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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1917
Page
2
Reports from Anamosa outline a car crash injuring Harold Powers and Harold Howe after a tire blowout on a wet road. Other items include a liquor transport enforcement warning, tax inquiry activity, a racecar crash in Boone, a convict escape pursuit, and local civic notes.
Sand Spring notes show Hopkinton visitors including Ernest Gearhart and family and others. Several Iowa towns are represented with visits and small-town social calls, plus a birth announced for Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Slauson.
John Hiben buys two registered Shorthorn cows from G J Minehart and plans to raise cattle, bringing his herd to 14. W O Norton improves in hospital though his limb pains persist. Frank and Mrs Foley of Neodesha arrive to spend the summer. Ed Burlingham returns from Lansing Michigan with a new car. Miss Mable Flockhart leaves for a month in southern Iowa. Mrs C J Fish and daughters of Memphis TN visit P F Lauser family. Mr and Mrs W Schoonover visit Cedar Rapids. Mrs J McQueen of Central City visits. Miss Rose Petrus from Minnesota stays with relatives. Ladies raise $42 at a supper Saturday. A new son arrives for Mr and Mrs M Woodard on July 6. Miss Bernice Knight helps with tasks.
Mrs. John Hiben with her house work. Bernice has been living in Cedar Rapids with her parents. Mrs. Maud Josephs is a guest in the H D Conklin home. Haying is going on now.
Center Junction July 24 reports the Rebekah lodge installed officers elect led by N G Mrs Esther McDonald and V G Mrs Elmer Andrews. Also noted are relatives visiting and travel updates as well as births and illnesses among residents.
The Iowa state house met to form a five member federal exemption board for Des Moines and Polk County. The group will hear appeals by affidavit only with no hearings, stressing strict honesty and perjury avoidance. Members include N. D. Ely chairman and Dr. Clarence Van Epps secretary, with Geo. Tucker William Cochrane and Harry Hopley as peers.
A Manson Journal reflection recalls a father who funded his son's six cylinder car from hard work. The piece contrasts ox teams and coal trips with the son’s modern wealth, noting the father paid the price through years of toil so his son could ride in wealth, not walk.
Anamosa Journal reports the death of Mrs. Sarah Matson Fellows of Iowa City widow of Dr. S N Fellows in her 81st year. She was daughter of Dr S G Matson pioneer of Jones county who helped frame Iowa's first Constitution and served in early state assemblies. Survived by two sons in New York and a daughter in Iowa City.
The president resolves a dispute pleasing both Goethals and Denman with a compromise. Goethals is delighted to see Denman outmaneuvered while Denman is tickled to death by Goethals winning.
Mitchell Northrop, son of Mr and Mrs C J Northrop, sailed for France in June as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross and reached Paris on July 4. The letter from his voyage describes ship life in the war zone, early French scenery, a near submarine encounter, and a festive French welcome for American troops in Paris. It ends with notes on France and a feature about the Beatrix oryx desert antelope and its thirst-quenching diet.
Sealed bids will be received at the county auditor's office in Jones County Iowa for rebuilding bridges 52 and 21 Plans and specifications are available at the same office Bridge 52 Lovell Township involves one concrete abutment for 24 ft I-B concrete and wing rails supplied by county Est 1340 old deck in creek to be wrecked Bridge 201 masonry abutment for 16 ft I-B span on concrete footing old I-B with concrete floor to be replaced on new abutments Structure moved 10 ft west of old site Est 1072 Hale diskeLevaEve LOWUSHIp.
A London Globe anecdote recalls an eminent lawyer who, when asked about grounds for suit, says he might sue if someone severely upsets him but would refrain once the offender is removed. He cites shattered ink stained tablecloths, an uprooted nose and a bust of Blackstone as triggers.
A collage of brief items including dialogue on office doors and listening, portraits of Bulwer Lytton in the Riviera, Augsburg’s Fuggerer quarter funded by old wealth, a byplay about Ireland as the richest country, a head ache cure via muscular exertion, and a quip about marriage for money.
Bids for purchase of the Ward school building in Center Junction Iowa must be sealed and received by 8 p m July 80 1917 at the secretary's office The district reserves the right to reject all bids Cash sale purchaser to remove building M G Alsever Secy
An Albany Knickerbocker Press account recalls a tale about James J Hill advising a Chicago banker to prioritize family. Hill paused the assigned journey saying true enjoyment lies within the four walls of home before beginning work.
The London Mail notes fur seals start on land and fear water, learning to swim only after effort. It highlights two main herds, in the Commander Islands under Russia and the larger Pribilof Islands under the United States, with the Pribilofs as government property and the world's most valuable herd.
A humorous note from Harper's Magazine about a first time duck hunter who shoots at a duck in the air and quips that his aim saved nothing as the falling bird would have died anyway. The joke hinges on the hunter’s lack of effect and the friend’s quick remark.
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