Monticello Express (Newspaper) - April 1, 1897, Monticello, Iowa f t I 1 1JI IE EACH FOR ALL AND ALL FOR VOLUME APRIL PER NUMBER f 1 COUSINS AND THE I when the school house levy was maintained Congressman Cousins has decided to tbe teacher fund was cut to 6 mills and more pupils steadily iu the contingent to 3J This was than ever before in their clearly inadequate to meet the require Parents who feel this matter and who regard tho in the work is keeping I that have a three years and the schools I now it is proposed to degrade We wish that the people who have It now proposed to deprive the I come to us during tho past week would meats of the school anil a deficiency is school of head go to the members of the school board Not the result extrava of the turn the dis and any to them the things that they gance or high but the failure to over to a Why have said to levy what the people voted for in a little money may be tion to what was necessary to run the Is the salary list of the school action of the board as be er now than it should be so long as cause it their say that school taxes are not now I good work is efficiency de they cannot afford to send their ancl they never have in and a high grade of skill re ren to hoped that a year comparison with the taxes paid in other quired in and in directing the might have been added to the During the past six years school and maintaining a high order Others say that their children will be Anamosa has paid from 2 to 6 mills of discipline Wo will let the official obliged to leave the school too directory issued by State Not a few say they were attracted to Following is the school tax levy for I dent Sabin during tho past winter an the town by the reputation of the four Jones county towns during the swer that Wo have selected Observe that the schools of the towns and cities their children and bought homes here between 1500 and 3000 they willingly and cheerfully pay their and the figures we give include the population and a few of tho but they find their cherished larger cities in our part of the hopes greatly disturbed by the action l In connection with them we have sot I of the mills This action will not be n i tl which will determine tho I pare their children for but they I of the the salary of the find it and its general plan 25 mills I superintendent or principal and the so interfered with that they will settle all of the postoffice contests in his district during the month of In a letter addressed to the Cedar Rapids under date of March he that he has re in the neighborhood of four thousand communications regarding the postoffices of his and as it will be impossible for him to continue the correspondence which these mat ters he de termine the suspense and lighten his J own labor by naming the persons whom he proposes to recommend for I per year very He desires all recommendations and applications to be on file not later than the 20th of I past six He will then determine the lo has had the lowest tax levy each ranging situation aud notify the can in all places where he has I school house tax STAR CLOTHING They came here to educate Absolutely Celebrated for its grout leavening strength Assures Uio food against alum and all forum of adulteration common lo tho clump 4 ROYAL BAKING New reached a as to who should be taken with Others say that they ex out the number of assistant teachers the high school course to pro reference to postoffices where a vacancy does not occur during Cousins term of Olin Anamosa 20 Wyoming 19i Monticello 154 have Some Simple For an a linseed For scalds or baking For raining the right Cousins does not seek to relieve himself of the but he meets the issues squarely and I mills I Anamosa 20 Wyoming 16 Monticello 15 Cl II it not reach up to mills mills In concluding his letter he says Of I cannot hope to satisfy In most cases I am called upon to decide not only between per sonal but between prominent representatives of the who are largely championed and supported by their But custom has placed upon members of congress the duty to decide these and whatever plans may be adopted by different ones in various to seemingly avoid that responsibility ulti mately rests upon the member of con and I propose to accept the sings its own h and to determine these matters as speedily as with as careful at least 20 mills as soon as the school consideration as I am able to give and as fairly as I relying upon the generous and intelligent considerations of all persons who understand the and embarrassments of contests attending the patronage average monthly wages paid I to preparatory and 1 It will be observed that that too at a time when their children To stop salt nnd i 1 now below the arc of such age that they prefer to have For rubbing tho tit They are not the lowest and Heaven them at are be praised they are but they do There is a universal kick against an eight months People do not mills l Atlantic This table which is compiled from the Avoca IP Bedford proceedings of the county board of j Belie Our Anil IDO t t Boono school tax should have been raised to I cedar Falls 4 I t house was and in order to now 12jmro1feelty keep it down to figures that are very i 4l i it is proposed to injure the stand ing of the and cut the school Decorah term to a point lower than that of any other school of the same standing in 5unIaP to and to the state of the good