Local notices highlight shop sales and travel around town
The snippet lists visits and illnesses, trips to Dubuque and Des Moines, teaching assignments in Wisconsin, and several advertisements for Deutrick's and Eilers Bolton's dry goods. It mentions coal, cedar fence posts, and hardware offerings along with private letters awaiting pickup.
Monticello News Notes Run Through Town
A collage of local tidbits reports travel by Ambuhl and Boetler to South Dakota and Nina Miller’s Glenwood visit, locker-room items and sales at Eilers Bolton, library programs by Mrs Bolton, watches found or lost, a 160 acre farm lease offer, fair week watch returns, and community events. Also listed are auctions, moving pictures, weather notes, road macadamization, and a university president from Jones County.
Monticello News Snips From Iowa to Europe Visitors
The week covers funeral duties in Nevada Iowa by Rev J W Innes and Davenport meetings with Jerry Green leader of Modern Brotherhood. Monticello notes include travel plans for Monticello residents to Europe and local notices on crime health and auctions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Innes
Nevada
Iowa
J. H. Perrine
Davenport
Jerry Green
Order of Modern Brotherhood
Monticello Wedding and Local Happenings Brighten Week
Monticello hosts a wedding for Miss Tada Schoon daughter of Garret Schoon and John Gerdes of Wymore Nebraska officiated by Roy C. Mardoff. Waterworks crew led by Roy Hoffman and Cuba C. Muir kept pumps running through hot weather as town considers an additional well. A wrestling match at the opera house draws a 40 crowd with Tony Thompson from Woodward defeating Fred Lawrence. Miss Drees announces millinery opening next Tuesday and Wednesday. The August Schlemme farm sale near Maquoketa river sees Lewis Schlemme and W J Mills purchase land. Mills buys 100 acres at 22.50 per acre. Royals and locals attend county fair highlights. Conductor Pike narrates a humorous incident with a misplaced shoe at Lovell house. Romeo and Juliet play at the opera house features William Owen and J W McConnell. Miss Margaret Morigan as Juliet. Canning Co. halts briefly due to canned supply issues. production restarts after cans arrive. John Wenger dies at 68 in Monticello. survivors include children in Monticello and Ryan. funeral set at German Reformed church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Schlemme
Maquoketa River
Richland Township
Lewis Schlemme
W. J. Mills
Jones County
Opera House
William Owen
Romeo
Monticello
Friar Lawrence
J. W. McConnell
Mr. Owen
Margaret Morrigan
Juliet
Owen Co
Monticello in 1881 September Remembered Highlights
Twenty five years ago The Express recaps Monticello events in September 1881. Marriages include Charles Kline and Maria Stunt of Cass. notable deaths such as Sarah Tice and Anna N George. Garfield memorials with ministers and official speakers. new local dairy consolidation and a birthday party in antique attire. a Cas cade to Dubuque telephone line discussed. school literary society formed. fossil and floral prizes at the State Fair. and local civic notes on cemeteries and funerals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
the Express
Charles Kline
Maria Stunt
Cass
Farwell
Cleveland
Garfield
Sarah Tice
D. C. Tice
Dubuque
Cascade
Mme
J. W. Nelson
Mary Ann Stone
Curtis Stone
Bowen's Prairie
Minnie Pearl
Samuel
Mary Yousse
Anna N. George
James George
Oxford Mills
The
Diamond Creamery Co
Marvin & Cammack
Clara Wales
Congregational Sunday School
J. A. Doutrick
Mary F. Moulton
Eva Gurney
Addie Page
Music teacher Orrin Crane offers vocal and instrumental lessons
Fallbrook California resident Orrin Crane plans to spend winter in Monticello and market music instruction. He holds formal conservatory training and prioritizes results in real work. Crane has already demonstrated vocal training to Monticello audiences and seeks pupils. inquiries should address him in Monticello for terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orrin Crane
