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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1906
Page
7
Monticello previews a October 2 cloak sale at Lovell Block Store and Hicks & Ricklefa. Local items report visits, auctions, farm sales, a court session, library program, and shipping of materials while noting weather, illness, and community notices across Jones County.
Twenty years ago in September 1886 Monticello and area saw a string of obituaries marriages and local news. Notable deaths include Mrs Mary Levan and Daisy Shelley and Mrs Betsey Farwell while the McCartey and Kramer couples wed. A Madison era republican ticket was nominated and Dr J H Thomas suffered a buggy accident. Emma Swift drowned at Ogden Park leaving four children. Emma Livingston and Anna McConnon were mentioned among local figures.
The Fifth Annual Rebecca convention of District 91 sits in Monticello with delegates from surrounding towns. Afternoon program includes calls to order greetings, reports, a sale, and Lodge demonstration. evening features a sale by O B Crane and Peerless Lodge No 562. A 200 acre Richland township farm is offered for rent with improvements and pasture, near Cascade and Scotch Grove on the Maquoketa river amid new construction and a 300 foot well. Owners I Vi Reed announce the rental.
The Tice building is rented for a harness business stock including wagons carriages buggies wagon beds and shoveling boards. Customers may call to view and receive special prices valid for the next 30 days.
The notice reports coal sheds finished and coal arriving daily with eleven kinds on the road. A Resolution of Respect from Boot Camp No 282 of Modern Woodmen of America honors Michael Kennedy, noting his sterling qualities and offering sympathy to his family. Property on Flint street east of the opera house is for rent, including a barn near the G Curtis place. Fuquire of J W Doxsee lbw2.
The Democratic county convention in Anamosa selected a full slate: Mel Peet for representative, Dallas D. Rorick for clerk of district court, J. Voorhees for treasurer, Harry Beam for auditor, Katharine Maurice for county superintendent, W. A. Wogan for sheriff, C. J. Cash for county attorney, H. E. M. Niles for recorder, Dr. Thomas Redmond for coroner, J. F. Whalen for surveyor, and four supervisors Emil Jensen Matt Noyes I. Finn and W. M. Byerley with John Thomson added to oppose McDonald. The meeting chose Nathan Potter as chair and noted a strong central committee slate.
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