Monroe Notes Local Moves and Community Ties
Monroe area notes list residents moving homes, visiting relatives, and attending events. Eva Fisher and Albert Taft return from Grinnell College for summer. many locals travel to Newton, Colfax, Des Moines, and Grinnell. The column covers church activities, school closings, weather impacts, and a county Chautauqua gathering schedule with speakers and topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lon Livingston
Burr Westbrook
Monte
John Kent
Dako
Williard
Petersboro
N.H
John Taft
Abbie Needham
Lo, Maho
Coby
Cyrus Lyons
Eva Fisher
Albert Taft
Grinnell College
Mrs. Lemont
Des Moines
H.C. Lyons
Viola Montax
Seve
Kate Dixon
Newton
Jacien Huddleson
Colfax
Joe Cunningham
Maytag
Monroe
Schenk
Monmouth
Mabel Jacobs
Oskaloosa
Fred Ale
Fred Klauenberg
H.W. Klopping
Tommy Wintersteen
Wm. Kors Mire
Sunda
Henry Feldschneider
Grinnell
Ben
Lizzie Tait
Laurel
E. McBroom
Shaw Piano Success Explained by Manufacturers
A June 1, 1896 corroborated letter from Shaw Piano Co. claims the instrument’s rapid rise, noting full-scale production through a panic and wide endorsement by musicians including Mme. Kenschin and Anna Finler Grand. Morgan & Hunter began handling Shaw on expert advice, with local praise and ads in the region. The text also highlights the Smisor brothers’ visible-writing typewriter invention and local coal promotion by Jacob Trotter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Messrs. Morgan & Hunter
Newton
Shaw
United States
Shaw PraNo Co
Morgan& Hunter
Anna Finler
Mme. Kenschin
Morgan & Hunter
Land bargains offer 160 acre riverbottom farms at 87.50
The ad promotes multiple farms near rail stations with 160 acre and 80 acre tracts. No. 137 describes a 160 acre bottom land with a good house, fencing, and creek, priced at 87.50 per acre. No. 148 lists an 80 acre bottom with water and stock facilities near a railroad at 50 per acre. adjoining 160 acres may be available. No. 144 offers 80 acres a mile from town, well-improved, farm cheap at 42.60 per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mand
Newton
Tim
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Hendershot
Colax
Carl Weidener
Atlantic
Iowa City
del Edmund
Carl French
Winterset
J. P. French
Lew Fealer
Lewis ‘Thomason
Ollie Bateman
Colorado
Mile Caple
E. B. Heaton
M. E. Church
M. E
Wright
Sager
Mariposa
Ethel Mitchell
Dex Moines
Gay Dunmire
Killduff
Frank Cary
Charlie Nighjacket
Pella
Creek
Tridly
Montpelier
Agar
Harvey
Realnor
Charles Sanders
J. J. Livingston
W. F. Hughes
Gales
Charles Mick
W.F. Hughes
Reves
Elder Hughes
John Wilder
L. Shultz
Wheeler
Ewing
M.E. Shurch
George Hews
Reasnor
Minerva Mercer
Cam Lown
Mercer
McManigal
Mead
Harry French
el, Waring
Fillmore Oliver
Henry Prew
Chas
Burganhultz
River
Wicks
Uni
Knoxville
John Edwards
Mount Hope
Finning
Blackwood
Wilson & Shippe
Palo Alto
M. Catingas
Landmesser
Ast
Fi Newton
Hattie Bean
Julius Bean
Adam DeYoung
Ww. Wilson
Chicago
Church Federation
Utauqua
Yth
Harrah
Nasmith
I Sumner
T. Martin
Brooks
B.A. Wilkinson
J. C. Jacoby
H. Gib
W.H. Price
Prairie City Kodak
B.C. Wa
Chautauqua
Smisor
Webster City
Sons of
Geo
Smixor
Hamilton Journal
Smmiser Bros
Smiser
Joshua Bowyer
Maytag & Emerson
Jacob Trotter
Jasper & Sons
Emerson Filmn Pipe
Road Hi
THE
Iowa
Lex
Chas Seeberger
Jasper County
Clement
First Nat. Bank
Kramer's
Nishing
Stapje
Ancy
A. Long & Son
Record Office
Walt
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