Tax Levies Cut By The City And School Bad
The Iowa board of assessment and review raised real estate valuations in Monticello and Anamosa by twenty percent to align with other cities. The city budget is eleven mills lower and the school levy drops 17.3 mills, saving about seven thousand dollars for 1931. Both districts meet the five percent tax saving target while funding school and municipal needs.
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Iowa Board of Assessment
Monticello
Iowa Board of Assessment and Review
Anamosa
Ames
State Board
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Atlantic
Mason City
Cherokee
Burlington
Dickinson County
Charles City
Mount Pleasant
Newton
Iowa City
Marshalltown
Muscatine
Sibley
LeMars
East Let Crete
Bettendorf
Tama
Traer
Anamosa Boy Injured in No 161 Crash
Noel Grassfield a 13 year old boy was severely injured when struck on highway No 161 south of Anamosa last Wednesday. He suffered a fractured skull and a broken right arm after dodging a westbound car and stopping in front of Reagan's Des Moines driven vehicle. Reagan and a passenger escaped harm.
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Anamosa
Reagan
Wabun Camp Fire Group Hosts Evening Dinner
The Wabun Camp Fire group enjoyed a six o'clock dinner last Thursday at Mrs. E. F. Reed's home. Hostesses were Misses Margaret Houston Frances Steck Hazel Houston and Maxine Redmond. The table featured garden flowers and pink tapers. After the meal the group spent the evening in formal activities.
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E. F. Reed
Wabun
Margaret Houston
Frances Steck
Hazel Houston
Maxine Redmond
Eskimo Club Adds Maid Rite Sandwich Shop
Messrs. Gerbousek and Zubler proprietors of the Eskimo Club have added a Maid R i te sandwich shop in a rear room of their confectionery and ice cream shop. The venture is run by Miss Gladys Kelley. A display ad in this week's Express notes the new enterprise. The airdrome near Lon
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerbousek and
Zubler
Eskimo Club
Gladys @Kelley
the Express
Express Induces Farmer to Plant Soy Beans Near Monticello
Henry Prull Jr of Jones county north of Monticello planted twelve acres of soy beans on June 10 after reading an Express article. By August 3 the plants reached about forty inches tall. With a short hay crop, he plans to cut for feed. a binder will harvest and shock the bundles. He will be milking twenty three cows, and the soy bean hay will boost the milk check.
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Jones County
Henry Prull, Jr
Monticello
Prull
The
Express
Iowa State College
Ames
Cascade Holds In First Place
Monticello leads the Maquoketa Valley League with six wins and five losses for a .546 percentage. Last Sunday no game was played as Monticello vs Alburnett was postponed by wet grounds. next, Monticello will visit Guttenberg if not rained out. Standings show Cascade atop with 6 1/3? games, followed by Dyersville, Guttenberg, Monticello, Manchester, Alburnett, Oxford Junction, and Ryan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alburnett
Monticello
Maquoketa
L. Pet. Cascade
Dyersville
Guttenberg
Manchester
Oxford Junction
Ryan
Cascade
Newell Gillilan Adjudged Insane After Hearing
Newell Gillilan formerly of a farm near Monticello and later Hopkinton was adjudged insane at a Manchester hearing last week and sent to the state hospital for the insane at Independence. He had worked as a janitor in an Iowa City school and later in a Manhattan Kansas harvest field before an incident with a restaurant owner led to his restraint by peace officers. He has prior asylum history and periodic insanity, prompting family concern and state aid requests.
