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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1934
Page
7
A Council Bluffs boy 7 drowns after falling through Missouri River ice and a fortune teller’s unusual remedy follows fruitless search. Also, Cornelius Brower 19 appears alive in Sioux City after a payroll misfiling labeled him dead while moving between projects.
The article profiles G W Rhine, 102, of Creston, who recalls six depressions and low farm prices while crediting faith and abstinence. It then sketches a mule versus car crash near Winterset with a fatal mule, a jail break attempt thwarted by Deputy Fitzpatrick in Elkader, and work on an Eldora dam revealing old materials. Additional items cover church supper vs restaurant tensions in Council Bluffs, and Deputy Auditor Keller tallying gopher bounties in Mahaska county with a humorous dozen of feet counted.
The notice notes an estimate that without trapping 93,282 gophers would have roamed Mahaska County. It discusses the impact of the bounty program and the outcome of removing them.
Owners in Perry Dallas county expand capacity with new equipment to process hogs at 150 per hour. A winter crew reinforces operations as the plant aims to rise from a small facility to a leading Iowa slaughter house under the new deal for farmers.
The state fish and game commission sought 3 000 live rabbits in good condition from Davis county and designated a Bloomfield produce house as headquarters. Youth were enlisted to collect rabbits with a payment of 10 cents per animal to help stock game preserves in other parts of the state.
C H Henry began binding books in 1924 in a Brighton woodshed. He expanded to an old church in 1931 and now employs his family to serve a growing client base including France Africa and Canada. The piece ends with a nod to America as the land of opportunity.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on a fire insurance dispute arising from a Davis County home fire that destroyed Ben J. Hall property. Hall's claim for 1550 dollars for a diamond stud was under review after district court proceedings.
Union county town Prosperity remains buoyant as 649 carloads of farm products moved through its single railroad last year. Of these 51 carried cattle and 435 hogs with grain making up the remainder. In January 135 weeks of hogs were shipped as the new year began.
Afton in Union county saw 55 CWA workers joined by 75 local merchants and 165 high school boys, totaling 145, complete a new water system before February 15. The project, funded by a government grant under the CWA, employed and paid only the CWA workers. Earl A Miller, Shel don, Iowa, advised a French engineer on a butane plant and received thanks in a letter from Max M Dixon noting European scarcity of air butane plants.
The article notes Iowa's diverse output beyond farming, highlighting that the state produces world wide authorities in other industries as well. It emphasizes breadth of expertise and economic impact across sectors.
George G. Rodman died in Washington county at age 84. He had lived in Washington for seven years and was the oldest Mason in the local lodge. He was the oldest living graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law and long served as editor and publisher of the Washington Democrat in its early, politically driven days.
A series of accidents in Otley Marion county left Mrs. Fred Stone unconscious and near death from freezing, with doctors warning possible limb amputation. Her husband was found in a dazed car, likely saved by luck from carbon monoxide gas. John Petersma later collapsed on the highway believed to be a fit.
Nick Dyke of south of Sheldon in OBrien county visited a Sheldon newspaper office to view a diverse deer antler collection and recalled past times when deer roamed Iowa. He moved, revealing further details of his connection to the display.
In 1871 elk covered much of northwestern Iowa with large herds in rough country of north Lyon and Osceola counties. Dyke recalls seeing deer in abundance and antelope thickly present, noting elk beware crowds and that herds moved quickly and avoided stopping in their paths.
A series of property deeds and transfers are recorded including Geo W ONeill to First Farm Land Co parcels in Monticello and Hopkinton with mortgage conditions, Folkert Hedden to E F Etben Bradstreet's Monticello tracts, and life use reservation on an bedroom. Also H P Bancroft to Edward W Tjaden, Thomas K Buxton and wife to Geo Slater and Dora Slater, Jesse Ballou to Kathleen Irons, Sheriff to First Trust Land Bank, and related exchanges with Monmouth Logs Bank and American Svygs Bank Maquoketa, plus road purposes exclusion and railroad right of way notes.
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