will of all thoughtful I trust in making the de cisions by virtue of my position I am compelled to I shall not forfeit the friendship of anyone who n might be temporarily Eagle In order to make a comparison of Emmetsburg the school taxes paid in i i with those paid m other towns and I cities of the we addressed a letter to the secretaries of thirtyeight school I Hampton Harlan boards asking for a statement of the I Grove SCHOOL The Monticello school by the adoption of the resolutions which were published in THE last struck the severest blow ever aimed at the prosperity and standard of the pub lic schools of We say this dispassionately and and with the figures and statistics at hand to demonstrate the unreasonableness of the reasons given for its and impulsive In its resolutions it declared for re in the expenses of the and to that end resolved upon doing several among them Abolish the office of superintendent of the Reduce the school year from nine to eight In order to give the principal and as sistant in the high ample time to hear all necessary such studies shall be dropped out of the high school course as are of the least practical drop ping that are required to be taught in the common This does not comprise all of the paragraphs of the but all i others hinge upon or are related to these principal These all proceed upon the theory that the ex penses of the school have suddenly be come and to the end that they may be the school must be crippled in the number of its teach ers discipline trifled with by putting it in the hands of one who will neces sarily have to teach every hour of the school and who will have 110 time to supervise the other rooms all the school children of the city deprived of one months schooling and the high school course which is now only three years long one year below that of the majority of the high schools of the state clipped of everything that cannot be taught with one less school taxes paid in their respective Indianola cities and These places were Iowa 11 i ji BAij I t called on from the map without any intimation of whether their taxes were f 4 t greater or less than We to get at the truth of the We 6 doubted whether the school board had Mo Monticello made such an We have i i O received replies irom 36 of the secre New taries and from them we have compiled the following table school taxes paid We have I included every with the Rod i nx i x i ot Charles where the tax I Sanborn in was not mi i 11 i These letters are on file in THE EXPRESS and open to the inspection of anyone desir ing to peruse them or verify our state Tama We include Spencer Storm Lake Monticello with Villisca its school house because in com parison with some ot the other cities T West Waterloo it shows economy to the verge of Webster West Liberty Monticello 17i Center Sis i Tipton 16 Webster City 22 Iowa Falls 34 Waverly 22 Algona 24 mills Dewitt 16 21 Newton 163 Grinnell 20 Cedar Rapids 22 Eldora 35 Earlville 197 Fayette Marengo Traer 21 Ames 20J Belle Plaine 26 little less than 40 Independence Oskaloosa 105 Cedar Falls last year 22 East West Waterloo 1896 Dysart 23 Tama 25 Iowa City college town u i u It II It u What Winterset Woodbine Teachers A 18 10 11 12 26 10 14 10 11 fiO Ifl 25 114 19 25 21 18 82 14 12 37 IB 12 11 13 9 12 11 U 20 3 10 19 11 17 14 18 25 15 38 13 Ifi 24 10 17 an 22 37 20 12 21 18 14 14 11 10 11 ge alary 15 28 12 9 14 17 11 15 IU 11 10 13 13 15 21 33 20 10 Ifl 25 11 14 15 7 Sgw 00 41 00 45 90 44 55 49 00 42 49 OB 3991 88 00 40 45 12 49 00 48 78 39 00 43 85 48 25 48 8H 46 55 42 30 44 55 50 23 40 33 47 92 43 50 40 00 37 77 47 88 44 00 39 82 44 37 38 50 51 50 41 00 47 50 47 50 45 00 43 92 43 48 25 00 41 50 43 75 53 15 39 00 39 00 39 85 42 76 47 20 48 00 40 00 41 52 40 37 TO 49 2U 36 5 50 00 40 00 37 80 38 00 47 04 47 fll 44 00 45 71 45 73 40 00 46 83 47 34 44 00 40 00 47 00 44 61 44 00 44 50 44 20 48 75 50 00 41 fiO 43 02 42 80 45 00 43 00 41 60 48 55 Salary of briskly with a For hiccoughs a small piece of a lump of sugar wot with vi i For lime in a weak of like the idea ot their children being followed by olive oil dropped out of school during four months of m There is not the slightest call For tho beginning of wmp for this either in reason or ns a cotton around the wet in c 4 camphor cum dissolved in matter of There is not a f J Fora wetting cloths in one single school of the grade of Monticello sman of soda in one pint of in the whole state of with as equal parts hot water and year While we do not want you to forget that we handle everything to be found in a firstclass clothing still we wish to especially call your attention to the fact that we sell Dome GUARANTEED And offer the following reasons why you should wear Happy Home clothes Because they are nicely Because they are nicely Because they fit as though custom Because they recommend Because they are guaranteed direct by he mak ers to the Because Happy Home clothing is Because we make our customers interests our Are not these good reasons why you should come and join the ever increasing army of sat wearers of HAPPY HOME Brrickson 1200 short a school year as eights 1000 120U 1500 Not For torpid eating a bo drink To there is not one fore for a Or ing the juice oi hall a lemon in a cup graded school in Iowa employing 12 or f h fc more assistant teachers which is in session but eight months during the 1100 3250 1000 