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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1937
Page
2
Local item brief notes report Joanne Howle injured her shoulder after a fall. The page lists multiple ads and short notices including Smart Wear store promotions, optometrist Dr Karl Keyes, shopper updates, family visits, and social calls across Cedar Rapids, Monticello, Hopkinton, Oska loosa, Town City, and Town City.
Winter stock reduced at Meyer Hat Shop with hats and scarf sets offered at deep discounts. Attendees included Advy, Lee Byerly, and Rev. W. J. Macaulay who drove through icy conditions to attend the Cornell-Coe basketball game in Mount Vernon last Tuesday evening.
A garbled list of new library acquisitions includes The Country Kitchen by Della Lutes about 1870 Michigan farm life, Fighting Angel by Pearl Buck, Autumn in the Valley by Margaret Chandler, Cities of Refuke by Philip Gibbs, That Man is Maine Faith, Red Earth by Tom Gall, An American Doctor's Odyssey by Victor Heiser, and Letters to Susan. The text contains many OCR errors but shows a mix of biographies, travel writing, fiction, and classic studies arriving for readers.
A consolidated notice of services across churches in Wayne area. German and English services at Zion Lutheran and St. John’s Lutheran. Catholic Masses at St. Joseph’s Prairieburg. Methodist and Evangelical services at Center Junction and Castle Grove. St. Matthew’s to install church officers. Presbyterian sermon topic and Christian Endeavor events.
Congregational Church schedules church school at 10 and worship at 11 with sermon The Growth of Personality. The Working Band meets next Wednesday at 3 with Mrs Milton Thoeni. The annual church meeting postponed to Sunday evening Jan 31. Reformed Church lists services with Lord Will Make War Unless and installation of Peter Meyer and Neman Moore as elder and deacon forthcoming. Miss Margaret Macaulay visits from Cornell college, Mount Vernon, after illness.
The article outlines soil conservation bases for 1937, defining soil-depleting and soil-conserving land, and explains how bases are calculated by subtracting soil-depleting acres from total crop acres. It notes emergency forage options and splits the Class One payment into a $6 diversion payment for acre reductions below the soil-depleting base.
The document describes a soil conservation payment plan featuring a $3 conversion payment for acres with a good stand of soil-conserving crops, paired with a $4 payment per acre. Total per-acre payments average $5 elsewhere but exceed $13 in Iowa, with increases for cornage practice and similar adjustments to past years.
Homer Hetler livestock buyer from Elberon near Toledo was found not guilty of manslaughter by a Tama county jury last Friday. The charge arose from a collision between Milo Comieek aged 20 and Mildred Kosnar Lilet Chilier in a crash near Belle Plaine. The jury deliberated eight hours after a ten day trial.
Mrs. Charles DeVries suffered a serious leg injury at her Hawarden home when a jagged glass edge on a chair protruded and cut a large vein behind the knee. The injury required tying the vein to stop blood loss. The report notes the incident occurred recently in Sioux county. A second item describes St Elmo's Fire as harmless electrical discharges lighting ship rigging during thunderstorms.
Clifford Ferring has returned to Monticello after several months in the southern states. Attendees at the McKinley High Monticello basketball game in Cedar Rapids included John Schoon Norman Clark Sek and Mrs O E York and Ralph one.
J. W. Doxsee and Miss Mary Dox pursue a winter vacation in Tucson Arizona starting next Saturday morning. Mrs Edward Templeton has left for treatment at McDonald hospital after weeks of arthritis discomfort.
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