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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1897
Page
7
Community items from Anamosa list appointments sales and shop notices. It records upcoming council session preaching at Gill's school house and various local merchants promoting goods and prices.
Local notices summarize visits by the Failing family and other Monticello residents. Shoppers are reminded of sales on goods from Hicks & Evers and Wills Deatrick. Updates cover theater and church events, a Klondike fever note, horse theft lead, and agricultural reports from Hudson county.
Readable items include re arrest of John Schontal and asylum return, local business notes from Hicks Eilers and Sumter Sumter, new Walsenburg World editor Wallace C Hunt, and Sumter closing sale extending credit. Monticello society covers accidents, marriages, deaths, and community commerce with several named locals and firms.
A grand jury indicts W. E. Haskell the manager and John Blanchard editor of the Minneapolis Daily Times for libel over accusations against Minneapolis Trust Co. The defendants plead not guilty with trial set for October 15. The Times vows to prove its charges. In other news a closing sale offers kid gloves at 39 cents a pair at Sumter & Sumter. An elderly German, David Sanji of Monticello, narrowly escaped a railway disaster on a northbound bridge, suffering arm injuries after a collision with an engine.
A woman stole Elmer Hubbard's horse light road wagon and harness last Thursday evening while the outfit stood on the street opposite the post office. Hubbard believed a friend took it briefly at first, but later realized the theft. Clues point to a female suspect seen near Temple Hill driving a similar rig, with two coats in the buggy and a jaded horse. Hubbard circulated the description to city marshals within a hundred miles.
The RE M Thompson farm three miles north of Monticello is for rent and contains 138 acres. Enquire of 13w2 A B CALKINS. Poultry Wanted buyers pay top market price for chickens turkeys geese and ducks through spring. Hicks Eilers advertise cheap sales while Lexa Roun Co and others sell out.
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