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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1927
Page
5
The Express invites submissions of infant contestants from subscriber homes for a ten dollar prize. Entries consist of babies under one year, with judging at the Jones County Fair dance pavilion at 1 p.m. on fair day. Listing of entrants and parental names begins at 12:30 p.m. Judges and winners to be announced after.
Rotary members heard updates on the 1927 Jones County Fair including attractions and budget. L. E. Hoag outlined the fair’s debt reduction and current spending plan while H. M. Carpenter Jr. detailed finances and expenditures. J. LeRoy Farmer discussed a booster trip planned for August 22 with pledges of many motorists. more details to come. A trip to Dubuque to hear Rotary International president Arthur Sapp was also scheduled, aiming to draw Rotarians from eastern Iowa and neighboring regions.
Frank H. Marshall a longtime Maquoketa resident died at the Benadom sanitarium in Monticello Tuesday morning at 6:30 due to dropsy and heart failure. He was 72, a New York native who moved to Iowa as a boy and worked for S. J. Tubbs in Maquoketa. Survived by a step-daughter Mrs. James Currie of Millrock a sister Mrs. Frank Chain of McAllister Wisconsin a brother J. D. Marshall of Georgetown Mississippi several step-children and a niece.
Des Moines reports a new poultry law requiring magazine salesmen and farm traders to obtain a poultry buyer's license and record purchases. The Iowa Department of Agriculture ruling extends licensing to solicitors to aid police in tracing stolen chickens. Winchester paint McNeill Hdw.
A reader is invited to answer ten questions covering history geography math and language. The list includes basic facts from transit to currencies and ends by promising page eight for all answers.
84 year old Civil War veteran Daniel F. Jones fell from hay and split his neck at Delhi on the 4th. A Covington freight wreck left ten injured. one, James Coggswell of Brooklyn, died. Walter Hate drew a third term for intoxicated driving in Clinton. Morse brothers sold cattle and paid $14 per hundred pounds. Mrs William Martin of Delaware died aged 69, survived by three sons and three daughters. Linn county boards vote half mill tax to aid Cedar Rapids and Wapsie Valley fairs. Federal court in Davenport fines Eagles and Northwest Davenport Turners $9,000 and $3,000 for liquor violations. injunctions issued. Delaware county chicken thieves face penitentiary penalties after thefts near Manchester and Colesburg. A carlight sighting followed the Kuhlman farm thefts of hundreds of chickens.
G P Rockstad resigns as manager of the St. Anthony and Dakota Lumber company effective this week. An auditor leads the office with W E Barron assisting. No new manager has been named and Rockstad hopes to remain in Monticello while seeking a new position after over twenty years in charge of the local yard.
Resignations, births, deaths, marriages and accidents fill the month as Monticello faces changes. City marshal I M Rodman resigns. Arthur Hall succeeds him. Several injuries occur from falls and a horse kick. New saloon opens. a corn crop outlook is strong. School changes include a new superintendent Clar ence M. McCracken. Notable deaths include Lena Rohn and John Gerdes. Marriages include Annie Corbitt and Harry Dice. Freid Voorhees weds Myrtle Elder. John Hughes marries Mabel Nichols.
J C Young pleaded guilty to a false uttering of checks in Jones county district court at Anamosa. Judge F O Ellison sentenced him to ten years in the penitentiary. Sheriff Bodenhofer will take him to Fort Madison tomorrow. Young has a long criminal history including forgery at the Anamosa reformatory and earlier parole violations.
Monticello farmers sent nine cars of stock from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul freight station last week. Six cars carried cattle and three hogs. Shippers included Ray Adams George Mueller Farmers Mutual Creamery and others with multiple cattle consignments and hogs. Edward Eilers and the Farmers Mutual Creamery company shipped cattle and hogs, while Thomas Shover and Aitchison Brothers sent Holstein and Guernsey cattle to Cedar Rapids Fair. Also mentions Liize Voorhees staying with her mother in Van Nuis California.
Massachusetts Governor Fuller granted a reprieve for Sacco and Vanzetti until August 22 while appeals proceed. Pledges of continued monitoring by police in New York and London reflect fears of mob violence should executions proceed.
The weekly band concert will be held at city park next Thursday evening on the amphitheater platform. Bandmaster Frank Royden has crafted a fine program appealing to all classes, featuring popular and classical selections including March Garde du Corps Overture Norma Whistler and His Dog Pryor Selection Robin Hood March.
The Jones County Fair at Monticello opens in two weeks with cattle hogs and poultry expected to surpass prior records. Derby horses from Jack Tracy of Platteville and top stables such as By Golly and Famous Blue join a schedule featuring six whippet races from Calgary and nightly musical revues and vaudeville acts.
Junior Chapman four years old son of Mr and Mrs Nathaniel B Chapman of Prairieburg died at John McDonald Memorial hospital after tetanus developed from a foot cut on a farm. He stepped on rusty barb wire three weeks earlier and received serum treatment too late to save him. Born June 9 1923 in Prairieburg he leaves seven siblings and a funeral was held at the Reform church with burial at Oakwood cemetery.
The narrator describes travels from Shropshire to Ireland in July 1927 visiting Madeley Belfast Bangor and Dublin. Highlights include St Michael church Fletcher memorials Upper House near Madeley Court a sea voyage via Holyhead and Kingstown and Belfast city sights. The author notes Irish scenery kindness of locals and references Irish politics and the Orange order with plans to continue touring Edinburgh and Dublin.
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