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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1925
Page
5
Easter services feature multi church concerts with choirs led by C. B. Crane and Miss Edna Balsiger. Performances include hymns, anthems, solos, string and piano pieces, and a Holy Communion service on Sunday morning.
Dr Meihus of Iowa State College cites 16 percent annual losses to potato scab black scurf and black leg. The hot dip method started five years ago at Kennedy farm Clear Lake Iowa and is now widely used. Jamald R Porter notes Kansas extension service adoption. Instructions cover two and a half minute soak in 40 percent formaldehyde and 125F water with two hour cover, scalable for larger lots. Cooperative dipping and steam heated tanks in creameries aid cost efficiency.
The Monticello Express notes a busy April with weddings including Alfred Laude to Lizzie Poppe and Mary Haldster to John Walter, school rehires at Monticello, and local deaths such as Andrew Nimmo and Bert Yousse. Community milestones include anniversaries, births, and bank anniversary at Lovell State Bank.
Leonard Duckett pastor conducts Easter services on April 12 with Sunday school in the morning and morning worship at 11:00. Sermon titled The Risen Life. Christian Endeavor at 6:41 p.m. Miss Pauline Atchley leads. Choir presents a special musical program at evening service. Master address by the pastor follows Good Friday services.
Pastor George W. McNary announces Holy Week services this week with Wednesday Thursday and Friday evening gatherings. Events include Holy Communion at 7:00 p.m. Sunday School in morning worship at 11:00 a.m. Special organ and choir music accompany all services and a reception follows special services.
Good Friday and Easter observances announced with German and confessional services at 1 15 pm and morning hours. Sunday School to begin at 230 am with offerings for the medical institute. Hymns and communion rites include collection for the medical fund and inducements for holy communion on Friday afternoon or evening.
Paul T Gudbecht and Pastor Geranen announce Easter offerings with Holy Communion on Easter Day. Confessional and repihar services are scheduled, with morning worship at three locations and a waveal time service.
The Methodist Episcopal Church and Reformed Church list pastors and service times. Sunday School and morning worship planned with offerings for missions plus a German service on Good Friday at 11 oclock. The notice notes a Sunday service and a separate German service.
Jones county farmers Glenn Guilford and J N Smith & Sons, with the county farm bureau, launch the McLean hog-raising system and emphasize clean pastures, separated sows, and disease prevention to restore profitability. Potato tests to compare high yielding Ohio and Cobbler seed varieties will involve Lloyd Robertson and JR McNeilly farms. Cow testing report highlights purebred Holstein cows and top milk yields among Siebels, Rickels, Fairbanks, Johnson, and Niles & Brickley herds.
Paivenport Democrat argues for a state system of hard roads to elevate Iowa’s status among states and prevent Iowa from being a byword for poor highways. It notes Scott Polk Woodbury and Blackhawk counties should not bear excessive costs and deserve a fair share of highway funding.
The verse voices a speaker recalling a vanished meeting and longing. A shy maiden yearns for reunion as memories rise to the surface like a faded domestic scene. The speaker hints at tender, rueful emotion and distant hopeful desire.
A collection of humorous vignettes includes a Portland motorist defending a hit run by saying the women did not jump, a gatekeeper at races charging a dollar for a car, a couch tramp who found stable work, a deadpan telegram exchange over money, and an Irish sheriff’s misfired court encounter. The items showcase regional humor and small-town wit with a dash of misadventure.
Abner Sutton, once a Canton neighborhood resident, died at Osage last Saturday. His funeral took place in Canton last Wednesday, marking a quiet community farewell.
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