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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1940
Page
2
A long list of visits and holidays from Monticello and nearby towns is recorded. Residents like Mrs. John Vernimont and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Appleby host relatives. many travelers head to Des Moines Manchester Dubuque and Chicago for family gatherings.
A statistical survey of 141 U S electric utility companies covers 40 378 installations totaling 770 525 horsepower. The report breaks down data by company and business class, showing banks, theatres, restaurants and residences with varying horsepower use and highlighting candy manufacturers and printing and lithography plants as major industrial users.
A United States Office of Education study by Dr. John W Studebaker notes rising interest in aviation training across high schools and junior colleges. Forty five universities offer aeronautical courses and expanding programs in mechanics meteorology and radio are reported nationwide.
Prair ie dogs eat 97 percent of their food as vegetation and 78 percent as forage crops. They threaten grazing for sheep and cattle across the Great Plains, with grasses and saltbush dominating their diet. The bureau notes limited beneficial animal matter and mentions poison plants. During the past year 2,139,000 acres of cultivated and range land infested were treated.
In 1909 Charles Pathe and Leon Franconi conceived the newsreel in France. Pathe's Paris test proved a hit and European capitals soon showed Pathe Weekly. Returning to America the next year they started a U S newsreel revealing a Statue of Liberty parachute jump by Rodman Law.
A 1940 Monticello Express notice offers a credit slip for listing 32 mistakes in a free want ad. The contest invites readers to mail or bring their lists by February 1 1940 and promises fun while testing observational skill. Also included is a health note on defective eyesight impacting Army Air Corps cadetship and several family news items from Seattle and Bancroft visitors.
Anamosa star Lawrence Spook LaBarge outpaced fellow high school runners in an all-state footrace. A separate item notes a bus holdup by five Kansas City youths near an Interstate route, with $12 stolen and the suspects captured hours later in Tiffin.
A two year test at Westinghouse Mansfield plant shows vitamins fed to color matching workers reduce rejects to one third and save about five thousand dollars annually on range parts. Vitamin A given to those with slow visual purple regeneration improved accuracy. A separate bank anecdote recounts a teller confusing aid money with egg money leading to a humorous-life mix-up.
A brief notice explains the origin of the college honor system at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia. It notes the system’s roots in the early governance and student conduct traditions of the institution.
Dr Daniel Luzon Morris and Carol Hilden Morris of Putney Vermont report that liver glycogen or animal sugar occurs in sweet corn. They note this animal carbohydrate previously appeared only in lower forms like fungi yeasts and bacteria and not in higher green plants. The article also defines coolie as an unskilled Asiatic laborer.
A fragment notes a prize pigeon released in pigeon races and a collapsed auto theft trial at Clarion last week. The complaining witness withdrew after it appeared the defendant attorney judge and witness were all Norwegians with county attorney consent.
Richland Center residents report a New Year gathering at Mr. and Mrs. Len Hein's home. Mrs. Henry L. Wismeter recuperates there after six weeks ill with relatives in Monticello. Len Buol returns from hospital in recent weeks. Visitors include John Enabnit of Prairieburg and Harry Enabnit of Chicago at John Yossi's. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Balsiger joined New Year’s Day guests at Castle Grove.
Guests at a New Year’s Day family gathering hosted at a local home included Mrs. Stena Schweitzer, Mr. and Mrs. Neal Hayden, and individuals named Sarah Lou and Jane of Monticello. Also present were Seraphine Schweitzer R. N. of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Delos Dakin of Zearing.
Following the death of the mother of the first Monticello newborn of 1940, the family requested that prizes for the first child be given to the next baby born.
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