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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1936
Page
4
Iowa star Dick Crayne is urged for the College All-Stars to face the Detroit pro team this fall. The Three-year Hawkeye regular scored 120 points, excelled as blocker and defensive back, punted for three seasons, and was Iowa’s MVP twice.
Twelve teams compete at Monticello in a three day kittenball tournament on the local diamond. Games start 7 PM Thursday and Friday with five innings, Sunday finals at 6 30 PM seven innings. Admission 15 cents adults 5 cents children.
Last week the 4 H kittenball league saw the leaders tested. Martele defeated Crass 13 to 10 breaking a tie for the lead while Olin edged Jackson township 8 to 7 with a late rally. Fairview and Morley games were halted at dusk.
Inmates at Anamosa State Reformatory have started producing Iowa's 1937 license plates. Superintendent Lew Wallace estimates about 760,000 plates will be made for cars and trucks in the state next year. The plates will match this year’s design with white figures on a blue background, supervised by W. H. Beamen.
Hardware salesman Joe Simms drove into a ditch in Sioux county near Orange City after a bee crawled into his sleeve and stung him. He lost control and the car veered off the road, the incident leaving him shaken and the vehicle damaged.
Despite high temperatures, playground activities continue with croquet and handball leading. Paul Bender dominates croquet with 19 wins and 1 loss in 25 players, while Yola Rodman trails. Jim Guler tops handball with four straight wins. twilight kittenball begins next week for older youths, weather crates adjustments and no Saturday programs due to low attendance. Embryo golfers chase a midway lead with Paul Bender ahead by early margin over Dean Morey and Robert Siebels.
The county Soil Conservation office announced final approvals on delayed 1935 corn-hog contracts for five Jones County farmers. The total approved amount is 745 dollars as checks were delayed because landlords and operators did not cooperate. Farmers with approved contracts will be notified by the Moundeelo office and receive their checks.
Herbert Benson an unemployed plumber shot his wife in Independence on a Wednesday morning and then killed himself as witnesses watched. The coroner said an inquest would be held and noted the couple had not lived together for three weeks. Mrs Benson worked as a cafe waitress for about a month.
In Dickinson county at Arnolds Park the Nlac bush near the O Farrell hotel has flowered for a third time this year. Gardeners in northern Iowa note the unusual repeat blooming as a local curiosity.
The F. and K. team leads the league with four wins and no losses after an action packed week. Jim's Cafe beat Schlitz 8 to 7 while Stuhlers upset City Club, and Schutz edged Franklin 8 to 5 as league play heated up before Friday’s Monti cello kittenball tournament.
Anamosa council approved selling city back lots near the railroad station for 1200 dollars to form a park. Plans include a band stand gravel parking and lot preparation for city use. The REA project in Jones county progresses as the local board reviews developments.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Stuhler of Moline Illinois daughter of Albert J Stuhler of Monticello has accepted a teaching post in the Moline grade school She is a 19xx Lindenwood College graduate from St Charles Missouri and attended Town State Teachers College Cedar Falls She starts her duties September first.
Miss Emily Rogers aged 73 of Cascade died at John McDonald Hospital in Monticello after heart trouble and complications. She had been taken to the hospital recently. A complete obituary will appear in next week's Express.
Report cites Ted Toft in Royal Clay County where a banana bunch produced a spider that crawled across his hand and later attached to a fruit. a local man Fattonc reared it with a diet of dead flies. George A. Lee of Danbury shows a complete 5 1/2 inch elk antler bound from Maple River. Cherokee livestock experts note a sow at Dr W A Howard farm farrowed two litters within two weeks, seven piglets then eleven.
Ray Hogan of Worthington announces Leo J. Murphy of Worthington won a prize in Wonderland magazine’s Chevrolet dealers publication contest. Murphy entered a twenty five word letter praising the beauty strength and styling of the 1936 Chevrolet and is congratulated by many friends.
A compact set of old fashioned kitchen preparations describes layered graham cracker desserts with whipped cream and pecans, a molded fruit salad with marshmallows and pears, a chilled vegetable jello plate, and a rhubarb orange raisin boil then pectin set canning method. It reads like a vintage cookbook snippet.
A Mount Vernon woman in Linn county found a quick method to shell peas for canning. She ran the peas through the clothes wringer on her electric washing machine and claimed a bushel and a half were shelled in the time seven or eight people would take by hand.
A reflective poem urges endurance after defeat. It speaks to perseverance, resilience, and dignity, urging the reader to focus on how they ran the race rather than the outcome. It ends with a hopeful note as life proceeds from struggle to healing.
J W Jarnagin reports the Green couple of Oelwein Fayette county have started a reptile and venomous insect exhibit with trained and wild serpents centipedes and a rare glass snake. John Kalleneyn near Sheldon fears his friends after a car incident involving a pal. Wallace Bowman 22 quit a farm job leaving his employer concerned as he sought another job. W R Murray of Spirit Lake recovered his wife’s cameo brooch from Emmet county Mrs Poffenburger. the pin traveled from Ayrshire to Chicago and back over 14 years via an Illinois sister and a railroad man.
A Iowa family story traces Tommy Hufford and brothers in Des Moines and Emmetsburg facing a pattern of broken bones each June. Also, Beulah Knoop and Ted Greenman wed in Charles City after prior attempts, as a county tale, and a Zornes treasure case ends in ownership by possession.
Workmen uncover a massive dog collar in George Lyon county believed to be over forty years old. The relic shows three licenses dated 1804 1895 and 1805 from George and Smith land raising questions on the dog’s history. A separate note says Frederick Ducander from Denison faced burglary delaying his Tulane trip home from New Orleans.
Animals were found posted in a distant gully from the farm and far from the main road. No truck tracks were visible near the gully though the ground was soft. Officers cannot explain how the rustlers ran the theft, suggesting the flock may have been driven some distance then loaded in darkness.
Merlin Van Horn died from burns after a can of gasoline ignited while his father, inside a brooder house, tossed the container out as the boy and his sister Donna played nearby. Donna sustained burns to hands and face. The incident occurred near Parkersburg in Butler county.
B E Doyle of Shenandoah Page county says crows annoy farmers and golf players. Caddies searched a clover field at Shenandoah golf course for Doyle's ball after a crow allegedly nabbed it, forcing an extra stroke when the ball vanished.
Bystanders in Storm Lake Buena Vista county watched a car turn a corner and eject a portly woman who sprawled on the pavement. She rose, reentered the car, and the vehicle departed before help arrived.
Howard Minor of near Mc Intyre reports 50 sheep missing from his farm. He says the sheep were taken from his property and has notified Sheriff Kathan. No suspect identified and the case remains under investigation.
Residents in a Storm Lake area watched a sudden surge of thousands of toads on roads and yards. The half inch long amphibians blocked travel and caused concern before they vanished as quickly as they appeared, with no explanation of origin or destination.
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