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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1908
Page
6
Farmers' Review recounts how a couple built a durable land roller for about four dollars and seventy-five cents using four repurposed wagon wheels, a steel rod, rivets, a hardwood frame, and a bent-hook shaft guard to prevent scraping. The project grew from necessity and neighborly help, proving thrift and practicality.
Iowa State University reports three Rhodes qualifiers from Iowa after January exams. John I Huff of Muscatine now at the University of Iowa, Jacob A O Larson of Decorah from Luther College, and William B Millen, Cornell College graduate and Columbus Junction superintendent, emerge as nominees for the Iowa award. Charles A Sprigg from Monmouth College also took the exam from Illinois.
The Green Mountain Savings case expands with H F Roberts filing new informations against President Stuart B MacDiarmid and Cashier Donald A Johnson. MacDiarmid faces perjury embezzlement and conspiracy charges tied to keeping the bank open while insolvent. Johnson is charged with perjury and accepting deposits knowing insolvency. Witnesses testified behind closed doors about Johnson's knowledge of insolvency during the bank examination.
Sen James H Jamison of Osceola has been chosen permanent receiver for the First National Bank of Chariton. Col Hepburn backed the selection from the district, with H M Bostwick to return to duties after Jamison takes charge. Debtor suits may be consolidated to speed claims settlement and limited dividends await preferred claims.
Lucian C. Blanchard prominent Iowa Republican dies at home after short illness from heart and kidney trouble. Civil War veteran and long serving public official including Poweshiek county judge 1867 and Sixth district judge 1868 1880 state representative 1893 state senator 1895 1899 author of anti compact insurance law and other statutes. He leaves a widow daughter Mrs Rose Jerrell Oska Joosa and son Claude Blanchard Davenport.
Andrew Carnegie provided a grant of 63 500 dollars to Coe College in Cedar Rapids for a new science building. The gift supports construction of a science ball and advances the college’s facilities.
Union Pacific transfer detectives uncovered a long running scheme injuring emigrants stockmen and other shippers. Four men held on vague charges confessed implicating railroad workers and prominent locals. A bogus inspector halted trains to extract large payments under guise of contract approvals. One stockman lost 75 dollars per car of cattle after a five car shipment was mulched.
In Clinton an inquest revealed damaging character testimony about Nellie Dolph the 17 year old wife of Fred Dolph accused of his murder. Nellie Dolph reportedly sought Josiet and asked to return to Clinton as her husband lay dead while attorney F L Holleran helped prepare a defense and told officers where the body was found.
Police hold Irene Brown after Fred Delph 26 is found dead in bed with his head blown off by a shotgun. A adjoining room yielded the weapon. Inquest witnesses are subpoenaed as liquor bottles litter the cottage where nightly revels once occurred.
A Roman Catholic convent in Mason City burned to the ground at midnight. Eighteen occupants including sisters and attendants escaped miraculously as sparks from a burning chimney fed the blaze. The institution housed 250 students and eight teachers. total loss around $30,000 with $16,000 insured. The fire was spectacular.
Tony Spunkup of Cedar Rapids, a motorman on the Cedar Rapids & Iowa interurban, was seriously wounded in the hip when a revolver fell from Ralph Smith the express messenger and discharged through the chair. The bullet was removed at Cedar Rapids and the injury is not fatal.
Merrill Andrews, who accidentally shot himself while hunting, underwent amputation near the shoulder. Despite the shock, his good physical condition and recovery prospects give family and friends hope.
A new barn belonging to J. C. Yetley on the edge of Marshalltown burned. Eight horses and fifteen head of cattle were killed along with hay and other contents totaling a loss of 6000 dollars. Insurance on the barn is 600 dollars. The fire’s origin remains unknown.
David Moyer aged 89 joined Grace Reformed Church in Conesville after a revival in the town. He is listed as the oldest person ever received into church membership in Iowa.
A Prairie Farmer reader describes repurposing old rake teeth into a gate staple. Teeth are heated and formed into a large staple with a seven inch loop for six inch boards. Staples are fixed by two post holes and quartering to allow a gate to swing aside.
A farmer can handle large cutting via a one man swing saw. The frame uses 1x2 inch pieces with 2x4 sills and a 14 inch wide frame with a center guide. Height adjustable. designed to be used with a common crosscut saw per the Agricultural Epitomist.
The article explains how farmers must analyze soil composition to maintain fertility. It discusses textures, lime, sand and clay dressings, and how nitrogen content governs long term productivity. It notes that overcropping can exhaust even the most fertile fields when nitrogen removed exceeds replenishment.
Insect and rodent infestations in grain bins are best treated with bisulphide of carbon a volatile liquid that forms gas and penetrates holes sinking to low points. Poured into rat holes a spoonful then covered with dirt forces pests to surface or perish. Also useful against wheat weevils and root pests near tree roots but must avoid any flame or light due to its explosive vapors.
The article weighs corn and oats as horse feed noting corn adds heat and is best in cool work while oats build muscle vigor and fat reserves. It cautions corn lacks essential minerals for bone and sinew development and cannot replace oats in old or sound grain.
Many mowers still good in their year are discarded or sold for old iron due to defects elsewhere. They make excellent powers for light work and would aid any farm. Remove the levers seat cutter bars and tongue no longer needed. Then turn the mower on its side with one wheel up and
Instructions describe converting an old mower into a power source. Lay the wheel gear side down, stake and wire tight, secure the frame, and attach a sweep for horse hitching to the top wheel. Connect tumbling rods to the crank wheel to drive a sickle pitman for power to run light shelters, grinders, and washing machines.
Reports from Magrath and Spring Coulee Alberta show winter wheat yields from 30 to 60 bushels per acre with farmer returns of 25 to 50 dollars per acre. Producers like H Howes J I Haycock and W S Sherad recount high yields on acres of Alberta Red winter wheat and other grains while noting wide land values and strong prospects across the district.
A Lynchburg Virginia court heard a unique plea in a kleptomania case as a Black defendant claimed the chickens hypnotized him, prompting the judge to hear the humorous justification.
The piece urges farmers to think as well as work in all fields and crops. Proper handling can lower mortgage costs and turn weeds into income. Keep wagons under cover, repurpose grain and skim milk for a flock of 100 to 300 fowls to boost returns.
Magistrate hears that a wife allegedly threw a flat iron and sauce pan at her husband in a domestic dispute. The rest is garbled text including anecdotes about a Washington man in Connecticut and a misquoted Mazzini saying, plus advertising-like lines about throat lozenges and a Latin quip.
September 1 sowing followed a sequence of rye as winter cover in 1906 and green manure. Last spring rye was turned under, soil worked with a plank drag, cowpeas planted, cut August 15, and soil cultivated until September 1 when alfalfa was sown to renew the meadow.
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