Fallbrook
California
Monticello
Crane
Mr. Crane
Unusual neck-and-neck highway accident in Castle Grove area
Mr David Farrell hit by a wagon near Doug Insa I Smiths residence after dusk. James Hogan drove the wagon and his horses barreled downhill forcing the wagon tongue into Farrells horse, which collapsed and died. Hogan offered to do what is right.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Farrell Lont
Castle Grove
Doug- Insa I. Smith
James Hogan
Farrell
Hogan
Call to preserve county pioneer relics and records
The column urges collecting relics of early county settlers including photographs signatures and documents and storing them in a public archive. It praises libraries and local clubs like the Friday Club to lead the effort before older artifacts vanish. The note cites items such as Hugh Bowen s gun and a historic corn grinding stone as examples of valuable memories at risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Express
Friday Club
Hugh Bowen
Scotch Grove
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Home News
Frank B. Bolton
Butler County
Deatrick’s
M. A. Teeter
Waterloo
Kilers & Bolton’s
Mrs. A. Kempf
Bacher & Abel
Gunther
Ethel George
Lake Nebagmon
Wisconsin
Just
Davis’ Hardware
Deutrick’s
Henry George
W. F. Rohn
Minnie Matthiessen
Henry Morey of
Anamoga
Lena Carmichael
Eilers & Bolton’s
Mise
Julia Toenjes
Anamosa
Doutrick Dry Goods Co
Central Lumber & Coal Co
E. E. Reed
Minneapolis
Arch Hicks
Tacoma, Washington
Eelipse Lumber Co
Misa Sadie Mardoff
Wayne
Mrs
Hugo Lutz
Mark Matthiessen
Leavenworth, Kansas
Puleston
Melissa A. Weir
Bacher & Abel's
Fred Huber
Charles Murphy
W. A. Mirick
Luther Foster
Eclipse Lumber Co
C. B. McKean
Drinkwater
Saskatchewan
British America
Paul Warner
Jane
Davis’s Hardware
Messrs
George Ambuhl
John Boetler
South Dakota
Nina Miller
Ervin
Shelley
Glenwood
Dora Young
Delaware County
Alva Miller
New Cloaks—Eilers & Bolton’s
F. B. Bolton
Wayne Yousse
John Yousse
Nebraska
Las Cruces
New Mexico
Independence
Ruth Oxley
John Delay
Castle Grove Township
I. N. Howard
Rebekah
Odd Fellow
W. D. Magee
Duluth
Minnesota
Charles Hunt
Brinton’s
Poland
Axtell
Fluckiger Bros
Frank Page
M. Hi. Teeter
Cedar Rapids
Henry Paulsen
Chicago
Germany
Hamburg
Carl Stuhler
Oberlin College
John Miller
Earlville
Ernest Shelley and Son
C. W. Brown
Brinton Entertaining Co
Mercury
McLees Bros
Sand Hill Church
Roland Smith
Sam Eberhart
Laredo
Missouri
Prairieburg
Frank B. Gault
South Dakota State University
Cornell College
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Washington
R. J. Taupert
Geo. F. Wilkens
Las Vegas
C. W. Wosford
Howard
Helen Hosford
Amanda Sosford
Concordia
Kansas
Hosford-Carbutt
Express
Dr. Hefner
Raymond Jock
Frank Jock
Mary Jock
Marshal Lee
Reuben I. Eberhart
Bert Hubbard
Sarah Deischer
Daniel Deischer
Deatrick Dry Goods Co
Charles W. Babcock
Pomona
Manistee County
Michigan
Horace M. Downer
Babcock
Downer
Co. A
3Rd
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W. H. Hoult
A. Matthiessen
Mary Mudge
John Gibson
Zion City
Asenath Mudge
Marion
Store For Nations
New Things Daily
Europe
Geo. L. Lovell
Catharine
M. W. Herrick
James Davidson
Wm. Allen
London
Switzerland
Lou Stambaugh
Platt Jenings
Commissioners of Insanity
Sheriff Hogan
A. P. Jennings
First Street
Tada Schoon
Garret Schoon
Wayne Township
John Gerdes
Wymore
Roy. C. Mardoff
Will Hoffman
Jie
Cuba C. Muir
Tony Thompson
Woodward
Fred Lawrence
Sand Spring
Lawrence
Bennie Kellum
James Kiburz
Bill Aldrich
Will Shelley
Miss Drees’ Millinery
Pike
Maquoketa
Farley
Lovell House
Mise Catharine Drees
the Canning Co
American Can Co
Jloopstown
Ilinois
John Wenger
Berne
America
Zacher
Bacher
Wenger
Ryan
John, William
Edward Wenger
Godfrey
Chris
Carl Wenger
Anna Wettmer
Flora Hamlin
K. FE. Gruenstein
German Reformed Church
William Leavitt
Congregational Church
James A. Garfield
David Jentina
Lobinger
Fred O'Donnell
Towa
Lown
Eilers & Bolton
C. H. Schipman
South Cedar Street
Lovell Block
Cloak, Suit and Fur Department
Stuhler
Hubbard & Hanken