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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1905
Page
5
Mrs H M Carpenter and Mrs Edward Templeton visit Chicago and Cedar Rapids. Eilers Bolton advertise dress goods and cloak sale. Miss Libbie George and Tom George enter State University. Bank cashier Henry L Dehner visits Monticello. Train delay due to engine trouble. Seed wheat for sale at Cascade Milling. Announcement of fall millinery and undergarments. Rentals offered and local travels of residents and visitors.
Local residents travel between Swaledale Wheatland and Indianola. Sales and openings loom at Filers Bolton Deatrick and Miss Drees millinery stores. Public notices include reservoir cleaning and farm rentals while residents receive visits from relatives and students depart for Chicago and Portland prospecting trips.
Dr John G. Thomas has gone to the Northwest Territory of Canada to erect a barn and improve his farm. He plans to be away two or three weeks. Lewis G. Stuhler, senior in dermatology at State University, is named senior assistant in dermatology. Local notes cover numerous residents, sales, and events including crops, education, and court actions.
Dexter Page remains at home with a suspected abdominal growth while court hearings continue. Ellen McAleer wins her case against Ed McNamara. parochial school plans are approved after earlier opposition. a Cherry Valley production is coming to town. Lectures by Wilcox open university extension series as Rev Van Buren contemplates a possible departure.
Grant E. Thompson took his own life Friday afternoon with a muzzle loader gun near the river by the Belasch area. His body was found Sunday by a son of I M Rodman, with evidence the shot was fired by his toe after removing a shoe and stocking. Coroner’s jury in Monticello ruled the death a suicide. Thompson, born July 28 1848 in Warren County Wisconsin, had long suffered mental impairment after a paralysis stroke and had lived with sister Mrs John Bates before his death. The burial followed at Langworthy cemetery beside his mother.
William Peters son of Arsten Peters of this vicinity died after a weeklong illness from appendicitis near Bismarck North Dakota on the 28th inst. He had gone there about four weeks earlier to thresh grain and died at his sister Mrs. Delbert McVey's home. The remains were brought to Monticello by Mr. McVey and buried at St. John's Lutheran with Rev. W. L. Schutz officiating. Peters aged 24 years and 7 months, death cast sorrow on his parents and relatives. Bonafide local notices follow including a closing agreement among local merchants and businesses for seasonal hours.
Union service at Congregational church at 11:00 A.M. Union youth meeting for ages 14 to 40 at Methodist church at 3:00 P.M. Afternoon admission by ticket. Evening service at Presbyterian church at 7:30 P.M. Prayer meeting at 7:00 P.M. in the lecture room. Speakers Messrs. Stough and Collisson will speak and sing at all meetings. Sunday schools meet at usual hours. Overflow meetings possible.
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