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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1900
Page
8
A historical ad claims Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowels daily to maintain health and acts gently on the liver and kidneys. It purports to cure sick headaches and is priced at 25 and Cc. A newspaper quote notes a great man saying I never talk through the newspapers. The reporter then asks about hats in a brief aside.
Two reader letters praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for nervous prostration and long-absent menses. Adele Williamson of Atlanta reports relief from heart strain and sleeplessness, while Lena Gaines of Visalia credits the remedy plus Blood Purifier for restored cycles and regained strength.
Private George W. Towne of Company B Fifty first Iowa Infantry waits for further orders after service in the Philippines, with his discharge and pay claim bogged by lost records. The War Department instructed that his claim is filed as No. 70,588 and will not be reached for about six months.
In Sioux City the high school adopts a half hour noon intermission with hot lunches served in the basement. A committee reports favoring one session. Lieut Brown’s suggestion for light nourishing meals at moderate cost won unanimous support and a committee will work out the details.
H B Hayden of Council Bluffs schools is named to a Town State Teachers association committee to procure testing apparatus for eyesight and hearing. Local officials will report room findings to the committee, which will summarize statewide results at the next State Teachers meeting. About one in twenty children may have a hearing defect and varying vision constraints will guide special schooling needs.
The state executive council selected the examining board for the mine inspectors. The exam will be at the state house starting the first Monday in March and run four days. Members are Prof. Floyd Davis Des Moines engineer and Missouri School of Mines graduate Alexander Cargavel Centerville James E. Stout Des Moines operators John Owen Beacon and J. W. Lewis Hiteman miners’ representatives.
Edward Snyder of Panora died suddenly in Walkerton Indiana from heart disease at age 79. Inquest confirmed the cause. Remains returned to Panora. Separately J J Smith of Clarksville identified as Milwaukee road murder victim with head crushed. Theories suggest pursuit by a criminal. Joshua Reddick’s vow after wife’s death ends a 30 year water avoidance.
After long months of sickness Col G D Swan died at his Creston home. He arrived in 1870 and opened the Creston House, the first hotel. A Civil War veteran, he left the service as a colonel, survived by a widow and children.
Veterans at the soldiers home in Marshalltown held a chapel meeting to protest the retention of pensions over six dollars monthly. A special committee will travel to Des Moines to urge legislative action against continuing the withholding policy. The committee includes J. J. Smith John Laport and M. T. Black. A permanent group was formed to persist in opposing the system.
Oakland marriage unites Thomas W. Frontress and Mrs. Sarah Greene in a romance that began in Sioux City years ago. Frontress, 75, long a farmer and orange grower in southern California, wed Greene, a widow from Green Falls Montana, after a renewed correspondence and years apart.
Fred Sanger arrived in Rolfe with Bullock and Grill to work as section foreman for the C N W road. He lodged with George Challand near his hotel. In December he married Challand’s daughter, but it is alleged Sanger now has a wife and two children in Maquoketa.
Des Moines reports list Senate measures to curb prize fighting disguises, bolster tuberculosis testing, fund medical examiner salaries, expand normal schools, honor Shiloh veterans, and seed music teaching. House actions include equal suffrage talk, prison reform, school funding, and local tax/administrative updates. Subsequent days add more bills on taxes, inspections, and public works with gubernatorial appointments and monument funding.
Council Bluffs soldiers who served in the Philippines back a Turner bill in the U S senate to pay the difference between travel pay and transport costs home to San Francisco. The amount averages about 200 dollars per man and covers regiments including the Fifty first Iowa mustered out in San Francisco.
Charles Prince of Wes Moines was shot during a Saturday night arrest attempt in Quincy and died. He lived in an attractive home in Wes Moines. his wife is reported to be worth $60,000. Prince, born in Princeton, will be buried in Rockford. He was well educated.
A cobra reported at Jaffna Ceylon measured over 714 feet as the largest on record. Dr Francis Seamon recalls a partridge flight across the Hudson 41 miles but the exhausted bird was killed with a stone. A French naturalist warns humans would not survive nine years without birds. A Vancouver goose and a Canadian dog form a close, lifelong bond, guarding and following each other.
In a Beaver Hills Alberta note dated Aug 7 1800 Mrs S A Brigham details Beaver Creek Ross Creek near Edmonton. She cites fertile bottom lands rich soil wheat oats barley and potatoes with large yields and abundant wild and tame fruits. She describes long JuneJuly days mild climate cyclones rare heat around 78 degrees with cool nights, good roads, and active winter log cutting aided by permits. The community includes Canadian Scotch Swede and American settlers and 18 single men seeking wives while hay making proceeds and wheat will be ready in September.
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