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Newell Gillilan
Monticello
Hopkinton
Manchester
State Hospital For the
Independence
Gillilan
Iowa City
Manhattan
Kansas
Dr. Earl DeShaw Opens Monticello Medical Office
Dr Earl DeShaw of Hopkinton has located in Monticello to practice medicine with offices above George Stuhler's Sons shoe store. Contractors are remodeling the space. He is a University of Iowa Medical College graduate and completed an internship at St Louis City Hospital. He attended Hopkinton High School and Lenox College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl DeShaw
Hopkinton
Monticello
George Stuhler
Rotary Picnic Brings Anamosa and Nearby Clubs Together
Anamosa Rotary Club hosts a joint picnic and inter city meeting with Mt. Vernon Tipton Cedar Rapids and Monticello at Wapsipinicon Country Club next Tuesday August 11. Registration at 3 Warden Baumer leads a tour of the reformatory at 3 30 sports at 4 30 picnic supper at 6 address by Roy Louden Fairfield district governor at 7 then dancing and cards to close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Mt. Vernon-Tipton
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
Wapsipinicon Country Club
Baumer
Roy Louden
Fairfield
Son of College President Dies in Missouri
Thomas R. Hughes, 28, son of Town State college president R. M. Hughes, died Sunday night of infantile paralysis. A civil engineer from Staten Island New York, he had gone to St Joseph Missouri for appraisal work for the American Waterworks and Electric company where he was stricken and died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas R. Hughes
R. M. Hughes
Town State College
Staten Island
New York
St. Joseph
American Waterworks & Electric Company
Latricken
Monticello News Chronicle Clips Include Weddings and Local Happenings
Gottlieb Bader wed Miss Emma Wilcox Hessin at Sidney Ohio. Hogs and cattle price trends noted as Chicago meat market rose. Samuel Boyd killed by lightning in South Dakota. Monticello burying. Miss Essie Hoag resigns. Miss Emma Binggell promoted. Local rain delays threshing and injures grain. Obituaries for Mrs C T Berlin and Mrs Frederick Renk. Air show interest with Curtis biplane at fairgrounds. Eddie Hanken drowns in stock tank. Snake remittance filed at Monticello Bank. Geraldine Dirks and Chris Rieken Jr wed at Ryan church. Richardson reports London arrival.
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Gottlieb Bader
Emma Wilcox Hessin
Sidney
Ohio
Rudolph Bohren
John Ross
Peter Egger
J. Enabait
Coggon
Chicago
Samuel Boyd
Monticello
Plankinton
South Dakota
Mr. Boyd
Boyd
Essie Hoag
Monticello High School
Emma Binggell
C. T. Berlin
Ella Orcutt
Laredo
Missouri
Oakwood Cemetery
Frederick Renk
Stone City
Karl Renk
W. Z. Allen
Reinbeck
Presbyterian Church
Allen
Adelbert Sandhouse
Herman Am Barmond
W. H. Kauffman
C. H. T. Thomsen
Davenport
Eddie Hanken
Fred Hanken
Wayne Township
Ryan
Richardson
London
Miss Jayne Shover Teaches Speech Correction At Camp Good Health
Miss Jayne Shover daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Shover spends summer at Camp Good Health Cedar Rapids working at the University of Iowa speech clinic under Dr Lee Travis. She will continue her research with children referred by the public health nursing bureau until she heads speech correction in Eau Claire Wisconsin next month. Her summer work shows remarkable improvement in pupils with defective speech from various causes.
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Jayne Shover
Thomas Shover
Camp Good Health
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa
V. F. W. Picnic Slated At Anamosa This Sunday
Veterans of Foreign Wars executive officers announce a picnic at Wapsipinicon state park near Anamosa next Sunday August 9 attendees should bring a covered dish and their own table service Coffee will be provided free. In Martello region two farms were sold this week Clifford Larson bought Richardson eighty for 125 per acre and Walter Ellison bought Bodenhofer 120 acre farm for 86 per acre.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Wapsipinicon
Anamosa
Martello
Clifford Larson
Richardson
Walter Ellison
John Bodenhofer
Forty Tramps Invade Monticello In 1878 Militia Rescue
A July 1878 train raid by about forty tramps near Monticello prompted a local militia call under Capt. Wing and Lt. Ed Thompson. The force formed two lines, escorted the trespassers to the opera house, and fed them over Sunday before sending them northward. The incident ended with admiration for calm town leadership and restraint.
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Monticello
Oxford Junction
J. Q. Wing
Texas
Wing
Ed Thompson
Kenyon
Metropolitan Police
Hopkinton
Delaware
Capt
Thompson
Captain Wing
W B Allen Describes Grasshopper Disaster and Rallying
W B Allen recalls migrating to Kansas in 1874 to farm government land, only to see grasshoppers devastate crops leaving him with ten cents. He recounts moving to Langworthy then building work to survive and condemns idle labor while praising officials pursuing Western Iowa grasshopper controls. He notes grasshoppers once stopped trains by destroying bodies that clogged tracks.
