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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1920
Page
6
The piece argues the bill collector now calls monthly rather than after harvest due to modern farming and business, urging friendly payment to balance books. It notes shifts in charity during Christmas, labor politics, and hints at national issues including the league of nations and a Rockefeller gift to aid professors amid rising prices.
The Springfield Mass Republican notes the League of Nations is a flawed yet honest effort against great difficulty. It cites the Boersen Courier of Berlin saying that if the League fails, a return to prewar alliance policy and militarism may ensure peace, a conclusion the piece accepts.
Washington Post reports a missing liberal percentage in Doc Garfield's data prompt sparked scrutiny. Officials note the oversight affects political calculations and prompt corrective review.
The piece notes John D. Rockefeller’s $100 million gift to humanity raising his benevolence to $425 million. It frames Rockefeller as a unique endowment distributor who treats wealth as a trusteeship and directs income toward teachers and disease prevention, arguing gifts fund both mind and body and sustain higher prices for petroleum products that support philanthropy.
The article argues that industrial production shifted the home from an economic center to a center of child training and social contact. It notes that modern machines relieve labor, expand leisure, and promote gender equality, while the home remains vital as the shrine of maternal love and the foundational social unit guiding future generations.
New York Herald interview quoted by Harvey's Weekly notes Henry Watterson says Republicans could carry several Southern States. He suggests no stable Democratic party exists and a Wilson party may form under McAdoo. Senators Smith and Shields gain in Georgia and Tennessee after switching allegiances.
The Marshalltown Times-Republican raises its ad rate by ten cents per inch and lifts subscription prices as the new year begins. Fifty New York country weeklies adopt a flat fifty percent hike. The piece notes that newspapers lag behind rising costs over two years but are not accused of profiteering.
The Review comments on Lady Astor's campaign style noting she will not use her hat as a prop since many male legislators have done so, implying her oratory may differ from past visuals.
Local notices report Delaware county moving toward paving its roads with a summer construction plan. Other items note editor Henry R. Cobb of the Delwein Iowan dying at 63, Cornell College leaders aging milestones, and various local incidents and obituaries.
After a Maquoketa game, the Maquoketa Excelsior alleged dishonesty against Anamosa players. Paul Cash faced a warrant for larceny of towels, but the county attorney dismissed the case and costs were charged to Jackson County. The community backed the Anamosa players, who were held in high esteem.
Harvey's Weekly reports a stance that the president will withhold the treaty as a campaign issue. It notes the possibility that Mr. Wilson may run, urging a clear, sharp issue focused on the League and America.
Wyman Benowitz a cotton goods jobber at 60 Lispenard Street pleaded guilty before Judge John C Knox in U S District Court. He was fined 12000 and sentenced to one day in custody after admitting concealed income of 142914 resulting in 67299 tax due. His counsel said he already settled with the government for 101782 including a 60 percent penalty.
The Webster City Freeman Journal questions profit sharing for railroad employees noting railroads lose money under government control. If profits are shared, why not losses, a point labor advocates dodge, the piece argues.
A Sioux City Journal opinion notes that Senator La Follette might retaliate against fellow senators who snubbed him by refusing to speak in their presence. The piece argues such retaliation would be a national blow to decorum and unity.
C L Fitch of Iowa State College cites F J Sedlacek of St Ansagar as a standout potato grower. In 1919 Sedlacek produced 16 600 bushels on eighty acres and sold them early for over 26 000 dollars. Fitch notes his seed quality and farming mix with livestock, onions, and potatoes as key to his cash crop success.
Lincoln Journal criticizes liquor operators who hold vast whiskey consignments they cannot sell or export. It notes national prohibition was ratified last January and alleges lawyers are delaying the end of prohibition by seeking to overturn it. The piece argues liquor men underestimated the public will and the strength of wartime and constitutional prohibitions.
. A five-school straw poll in Indiana shows General Wood as the top choice among Republicans. Votes across Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, Calvin Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson, Frank O. Lowden, and others are listed, with Wood leading in all five schools.
The piece argues that compulsory arbitration must start with the railroads in any plan for lasting industrial peace. It warns that the country’ s livelihood hinges on railroad operations and that without arbitration balancing labor and capital, peace is unattainable.
A Bath court applied Justinian law to a swarm of bees, ruling the owner could recover only while he could see them. Fourteen centuries after the Latin code, the case ended with the claimant losing his bees and claim under the old Roman law in a modern English setting.
The Cedar Rapids Republican argues that Attorney General Palmer favors raising coal prices by about thirty percent while demanding meat prices drop similarly. The piece contends farmers invest heavily and work as hard as miners, warning Palmer may only realize this after crossing the Mississippi if elected president.
The St Paul Pioneer Press reports Milwaukee re elected a congressman who cannot be seated. The vote 311 to 1 previously denied him a seat and will again. The piece predicts his future is likely a federal penitentiary appointment.
The piece argues Germany will accept strict postwar terms after a year of strain. It praises Dr. Foch as a decisive enforcer and predicts Germans will endure the medicine rather than oppose it.
Obituary notes Elizabeth Alice Skelley Coulter born April 7 1839 in Marion county Indiana died at the home of her daughter Mrs Rose Waldron in Glidden Iowa after a long life of movement across Iowa and Mississippi She left Monticello with her husband Captain Coulter during the Civil War and lived in several towns before settling in Glidden The funeral was held at the Sny der home with Rev Guy Fansher and Rev Frederick Nichols in charge and pallbearers named.
Last Friday evening the Monticello High School alumni met the local American Legion in a rough charity game. The Legion won 24 to scoreless a second half dominated by Legion baskets while alumni relied on individual plays. Lineups and fouls listed show strong Legion teamwork and a few technicals on both sides.
Monticello high school defeated the local American Legion team 22 to 17 in last evening’s basketball game. The match featured a fast second half with strong drives and frequent fouls, and Skelley and Laude led the high school with multiple field baskets.
A compact excerpt highlights Barnard’s lines on youth and age from The Passionate Pilgrim. It contrasts youth’s vigor with age’s weariness and notes enduring tensions between the two life stages.
C L Fitch of Iowa State extension cautions that weak seed yielded as low as 60 bushels per acre while strong seed produced over 200 bushels of clean potatoes. Certified disease free seed fared best. High heat and drought reduced yields in 1919, prompting plans to distribute about 160 pound lots of northern certified seed in winter for 1920 plantings.
Martin McDonald returns home after a serious pneumonia siege. Mrs G Charles Neal resumes residence following an illness. Phillip Kingsley of Cascada hospitalised with a non severe tonsillitis. Lixaio Uolub of Prairieburg recovering well after an operation on the 24th. Grant Fuller hospitalised for a foot injury. Anton Kurt back at Cascade home after prior surgery. Miss Gladya Smith of Cantor Junction hospital for tonsil removal.
Riffing on veterans and politics, the piece mocks Doughboys urging them to keep quiet in public life while others call for bold action. It then pivots to a bizarre aside about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a spiritualist stance, questioning his intent and possible motives.
Classified notice listing a walnut bedroom suite four poster bed tapestry rocking chair sofa table davenport kitchen table refrigerator cook stove coal burner gasoline range washing machine lawn mower and more. Supplier is A. O. Peter gon.
Ralph Watkins reports rats around a store fed on scraps but ignored suspect items after using RAT-SNAP. The product reportedly cleared all rats in ten days with dogs patrolling nightly. Available in three sizes for 26 cents 60 cents and one dollar, sold and guaranteed by W W Stickford and druggists nationwide.
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