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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1930
Page
7
Hon Ray Lyman Wilbur urged Iowa illiteracy committee to join a national advisory panel. Iowa's 1920 illiteracy rate was 1.1 percent with 26 680 illiterates aged 10+, including 8 275 native white 11 004 foreign born white and 1 283 negroes.
George Young Bear writes that Mesquakie camps along the Traws river in Tama county tapped soft maples last week. Hundreds of pounds of maple sugar and syrup will replenish family supplies and be sold by many Mesquakies. The tribe trades buckin beads pipe stone sinew and medicine with neighbor tribes, not native in Iowa.
Two million feet of cottonwood and maple logs will be harvested by Clements and Clements of Knoxville. The deal, valued as a major contract for the next year, directs shipments of a million feet each to St. Louis and Keokuk, with operations starting soon across central and eastern Iowa. The firm, longtime producer of walnut logs, expands into this sizable timber harvest under W. J. Casey's report.
The War Department announced that Private John J. Gross of Fairfield earned the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism near Finley France on September 12 1918. Single handed he advanced upon and captured a machine gun and five machine gunners who had halted his company’s advance and threatened its members.
At Greenfield in Adair county 400 boxing fans watched Nach Manriquez from Atlantic defeat Kid Stuart of Winterset. The Mexican rocked Stuart with an uppercut ending the second round and followed with a eye blow as Stuart toppled to the canvas. Stuart recovered after several minutes.
A LeMars firm hired Grundy county agent L W Paget to supervise cornstalk harvesting for the Maizewood factory in Dubuque using second hand Ford motors on balers and a ground driven windrow method. Waverly reports the town’s jail is empty, and Carl Fritz Henning of Ledges State Park is profiled as a skilled custodian and naturalist.
A stranger, described by Scott Snyder of Adel, bid on two fat heifers at a Dallas county sale and bought about two dozen chickens for a total of 184 dollars. He paid with a bogus check signed E F Kinney on the Perry bank, left without an address, and drove away in a Chevrolet truck after loading cattle.
Funeral services for Catherine Jane Dixon were held at St. Martin's church before burial in the Catholic cemetery. Paul Hayes of Springfield Ohio, linked to Cascade residents, died recently and was buried in Oelwein. A birth is announced to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bisenius in Dubuque. Local improvements, elections, relocations, and fires are summarized, including school staff reelection and fire damage at the John Knepper farm and Mike Turnis residence.
Richland Center and surrounding families attended a lecture by Dr. Vance in Anamosa last Saturday. Reports note several social visits including Mr. and Mrs. Will Burrichter celebrating his 58th birthday and multiple relatives touring Monticello, Quasqueton, and Delhi. George Lang, of Longmont Colorado, cousin of Mrs. George Hein Jr., died suddenly.
Castle Grove invites residents to a Friday evening Farm Bureau meeting described as an interesting program. Farmers Mutual Insurance of Castle Grove reports risk amounting to almost three hundred thousand dollars this year and a net gain over thirty thousand in insurance in force, nearing four million. Several local residents are noted for illnesses, travel, or crop timing as seeds and moss delays affect field work.
Prairieburg residents shared visits with friends in Anamosa Marion and Central City. Notables included Mrs. O A DeLancey and Mrs. C O Rowley hosting guests at a Central City banquet while others traveled from Rice Lake Wisconsin and Monticello. A serious auto collision on church hill damaged two cars and involved Mr Knott and companions returning from Central City.
The February report shows milk output tied to hay quality with a member noting cows fed poor clover then good clover gained two pounds daily. Among 394 cows tested 294 produced 464 pounds milk and 17.8 pounds butterfat. nine cows topped 50 pounds butterfat and twenty six exceeded 40 pounds. Do die a grade Holstein owned by C W Eden led with 1,442 pounds milk and 70.7 pounds butterfat, followed by Stella as second high cow.
C C Jones Hale had top cow producing 1719 pounds milk and 65.3 pounds butterfat. Antone Kula Oxford Junction led second high cow with 1887 pounds milk and 58.5 pounds butterfat. C W Eden’s 16 cow herd averaged 957 pounds milk and 36.6 pounds butterfat. Antone Kula’s 17 cows averaged 926 pounds milk and 31.9 fat. Harl Newhard’s 19 cows averaged 945 pounds milk and 31.2 fat. Feed included corn cob meal oats oilmeal cottonseed clover hay alfalfa silage. Separator loss 7.34 pounds valued at 2.04 dollars to Marion Anderson.
Federal observer Charles D. Reed reports February was the warmest month in a century with average temperatures 25 degrees above the previous month and 0.9 degrees above normal for March. The February average reached 35.5 degrees, 12.9 degrees above normal and 1.1 degrees above the 1878 record.
Reed notes February logged an absolute range of 114 degrees from minus 34 at Webster City on Feb 15 to plus 80 at Mount Ayr and Clarinda on Feb 24, surpassing all prior records and toppling the February high of 78 set at Glenwood in 1896. Precipitation stayed below normal and snow cover remained light.
Miss Alice Reed and Miss Laura Sinclair are members of the Cornell College Symphony Orchestra. The group of forty-two students will tour thirteen towns in Iowa and Illinois starting April 3 with a concert in Mechanicsville. The second concert is in Olin next week, and the final show on April 15 at Wyoming.
Dr George Albery Veterinary Surgeon and Centre operates an office and hospital one block north of the post office. Calls answered day and night.
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