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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1922
Page
2
The Monticello Express lists I Woxsee Ch as editor or proprietor with a price that shows a yearly subscription rate. The brief entry notes editors and proprietors while indicating a price per year.
Center Junction hosts a Friday pair with Wyoming teams, the boys 21 10 loss and the girls 10 5 victory. Other items include skating pond plans, church crusade events, anniversaries, hospital visits, family announcements, and local social activities across Monticello, Anamosa, and surrounding townships.
About thirty members of the Farmers Mutual Insurance association of Castle Grove met at schoolhouse No. 2 for the annual gathering. Labor to insure dwellings and threshing machines was discussed. by-laws were amended to grant a reserve fund by directors via assessments up to one mill. Insurance written in 1921 totaled $882,940 with a net gain of $347,685, boosting total in force to $2,558,903. Losses last year were $6,698 with $1,037.50 recovered through reinsurance. Directors and adjusters were re-elected, and the board reorganized with Hintz as president and McLaughlin as vice president. The remains of George W. McLees were brought from Anamosa and laid to rest at Argand cemetery.
The Women's Community club in Scotch Grove will meet at the Royden home on Wednesday afternoon January 25. Roll call features recipes for Preparing Meats for Summer Use. Civic topic Our County Officers and Their Duties by Mrs. I F Sutherland. Also Trees and Shrubs as an Asset to our Farm Homes by Mrs. R P Clark. The fourth Wednesday date note.
Guests at the John Drexler home included Frank Drexler from Norcross Minnesota and Mrs. Lee Franklin from Mitchell South Dakota with relatives in Calamus and Central City. A double wedding occurred at St Josephs church with Holub and Holub families from Prairieburg nearby.
The report lists residents and visitors in Sand Spring and nearby towns. Mr and Mrs O Brien visited Town City to see their son Lester who had appendicitis surgery. Mr and Mrs Biden and two children stayed with Lizzie Bohlken in Monticello. Additional entries note visits and Institute meetings in Hopkinton and bank directors' gathering.
The Boston Transcript notes critics of France for rattling the saber now praise its wartime strength in 1914 to 1918. The Philadelphia Inquirer recalls a Kentuckian boast about whisky quality fading to lament that some liquor is worse than before.
The state car of Warden Baumer stolen during a two-escape incident from the reformatory was recovered in Fort Smith Arkansas. In Monticello a pair of youths paid fines for theft after taking an overcoat, while Henry Sacora faced an arraignment for attempted great bodily injury and bootlegging linked cases.
Urban Barrels 25 shot himself on Worthington road two miles south of Dyersville last Monday after noon. Hired man Leonard Belk found Barrels dead in the summer kitchen with a double barrel shotgun in his grasp. Notes to his wife Pearl and his mother explain the act amid domestic troubles. Barrels leaves a young wife and baby girl. the inquest verdict cites death by own action.
Monticello Iowa council in regular session on January 6 1922 approves financial report with city fund balances and assorted bills. Ordinance 479 poll tax set at 2 50 for men 21 to 45 payable Feb 1 to Oct 1 1922. Water hydrant project approved near new tire factory on seventh street.
Anamosa reformatory holds Babe Emerson real name Leon Barrington, former associate of Tom O Connor the Chicago jail escapee. Emerson linked to Drake Park Stuart and Valley Junction bank robberies while O Connor dodges hanging and vows to die in his boots. Hawkins shot fleeing. Other gang members include Jimmy Andrews and Floyd Freah facing long terms.
Mitchell county farmers used hot formaldehyde to treat seed potatoes. In four plots disease reduction reached 27 percent with clean tubers rising from 56 percent to 83 percent and yields climbing from 70 to 86 bushels per acre. Extension experts note continued use and selection improve local seed stock and future harvests.
Iowa State College agricultural engineers unveil an L shaped concrete block 8 by 16 by 134 inches with 240 cubic inches and 128 square inches wall coverage. It with stands 2100 psi, uses one third the material, and can be produced cheaply with simple steel forms, aiding faster, less wasteful construction in Ames.
The January term of Jones County District Court at Anamosa begins January 23 under Judge F C Ellison. Jury call set for January 30 at 10 a.m. Dockets include garnishments, attachments, promissory notes, foreclosure, divorces, quieting title, and various equity actions across many local parties and banks.
H C Ladage of Strawberry Point and H C Stendel of Northwood each won 1520 class prizes with 94 plus percent scores. Ladage beat F H Harms of Tripoli while Stendel topped Carl Hoveland of Lake Mills. Firsts win gold medals, seconds silver. Eighteen scored above 90 percent. 583 tubs shown by 181 buttermakers, up from 410 tubs by 160 in 1920. Contest opened at Postville with 70 tubs on trial.
John M. Evvard longtime Iowa State College hog specialist takes leave due to a sinus infection and seeks warmer, dryer climates. A livestock expert valued his swine feeding work at saving about one dollar per head, a figure that implies millions in annual value to corn belt farmers. He led work on self feeder devices forage value estimation and profitable feeding methods.
The Bulletin editor at Iowa State College notes Howard has distributed over half a million practical livestock feeding bulletins to Corn Belt farmers in ten years. He contributed widely to agricultural press and organized stockmen editor events. Amid war service and federal committees, he plans a temporary pause to return to normal work, while Max Ellis of the Minneapolis Journal feeds 800 hungry children on Christmas Day as gratitude for seven years in America.
Monticello residents have organized a charter to establish a Rotary club described as an uplifting service society. The article explains Rotary aims to elevate members above personal competition and contribute to community betterment.
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