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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1931
Page
8
The town prepares for the new tea room operated by Mrs Alta Ahrendsen and Mrs Clara Jenkins in the Neville Waite building east of the Black Diamond garage. A busy social calendar follows with club meetings, church events, and visits from relatives spanning Ames Cedar Falls and Cascade.
Neva Wilson stayed with uncle Cecil Ross near Hopkinton. Several families visited or hosted gatherings in Hopkinton Monticello Cascade Anamosa and surrounding areas including Behrends Batchelder and other households. Descriptions mention beauty course plans for Mary Clement and multiple Sunday and weekday visits to homes and parks.
Monticello residents A W Cramer and Mona Lightfoot visit relatives as threshing winds down across the area. Delays move threshing outfits to Buck Creek. injuries occur on Lay Bros farm and events include Luther League plays in Prairieburg and Wyoming. Community visitors at Backbone State Park and Strawbery Point, with Farm Bureau and 4-H meetings scheduled this week.
Richland Center residents and families hosted and visited across towns this week. Highland Wisconsin’s Rev W Schneck and family spent the early week with Will Balsiger. Mrs Roy Barry of Blackwell Oklahoma stayed at the same home last Saturday. Belleville Ti Peters brothers visited John Yossi. Mrs John Yossi and Lucille and Dolores visited Alfred Yossi near Prairieburg. Frank Dougherty of Cedar Rapids visited Oliver Kiburz last week. Dolores visited Prairieburg at the Will Husman home last Saturday. Martha Buol spent the week in Viola with brother Martin Buol. Herman Schneider and son Howard, Harold Sippel and Ruth, from Dubuque, and Ray Hearn of Monticello were Sunday visitors at Joe Kiburz. Carl Hein hosted relatives for dinner honoring George and Margaret Guyan and Mrs Stena McKee and Vernice McKee visiting from Rock Rapids. Anna Guyan of Hopkinton visited sisters here. Vincent, John and Martha Balcar of Cedar Rapids visited Sunday with L Wisemeier. Mary Ellen Wisemer returned home with them for a short visit.
Iowa State College soils department reports on Tama silt loam in Marshall county showing best lime timing is with the second corn crop during seed bed prep or soon after emergence. Results indicate full or double lime rates neutralize topsoil acidity within a year, while finer materials act faster. movement downward is slow and long term changes are limited to upper layers.
Iowa State College zoology expert C H Richardson explains heat driven ant invasions during dry weather. He recommends Argentine ant bait using sugar tartaric acid sodium benzoate and water boiled then mixed with arsenic solution and honey applied to sponge in perforated tins. For lawn nests carbon bisulphide in shallow holes drives out ants. multiple treatments may be required.
Window cleaning tips use kerosene in water and a straight edge dustpan. Recipes cover cooked cucumbers and French toast using stale bread. A cherry relish recipe explains making sugar syrup, spice bag, and vinegar to finish the preserve.
Specialists at Iowa State College advise planting vegetables as late as July to provide fresh table produce and canning stock. Beets and carrots plant for greens and storage, small roots store better than large. Chinese cabbage endive lettuce spinach can still mature before frost. celery may be set out and parsley started for winter pots.
In the distant Pacific, isolated islands once visited by freighters and trading ships now see a reversal of contact. Palmgroves dot the sea as calendar days seem to turn back, with fewer ships stopping for supplies and natives re adopting premodern life away from tourist routes.
The passage traces the rose from ancient cultivations across Greece Persia and China to its status as a beloved flower not tied to any one race. It notes Athens crowning the rose 2000 years ago and George Washington cultivating a Mary Washington hybrid at Mount Vernon from Rosa setigera seed, launching American rose cultivation.
The article surveys the enduring puzzle of the ten lost tribes of Israel. It notes deras varied fates after severing ties with Judah and Benjamin, the Assyrian captivity, and the lack of definitive evidence. It mentions theories linking tribes to Anglo Saxons Indians Hawaiians Aztecs and other peoples, but finds no conclusive discoveries.
The New York Times notes strong aversion to imitation jewelry in Egypt with natives preferring gold or silver. 21 karat gold is most preferred while finish quality is deemed unimportant. Upper Egypt makes horseshoe and crescent earrings, Cairo middle class favor Fatima’s hand shapes, and Sharkieh favors fish motifs tied to historic eras.
The passage notes cosmetics as common to both savage and civilized groups and compares women in Tonga and the Caribbean to wearers of paint. It asserts that nakedness may be permitted among Tongans and Caribbean women but only with paint for moral and valor symbolism, linking facial colors to courage and social role.
The article notes that carbon and hydrogen power energy but only in certain usable forms, while petroleum is useless to the body. It emphasizes digestibility and that the human system needs small, daily amounts of various food classes for a balanced body.
An authority argues smoke reduction hinges on public use of light heat and power from large centrally located plants. These plants cut their own smoke through machinery that removes solids from gases before emission. Electrification of railroads and electric cooking follows, spreading to apartments hotels and restaurants.
Proceedings show Manuel Straesslin appointed constable to fill a vacancy in Wyoming township. The board also approves renewal of the School Fund Loan for Main and authorizes the county auditor to arrange the extension. Motion carried in both actions.
A Wheeling West Virginia city ordinance that would have required prisoners to work on street cleaning with a ball and chain has been rescinded by the city council. The measure had drawn opposition from the West Virginia Federation of Labor which opposed chaining prisoners.
Certificate details Jones county primary road bond measure asking to authorize bonds up to 500 000 dollars for drainage and paving and a yearly tax not exceeding 5 mills with primary road fund allotments to retire bonds. Precinct results show Anamosa precinct tallies 156 47 40.
The Anamosa Iowa board met at 9:00 am and 1:30 pm to review the 1931 assessments, approving the abstract with targeted changes in Washington Jackson Rome Hale Oxford and Olin townships. Hearings were set for June 30 and July 7, 1931, while other actions included cigarette permit for Alva Gerdes and coal bids for county use.
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