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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1934
Page
4
Budget notes show savings from lower 1928 price levels and ongoing measures to reduce maintenance costs. Desk installations and reduced teachers and land supplies contribute to expense cuts, while per item comparisons indicate overall smaller operating costs.
Dr. C J Cannon and Floyd Johnston promote Iowa grown soybeans as top protein for dairy cattle. They note soybeans are versatile, valuable in hay and concentrates, with fat content boosting milk secretion and a bulletin highlights soybeans and soybean meal as superior protein supplements.
The Archdiocese of Dubuque announced a slate of pastor appointments by Archbishop Francis J. Kman. John M. Molloy moves from Sacred Heart Waterloo to Immaculate Conception Cedar Falls. John J. Clune from Patrick Anamosa to St John Cognum. Patrick J. Behan from St Matthew Cedar Rapids to St Patrick Anamosa. William M. Holub from St Anthony Duque to St Peter Clermont.
Monticello Auxiliary No 1683 of Veterans of Foreign Wars reports 25 new members since October with Bertha Sutherland Ver Zubler Elizabeth Smith Anna Amer and Margaret Supple added at the March meeting Dora Ohe chairs the member drive and refreshments were provided by Anna Allamand Hattie Hinrichs Florence Car i and Margaret Carmichael.
A Iowa district court jury found J. M. Conway guilty of embezzlement after a three hour deliberation. The former state reformatory auditor at Anamosa was charged with misappropriating about 13 000 tied to 27 checks. The defense challenged evidence linking him to the shortages in his books.
The Monticello kittenball league organized last Tuesday includes six teams Shomont pen sant winners Stahlers DeMolays Firemen Oilers and the Midgets. Robert Hogan named president Maurice Maire vice president and Sam Rhatigan secretary treasurer. Four league games will be held per week with other nights open. A meeting is set for April 4 at Maire’s Candy Shop to finalize rules and plans.
Mrs. Nicholas Kehoe who died Tuesday March 20 in her eighty sixth year was buried from the Sacred Heart church Thursday morning March 22. Relatives from out of town attended including Charles Kehoe Hastings Neb Thomas McDermott and Mrs Edward McDermott Anthon Dan Murphy Mobile Mrs Catherine McNamara Ana Mosa Mr and Mrs DeWitt Thompson Hopkinton Mr and Mrs Charles Cramer Cedar Rapids Mr and Mrs J P Kingsley and daughter Albert and Allen Kingsley Dubuque Mr and Mrs Clare Conklin Davenport Mrs Babe Kehoe and family and Frank Hayes of Ana Mosa.
Supervisor Mallech state administrator of the CWA says work will stop next Saturday March 31. Thirty four men were laid off in Jones county last week. It is hoped the government will provide additional work to employ these men.
Easter Sunday programs feature the white robed junior and robed senior choirs with pantomime and instrumental music. A 9 30 Easter morning program includes readings, recitations, anthems by the junior choir, solos, piano pieces, and an offertory. Special music also planned for Easter morning service with no admission fee.
Iowa announces tentative relocation of eight civilian conservation corps camps from April 1 to September 30. The Anamosa camp will handle soil erosion work under Prof. G B McDonald. Palisades workers move to Backbone State Park. 60 percent reenlist, 40 percent new quota opens. Transfer ordered from Washington.
Martha Jane Easterly 53, last survivor of a family of thirteen children, died at her daughter Mrs W E Sealls home in Anamosa after a two month illness She settled in Rome township Jones county in 1855 and married Thomas W Easterly in 1856 later living in Olin before moving to Anamosa in 1933 Also note Chicago Tribune report Supervising Police Captain John Stege left for St Augustine to visit his wife Nellie Stege injured in an automobile accident with a fractured arm when a car door opened
The Monticello library offers diverse reading options from entertaining novels and biographies to philosophy, art, and travel books. It highlights popular latest releases while inviting patron input for book selections and lists suggested titles for youngsters and older readers.
Monticello public schools dominated the sub-district music contest with many superior and excellent ratings. Instructors Miss Beth Wallis and Earl Holtz led the program, guiding students through mixed chorus, glee clubs, vocal groups, solos, orchestra, and bands. Winners advance to Washington Iowa April 12 13 and 14.
The Rev G Wolf officiated the March 12 marriage of Henry W Gerdes and Arlene M Lincoln at Castle Grove Parsonage. Witnesses were John H Gerdes Anna Gerdes and Mrs G Wolf. The couple, from Strawberry Point, will reside there as Henry works as a mechanic at Ford garage.
A short circuit in a floor lamp wire sparked a small blaze in the Adamson living room last Monday. A rug hole, scorched radio tubes and wiring, and a damaged davenport back were noted. Firemen extinguished the fire with chemical.
Capt. R. F. Scott completes a historic South Pole expedition in 1913, recording a polar milestone. The era also notes advances such as 30-Ether’s first anesthetic use in 1842 and the 1894 publication of the 224th Nick Carder Dime Novel.
Mrs Loren Bond who runs the Superior Permanent Ware Shop fractured a knee in two places last Sunday evening after tripping over her daughter Patty's small wagon. She was treated at McDonald hospital, discharged Tuesday, and is cared for at home by her mother Mrs G E Rubens of Webster. Mrs Ellen Yousseelkhorn handles shop duties. Bond hopes to resume direct supervision of her work in time.
