Time For School Shoes Selection
A short note highlights the need for durable school shoes for daily wear and announces ongoing selections to suit students returning to classes.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1910
Page
7
A short note highlights the need for durable school shoes for daily wear and announces ongoing selections to suit students returning to classes.
The note urges readers to be sure to see every item in the set, referencing E G Burrichter or Burrrichter as a point of attention. It emphasizes thorough examination of all listed materials.
Cedar Rapids and Dubuque visitors are listed among Monticello residents with several trips to towns like Epworth, Anamosa, Oxford Junction and Strawberry Point. Carload apples on track, theater show Daniel Boone on the Trail, and local court docket announce upcoming trials.
Miss Abbie Ferguson returns from Hopkinton and Miss Mate Seimering visits Sumner. Numerous visits and travel by Welch, Purchas, Schoonover, Teeter, Buxton, Lathrop, Kenworthy, Fairbanks, Rogers, Yousse, and others. Pension increase for Civil War veteran John Sutton. Typhoid epidemic concerns in Cedar Rapids and regional health actions. Community events include church ministers meeting, telegraph depot staff change, bankers’ gathering in Chicago, rains, estate sale changes, and celebrations for Mrs Ommen’s anniversary.
Delaware county attorney A M Cloud purchased the Christopher Jordison farm west of Manchester totaling 240 acres for 24000 dollars. The report notes Manchester lawyers' thrifty holdings and life leases on offices. Samuel K E Lockwood, youngest son of Mrs. Nancy J Lockwood, wed Miss Sylvia Hall on the 21st at Whiting in a Methodist Episcopal ceremony.
The Martin McDonough farm of 200 acres near Sand Spring was sold for 95 dollars per acre. Purchasers were J. J Kirkwood and J. B. McConnell of Hopkinton. The buyers, not being farmers, are believed to have purchased the property for speculative purposes.
Roy Peterson departed last Monday for Harvard College to pursue the Doctor of Philosophy degree this year. He earned a Master of Arts from Harvard last June and, delighted by scholarly work, intends another year of intensive university study.
Rev and Mrs W E Van Buren of Eldora visited Monticello parishioners and friends last Tuesday. Catherine Lovell, with a June degree from State University, will pursue post graduate sciences at Wisconsin State University. R G Lyons now in Glen Dale California reports a thriving 6000 population town with Iowa ties. Frank Page traded a Buick for a house and lot, Tony Hilers wrecked a buggy wheel after taking the car to Marion. D K Pond offers legal and insurance services. Brick smoke stack work begins for school heating plant. George Watt returns from North Dakota trip with drought and frost impacts noted. Rev E E Greenstein will be absent until Oct 12. sermons planned in Chicago and Sheboygan. N Baer attends German Reformed Synod session as Monticello delegate.
Tiarks travels to Bad Bertrich for a three week Rhine treatment and meets Americans en route to Oberammergau as rain gives way to lovely fall weather. A reception honors Rev Roy V Porter and wife at the Methodist church while a Monticello photographer is jailed 30 days for loitering. Willis B Lord weds Mabel L Wheeless in Hopkinton after years in Monticello and Aurora teaching science.
Judge Milo P. Smith heard the grand jury report last Friday. The panel voted true bills against all charged complaints. Frank Hughes of Monticello faces indictment for resisting an officer after an earlier assault. Henry Nordman to face trial for an offense. Mills F. Miles connected to a financial failure. Fred W. Hein and Clarence Glick called for alleged desertion of their wives.
Mrs. James Quirk aged 90, born in County Cork Ireland, died at Oxford Junction after a long illness. Immigrating in 1851 to Ontario, she later married James Quirk at Peterboro and moved across Jones County before settling near Oxford Junction where she resided until her death on September 13. Her daughter Mrs. D H Kehoe was with her during the final weeks.
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The first full gathering of the North eastern association of Congregational churches and ministers met at the Monticello First Congregational Church. Delegates included pastors from Decorah Cedar Falls Osceola and Dubuque. Discussions on 20th century church life and external ministry featured addresses by H I Milligan and Herbert Hinman. Mrs Martha A. Howard of Monticello died in Baltimore aged 79, with funeral plans in Monticello Oakwoods Cemetery.
The Monticello baseball club endured early setbacks as key players Rogers Baylor Sullivan Kinkelin Dowden and a rookie Schubert left for Dakota. Manager Podhusk i rebuilt a strong lineup and during the final twenty games the team won fourteen but Anamosa held a decisive lead to win the championship.
W L Lambertson, a Maquoketa photographer, sues Mayour Voorhees for 2017.60 after a$15 fine and $2.60 costs in a peddler license dispute lead to a disputed arrest and a question of Voorhees authority amid residency claims in Iowa and South Dakota.
Local school events dominate the page as talks on temptation and a planned high school quartet are noted. A chicken pie supper at the Methodist church draws teachers, students, and various townsfolk, with a physics class sample copy distribution and a request for Prairie Hill cemetery volunteers and $1 donations.
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