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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1944
Page
4
The article explains that American soldiers and other visitors are welcomed only as close friends in Chinese homes. It cautions that observing or noticing any woman present insults her. Introductions are rare and require extreme formality from the foreign guest.
About 74 local business leaders attended as the Community Conservation League heard state aims from Fred Payneer and Ray Beckman. New committees were formed including Wild Life, Trappings, Fish, Membership, Lunch, Entertainment, and Education and Publicity with Dick Lange as Wild Life chair and Tom Henderson as president.
Post Commander L D Burrack installed Monticello Post No 1683 Veterans of Foreign Wars officers including Oliver Harford as Commander and Leigh Pearson as war activities chairman. Auxiliary officers were led by Ruth Chisman as President and Jean Mehternaeht as patriotic instructor. V Mail efficiency cited by Army and Navy with planes replacing many shipments and salvaged letters reprinted after Lisbon clipper loss.
Real estate transfers list multiple property deeds of Dor a Belle Allen and others to Alex Si P and W Robertson Lot 6 Block 34 Scott and Skinner add Anamosa Lot 7 Block 6 Original Oxford Junction Stadtmueller to Edward J Stadtmueller et al Lots in two townships Welch's add Monticello and more. A minor Philip Petersen case and a guardian deed to Harold Wilcox involve Monticello land. The item ends with Charles J Brown of Camp Barkeley Texas proposing a new etiquette rule for tagging at USC dances counting cadenced steps.
The state conservation commission announces catfish season extends this year due to 1945 legislative action. The season opens April 15 and runs longer than last year, with a daily limit of 15 fish and a minimum length of 12 inches.
A sequence of land transfers recorded includes Minnie Gerdes and Louis Heiken as joint tenants, Winifred Colton and George Herman T. with others listed, and several Kurt family members transferring parcels. The deeds note specific tracts, river boundaries, and government lot references with values around $32,000 in Dubuque county and adjacent areas.
Call your bank post office or savings and loan to arrange ongoing purchases of Defense Bonds starting immediately.
Thousands of American soldiers and sailors fight to protect you while the nation urges immediate purchase of Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps. Bonds are available at banks and post offices with prices as low as 18.78 dollars, urging citizens to invest to safeguard the country and their lives.
A wartime fundraising drive urges citizens to buy war bonds as a direct pledge to support national victory. The campaign frames investment as a personal duty and a means to back troops, production, and Allied success.
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