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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1938
Page
6
Bedford residents urge Taylor county supervisors to create a county park at Old Fort Parker once a Civil War refuge and escape slave shelter. The rough hewn walls need repairs but would be preserved in detail as a shrine. Also mentioned is a near-miss incident where a train stopped ten feet from five mongrel dogs on a railroad bridge as engineers whistled them to safety.
A trucker hauling hogs to market stopped on the Keokuk Hamilton bridge after finding a dead hog. He pushed it over the edge, where it landed in the telephone and telegraph wires, tangling cables and disrupting circuits. Linemen worked about an hour to restore services.
The piece highlights J. Plane as Independence and Buchanan County’s eldest merchant and top taxpayer. Beginning in hardware at 16, he still runs the original 1853 building at 81. He owns ten store buildings twelve houses and twenty town lots plus his business place. A Mason since 1881 he was honored in 1931 for fifty years in the craft.
Mr and Mrs Walter Green drew attention with an automobile trailer in Oskaloosa Iowa carrying a display of poisonous snakes including diamond back rattlers cotton mouth moccasins and copperheads along with several tarantulas. The unusual menagerie drew curious locals and the article notes the value of the collection and guards against theft.
A tractor tipped backward into a creek where Walk was thrown and trapped under water. A neighbor summoned help and Walk was rescued with no serious injuries. Samuel J. Zorn of Montezuma pursues knitting, finishing a bedspread begun July 4 1928 as a memory tribute for Mrs Orn. Friends of Owen Rumble of Denison speculate if he is a fortune teller after predicting a 57 vote loss to Lawrence Servoss in a local alderman race. the result matched his forecast exactly.
A Milford area farmer in Dickinson County found a cat buried in a hay loft pile during bale tossing. The animal appeared emaciated with ribs showing but was otherwise unharmed. He recalls hearing a meow while mowing but could not locate the cat until now.
John Kalkas of near Afton Union county displays a tiny hummingbird nest found on his hackberry twig. Built from very soft material and about thumb-nail size, its eggs are said to be pea-sized, offering a rare glimpse for bird lovers.
Ora Sitton of Sidney Fremont county fell from a scaffold while working on a county bridge near Sidney. He dropped about 20 feet but rose and walked away uninjured, a cushion of freshly spaded dirt easing the impact.
Knoll of Gilmore City offered to treat the crowd if votes topped 200. The tally reached 208 and Knoll ordered malted milks for all. Walter Olsen of Sioux City, visiting Denmark, married Christine Jensen of Copenhagen five hours after her 5 000 mile arrival in Sioux City.
In Des Moines county near Middletown, Mr. and Mrs. Haitink welcome five kittens from a Manx cat. The unusual brood comes from a tail-less Manx breed said to be a cross between rabbit and cat, while the mother cat is pure white.
Mrs Velma Day of Sidney in Fre mont county reports a priceless heirloom bracelet set. The embossed flat gold bracelets were given by her grandmother, who had received them from her father over 60 years ago.
A fragment from Newton News appears to mention Mussolini in a garbled line with references to talk and sharp pages. The text is incomplete and lacks clear events, dates, or sources for a fuller summary.
A Jones county notice lists numerous transfers of properties and parcels from multiple executors and individuals to various grantees including Betty Segovia Thomas Edne T Hoegen Joseph A and others to Edgar D Vernon Minnie Lewis Sadie Coppess U S A to State of Iowa Barrett etc. Among many items are land descriptions in Monticello and Morley with nominal sums and other valuable considerations. The record covers properties in Varvel's addition Olin Center Junction CM St P Ry Co and public highways with dates and amounts noted.
The Monte Theatre presents a week of films and specials ending with Samuel Goldwyn's Hurricane starring John Hall and Dorothy Lamour. Easter matinee grants 2 fresh raw eggs for under 12s. Other features include The Duke Comes Back, Women in Prison, Hawaii Calls, and Wide Open Faces with Joe E Brown and co stars.
Ending Thursday night for the last time Gloria Stewart and Michael Whalen star in Change of Heart. A Friday Saturday double feature presents Land of Fighting Men with Jack Randall and the Colorado Hillbillies, plus Penrod and His Twin Brother with the Mauch twins. Sunday to Tuesday previews Gold Is Where You Find It, rooted in 1870s California farmer and hydraulic mining conflicts.
A new Warner Bros Technicolor spectacle features outdoor scenes in vivid natural hues. Starring George Brent Olivia de Havilland and Claude Rains the film follows an Eastern mining engineer and a regional wheat grower’s daughter in a sweeping adventure noted as a top photodrama of the season. Next week the program presents My Old Kentucky Home with Evelyn Venable and Grant Richards.
The silver sword plant is restricted to Haleakala crater in Hawaii, with its limited habitat making the species uniquely endemic to that volcanic area.
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