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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
4
Mrs Eliot confesses she promised to vote for both candidates in a women’s club election to avoid favoring one. Her husband questions the pledge as ballots approach, but she insists she kept her word. The tale, from Youth’s Companion, highlights social pressure and partisan duty in club politics.
A London Globe excerpt traces peculiar legacies from 1655 to 1725. Duchess Dudley left 500 a year to redeem English slaves from Turks, while Thomas Belton of Hox ton disinherited kin and left 125000 in trust to the Ironmongers' company with half the interest for ransom of British captives. An elderly Lincolnshire woman funded a curfew bell tradition with land, and heirs named Green and Gray left gifts of colored clothes to the poor along with specific sums.
A humorous Bohemian caption depicts an elderly Black man at an eye clinic. The oculist presents letters while the man questions their purpose, then requests a watermillion as a mispronounced, comically misheard alternative.
The London Standard notes that during the reformation the Church of St. Nicholas at Yarmouth had its carved stones removed from the church and graveyard. Some stones were sent to Newcastle to be ground into grindstones while others were placed aboard royal navy ships for deck scrubbing, giving rise to the sailors term holystoning the deck.
A Country Life note explains moles hoard autumn worms and stupefy them to prevent escape. In a separate court excerpt from the London Express, a judge hears a claim of assault with a defendant denying contact and describing pumping actions.
An elderly Georgia Negro told a judge he had served in three wars. When asked to name them he replied that he was a cook in the Confederate war and, after emancipation, he married twice. The remark drew laughter in court.
A breeding record notes Sire of Margaret 2 24 Kenyon Boy 2 24 and Belle Marcos with an exhibition mark 36 Records as a yearling at the Jones Co Fair. His 1908 season is listed at G H George’s Monticello Iowa place aided by three well bred individuals. MARCOS G black 43024 GOLDEN SIGNET chestnut sorrel BROWN BEAUFORD seal brown sired by MARCOS BOZZARIS 30856. Dam Libbie G daughter of Al Cantarrus 18143. Grand dam March by Marybrino Moore 1555.
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