Bacher Abel stores with new goods and candies. Local notices include post office letters for Mrs. Knight and fall millinery offers. Church supper planned by Presbyterian Aid. Technical item on German Heater stove promotion.
Mrs. Robert Nixon of Toronto visits relatives in Monticello with her daughter. Jennie Brown leaves for Cincinnati for clergy training. Bank president Harris M. Childs visits Monticello. locals entertain guests. Found black cow with calf seeks owner. Students Gottlieb Bader and Ike Suter head to Iowa State College. Bandit described in playful note. Various visits, property sales, and shop ads in town. Fall events, library story hour, and school sergeant notes included. Weather comments on September heat and corn prospects. Dr. Mirick returns from vacation and future health update. Local sales on fencing posts and skirts at Deatrick/Davis stores.
Mrs. Frank W Buxton visited her parents the Babcocks and others hosted guests from Wyoming Cedar Rapids Marion Anamosa and Des Moines. Bank statements show gains at Monticello banks with assets and deposits rising. A birthday surprise for Rachel Mayberry Deiley featured engraved silver gifts and family attendance.
Captain David F. Magee, aged eighty three, was found dead by suicide in a corn patch near John Gibson's garden after a period of deep despondency following his wife’s death. Born in 1828 in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, he led local volunteers in the Civil War, earned praise at Pea Ridge, and later served the community as a jovial, trusted figure. Memorial services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church as his family mourns this loss.
Attendance and income were average overall with better gate receipts Wednesday and Thursday due to higher admission prices. Friday fell short of last year, entries and displays were below par, side shows declined, but stage attractions excelled prompting a specials program.
Mrs Sadie G Parrott of West Union visits W H Parrott family. Mrs Alexander Marshall of Manchester visits Monticello. Ben Haeussler of Coleridge Nebraska visits Monticello relatives. Lizzie Hennessey returns from Colorado travel. A I Bort to visit Rockford Illinois. Rebakahs plan convocation September 21 22. Taxes due September. Lists at Monticello State Bank. Mrs Wm Buckingham and children visit Erricksons. Edgar Hubbard ill with malaria. Della Arduser accompanies brother Otto to Faribault for Shattuck Military Academy. Dr John G Thomas on vacation in Canada. Dr McHugh to look after patients. Mrs Robert Williamson returns from Spearville Kansas trip. wreck at Chula Missouri delays journey and cost a trainman life.
Fathers Webber and McCloud lead a mission at the Church of the Sacred Treart begun last Sunday and to conclude on the following Sabbath evening. An annual election for the University Extension Center will be held Friday evening at 730 in the Public Library lecture room to select officers and plan the lecture course by Prof. FE. EK. Sparks. All interested urged to attend.
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