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W. B. Allen
Kansas
Jones County
Langworthy
Iowa
Hoag Duster Co Expands Fuel Tank Installations
Hoag Duster Co installs a large storage tank for fuel oil to serve Monticello Anamosa Cascade and nearby areas within their franchise. They also distribute the Iron Fireman automatic coal burner ideal for small coal and uniform automatic firing in schools hospitals and large buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
Robbery at Tipton Law Offices After Sunday Night Break‑In
Thieves entered the offices of J. C. French and Casterline and Son in Tipton Sunday night. The safes were latched but not bolted, making access easy. About 150 dollars in cash and 1200 to 1400 dollars in Liberty bonds were taken from the J. C. Pranoe office along with other papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. French and
Casterline and Son
Tipton
J. C. Pranoe
James Redmond Wins The Flag Tournament
A flag tournament drew thirty five Monticello Country Club members and families despite threatening weather. James Redmond won with 83 for eighteen holes earning three golf balls. George Guyan advanced his flag the furthest and also won three golf balls. L A Iverson and Robert Locher received two balls each for longest drive and nearest to the cup respectively. Next Sunday Monticello faces eight clubs in a match at Marion with a team selected from listed players.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
James Redmond
T. M. Redmond
George Guyan
L. A. Iverson
Robert Locher
Mr. Iverson
Eastern Town Golf Association
Marion
William Laude
Frank Podhaski
Ben Roberts
E. C. Ricklefs
M. E. Thoeni
Fred S. Stuhler
George L. Lovell
Robert Hogan
R. J. Bone
E. E. Skelley
A. J. Rickless
J. P. Wilkens
C. E. Jolly
H. W. Stuhler
DeMolay Chapter Installs New Monticello Officers
George Washington chapter DeMolay of Monticello held a semi monthly meeting Monday and installed officers for six months. Installing officer Howard McLaughlin retired master counselor. New officers include Myric Shover as master counselor and Curtis Moncrief as orator among others with preceptors Orlando Null and Dale Clark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
DeMolay
Monticello
Howard McLaughlin
Myric Shover
Elmer Aebi
Raymond Coyle
Irvin Rhatigan
George Stott
John Che
Robert Phelps
James Bort
Marshall
Berkley Curtis
Keith Dickey
Curtis Moncrief
Sentinel
Harry Matthiessen
James Ricklefs
Richard Calkins
Orlando Null
Dale Clark
Harlan Cooper
Donald Clark
Russell Suter
Tim George
Roy Crosby
Ralph Beers Breaks Arm Working on Bridge
Ralph W. Beers, formerly of Monticello, suffered a broken left arm last week after a fall while inspecting a high bridge at Central City. Employed by the State Highway Commission, he helped inspect the bridge north of Monticello built last winter. The Beers family home is now in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph W. Beers
Monticello
Central City
Mr. Beers
State Highway Commission
Cedar Rapids
Langer Family Continues European Trip Through Switzerland and Vienna
Milton Langer recalls travel from Zurich through the Swiss Alps to Vienna in 1931. He notes Zurich’s cleanliness, Alpine resorts, and farms on steep slopes, then describes Vienna’s postwar stagnation, Schonbrunn Palace, the Prater, and musical heritage. He contrasts European living conditions with American advantages.
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Louie the Fourteenth
Napoleon
Switzerland
Paris
France
Alps
Zurich
Luzern
Interlaken
Grendewald
Vienna
Danube
Schonbrunn
Marie Theresia
Hapsburg
Versailles
Prater
Wagner
Mozart
Europe
The
United States
Milton Langer
Creek Drought Prompts Red Eye Bass Rescue Near Manchester
In Masonville Coffin's creek dried up cutting off habitat above Quaker mill dam. About 1,500 Red Eye black bass and rock bass were rescued from a dry pool by Assistant State Game Warden Bow ers of Lansing with helpers Wayne Hall Garry Thorpe Edward Hruby and Bud Haselman. The event marks the first reported drying of Coffin's creek in sixty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Maquoketa
Quaker Mill Dam
Coffin’s Creek
Masonville
Bowers
Lansing
Garry Thorpe
Wayne Hall
Edward Hruby
Automobile Crash on Primary 161 Near Walker Berlin Farm
Tuesday evening at 1 30 a Chevrolet driven by P A Petersen sen of Red Oak rolled over twice on Primary 161 near the Walker Berlin farm. Petersen and his wife were uninjured. Edgar McCristy of Hopkinton attempted to pass Petersen and turn north causing the collision. McCristy allegedly fled the scene at high speed. Petersen’s car suffered two broken wheels a smashed top and broken windows.
