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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
5
A wide range of social and business notes from Wyoming Iowa area including visits by residents to Davenport Des Moines and Chicago. Open air entertainment fairs and street improvements on Main street and Oxford Junction receive praise. Local candidates and public officials, business owners and hospital training plans are mentioned along with community events and editorials.
Center Junction residents report a busy period with visits, travel plans, and community events. Notable items include Mend Sanford’s trip to Colorado and Anatolia, livestock buying by Rb Loomis, football at Onslow, and J M Babcock’s representation prospects. Local schooling happenings feature Josephine Sutherland and a forthcoming medical study trip for Sam Thompson. A surprise silverware gift marked Mr and Mrs Frank Loomis’s move to Warville, alongside multiple social visits at Davenport and Grinnell connections.
Mrs Mary Barnes of Monmouth and Mrs Roberta of Anamosa visited Onslow on Monday. Miss Nazel Courtright is home from Maryville Illinois. Grace and Edna Leverich of Marion are guests of Mrs George Lyons. Mrs J L Hanna of Plankinton SD visiting relatives. N B Noyes travels to Stamford SD to visit son Arthur. Lydia Gilbert returns to Chicago work after two weeks with her mother. C A Scroggie editor of Midland Schools visiting relatives. Mr Magee of Baldwin assists Nick House in barber shop. Mrs Collings and granddaughter of Dubuque visiting relatives John Cole and Lee Hansen families. Ladies of M E church to serve supper at hotel Friday evening with invitation to all. Quarterly meeting services in M E church next Sunday morning led by Dr Albrook. Quarterly conference held at church Saturday at ten. Mrs J A Spooner left Friday night for Randolph MN to visit children then Burt IA to live with daughter Ruth teaching school. Spooner family to be greatly missed.
Robt Condit visits Cass from Los Angeles while Parke Ogden and Charles Fairbanks return to Anamosa High School. Weddings include Horest Craig and Lydia House August 24 with a serenade. Death of J W Wright noted in Enid Oklahoma. Jess Hanna arrives with his life partner. Tressa Daugherty begins fall term at Cass Center with Effie Cumminga Olive Gould and Beatrice Brongsseau among teachers returning.
Castle Grove notes report barn raising by Mr. Haley, visits by Eberhart and Fairbanks families, telecommunication line to James Lahey, new barn paint jobs, and multiple residents traveling to nearby towns. Memorial of George Egger, nine, who died from lockjaw, marked by family and school peers.
The Monticello city council enacts a measure to widen the south sidewalk on First Street from Angle to Main to ten feet including the curb. The rebuilt walk shall be cement and follow ordinance No. 311 and 911 requirements with official publication to take effect after passage. Dated August 18, 1908. For sale notice follows.
Via Chicago Milwaukee and St Panay low fares every day September 1 to October 31 to points in California and the Pacific Northwest. $58 for one way second class from Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Seattle Tacoma Spokane Victoria Vancouver and more. Liberal stop overs and 7 for double berth tourist sleeper Chicago to Pacific Coast. F A Miller agent information free. Manchester Union notes Maxims noiseless guns for enforcing New York noise ordinance.
C M Starden of Silver City North Carolina touts Electric Bitters for stomach liver and kidney troubles claiming it is unbeatable. He says it aids weakness lame back and general debility and even chills and malaria. Sold with guarantee at O ST Soetje's drug store. Detroit News reports Stanford White dead Harry Thaw in a mad house and Evelyn Nesbit Thaw in a sanitarium.
Mr A A Felton of Harrisville New York says Dr Kings New Life Pills are just exactly right after years of use. The pills claim to relieve constipation biliousness and malaria with no discomfort. Available for 25 cents at O H Soetjes drug store.
The Daily Register and Leader offers new readers a full subscription for one dollar through January 1 1909 and Sunday delivery for a dollar fifty. The paper claims comprehensive world national Iowa news coverage with three hundred state correspondents and morning delivery across Iowa.
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