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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1936
Page
3
The Jones County Farm Bureau board set July 4 as the tentative date for the annual picnic and discussed a program featuring a nationally known speaker and local entertainment at the Monticello fairgrounds. A committee was formed to organize the event and finalize details.
Plans for a county wide home project achievement day to be held June 30 were announced by township and county officers in Anamosa on April 9. Miss Aleene Wilson from Iowa State college assisted the Women in organizing this annual event. All county women will be guests of the home economics extension group.
L T Lorenzen of Wyoming chairs the Jones County soil conservation group with township leaders elected in Anamosa. The appraisal school in Center Junction outlined how soils depleting bases are set from farm worksheets, with payments on soil conserving and building crops and red clover recommended for best results.
Forty eight township committeemen travel to neighbors this week to fill out work sheets for the new soil conservation program. Sheets due by April 25, with depleting base adjustments to follow, and payments based on acres diverted to soil conserving crops or building practices. Local agent Carl Smith explains eligibility requiring 15 percent of acres in soil conserving or building crops relative to the depleting base.
A 25 year survey by D. E. Ralston of Oldsmobile highlights 15 major safety improvements from 1911 to 1936. Innovations include Turret-Top steel roofs, windshield wipers, center-control steering, safety glass, multi-beam lighting, stronger acceleration, electric starter, steel closed bodies, ride stabilizer, reduced turning radius, knee action springs, 16 inch safety steel wheels, low pressure safety tires, lower center of gravity, and four wheel hydraulic brakes.
Nashua firemen report their truck stalled at a blaze when it ran out of gasoline after 20 gallons were drained. A separate haystack fire ended with the vehicle mired in a garden plot and pulled free. The crew laments ongoing bad luck with the unit.
Rev and Mrs S vy Williams hosted the Jones County Ministerial Association and wives at Center Junction Methodist Church. A noon Ladies Aid dinner preceded devotionals by Rev W P Nicholas Wy ming and papers on Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards. Officers elected: president Rev Dutro Olin vice president Rev W Grossheim Monticello secretary treasurer Rev D M Beggs Anamosa program committee S V Williams W P Nicholas Rev Selter. May meeting at Olin. June picnic at Monticello. Presbyterian annual congregational meeting followed with picnic supper and clerks pro tem elected.
Local organizations re elected officers including S. G. Thompson and C. H. Nelson. Circle meetings, a soil conservation school, and Easter services were held across area churches. A list of visitors and residents at events from Ames to Anamosa and Cedar Rapids is noted along with baptisms and a 4 H girls training session.
The column lists numerous families visiting relatives and hosting callers in Monticello and surrounding towns. Names include Joyce Preston, John McNeilly, Emil Ortgies, Gerd Antons, S. W. Clark, and others with movements between Anamosa Maquoketa Rock Island Davenport Monticello Onslow Castle Grove Olin and St Luke's hospital. Local trades mention Prahm hardware and garden tools.
A notice states a person can clip this ad and present it at any Monticello grocery store to receive one pound free of charge. The offer promises no cost with the eligible coupon.
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