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P. A. Petersen
Red Oak
Walker Berlin Farm
McCristy
Petersen
Band Concert This Evening At City Park
A summer band concert in the city park starts at 8 15 PM featuring popular overtures and new tunes. Howard McLaughlin will sing Ninety Nine Out of a Hundred with the band after the intermission, followed by selections from H M S Pinafore and The Fall of Jerico.
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Howard McLaughlin
Lght
Neighborhood items mix with regional events in August notes
Free mail delivery begins in Tip ton with twice daily service except Saturday afternoons. Several local actions include James Harrison fined for drunken driving and a six month license suspension. Farmers and Merchants Savings bank of Durant appoints a receiver after a July closure following a suicide. Beside this, a Mount Vernon seed operation plans an eighty acre asparagus field set for next June. Despondent father Frank Kern shoots himself after his son’s death at Iowa State College. Edgar Smith receives a ten year indeterminate term for larceny of a motor vehicle in Cedar Rapids. Bellevue considers a municipal power plant using diesel off burning engines funded by electricity earnings. A North Western freight accident injures Ellis Stobey, resulting in amputation below the knee. Cornell College president Burgstahler chosen as Ecumenical conference delegate. Jackson county fair set for September with Maquoketa American Legion to run it. A construction crew nears completion on No. 13 paving project near Coggon connecting Manchester to Cedar Rapids.
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James Harrison
Town City
John T. Moffit
L. A. Andrew
Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank of
Durant
A. H. Wiebener
Co. M. Ink
Mount Vernon
Carl
Iowa State College
Frank L. Kern
Kern
Edgar Smith
Fort Madison
Atherton B. Clark
Cedar Rapids
Smith
Bellevue
Ellis Stobey
G. H. Stobey
North Western
Pres. H. J. Burgsthaler
Cornell College
Atlanta
Burgstahler
Omaha
Iowa
Nebraska
Fair Association To Sponsor Boxing Program
The Jones County Fair association will sponsor twenty six rounds of outdoor boxing at the city park amphitheater next Wednesday evening August 12 with six bouts in 118 128 132 150 and 160 pound classes. Pad dy O'Shea of Cascade will referee and rain postpones to Friday evening August 14.
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Jones County Fair Association
Paddy O'Shea
Cascade
the Express
Grand Theatre Gutted By Fire In Anamosa Morning
Fire heavily damaged the Grand theater owned by Clifford Niles in Anamosa. The roof caved in and only the front end and part of the first floor survived. Water damaged nearby businesses and offices. smoke and a tin steel ceiling hampered firefighting. Firefighters worked through the night. three Anamosa men were overcome by smoke. The blaze originated in the theater basement, with Monticello aid arriving promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Niles
Anamosa
Ament Dry Goods
Stone Jewelry
Urb & Urb
Dolan
Clarence Matthiessen
Monticello
Three Die In Baldwin Truck Crash On Bridge Risk
Three Baldwin residents died July 29 when a feed truck crashed through a bridge railing and overturned ten feet to the ground. Victims were John DueMong 50 Norma Due Mong 17 and Esther Peters 14 found upside down in the cab.
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Baldwin
John DueMong
Norma DueMong
Esther Peters
G. A. Bradley
Marion
DueMong
Miss Peters
Griffin
Maquoketa
J. W. Jordan
Monmouth
Harold
Lost Nation
Eliza DueMong
George Book
Cedar Rapids
Ben Helferich
Arthur Klauser
Park Fleming
Lloyd Suthers
Edna Skelton
Fort Wayne
William Peters
Iron Hill
Tony Thompson Visits Old Friends in Buena Vista County
Tony Thompson, former Monticello resident and now sheriff of Buena Vista County, stopped by friends last Tuesday. Recalling his Monticello days twenty three years ago, he spoke of his second term and his early athletic and coaching endeavors, noting how his local reputation for discipline followed him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Thompson
Monticello
Buena Vista County
Storm Lake
Tony
John Perrine
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State Board of Assessment
Anamosa Boy
On Airdrome
Lon
Monticello and
DeShaw
Anamosa Rotary Club
Hoag Duster Co
Ralph Beers
Langer
Czechoslovakia
Creek
Jerico
Jackson County
American Legion
No. 13
Delaware County
Grand Theatre
Ament Department
Crockery Department
Stone Jewelry Store
Grand Theater
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