1800 isou I There are 539 graded schools in moo Iowa that are in session during nine 1200 1BQO Reflections of a From the New York There never was a married woman I Manvill It in I W Kills n4 lot Real N lv vur to n ID u HO u H n W M lit 3 i u W 0 a WM tl Loud er ll a 100 months of the One of eleven who would admit that no other man div Ann laoo has eight months I Love is like 1200 one of nine Mystic two of eight Seymour and Col 1200 1800 1BOO 1400 HOO I All the other eight months schools are 1100 to 1000 the larger number of this being schools with only two 1000 1000 K in M il land In HIM IK Jt has lots oi also lols Hand 0 no body but a nit likes Wyoming I i without on Half of the female women once had husbands and the other half never will 1150 n nv o of own I nisj HIM IU 0 H and wife to rot book A n i i lot IN Wyoming A girl is never really in love with lo man until she thinks of him when she 1300 The action of the school board is all says her prayers at It is A woman can never bc 1000 I beginning to hear very bad n Sinclair lo Donald O and Mar vin M nuj lf roves 1AO HOO Muring not only the reputation of the I has once Ion Umt i M Donald 0 11001 I child measures its ideas oi Clod by I M M Sinclair land in U2 and IU 13001 but the city Monticello 1200 I people do not like to read in the papers 1200 William H Alexander to John McDon ald land in nee and 1 1 Jole Itt Don nil a w HIM 1I I lain lo Don L ilick land in n To American readers who have not 100o i of neighboring extracts like the k KmiL of Jjjjj which we this European periodical Continental from the Maquoketa under as wall as and who has there ti lain is no that oan the place Win Philip to John 1liilip wi of The Living Age The whole world In 01 literature is its awl For I by to I I the teachers 6f the high cut the I nmn woman of this living I nwi school from nine to eight months und f i T 71 I Ju I ft 1250 the title of Going 4 I isiO TJie penny wise aud pound school 1300 board of lias decided to dispense with a city superintendent of one of get the best that the world 050 1050 1250 tj V V J A mr f f to throw out all studies not indispensable in a N L 0 Wright n in llu I Mary e umu 10 n fj Mfc J Robert Louis tho 12001 applicants for a teachers In 1100 I other words Monticello will give pupils no better school advantages in or HO i i f M i jii i win 1000 long its the present fool board remains in ol 8 DC will are enjoyed the pupils of 1050 tue veriest backwoods district in the I Henry Cabot Hanilin noo and too has long been Octave Uy 140o and justly ol her How art rn 1200 the mighty fallen Country people can no and Ian 12001 longer move to Monticello to give their line Ml Ifl Win A to John wi A ro 1400 I children better school 1000 It is very humiliating to have to ad J that there is a condition of affairs that serves as a basis for this newly ac quired 000 1100 1300 1000 1200 number is with a special Easter Wator If water comes in contact with animal organic or We think the board wrongfully as1 containing it IB very sumes in its preamble that the the action it has I lwp Kf r f also HW HOC rl JaHon to J Starry land in 1 Homo Michael Ifl arr to land in Hec 27 and LH J to D Jot 1 add Margaret Leonard lo Charlie Leonard land in wee 5 and I Clay Leonard to Margaret Leonard land in HecH Washington Win D furring to A U in HCC to ln Ht hind in Hec lil 100 i i i 1300 have demanded IGOO I It should not bc too certain 1500 1000 1000 ous likely to absorb thorn to a dangor An oxidization of the I 0 M Brown to JI K in i T decomposing matter immediately o forming carbonic ammonia that the cry over taxes is not a skillful These soon do Wherry land in KT to 6 i W cover some personal into salts of nitric A to Olum M OJH 100 1400 It is easy to raise an issue over of In the light of these comparative I bitant taxes at all times and under all I will any one maintain that I Our showing will be a to taxpayers for n I ft lot H H add Monticello 2 Monticello has been or great surprise that there is now a condition that calls demonstrates that school for cheese paring parsimony What j taxes have been light in comparison of all of our boasted our three with the levies We sincerely trust that the board is render tho water A M Af i IF 1 und Mury Cotton to Nellie It can readily bo under Cotton in stood how germs may drift into tho I Ml imit to K M w n lot iti oyster in this attach A lo Hailie selves and thrive on some portion of and i I Wyoming York the oyster u I u u u ii it Water The surface of the sea is estimated II Arnold to J i land in HOC lii John to U JO nei HUH ft Koine Fred K and wood to Frank i land in HCC 38 Mad JOO 10 coo 150 720 at square taking A to K nwl HCC of the globe at of our educational system li u u quarters of a million of dollars deposit ed in our our reputation for I not so far committed to a course that when those who would is based upon a false as to whole economize lay the ax first at the root prevent a modification of its imd 8lmw In justice to Stirton and Bacher about seven The Pacific ocean tu It 0 We have use for teachers enough in I we will state that they did not attend covers square the 31CaHH our high school to keep up the present the and would not have re Atlantic and the Mediter and a course of study not less corded their votes in favor of the resol ranean complete than that laid down in KIO JUST AS MOTHER USED TO The course