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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1918
Page
2
The February correspondence describes a severe livestock situation mirroring past quarantines with cattle and hogs delayed by lacking rail cars and dwindling feed. Farmers report hogs losing condition and high corn costs before potential recent car availability. Community notes include social visits, new milking machines, a birth, cattle shipments to Chicago, and local auctions amid a thaw that ruined sleighing.
Sand Spring records a string of local updates including moves to and from the area. Will Doll and Frank Nichol relocate to and from farms, J. L. Batchelder becomes creamery secretary, and board member changes occur. Several residents visit relatives and travel for errands.
Center Junction February 19 funeral services were held at the Young home for Rachel Young infant daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Young. Interment followed at North Madison cemetery. Mrs. Young remains at Mercy hospital recovering.
Prairieburg residents report Dudley Deene leaving for Rolfe to stay with grandparents. Will Crosley rents the Deene farm and moves March 1. Will Walker buys Henry Storey place and moves in March. Red Cross bazaar planned March 14 with supper. Lyle Fehr visits from Marion. Flockhart restaurant to be wired for lights. Sweet of near Central City rents Ed Fish property. Wirgle move to Scheer home. Mrs. Richley sells home to Alf Kula.
Governor Harling names seed corn census takers in Jones County Iowa to report seed corn needs and 1917 seed availability for 1918 planting. A long list of appointed men will collect district returns, then county totals go to State Chairman S A Clock. War measure aims to locate and save seed corn with county and state defense backing.
J. T. Chapman a long time Jones County official dies in Davenport on a streetcar from heart trouble at age 72. He served as county clerk 1881 to 1887 and earlier as deputy to B. H. White. Funeral today in Anamosa at Richman parlors officiated by Rev. Ernest Evans with interment at Riverside. Two sons Mason and Edward P. survive. Edward attended from New York.
Margaret Ambuhl Johnson eight year old daughter of Mr and Mrs E J Johnson of Boone street Webster City died Tuesday night after a two day illness with bronchial trouble bordering on pneumonia Three doctors and a nurse tried to save her before Des Moines specialist Dr Grimes arrived Born August 11 1910 in Colorado Springs she leaves brother Ernest Sidney five and a two weeks old sister Justine The Johnsons moved from Waterloo a year ago and Mr Johnson works with Monarch Stock Trough Company.
The Presbyterian ladies present The Country Minister at Center Junction on Friday evening February 22 1918 at 7 30 featuring Rev Ralph Underwood and a cast including P Robertson Gregory Heath Paul Smith Jud Pardoe and more. Proceeds aid a worthy cause. Admission 25 and 15 cents.
Chicago readers see a humorous revision of a famous line by Mr. Hoover and Mr. Longfellow that flips a well known exhortation into a call to activity. The quip reflects urban wit and public sentiment in a bustling city.
International Harvester announces free tractor school in Monticello Iowa February 20 1918 at the opera house. Practical instruction on tractor operation maintenance and best service with demonstrations and a take home booklet. Attendees encouraged to bring the operator and ask questions to gain maximum benefit.
A list of 49 men chosen by Delaware County draft board on February 23 to fill the local quota for additional soldiers. Names include J. Hi Milroy, Dennis J. O'Brien, Glen Darey, Robt. L. Hunt, Thos. Schindler, Henry F. Mier, Carl J. Migner, Arthur Lee Hugh, Jas. H. O’Leary, Wm. C. Schechtman, Joseph H. Woeste, Earl Talmadge, Clyde Cree, Isaac Davis, R. E. Mullen, John C. Warner, Francis J. McEnnany, Lloyd A. Smith, Clem A. Westemeier, Carl F. H. Wendt, J. Geo. Sugden, Chas. Feldmann, Edwin G. Battin, J. Hl. Milroy, Ferdinand Dierckse, James 8. Druminy, Geo. R. Michael, Herman FP. March, R. S. Harford, Aloysius Holtz, W. Lloyd Peterson, A. B. Weggmann, Mathias Green, Frank Ostedgar, Willie H. Behrends, Wm. H. Lehne. alternates listed with Wm. W. Welch and Henry C. Hawker among others. Local schools and towns such as Hopkinton, Greeley, Manchester, Dyersville, and New Vienna appear. a wide spread roster reflects county-wide mobilization.
Owing to a fuel shortage, county Sunday school institutes planned for March are postponed. Despite this, the Armenian fund drive within county Sunday schools raised over 600 dollars, led by Hale with 118 and Olin Meth odist with 75. The March Ingathering boosts Easter efforts with events from March 10 to 31, urging attendance, enrollment, and new members. For details contact Miss Florence Hale Anamosa or President S V Williams.
The Jones county draft board lists 11 men who failed to report for examination, with addresses in Long Grove Monticello Oxford Mills Monmouth Olin Center Junction and Monticello. The sheriff is instructed to summon each by visit within five days to present before the local board. The note suggests they may have moved after filing questionnaires rather than unwillingly dodging duty.
Fred F. Clark county agent married Miss Marcy Gale Stephenson at her Ames home last week during the Farmer's Short Course. The couple arrived Tuesday evening and received greetings from friends. Mrs. Clark aided him in a county canning campaign last summer and is skilled in home economics.
The World notes German papers revived a story about an execution of a female spy, naming a non existent Anna Huitems. It confirms no such person existed and no spy was executed, though some details were accurate and others inflated.
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