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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1931
Page
7
The article recalls fortunes from simple ideas like toothpicks and flagpoles, notes Audubon county’s bank stability and Tipton bank failure, and reports on Yellow Cab Airways pilot training, new air rates, and reduced tuition. It also covers hay shipments from West Union, rural mail carrier trends, wildlife changes along the upper Mississippi refuge, a $1500 found funds redeption, and freight declines at Wellsburg station.
Iowa Attorney General warns against town promotion schemes awarding cash prizes as lotteries. Merchants in Grinnell and other towns like Marshalltown Nevada and Ames have halted Golden Wednesday parties to avoid violating lottery laws and risking mail exclusion.
F M Jolly of Marion county stacked oats after harvest last summer and threshed them in February. He produced 2700 bushels of oats rated first class quality, averaging about 55 bushels per acre on his fields near Pleasantville.
Ostergaard warns county school directors against tampering with the minimum salary law for teachers. He cites fines from 25 to 100 dollars and removal from office for violations, reporting cases where teachers were asked to repay part of their salary to secure contracts.
Adelaide Nichols of Estherville notes Rock Island figures from Chicago show in 1930 the railroad paid 343 employees in Estherville a total of 644837.95 in wages. The compilation lists 271 heads of families and 1385 residents who depend on these wages. Iowa taxes paid by the Rock Island last year totaled 1660463.78.
At the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs meeting in Des Moines Harriett Lake of Independence reported 26 new loans to young women for college since September with 12 paid in full. Since the fund's creation 918 loans were issued to 668 borrowers and 515 loans paid in full. The fund totals $97,695.
At Prankville Winneshiek county the town’s largest cheese factory sources milk from 60 nearby dairy farmers. In 1990 it produced 343955 pounds of cheese, with only a quarter sold locally and three quarters shipped to a Wisconsin plant for eastern markets under a controversial label. The efforts of Enimet county.
Sportsmen for Town Lake announce seining of carp at spawning time. Albert C. Klanke, supervisor of Minnesota’s commercial fishing, says arrangements with Martin county fishermen to work on the Minnesota side. An Iowa deputy will stock carp on the Iowa side. Eight loads of young game fish will be placed this summer for stocking.
A Pottawattamie County mother uses a fourcompartment cigar box bank to teach her children budgeting. Each section bears a picture church for Sunday school funds schoolhouse for school money and a bank for savings while the spending compartment shows an ice cream cone. The method aims to instill saving spending and sharing as the three fundamentals of money training.
R K Bliss Iowa State College urges farmers to repair equipment during winter or early spring. Red tagging fall repairs helps organize work. March is ideal to service oil holes bolts shovels and sharpen tools so machines are field ready for spring and later seasons.
Pomologist T. J. Maney of Iowa State College warns delays by factory rushes ruin spray effectiveness. First applications curb diseases and insects. growers must have equipment and materials ready. For guidance on materials, request Extension Bulletin No. 134 from the Extension Service in Ames.
William Watkins states that applying superphosphate on 16 cooperative demonstration fields in Iowa during 1930 raised average corn yields to 57.1 bushels from 50.8 on check plots and reduced moisture to 16.5 percent from 20.7. Fully fertilized plots yielded 57 bushels vs 51.9 on non treated plots, with high yield moisture at 20.3 percent versus 21.8 on checks.
Writings praise Goethe as a premier poet and author of the German novel Willi Moister. Thomas Carlyle’s translation, over a century old, blends both authors’ genius in one work. Carlyle, largely self taught, achieved a faithful translation through honesty and industry.
Astronomers and physicians described helium as an inert gas discovered in the sun more than twenty five years before its isolation in Earth's atmosphere. It is non inflammable non explosive and escapes Earth's gravity. Helium is non corrosive does not combine with other elements and arises from radium disintegration. It is found in rocks and minerals in small quantities and cannot be synthesized from other gases.
A portrait of Ralph Modjeski born in Cracow in 1901 who rose from child actor to renowned bridge engineer. After early musical talent and theatrical family life he pursued engineering in France and earned honors at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees, becoming a leading figure in bridge construction.
A tribute highlights Modjeski’s designs and supervision of major spans including the Ambassador Bridge between Michigan and Ontario, the Delaware River Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, and the Quebec Bridge. His works are praised for enabling global travel and earning broad acclaim.
The article questions early signs of Francis Bacon’s genius and whether his early years show precocity or coaching. It cites a court scene where Elizabeth I fondled his hair and asked his age, to which the boy replied he was two years younger than the queen’s relen dramatized.
The article traces the word budget from Lacdu bul to Celtiberian and Middle English, linking it to leather bags and slang meaning a bag of tricks. It cites 1783 pamphlet The Budget Opened about Walpole’s excise bill, noting chancellors “open their budgets” as a jocular phrase that became standard.
The excerpt notes old nautical terms Westward Ho and Kastward fo used by Thames boatmen in London. It cites Shakespeare Twelfth Night where Olivia and Viola use westward language and mentions Chapmen Marston and Ben Jonson publishing a comedy Westward Ho followed by Paulding's novel title The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh set in Elizabethan times.
A quotation highlights hustle as preparation diligence industry and trustworthiness. It argues many fail not for lack of luck but due to absence of push and initiative.
Workmen repairing the old Roman highway at Saarburg near Trier uncover a Roman place of worship. The walls stretch about 100 yards enclosing an altar, with finds including coins from the Constantine era and fragments of late Roman pottery.
Frank H. Wisetelly writes in the Atlantic Monthly on Keeping Step with Speech noting that thirty years ago the word Interesting marked social status by four syllables, while modern English dictionaries show four syllables but pronounced as three, with fashionable circles simplifying to in- tristing.
The switch from the long s to the present form started around the American Revolution. The transition was gradual with John Bell of London possibly first to drop the long s about 1771. In 1786 Benjamin Franklin noted the round forms and the long a being rejected in printing.
Monticello Iowa March 23 1931 council met in adjourned session with all members present. A treasurer report covered funds to March 21 1931 and March collections were listed. A resolution allowed city claims across Fire Water Grading and other funds and the ordinance appropriated money for the 1931 fiscal year with funds including General 1000 Water 9000 Light 4000 Fire 2000 Sewer 2500 Grading 2500 Improvement 3000 Band 1000.
An ordinance appropriates funds from multiple city accounts for the coming year. The Monticello city council enacts budget provisions detailing expenditures across departments and services for the fiscal year.
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