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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1940
Page
8
February special labor charge for covering old sets with slip covers. Davenport and chair priced at $7.95. Bring your own goods. Tarpaulins for trucks promoted for the rainy season. Helmer in Monticello Iowa.
Hopkinton patrons gathered at the Schuster building for the cooperative creamery annual meeting. Officers and directors were re elected as 448 106 pounds of butter were produced at 28 62 cents per pound. A county agent showed two educational reels after a noon plate lunch.
Mrs S M Casteel of Hopkinton wins a five dollar prize for a limerick line in a prune advertisement on WHO. Rev Edward C Reeve of Clearfield Pa retires from ministry after over thirty years serving there. Joe Moulton takes a meat cutter job at Wilson Packing Cedar Rapids.
A E Hall 64 of Onslow died Wednesday January 31 after a long illness. Born December 1 1875 in Clay township Jones county Iowa he married Jessie B Johnston in 1908 and had five children four alive with the wife. Surviving relatives include grandchildren and several siblings. Funeral services were held Friday with burial in Wyoming cemetery.
Monticello area farmers join a government soil conservation program led by CCC and local agronomists. Fred Nelson details a four year rotation including corn oats alfalfa red clover and timothy with legume seedings to improve soil. pastures will be limed reseeded and fenced with CCC help. Local names include Nelson King Britt Wordehoff and McLaughlin.
Monticello Iowa February 8 1940 advertising copy from St Anthony and Dakota Lumber Yard highlights Storm King Coal prices starting at 6.75 per ton and financing plans for roof repairs kitchens and houses. It includes humorous anecdotes and a brief legal pun about changing a name.
Minneapolis expert H L Hoffman will demonstrate his Perfect Retention Shields for rupture management at the Hotel Montrose in Cedar Rapids Iowa on Saturday February 10 from 10 AM to 4 PM. Demonstration urged for physicians and patients as protruding ruptures are dangerous. shields claim to hold rupture during exercise with sanitary waterproof properties. No mail orders. home office Excelsior Minnesota.
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