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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1901
Page
2
The Monticello Express publishes weekly on Thursdays under editor J W Doxsee with a subscription price of 1 75. The item notes the paper’s frequency and leadership and lists the publishing details.
Wromte reports Howard Lathrop of Oxford hired to sell Johnson goods and Clem Kimball of Council Bluffs here on estate business. Johnson sells much personal property at auction before moving to Oklahoma. John F. Turner of Chicago auctions jewelry stock of N S Saunders who plans to discontinue business. George Bronson returns from health quest in Colorado and California. Wm J Jones of Springfield Illinois visits Iowa family to consider moving here. Canning factory stockholders at First National Bank ratify director actions to sell the plant and close business. Jepsen leaving hotel duty with Mrs Hazlet of Monticello succeeding him. Miss Ella McNamary leaving clerk role. Ella Reister of Washington to replace. Wyoming mourns assassinated president. memorial services set by governor.
Local briefings report a Monday school board meeting in Castle Grove, Emmet Hall returning from Illinois, and visits by Jas F Delay D J Hogan in Anamosa. Ladies aid met Mrs KE Moore. a new boy welcomed at Frank Hoover home. Frank Clouse leases farm to A C King. Four carloads of rock laid east of Deer Creek school. Elsie Cramer leaves for Cornell College Mt Vernon. W M Lemen and wife visited Castle Grove. A double wedding teased as a near-future event. Chas King Bert Blake of Glasco Kansas called on S M Hosford. Wm Hiller leaves for Minnesota then Montana. Republican caucus nominees listed for township offices.
CentER Junction and Onstow items recount local movements. Kate Magee and Kathryn Leech plan moves, teachers and students head to Cedar Rapids Fayette Savanna and Mt. Ayr, while Miss Ethel McKean visits Gilmore City and Miss Verda Lytton teaches in Monticello. A wedding unites Dr Earl Stoffel and Maude Wolcott here as Rev McQuown officiates.
Beoton Grove reports that John Callahan serves as petit juror in Anamosa. David Sutherland attends Lenox College. Myrtle Dreibelbis of Center Junction visited friends here last week. A Davenport business traveler named Tuchfarber stopped between trains Monday morning.
Misses Josie Sutherland and Blanch Clark have returned to Coe College for the year's work. Miss Mary Fagan left Monday for a two months visit with friends in western and southern Iowa. Mr. Mervin Sinclair left this morning for South Dakota, where he will visit for a short time. He will be accompanied home by his mother who has spent the summer there.
Mass on Sept 18 reports Harry Wright very ill and Mrs A C Ogden on sick list Other social notes mention Mrs Bonster of Anamosa visiting YF Brainard Ezr Ketcham home from New Jersey Mabel Watt Georgia Lake at Coe College and visits by Ransom Farley H H Cunningham Hanna and bride home after trip East Tom Hartman Will Dickson back from Buffalo Ladies Aid Society met Jennie Sandhouse Rev W J Cresswell preached at Cass Center Rev S N Cross returns to Cedar Rapids to resume studies Mrs W G Condit Belle Crane visit Monticello Miss Mabel Allen of Monticello stayed with sister Mrs Homer Hanna.
Amaeur reports W H Sanford in Chicago last week and a birth for Mr and Mrs Sargent last Wednesday. Willie Sanford attends Mt Vernon school while R H Meill toured South Dakota. David Smith of Hopkinton visits local friends. Ben Tobiason buys Paul Warner farm in Wayne, 100 acres at 100 dollars per acre. Mike Bailey falls from a wagon and sustains a 15 stitch facial wound.
Apparent catalog of land and lot transfers listing Proctor Harriets and Elen A Proctor Wilkens ties, Ellen A Proctor Wilkens to Harriet Proctor, Marcus and other names across Monticello Hale Oxford Junction Anamosa Rome Jackson Scott County Iowa areas with various sections and townships. values noted include 2000 1000 860 25 1950 600 300 dollars in scattered entries.
At the Garden Theatre New York Blanche Bates in Under Two Flags struck a front row spectator with a whip lash during a rehearsal mishap. Bates apologized and a quick heckler replied I will keep the lash as a souvenir eliciting quiet laughter from the cast.
The article recalls Sam Harris a jovial Monticello newspaper man and later editor and farm owner who became an inmate at Independence asylum after years of success. His mental decline arose from poverty fears causing delusions of needing to provide for family. He attempted suicide by leaping from a moving train but survived. he remains largely rational at the asylum, haunted by poverty specter.
The Monticello board of education met in regular session with members Stirton Tiarks Hall present. Bills were approved for labor coal freight repairs census postage light and library books per capita. Treasurer and secretary reports were filed and library book purchase policy adopted. County ticket nominations by third party prohibitionists noted. A Cedar Rapids court verdict $250 against ex Indian Agent Rebek announced. Anamosa library contract awarded to John Ronan for $8,000.
Cascade denounces railroad service while Pioneer scorches officials for poor town accommodations. Manchester mentions two men linked to McKinley assassination attempt. Press condemns them. Fairview GOP names township ticket with Hollis Meek, A G Bauder, A L Meek. Oxford forms a 15000 dollar capital savings bank led by A Shimemada. Mrs Jennie Powers wed Geo J Mager. Stanwood saloons enjoined. mulct law ruled not in operation. Poultry buyers seek stock. L Roun offers top market price.
Mrs G W Condon offers her store for rent at a reasonable price inquiries answered on the premises or by J W Coxsee Miscellaneous railroad traffic now at its highest point in railroad history
The passage states that 83 percent of pure Hawaiians and 91 percent of part Hawaiians can read and write. Hawaiians form 36 percent of a 199,030 population, with Hawaiian and part Hawaiian children making up about half of school pupils. Of 6,327 landholders, 4,717 are Hawaiians, over two thirds.
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