is already be it u L It 4 Every youth who now reads and I He criticised her and he didnt J J liked her cuke aged man who has in his He wished shed make Uic The Monticello youth the of Oliver Optic to makc As preliminary to the question of whether our school taxes have become low the average of that of the high schools of the state The Monticello Louth the high school has a three years course will JC sorry to Of death of make a of study and it is proposed to cut Adams who under that H lnB H 0 Jolm land in sac Jacob Wirk ct al to Augustus Patnode nc HOC lil Caas 1atnodc to G II land in HCC il Cans A A J Lewis JO and liO 10 Center Junction 1 100 GOO 7H2 700 The legislature knocked out the osteopaths or hone as they arc All medical in must Following is the levy that some of a part of that out in order to enable a Oliver Optic wrote real i she wasnt though the above cites and towns have made principal and assistant to do all the Dories for door stories of tried to do her graduates of 9 til f I rill ifl 1 f HIM I O unreasonably it may be well to for the payment of teachers salaries At present the adventure and regular state that our people voted a few years I to build a new high school build and they also voted to pay an ad tax to meet the expense of its Until at length nhe thought her time hud may come to nave a rest Observe that in some cases I dent teaches three recitations per at a but they onc mune this one item is greater than our conso With him dismissed that means that were an and intensely She boxed hiH just as liis warded Tbe people did not expect the school to be crippled in its Eldora 18 school levy Grundy Center 17 more than the studies taught by him i jng lo au ike wholesome Iowa Falls 20 Waverly must be for a principal if 16J Algona 17 Boone 20 he looks after the other rooms of the hn and their writer became Marengo schools at cannot teach every hour 8ucll a truc friend that we all mourn clothed We all liung over those stories mother to New York Highest South Dakota In Springtime mate running expenses in order that this building might bc paid but they cheerfully assumed additional of the day as the two high school as that of an intimate ac The Monticello schools have been er now With the economically administered and we I ency abolished the high school grade The new building was erected have had good schools considering the will necessarily have to be and If the editor of the Cascade Pioneer with verdure green and the beautiful and airie tokens of luxuri ant soil like that fair country to which Moses led the children of Israel to meet the growing demands of the and because the voters were in favor of progress and not A school house tax was thereafter but it did not greatly increase our school taxes because the amount expended on During the time that Doron suggested will be done in its resolu has had the superintendency of It were better to retain a super the daily attendance has increased by and add to the work re more than 100 and but one ad teacher has been added to the There are 1G2 high schools in Iowa ancient that is what the board of education has will consult the dictionary occasionally I And like unto that land of he will not be so quick to assume South Dakota sister states I t CREAM teacher and contingent levies were deI The average daily attendance in towns and cities of populations oi For instance we had been in comparison with the enrollment 1000 and Of that number having a levy of an average of about 10 was never so high as right The 119 have a four years high school mills per year but in 1895 I clocklike discipline and the interest I Monticello is among the 43 typographical errors in his of the in the products of its T i cultivated and harvested in less One of the changes he recently made in MHV in a clipping from THE EXPRESS was more amusing than THE Ex Am with greater ease than in any of the United so we say unto you that now is PRESS used the word uberty and the the opportunity of a lifetime to Oo Pioneer in its wisdom added a letter West and buy a For PERFECT MADE J M V mrf UB w f V jS and changed the Perhaps tive lists and address A pure Grupe Cream of Tartar Free the intelligent compositor is to credited with the i 40w 2 Alum or any other adulteran 40 THE 1UOFKSSIONAL M and lit Mon ll In Uio of Bu JoncH Will In Linn und Jon All to euro will ono door north of tho and at Monti All to caro will he GlUco ovor A AT jv attention to 1ractlce In and Federal a null Good paper on In opposite the Opora 1IIVHI01AN AND door ol tho day or prompt ly D AND promptly day or ovor on i nil Tailor and Will answer and on Hi door wont of Con tor MW and ou N north if J rat tho eyu and ear MOM 1 too inn In Ovor over Hloka door A Oxford ory salos and guarantee complete very Write for prices and the beat In tbe state 7tf Insurance Agent and Accounts Insurance written ID the host doody and mortgagee care fully loused and rents collected A douo are Notary Insurance and Collection ono door north of tho post MONTI and prompt ly Fire insurance written in the beat line of and collec tions promptly attended Rea estate and the leasing of houses attended to for nonresidents and others on favorable Tile Factory Y AND Steam Pressed Brick Factory Has a Good Stock of TILE OF ALL T up to eight second to none in quality also a good stock of well burnt pressed brick suitable for any kind of GIBSON 4 J
