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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1897
Page
7
Monticello area notes multiple visits and shopping deals. Mrs Rickles Gerdes visits Pomeroy, Miss Arduser to Dubuque, and Mrs Waite with son George tour Wyoming. Stores tout school shoes, novelties, closing out silks, new capes and jackets, and ten percent shoe discounts as residents plan autumn purchases.
Local items list visits, sales, and notices. Mrs. Gallaghers’ Des Moines visit. Maquoketa and Castle Grove travelers. church supper Oct 1. clothing and boot sales. new piano trips. frost damage noted. Grace Rundle fractures. Lon Jennings promotes Cream flour.
The Monticello area hosts a fall hat display at Miss M L Hallock 107 Main Sept 30 and Oct 1 2 1897. Local notices include a lost bay gelding near Langworthy and a theft report, plus shop and sale items at Hicks Akerosene lamp incident and fading inventories at Sumter Sumter.
Local apparel retailer Samer and Samter publish weekly clothing price changes in THE Express. The ad highlights fluctuating marks on shirts trousers and outerwear as new stock arrives each week.
Obituaries outline Miss Marguerite Coleman’s death after malarial illness and Miss Florence Langworthy’s death from consumption. The report notes nearby assaults on the Murphy brothers, district court cases, probate matters, and various local legal actions with names, places, dates, and outcomes.
There are others selling out. Thicke and Bilers are selling cheap every day. Choice Residence for Sale. I offer my brick residence containing ten rooms for sale. It is desirable property, and I should be able to get a purchaser promptly. Enquire at the clothing store of Sumter and Sumter. David Saren.
We will pay the highest market price for poultry from now until spring. Buyers welcome chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks. Contact Mrs Lexa Roun & Co for quantities and arrangements.
The E. M. Thompson farm three miles north of Monticello is for rent. It spans 138 acres. Enquiries should be directed to A. B. Calkins at 13w2. Miss Lillian Henak of Oxford Junction visits Landlord Thazlet and wife at the Lovell House.
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