New General Assembly Laws Take Effect and New Rules Enacted
Many laws passed by the last General Assembly took effect last Sunday with several measures becoming active January 1. Penalties rise for bootlegging to a felony with up to a year in jail and fines, liquor junction violations face prison terms and higher fines, and carriers must track liquor and obtain receipts. Tax notices may be served by three taxpayers, tips carry fines or jail, insurers face rate rules, and auto plates extend to three years. Highway funding shifts to counties, employment restrictions for youths tighten, state agents aid enforcement, bridges bidding thresholds rise, cities may adopt the manager plan, mail ballots are allowed, railroad pay halves, weeds timing, and cities may form municipal courts.
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General Assembly
State Highway Commission
Wallaces' Farmer on Alcohol and War Time Temperance
The piece questions English clergy abstinence during war and condemns government sabbath wages for promoting alcohol use. It cites Lloyd George remarks on drink as a greater cost than German enemies and notes Russia banning vodka while bank deposits rise. It argues alcohol harms national progress and calls for temperance.
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Ireland
Lloyd George
England
Germany
Kaiser
Russia
Low Alfalfa In August Seeding Prospects
The Iowa State College agricultural findings show late summer seeding of alfalfa yields far fewer failures than spring sowing, with about 9 percent losses versus 23 percent. Proper land preparation, early harvest, and thorough soil work boost success, though August seedings face higher moisture demands and greater insect risk. Iroquois Chief: What happened to the town resident with a horse and carriage for pleasure rides?
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Iowa
Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa State College
City of Monticello Seeks Bids for Varvel Chestnut Sewer Line
The Monticello Iowa city clerk invites bids to reconstruct and relay a sewer on Varvel Street from Chestnut to Railroad and add a Chestnut street segment to the system. Plans are on file. bids due August 2, 1916, with $200 certified check and $1,000 bond requirement.
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Varvel and
Chestnut Streets
City of
Monticello
Iowa
Varvel Street
Chestnut and
Walnut Streets
Varvel
Railroad Streets
Chestnut Street
Buckeyes
Chestnut
Warvel
Chestnut, Varvel
City Water Main
Buckeye Street
Railroad Street
Clark Street
Sycamore Street
Tire
Sycamore
North Cedar Streets
First
Second
City
Monticello Repeals Speed Limit Ordinance 422 Substituted
Ordinance 466 repeals section one of ordinance 422 and enacts a substitute setting a speed limit of 15 miles per hour on all city streets highways and alleys within Monticello Iowa The ordinance takes effect immediately upon publication and is dated July 5 1916 Attest Mayor and City Clerk signs follow.
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Monticello
Iowa
Sach City
34Th General, Assembly
State of Iowa
Jones County Times
C. L. van Meter
C. J. Northrop
Man Punished for Youth Sins Amid Tough Luck
Editorial reflects on how some men endure hardship as consequences of youthful misdeeds. The piece considers fate and personal responsibility shaping present challenges.
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Atchison Globe
Chautauqua Program at Monticello Iowa July Events
The Chautauqua program in Monticello Iowa runs July 15 to 19 with Superintendent Fred G. Fischer and Play Supervisor Eva Efaw. Daily sessions feature children activities, concerts by the Alpine Singers and Yodlers, lectures by Hon. B. F. McDonald, and a variety of musical, dramatic, and educational programs led by The Hinton Mordelia Company, The Regniers, and The El Dorado Grand Opera Company.
