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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
4
Center Junction notes show residents traveling to Cedar Rapids Anamosa Monticello and Chicago. Clerical change at Onslow and social events including a medicine show and J L club meeting. Farm team dominates a town versus country ball game ending 6 to 5 in tenth inning.
Prairieburg and surrounding area see a series of social notes. Ed Guarlingham visits Monticello. C K Bland visits Center Point. Jennie Conklin stays at Castle Grove. Myrtle Strane visits Burg friends. Raymond Richards visits Cedar Rapids. Joins to Canada and Arizona family illness and weddings mark the week. The Kula Petrus wedding unites Joseph C G kula and Yong Petrus with a large turnout.
A quaint note dreams that prosperity and happiness may take up residence in the so called Snake house, hinting at a symbolic or local lore surrounding the dwelling.
GNSLOW Onslow September 26 Jay Tomlinson visits Chicago and Charles Hasler from Independence visits town. Fred Hansen builds a barn on his new property. Mrs. Clark of Los Angeles visits aunt Mrs. Helen Lamey. A medicine show performs at the opera house this week. Mrs. Minard writes from her parents home that she has a 212 pound boy to present on her return. Duncan Wasson takes Frank Overly and wife and Bert Hall and wife to Dubuque by auto. rain forces them to stay over in Cascade. Mrs. Thomas J Corbett spends days in Anamosa at the Brown home and attends a party for Miss Jessie Bernice Davidson, age eleven. Corbett visits Anamosa Monday and returns with her. Postmaster Noyes, tallying second class mail and pound rates, finds 7,961 pieces delivered. He ponders if this creditable for a small office. county papers are included in the count.
M Haley built a new hog house. Eugene McLaughlin attends Lenox College in Hopkinton. C R Wilder visited Cedar Rapids last week. Ilsie Noble travels to Madison Wisconsin to enroll at the University. James Gilroy of Monticello sold an 80 acre farm to John A Hubbard for 112.60 per acre. Presbyterian young men plan a pie sociable at J A McLaughlin home Friday evening. Mr and Mrs S M Slasford and children return from Williston North Dakota. Crops are light in western North Dakota due to dryness and early frost but fall rains promise a good crop next year.
September 26 reports Bert Leytem visiting Monticela. O J Winters and family visited Max Lundemian at Epworth. Mill dam cement work finished. C H Macomber and wife at Woodman picnic in Olin. John Hosch Jr and John Rogers drawn as Jones County district court jurors. Ss FL Kean Leo Skahill and O J Winters traveled to Anamosa as witnesses in Ilertz dros versus C M and St BP Ry case.
Announcement notes revival meetings to begin Sunday at Buck Creek led by Evangelist Rev. Jesse J. Heins with Pastor Rev. T. J. Hamilton. First service set for 7:80 and a chorus under Walter R. Werrenberg will enhance the services. Also included is a local comic incident about A W McDonald choking on a plum pit during the week.
C A Robison sold his general store in Oxford Mills to Vern Hodgdon who took possession this Tuesday. Geo H Willimac and Miss Blanche Wosoba married at Maquoketa on Tuesday the 12th. Antone Willimac and Miss Freda Brey wed the same day by Justice Quirk. A Mrs Rogers sister from London arrived in Oxford to visit and learned of Mrs Rogers death years ago. Frank Kalouse and son Vince returned from Yukon Oklahoma after Charles Kalouse was shot and died. Vince recovered and came home.
For sale a few second hand road drags never used enough to harm them. Prospective purchasers should not ask for demonstrations as we have forgotten how to use them. For information on location contact the mail carriers who know where they were when the presses began to hide them last spring. My order of good roads committee.
Injunction suits were filed yesterday against six Jones county drug stores including A Kempf Fagan & Co W W Stickford of Monticello E Beam Anamosa A R Weaver Martelle E A Grimwood Oxford Junction Geo B Macomber Olin. Petitions allege sale of intoxicating liquor in violation of the prohibitory law and may challenge permit issuances or clerks’ qualifications with trials set for the next term.
Monticello Ex press records several September 1886 items including deaths of Betsey Farwell 82, Jane M Putnam, Daisy Skelly 10, Mary Levan mother of two, and Joshua Lathrop formerly of Castle Grove. Also notes a revival at United Brethren church, Wallace & Co circus arrival, Miss Lizzie Burnight and J W Kramer marriage, Helen Potter readings, Jones county fair, and a practical joke sending a dog by express to Charlie Shipman.
The school drops football this year and may soon organize basketball. Cross and Balcar lead with undefeated status in horse shoes and vaulting, while Dow Peet trains for higher pole vaults. Sophomore humor about barbarism centers on barberism after Miss Thomsen's joke prompt.
Men women and children offered a fine line of sweaters at low prices by H. F. Burrichter.
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