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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1942
Page
4
Monticello saw unprecedented precipitation with 13 percent inches of rain in 45 days, June and July totals show heavy rain on most days. A day by day record kept by J J Bateman lists frequent showers and large daily amounts alongside notes on Burley tobacco as a low nicotine variety used for chewing tobacco.
Midland and Amber Homemakers Club members and families picnic at Anamosa state park. Families visit relatives in South Dakota and Tennessee. Numerous dinners and gatherings occur across Oelwein Hopkinton Anamosa Cedar Rapids Monticello and Chicago with birthdays anniversaries and church picnics noted.
A mother cat is expected to have a litter within ten days. A small kitten will be included to keep the mother company until the blessed event.
A Civilian Defense drill at the Monticello community building staged nine incidents from a staged Axis raid. Gas and chlorine attacks caused injuries. fires, a crater on Highway 151, a damaged telephone exchange, and a destroyed hardware store facade were simulated with local officials coordinating rescue and cleanup.
The message calls for sustained support to military needs by purchasing defense bonds through banks, post offices, or savings and loan associations starting immediately. It emphasizes planes, ships, and guns funded by citizen contributions.
H. J. Cousins assigns to C. J. Bundy and O. M. Bundy wife and husband both, with the survivor to take full ownership of all property as joint tenants in fee simple. Consideration listed as $1.06 and other valuable considerations. Ada locality referenced in boilerplate language.
Congressman Harrington reports farmers face circuitous permit routes for home building while a nearby resident seeks cement corn crib approval. Boot foot Ray Pilcher in Ida Grove benefits from a temporary artificial foot to drive and stand without crutches. An antique 1912 Packard tire, found in Cresco, weighs over 40 pounds. Mills county auditor Louis Scott Robinson, in Boston, sends his Malvern father an Old South church air raid bulletin.
Want ads describe Starry Farm 260 acres six miles northwest of Anamosa with a country school on the property. Includes 160 acres tillable land, good improvements, within 26 miles of Cedar Rapids, moderate taxes, 25 percent cash due by March 1, and purchase as worth the money. Contacts A C Loepp and Harold Oldham for First Trust Joint Stock Land Bank of Chicago listings.
Bloomfield farmer Willie Lamb held a record with timothy at 10 inches before rival M. Jones surpassed it by producing timothy heads just over 11 inches. The contest showcased local growers competing for the longest heads in the field.
Cascade mourns as Mrs James Sullivan 39 a Cascade native dies at her Fremont Nebraska home Tuesday in a local death notice.
Following a long illness Carolyn Dolphin Sullivan died in Nebraska. Born December 6, 1903 in Cascade, she married James Sullivan in 1937 and lived in Omaha and Fremont. Survived by husband, son James, daughter May, her Cascade father, four brothers C J Dolphin Pasadena Roland Farley Milton Wilfred, and three sisters.
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