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Monticello
Iowa
Fred G. Fischer
Eva Efaw
Chautauqua Grounds
B. F. McDonald
Alpine Singers
Hinton-Mordelia Company
Geo. E. Colby
Chicago Daily News
Hinton- Mordelia Company
Robert J. Patterson
Variety Club
Lee
Estelle
Pioneer Juvenile Court
The
Reginners
Paul P
Prosser
Regniers
Frederick Poole
1 Dorado Grand Opera Company
A. Baker
Grand Opera
el Dorado Grand Opera Company
Bids Submitted for Oxford School Building General Contract
The Mirror lists bids for the Oxford school project in Tas ntime VALILLIVUS. S. B. Neilly Monticelli bids 13645.00. R. H. Fisher Cedar Rapids 15490.00. Logan Bros Clinton 15750.00. F. Rutenbeck Lost Nation 14860.00. Herman Opfer Monticello 18129.50. Heating and plumbing bids from Prahm Leech Co Ottawa Jet 82452.00. Darragh Loufek Cedar Rapids 2479.00. Wilson Heating Co Washington 2716.00. Carpenter & Co Cedar Rapids 2650.00. E Dieman Co Cedar Rapids 2400.00. R. E McCartney Cedar Rapids 2700.00. Cross Hdwe Monticello 2571.00. Plumbing Prahm Leech Co Ottawa Jct 1189.00. Darragh Loufek Cedar Rapids 1149.00. Wilson Htg Co Washington 1297.00. Jas L McCarthy Clinton 1500.00. EB L Dieman Co Cedar Rap 1240.00. Cross Hdwe Monticello 1269.00. Combined Heating and Plumbing Wilson Htg Co Washington 3988.00. Messner Co Cedar Rapids 4290.00. Darragh Loufek Cedar Rapids 3528.00.
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S. B. Neilly
Monticelli
R. H. Fisher
Cedar Rapids
Logan Bros
Clinton
F. Rutenbeck
Lost Nation
Herman Opfer
Monticello
Prahm
Leech & Co
Otr
Jet
Darragh & Loufek
Cedar Rap
Wilson Heat’g Co
Washington
Carpenter & Co
E. Dieman & Co
R. E. McCartney
Cross Hdw. Co
Plumbing
Prabm, Leech & Co
Wilson H’t’g Co
Jas. L. McCarthy
L. Dieman & Co
Cdr
Messner & Co
Darragh & Lousek
Newspaper Advertising Tops Publicity For Business Reach
Mt. Vernon Hawk Eye notes a shift to newspaper publicity as the modern, most productive promotional method. The big world advertising convention and leading circuses endorse newspaper use, discarding traditional posters despite higher ad rates for space.
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Mt. Vernon
Hawk-Eye
Why it Must Be Paid For In Newspapers
The Maquoketa Sentinel asserts that a newspaper must charge for free advertising if the beneficiary does not pay and emphasizes that a paper must rent space in its columns to survive. Giving away rent at less than living rates harms the publication as surely as a landlord giving free rent.
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Maquoketa Sentinel
Spy on the Balkans and a Coal Dust Reunion
An American traveler recounts a Balkan spy tale near Adrianople and Roumelia as a Turkish pursuit unfolds. The captured spy hides beneath locomotive coal in Sofia, reuniting with the traveler later, and the article shifts to Farragut era plans for New Orleans defenses and their destruction.
Hogarth as Spy Arrest Revealed in Calais Sketch
A 18th century tale recalls Hogarth being seized in France while drawing Calais gate for a painting. The governor warned he would have been hanged if peace not signed days earlier. Hogarth depicted the moment, including a French soldier’s touch on his shoulder.
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Hogarth
France
Calais
England
Writh
Tlogarth
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the Mirror
Oxford
Valillivus
General
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Belgrade
Fez
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Thirmen
Roumelia
Roumella
Hermant
Farragut
New Orleans
Navy Department
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Warragut
Lowell State Bank
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Onticallo
Jonas
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MILNE
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CTO Ghee Cocrec Sence
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Jones County
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L. Lovell
Hall
C. Burton
Gio. L. Loven
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RU. Srunton
Geo. LF Lovell
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Ut. O. Stirton
Thompson Notary Public
Bidwell
J. W. Daxace
W. A. Mietek
TE Monticello State Bank
Lins
Onticello
Jones
National Bank
COUML
Total Assets
Pocheck
J. Jones County
Richardson
F. I. Becker
Becker
H.8. Richardson
F. F. Becker
BEAL
J. W. Doxser
Notary Public
KE. Hicks
Hose
C. N. Patrick
Monticello, Ia
Bell Telephone
Bell Service
Iowa Telephone Company
Horse Hospital
George Albery
Cedar Street
First Street
Harry E. Netcott
Independence, Iowa
York
ICE Machine
Westerlin & Campbell
Chicago
Suter & Son
Monticello, Iowa
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