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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
6
The March term of the district court opened with Judge Williamson on the bench for the day and Judge Smith taking charge the next day. The grand jury was impanelled and began investigations as entries on the judge’s calendar show numerous law cases, judgments, dismissals, defaults, decrees, and estates.
Rema Dixon reports on school life with visits from Fred and Albert Mastin, Thuttle in Latin class, and Frances Coyle with Doris Northrop. Thrift stamps total 1074.88. Aletheorian program at 2:15 pm Saturday. Girls basketball gains a new center and hosts events. juniors plan a gym roller skating party. Spelling results list seniors first, freshmen second, juniors third, sophomores last.
A city girl, Afrieda Reed, sent a housewife to a French soldier in Lafayette donation efforts two years ago. The soldier’s grateful reply praises the useful items and vows to hang the gift by his bed. He hopes to meet in heaven with his devoted American godmother and blesses her memory. Elie Bassa.
March records note deaths including George W. Condon and Jessie Crim, plus infant fatalities from pneumonia. Births: an eleven pound girl, seventh daughter in a large family. Property trades involve Fritz Doden and Harm Dirks. Local election results show W. W. Hunter as mayor and others in city offices. A humorous quiz asks who commanded the sun to stand still with answers uncertain.
A Toledo Blade commentary notes that eighty percent of Russians will be unable to read the history they have made, highlighting a grim cultural consequence of past actions.
Fragmentary dialogue shows C. N. Patrick fitting glasses and a question about immunity for prostration from service. The speaker notes someone claimed immunity while performing hard labor in oysters, joking that he suffered shell shock due to overwork.
Dr W D Halliburton outlines cerebrospinal fluid as a vital physiological bath for the nervous system. The fluid is produced by choroid plexuses, not leaked from blood, with low protein content and selective permeability to keep toxins from nerves.
An account recalls a lone mother on St Nicholas Island who leaped into the sea to reach shore after her child was left aboard a missionary vessel. Eighteen years later rescuers found her alive but unable to reunite with her baby, and she died after a life spent in weathered solitude.
A narrator recalls a long pursuit by a searching dog traveling at high speed toward a distant city. The dog’s exhausted effort is described in vivid detail as dawn breaks and a glow marks the horizon, revealing a city with a strange building where Tommy Warle is held.
A Kentucky youth loses a fortune for being 20 minutes late to a business engagement. The piece argues time is precious, and lateness harms both the individual and others, urging a habit of punctuality as crucial to success. It cites great businesspeople as examples of on time conduct.
A fragment from the Louisville Courier-Journal quotes a burglar speaking of sneaking on stage in darkness and insisting on being kept in the spotlight as part of a dramatic or sensational note. The readable text suggests a crime context with dramatic narration.
In a Harper's Magazine essay, the author argues genius is a volatile force born from pressure and struggle. Rembrandt's practical prints contrast with Flaubert and de Maupassant's painstaking labor, while Shakespeare's prolific six year output underlines genius as a race-wide impulse. The piece suggests genius flourishes in periods of oppression and upheaval, not comfort.
The passage notes how places in Canada and Australia have been named Shakespeare or similar high profile figures. It contrasts such naming trends with American cities bearing names like Washington Milton Byron and Dickens multiple times, citing Thackeray once and Dickens thrice in London. It discusses the rarity of many names and the proliferation of a few famous authors’ names in town nomenclature.
A November 8 law ordered Venice glassmakers to move to Murano to curb fire risk. Murano has long been the world’s leading center for handmade glass and glass bead production.
Final reports of executors administrators guardians and trustees in the Jones County estates have been filed with the Clerk of the District Court. A March 20 hearing is set for approval with interested parties allowed to file exceptions and show cause. The report for A K McMaster administrator of Ena Mc Master’s estate is included. Dated Anamosa Iowa March 18 1815.
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