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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1932
Page
5
1,700 tickets sold as Wyoming Bost No. 259 American Legion promotes renewals in a tone of a bustling campaign. Ice storms caused outages. branches and poles down. fire, clubs, and social notices fill the page with local life.
Center Junctions The Corner grocery and restaurant owned by FE Kleineck was heavily burned last Thursday evening while the family was away at Tipton. Firemen fought the blaze after a neighbor spotted it at midnight, but the grocery and dry goods stocks suffered a total loss with severe damage to the building.
The Hopkinton area hosts multiple club meetings including the Presbyterian Sabbath school luncheon, Monday night bridge clubs, Embroidery and Kensington clubs, and a Sunbeam chapter session with a school of instruction led by Elna Rohwedder. School board candidates F A Irish and A R Stanger file, with incumbents Kirkwood and Lux seeking re-election.
Church services at Onslow were held as usual with Sunday school, a Sunday sermon by Rev. Nichols from Wyoming, and reminders that the schedule will repeat. A missionary society supper is set for March 11 at Mrs. Lydia Lyons home, serving 25 cents. Astrarian club met at Mrs. C R Smith with chair Glatha Willison, discussing next year’s program and electing officers. New baby born to Mr. and Mrs. Emil Paulsen west of Onslow, making three children. Arlington birth announced for Mrs. Irma Hurtman. Onslow schools report honor rolls and class standings for the fourth six weeks, and the senior class selects Meet Uncle Sally for the April 15 play. Various residents moved houses and attended funerals in Clinton, with local staff updates.
After rain turned to sleet the area suffered damaged telephone wires and trees, with six inch branches broken and ice coated gear causing farm water shortages. Snow plows replace trucks on frozen roads and churches held no service due to conditions.
The Jones county farm bureau announces lesson topics for 1932 home management projects including kitchen utensil selection goals in home making and large quantity meal planning. Meetings are set for September to February with township leaders listed for Richland Wyoming Castle Grove Fairview Madison Greenfield and Jackson and Wayne.
A local report details a collision between an automobile driven by Gerald Crowley and a colt owned by Denis Donovan, the colt killed, and the car towed to Monticello. It notes rough weather, power and telephone outages, partial restoration by week’s end, and ongoing farm and school activities in the Castle Grove Monticello region.
Cool spring weather shifts to heavy ice and a rare blizzard threat, causing road and utility damage and delayed mail. Presbyterian Aid society meets with postponed officer elections. Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls gather February 27 at Elosie Kuhns, with members and visitors sharing talks, music memory, and a 4-H pillow demonstration.
Langworthy Mrs Louis Ireland hosted a Saturday afternoon party for her son Gilbert turning nine. Guests Verna Stutt Robert Dorothy and Phyllis Heyen Dorothy and Wilma Prult enjoyed games and a lunch as Gilbert received gifts. Harm Bunting of Wayne began work for John Olfman on March 1 with Rev Tendick and wife from Monticello and their niece in attendance.
Fred Poppe Sr died last Friday night at his son Fred Poppe Jr.’s home after a short illness. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Wayne Zion’s Lutheran Church with a 10:30 a.m. home service. Mr and Mrs Aleck Hannan and family, who once lived with the Hannans’ parents, have moved to Monticello. Mrs Purl Taylor of Monticello visited Friday with her daughter Mrs Clifford Arduser.
G A Peet seeks Republican nomination for county supervisor with term starting 1933. Sheriff sale transfers include 120 acre Wayne township farm to J W Kaufman for 11447.09 and Washington township farm to James Murphy for 14721.99. A farewell party for Mr and Mrs Ray Fairbanks marks 22 years on their Cass Center farm. Edna Lenz and Marion Platner announce their marriage in Monmouth Illinois with attendants Emmett Steinbrecker and Mrs. Platner’s background at Irish Business College and Terry-Durin.
Gerald Wolfe of Anamosa employed at Monticello Service Printery now run by Everett Maloney. George Hennessey and family relocate from Clark Joslin farm to a Cedar Rapids area farm east of Bever avenue. W. H. Lohr learns by telegram of father Charles M. Lohr's death in Staunton Virginia. Grand jury for March term fails to return a true bill. Jury members listed. Ice coated wires disrupt telephone service with eighty poles broken and steel guys snapped as repairs race to restore long distance.
The extension service at Iowa State College offers a new builders training school for lumber dealers carpenters and others to learn farm building requirements remodeling and construction. Sessions cover ventilation insulation wind and fire loss prevention and poultry dairy hog structures with emphasis on utility convenience economy and permanence. Iowa averages 4650 dollars invested per farm in buildings highlighting the need for efficient designs and low cost planning through the college and US Department of Agriculture guidance.
The Atchison Globe notes two facts Americans hold: they do not want war, but they hope China will whip Japan, reflecting cautious public sentiment.
Iowa State College economists release the 1932 Iowa Outlook Report urging farmers to avoid expanding enterprises and to cut costs. Hog markets show no immediate improvement though dairy profits may rise with careful management. Be gains hinge on culling and feeding. beef demand remains weak while horse prices may improve with herd replacements. Sheep outlook is downbeat with larger slaughter supplies early 1932 and a long road to profit.
North Tama Cow Testing group leads with 38.1 pounds butterfat per cow in January, aided by feeding legumes and homegrown feed. Other top associations include Osceola Fayette No 1 and West Branch with average outputs around 30 to 31 pounds. High herds are milked over twice daily. several herds reduced beef cull losses and cut feed costs per fat pound.
The fragment presents a poem praising a simple home as heaven born from love. It highlights intimate lines about a fire-bright room, a wind in a tree, and whispered words that shape a world for the speaker, attributed to Helen Welshimer in the New York World Telegram.
Cookery notes offer ideas to spruce up baked apples with honey whipped cream and nuts, bacon wrapping for meat patties, cabbage in milk with butter and cream, fried asparagus with breaded coating, a chocolate melt on hot cake, fruit with cream, grated cheese on pies, and date fillings with cream cheese.
A collection of remarks from Chas Shaw John Moore Gov Ritchie Otto Kahn T EB Lawson Voltaire Mark Twain Mary Pickford Dawes and a doctor dialogue. The quotes critique education mood greed fear prosperity and reputation with wry humor and social observation.
University of Oregon used football funds to retire six months before maturity a $150000 bond issue that financed a basketball pavilion, consolidating debt and freeing annual debt service for other athletic projects.
Hi-Bred corn claims science based breeding raises yields by about ten bushels per acre over ordinary corn. The program traces to Henry Wallace's early work and Grimes Iowa trials with Medrid crosses, touting a Banner Trophy win for high yield and growing demand driving production 24 times that of the first year.
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