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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1923
Page
2
The Monticello Express lists a subscription price of 6.00 per year. Editors J. W. Doxsee and Chas A. Doxsee publish the paper.
Miss Frances June Nelson chose for her marriage to Sim E. Wherry of Des Moines. The ceremony at 6:80 o'clock featured a bridal procession, honor attendants, and a four course dinner for guests. After a two week honeymoon to Minnesota and Wisconsin, the couple will reside in Des Moines.
Castle Grove holds a Friday farm bureau meeting with Steve Petersen on European cooperation and Mrs. U A Kromminga on the school place in community activities. J A Deischer discusses alfalfa cattle feed while Miss Evangeline Henessey entertains, and a movie night showcases electricity’s farm use.
Center Junction hosts a farm bureau ice cream social July 11 to support sending demonstration teams to the state fair. The Double H club plans a chate of the program with songs, a play Not a Man About the Camp and readings by Club Girls including Eloise Young and Elizabeth Young. Municipal notices mention proceeds benefiting township activities.
A community bulletin notes a wind storm loss of 9.34 dollars. Silo at Will Brokens farm toppled and wind mill at T Streets place overturned. C A Sutherlands barn cupola damaged. Mrs. Robert Clark visited Cedar Rapids then planned Hawick Minnesota trip. Local residents attend Sunbeam social and plan a Ladies Aid meeting July 11.
Lee Taylor and Evelyn Eve of Onslow wed at Maquoketa last Wednesday with a reception that evening at the bridegroom’s home. The couple will reside near town. Numerous visits and trips around Iowa and distant states are noted, including Minnesota lakes camping and fishing plans, several family visits to Waterloo Davenport Cedar Rapids and Washington DC, and local preaching at upcoming Sunday services.
In Sand Spring July 3 the annual school meeting elected F. P. Lux president of the school board for the coming year. Blair was re-elected secretary and Fred Egger re-elected treasurer. The S. M. F. club met with Mrs. R. J. McNeill Friday. Numerous visitors joined relatives for greetings and gatherings, with family visits spanning Blair Hopkinton Marion Dubuque Farley Manchester and Monticello regions.
Amber and Fred Bangs visit Onslow relatives while W A Clark hosts at Harry Chase near Wyoming. Mildred Kratz visits Chicago home of Rev Kratz. About twenty attend Antioch union services. Mrs Myron Dodge returns home from nursing. Cirrus and Fern Bailey and Freda Anderson visit friends. Philip Bailey, George Andrews and Grover Preston attend Cedar Rapids circus. Lee and Roscoe Lincoln visit Art Lincoln home near Wyoming. Nettie Preston and daughter Leon visit George Andrews. Monticello relatives visit Charles Michaels. Thomas Bowers visits Cedar Rapids. John Gee visits J E Duncan home. Garrett Dirke family from Cass visit Otto Otten. Orla and Eugene Bailey visit Mquoketa relatives. Rev Kratz and Charles Grey weekend in Chicago.
Prairieburg July 2 Mr and Mrs Frank Tachida will be married in a ceremony announced by local social notices. The couple resides in Prairieburg with family and friends expected to attend.
The town residents discuss moving to the new school building for the summer. Visits from Peter Wagner and Walter Taylor are noted. The Sunday school picnic drew over sixty attendees. Mrs Mildred Taylor and her son stay with the Schoonovers. C O Rowley visited the Feler home. The last movie of the season ended last night.
The State Bar Association session in Mason City elected Representative Clyde Doolittle as secretary. Frank Holub mayor of Prairieburg died after several weeks illness at 40. Ma sonville church rebuilt with main contract 23000 dollars plus heating and plumbing. Helen Johnson of Hopkinton married George D. Grimes at West Union. she taught in local schools. Currie Simpson Co. preparing Buck Creek school site. well drilled. construction to begin soon. Eddie Fitzgerald of Dyersville, 9, killed by lightning while disconnecting a windmill. E N Akers of Hazel Green died last week in a heart stroke after prior heart trouble.
Mr and Mrs T W Shapley celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary with well wishers last Tuesday. A northern county man failed to complete a marriage as the license was returned unused. A Monday windstorm struck the Forest Chapel area tearing a 26 by 40 foot barn roof from the Allen Sones farm and toppling a steel windmill. The storm damaged the nearby Unter farm tearing the west end of a barn and roof. both Sones and Hunter carried windstorm insurance.
H W Richey of Iowa State College horticulture says renewal depends on old patch health. Most patches should not be cropped more than two seasons. some growers harvest only one crop. Methods vary but aim to minimize old plants, often by mowing, burning, and rearranging rows to establish new matting. If conditions are poor, cheaper to start with new plants.
A new county area law to remove tubercular livestock starts July 1. State aid figures, plus equal federal funds, support county eradication efforts. Packers will pay 10 cents more per hundred for livestock from accredited counties. Counties must seed funds, with petitions from 61 percent of breeders or 15 percent of voters enabling board action for enrollment or a special 3 mill levy.
E C Walz of the horticultural department of Iowa State College notes that beginners overestimate cool weather crops. He warns July and August lack proper growth for radishes lettuce peas and spinach while most other vegetables tolerate heat with attentive care. The text ends with a note on the owner of a successful summer garden.
The guide emphasizes three core garden practices: cultivation, mulching, and irrigation. Mulching conserves moisture, reduces weeds, cools roots, and can feed plants, while deep thorough watering followed by cultivation sustains the crop through dry periods. Daily light sprinkling is discouraged.
Robert J. Burdette began in Greene County Pennsylvania in 1844 and moved to Iowa in 1874 with the Stirlington Hawk Eye. He gained fame for humorous political sketches and Hawkeyetems, later becoming a lecturer in Keokuk before leaving papers for preaching in Los Angeles where he died in 1914.
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