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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1939
Page
2
Des Moines resident Winifred Rohr spent the weekend with friends. Dr. Karl M. Keyes offers free eye exams with discounted frame sale. Muscatine visitor G. P. Rockstad stopped in town Wednesday. Numerous local society notes record visits, health events, and family milestones among Des Moines and surrounding communities.
Benjamin and Thomas Lee Klaus of Manchester spent last Friday visiting their grandmother Mrs. Frank Podhaski. She returned home with them to spend a few days at their house.
May Hickok Scovern of Carrollton Missouri sister of Mrs I B Hoag of Monticello and former resident died of thrombosis en route to a hospital Saturday January 14 one day before her 74th birthday She was born January 15 1865 in Monticello the daughter of Volney and Lucy Jane Hickok She married John Alonzo Scovern on October 14 1885 and later lived in Carrollton Survived by three sisters and one brother seven children live in Carrollton Tulsa Oklahoma Kansas City and Liberty Missouri She was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church Carrollton and secretary of Vesta Chapter No 5 O E S Burial was January 16 and a minister called her an inspiration.
Members of the local Future Farmers of America chapter showcased a farm demonstration in the high school auditorium. supervised by A F Walker the program included 25 corn plot test results and skits such as dolling up the farm stead and economic pork production with musical and a 15 minute play Jimmy Jones featuring Richard Mardorf Verne Kuhns Ken Shepperd and others Willis Fairbanks presided as chapter president and Walker spoke on FFA aims and functions.
Officers of the Jones county seal sale committee were re elected last Thursday except the secretary. The group includes chairwoman Mrs C A McLaughlin and treasurer Mrs H M Carpenter with new secretary Mrs Irving Hintz. Monticello reported $257.55 leading towns. county totals rose from last year. Full report to follow in The Express. Attendees included Mrs W D McLaughlin and Mrs R G Stuhler.
Francis Shimanek, representative from One county, has been appointed to major committees. He is vice chairman of the judiciary committee and serves on liquor control, banking, insurance, roads and highways, motor vehicles and transportation, and ways and means. He may sit on two more committees whose names are not yet available.
Chris Eichhorn a farmer from three miles north of Wyoming suffered a fractured left shoulder body bruises and shock after his car crashed into a locomotive on a freight train last Thursday one mile north of Wyoming on the Wyoming Onslow road. He saw the train but could not turn or stop due to icy road conditions.
In 1848 P. P. Doroshin the Russian mining engineer first found gold in Alaska among Kenai river gravels while surveying for the Russian American Company. In 1850 1851 with 14 men he prospected gravels of streams entering Kenai river near Kenai and Shilak lakes and a tributary to that lake. Gold appeared in many gravels but not in commercial quantities then.
Florence A. Cowles explains in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Elbridge and Eldridge differ by a letter yet carry distinct meanings. Elbridge means dweller at the little bridge and recalls Elbridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration and U S VP, while Eldridge has dual origins Teutonic meaning mature counselor and Anglo Saxon meaning fearful or terrible.
London Tit-Bits Magazine extols the Bible for its dignified English and practical guidance. It notes extensive counts of letters words verses and chapters and highlights Proverbs as containing the sanest advice on behavior. Early books cover health food sowing crops and regional flora and fauna.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson died. A simple tomb inscription noted him as author of the Declaration of Independence, author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.
Discovery describes a four foot high four inch wide marble boundary stone from the Sixth century B C found in situ beneath a road bed with Fifth century pottery. The inscribed marker bears archaic letters along the top edge and down the side, identifying the limits of the Athenian market place.
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