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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
5
Washington reports the draft numbers drawn to determine order of call for youths of the 1918 class. The list shows each registration number with its drawn order, guiding when individuals will be called. All new registrants will be placed at list foot in their class. most Class 1 calls expected before year end.
Reported American forces routed Germans from Belleau Wood after seven hours of fighting with 311 prisoners and fifty machine guns captured. Allies drive on fronts between Bailleul and Soissons while French and Italian successes expand lines and seize prisoners.
Iowa news notes report Pershing veterans visit led to a townwide pull for wartime labor duty. Coal distribution under fuel administration rules, dairy standard adoption, streetcar wage demands, and a Moose convention are outlined alongside raids, weather, and public notices in a mosaic of 1918 Iowa activity.
A devotional piece argues three reasons to recite Teach me thy way O Lord daily. It cites natural ignorance, personal spiritual peculiarities, and the threefold enemies the world flesh and the devil as causes for needing divine personal instruction to stay on the Lord's path.
A roundup of brief items notes Minnesota banning alien teachers and other varied items. It mentions a California congressman, wage proposals for London firemen, weight changes of a prison inmate, cheaper electric tractors for German city garbage wagons, a tremolo attachment for stringed instruments, a Pittsfield man’s hat misdelivery, and OSS-like civil defense ideas amid wartime context. Further items include Rebecca Mayo running a Province town shoe store since 1875, Russian prisoners in Germany producing propaganda books, a New York hotel flag pole being lowered for painting, Mt Holyoke students driving milk routes, coal reclaim from the Schuylkill river, and washeries taking coal from the river bed when weather allows.
The storage battery or electric accumulator of Faure was first shown in London 37 years ago. Since then Edison and others have greatly improved the device and it is now successfully used to power street cars and other applications.
A quotation from Bacon emphasizes that steady leadership in military matters is more essential than in peace, warning that mistakes in war can be irremediable.
The note urges speaking cheerfully to spread pleasure and avoid gloom. It emphasizes that half the battle is won by maintaining a positive tone and Ernest effort to confer happiness on others.
A two foot high ant hill was found to harbor about 98 000 ants after two years of observation by a renowned naturalist. The study details sustained growth and reveals surprising colony density in a single mound.
Washington reports from consular dispatches quote a munition workers’ committee investigator urging measures to curb daytime distractions. The notice suggests psychological calm among workers by limiting conversation and even recommends plugging ears during shifts to reduce accidents as production speed rises.
Moscow reports an understanding allowing immediate head for head exchange of able bodied prisoners, up to railroad capacity, while Russia seeks full repatriation. Negotiations with Germany are paused after insisting on head for head exchanges, reflecting population imbalances and prisoner distributions between the nations.
Thoreau reflects on a sunset over a quiet marsh where a lone hawk and a muskrat cabin dwell. The scene glows with a pure bright light that feels like a foretaste of a great awakening shining into minds and hearts.
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