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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
6
County supervisors in Des Moines voiced opposition to hard surfaced roads and condemned state road policy while noting delays in road improvements. They urged measured reform and cautioned against complete state control amid ongoing debates on public aid, poverty, and tuberculosis funding.
A Sioux City bootlegger drew a year in Fort Madison under the new statute. The city, though wet, shows no patience for violators, and enforcement keeps offenders wary of a penitentiary record.
A new weekly newspaper aiming to serve the state Democratic Party will begin in Dubuque under Wm. J. Tobin formerly of the democratic state central committee. If Tobin allows the U S marshal residing in Dubuque and formerly with the state central committee to set its temper, Democrats can have a lively internal time.
The piece praises the Pennsylvania railway for carrying 180 million passengers safely, contrasts rail safety with automobile deaths, notes police enforcement gaps on auto restrictions, and mentions Minnesota dairy show prizes and grass-to-butter manufacturing as profitable farming notes.
The article notes Qarl Kuebele resisting pressure while allegedly telling an Iowa editor he made a thousand dollars in one day. It questions whether continuing such earnings daily would satisfy campaigners and whether internal pressures can be resisted.
The Baltimore Sun notes West Virginia farmers distilling moonshine using cream separators since prohibition. The Sioux City Journal hints at post January 1 potential interest for Wilbur W. Marsh, separator maker and political figure. William Allen White intends to visit and operate a life restoring instrument for Cummins campaign.
In a Atchison Globe item a boy’s notion of a mallycoddle surfaces as he plans to carry a bar of soap to the old swimming hole, reflecting playful mischief in a small town scene.
Onslow plans a big Labor Day picnic for September 6. The Ottumwa Review is sold to H. G. Cowgill of Madison Wis who will take charge in September. Several local changes including a new city marshal J D Morgan and multiple town updates across Iowa are noted, with fires, deaths, and political events shaping the period.
The article argues for a county hospital funded by a fifty thousand dollar bond issue and a half mill levy over twenty years at five percent. It outlines costs to counties and towns, compares small home hospitals to large city hospitals, and urges a seven member trustee board with no doctor on it. It notes benefits to property values, health education, and local governance. Washington county already supported the measure. Delaware county is urged to vote September 9, 1915.
The Express promotes a nationwide drive to boost auto ownership, claiming two of every ten people will own cars within two weeks. The piece frames the contest as a key opportunity to win votes and engages readers across the audience.
Contest managers urge maximum effort to win a prize by September 1 with extra votes offered for subscriptions and five subs clubs. Watch for the final close on September 8 and prepare for judges announced next week. Washington dispatch notes rural free delivery cuts and carrier losses under post office reforms sparking protests nationwide.
A short political advertisement urges voters to support hospitals, claiming health outcomes depend on hospital funding and urging people to vote. The message presents a stark health risk if hospitals lack support.
The piece critiques Iowa Democratic figures led by Wilbur Marsh and mocks Maurice Connolly seeking a government posting. It ridicules his possible rejection, suggesting he could instead golf clip coupons and enjoy a touring calendar sales job.
The Philadelphia Record promotes salt as a versatile remedy and cleaner. It claims salt in water relieves skin diseases, preserves flowers, sweetens mustard, cleans gloss bottles and chamber ware, strengthens brooms, removes grease with ammonia or alcohol, and stops smoke or blaze when added to burning substances.
Des Moines Register quotes ex Governor Slaton asserting the Leo Frank lynching stems from Georgia's exalted view of womanhood. The piece notes two Black men were lynched in Montgomery Alabama for poisoning two mules, suggesting mules and women share an exalted standing in the south.
Dr Frank Crane comments on office flies that invade rooms and chatter for long periods. He notes politeness stops removing them, humanity forbids poisoning them, and laws prevent shooting. He proposes an open season to rid offices of these pests.
The Eclipse Lumber Company recounts farm prompts and stalls at the fair urging silos fences coal and hay items. It promotes Peer leaf fences Southern Gem coal and hard goods like posts cedar and hog house windows while noting a busy market and a joke about a horse sale.
Sioux City demonstrates the new Town law by punishing bootlegging as a felony rather than a misdemeanor. The move, led by Lieut. Gov. Harding, targets repeated bootlegging and signals a tougher stance for Sioux City, Des Moines, and Marshalltown under the reform.
The schedule lists today and the rest of the week games: Thursday Manchester versus Monticello and Wyoming versus Olin. Friday features Cascade against Ryan.
The weekly weather and crop service report indicates a week of fairly favorable weather for farm work and corn growth but with temperatures below normal and several cool nights. A trace of frost was observed on the morning of the 20th in Audubon and Crawford counties. Stacking nears completion and shock breaking advances, threshing reports show good yields of am grain but overall poor quality, timothy seed yield below normal.
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