Dr. Thomas H. McBride former president of Iowa State University dies in Seattle at age 85 He began as an instructor at Lenox College Hopkinton later served at Iowa State University as professor of botany and held the presidency during a long career He was a beloved teacher in both institutions where he spent over sixty years of his life.
Chris Wenger and Mrs Clara Kness were married last Saturday morning at ten at the parsonage of the Reformed church by Rev Armin H Tendick. Attendants were Ed Wenger and Mrs Wenger. A wedding dinner followed at the home of Charlie Jones for immediate relatives. The couple will reside in Monticello after April 10.
A Monticello Business and Professional Women's club meeting appointed several committees. Nominating committee members were Isabel Meyer Maude Arduser Recene Ashton. Civic improvements committee members were Kate Maurice Izora Bancroft Dorothy Bremm.
Thirty years ago in Monticello The Monticello Express chronicled events in March 1904. Includes a serious scalp wound from a cellar fall, a marriage of Chr ing Hrennemann and Anna Rickels, business rental transfers, births in the Hanken and Rodman households, a twenty fifth wedding anniversary, deaths of J R Stillman Elmer Hoag’s son Ernest and Langworthy family members, a gunshot injury, a dental practice move, a marriage in Anamosa, and the death of Gearhard Husmann at age 30.
J. W. Lenker and Paul Moore, convicted of conspiracy to block enforcement of the state tuber culir cattle test law, were denied executive clemency by the Iowa board of parole. They were tried in Jones county on a Cedar county change of venue and sentenced to three years. The case, tied to the Cedar county cow war of 1931, was appealed to the supreme court. a rehearing is pending. Governor Herring asked for an investigation, which found they had a fair trial and no clemency recommendation from the judge or prosecutor.
County records official Bess Sherman in Anamosa begins issuing hunting and fishing licenses under the new law. Licenses expire April 1 and trout season opens with new rates: fishing 1 dollar, hunting 2 dollars, and a combined 2.50 dollars. Exemptions include women children and landowners on their land. Funds go to hatcheries including one at Decorah. Order now to avoid trouble with the law.
Joseph Keegan of Ryan dies after extended illness at 5 30 p m March 21 Oscar Osmundson of West Union found dead after his touring car overturned near West Union March 21 Lank Pulver of Delhi charged with dynamiting fish in Maquoketa river at Hopkinton pleads guilty and receives 30 days in Delaware county jail John S Smith Tipton journalist dies March 21 at 71 after influenza Cedar county paper veteran and editor for five decades Richard T Baker of Mount Vernon to receive B A from Cornell College in June and join Northwestern Christian Advocate Chrick office duties and newsroom duties for central and northwestern editions Earl Baker former Methodist district superintendent and Monticello supervisor noted in report
State board analysis says town retailers won’t collect the new two percent retail tax on gasoline and cigarettes. The pamphlet notes that when special taxes apply, a credit is allowed on tax due from gross receipts, possibly eliminating the entire retail sales tax in some cases.
Don Young, a golf pro, will arrive in Monticello next week to assume full charge of the course and clubhouse. The course and facilities will be refreshed and expanded ahead of spring play, with remodeling planned for the clubhouse and a new lunch counter and full golf shop planned to serve members and guests. Club officers include J. F. Heiserman as president, Ralph Bent as treasurer, Francis Shimianelli as secretary, and directors Ricklefs, Thoeni, Laude, Stuhiler, and others. The Monticello club aims to attract about 150 members and offer family activities and women’s card events through the summer.
Seven members of Monticello’s old city council were reelected in the biannual election on March 26. Voters defeated a measure to authorize buying a site for a municipal airport by 437 to 334, denying federal aid and leaving Anamosa as the county airport project.
Clarence Schone died Tuesday at St. Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids after a double pneumonia illness. He was born June 15 1900 near Onslow son of Frank Schone of Chicago served in World War I overseas discharged 1919 worked as a stationery engineer in mines in Texas and Oklahoma. He married Havel Mundinger Appleby and is survived by son Richard Clarence step-son Glen Melvin step-daughter Phylis Mae and siblings and step relatives. Funeral services will be held Friday March 29 at 2 30 PM at the Godfrey Bader home with Rev Armin Z Tendick presiding.
J J Hayes welcomed his brother Emanuel Anves of Souris Manitoba Canada for a rare visit lasting part of last week. Emanuel was the western representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers and met Canadian Pacific Railway officials in Montreal to discuss working conditions on the western division from Winnipeg west. Hayes noted Manitoba's very dry summer in 1933 and an exceptionally cold past winter.
Messrs Llord Swansen and Dwight Overmeyer of the forest and waste land survey of Towa survey land near Pictured Rocks. The land may be included as a park for preservation and park purposes. The director of the state survey is Target Theks, a former Monticello boy.
Rev. Wo. Grossheen presided at the marriage of Everett Siastedy and Cecil Cook, both of Avamosa, at the Presbyterian parsonage Saturday evening. The couple was attended by Glenn Siver and Gweld Fairbanks.
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