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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1930
Page
4
Oxford Junction shows two municipal slates with Ed Lasask heading the Citizens ticket and H. W. Mowry leading the People’s ticket for mayor. The piece also notes convictions and legal actions involving local figures and outstate cases.
Monticello public school students won two firsts and one second at the Jones county declamatory contest held in Anamosa. Winners for Monticello were Vivian Smith and Elizabeth McLaughlin firsts and Vivian Bancroft second. Other participants represented Morley Wyoming Monticello Anamosa Center Junction and Oxford Junction with judge Harry Barnes of the University of Iowa.
A compilation of Sunday schedules and sermon topics from Methodist Episcopal Presbyterian Congregational St Matthew’s Ev Lutheran St John’s Ev Lutheran Castle Grove Lutheran Reformed and other local churches. It lists service times sermons topics and upcoming events including union services and church meetings.
Jones county district court lists new docket items for March term presided by Hon. H. C. Ring. Term begins March 3 with petit jury called March 10. Cases include Goble Co. versus Brown on account and multiple promissory note, attachment, damages, foreclosure, injury, and injunction actions among individuals and corporations.
Six weeks tests are planned across all classes as demerit concerns rise in a second semester. Monti's declamatory success continues with first in Jones county contest at Anamosa and a strong showing by school participants. The newsletter covers upcoming preliminaries, practice teaching plans, senior physics work on sound, recent games, Camp Fire waffle supper, and Philomathean Society talks emphasizing quality literature.
J Hugo Tatsch, ex Anamosa resident linked to the Masonic Research society, published a volume on Freemasonry in the Thirteen Colonies. Funeral services were held for Henry Leaper at Fairview with burial in Norwich cemetery. he left three children. A Jones county survey shows 48 stores sell butter and 3288 pounds of butter plus 3727 pounds of substitutes weekly. A Davenport Times echo recalls Soap Box attacks on Mr Peekes for representing large corporations after retirement while he practiced privately.
Sacred Heart defeated Cascade 16 to 11 on the local court with a close first half and a late rally. In the Columbia game Sacred Heart came from behind to beat Columbia Academy as six seniors played their final home game in Monticello.
Dr. Amy Daniels links butterfat intake to respiratory illness resistance, noting low vitamin A in diets of children with infections. Danish studies tie eye infections to butterfat consumption. Nordic export bans correlated with fewer cases. Swedish diets showing two ounces daily align with no vitamin A deficiency diseases.
A mimeographed pamphlet titled Principles of Livestock Feeding is published by the Extension Service Animal Husbandry Section at Iowa State College Ames to help farmers cut feed costs which make up about three fours of livestock production costs. It may be secured by writing the Animal Husbandry Section Extension Service Iowa State College Ames. Elephants never recover from pneumonia. FOR SALE Roan horse four years old weight about 1600 lbs Steiner Bros 33 tf FOR SALE OR RENT my house in Monticello with immediate possession Ahab Dewitt 35 1 FOR SALE Certified Velvet barley high yield reasonable price Paul N Smith Center Junction 35 2 IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our dear wife mother daughter and sister Mrs Reginald Gibson who passed away two years ago March 1 1928 Reginald Gibson and daughter Janette Mr and Mrs John Knake and family
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