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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
2
April 8 1918 special session notes re election of Mary I Jarman as high school principal at 1100 yearly and reappointment of ten teachers with monthly salaries. April 19 1918 session authorizes bills for textbooks and supplies, plus appoints O E Brainard to review electric contract and hires Ethel Frazer as high school teacher at 90 dollars per month.
The Monticello board of education met April 23 1918 with Redmond Stuhler Lazell Brainard and Reed present. After approving prior minutes the board allowed a general fund bill for lights 8 19 and elected Miss Flossie Beck as grade department teacher for next year at 67 50 monthly. A ballot for superintendent favored L W Dunlap Elkader IA with salary 1800. The board adjourned to 7 30 p m Friday. On April 26 1918 meeting Maude Goocher was paid five dollars monthly for high school work in second semester and the finance committee was authorized to buy lots 85 and part of 84 Velvet addition Monticello for school grounds up to 6500 with terms to be arranged.
A collection of quips and vignettes from Boston Transcript Journal American Medical Association and New York Globe. Anecdotes feature a lumberman and beeman with life long friendship despite illness, a child misquoting scripture, a car misdirection to the poorhouse, and a speaker urging humor as life improves.
The Junior Red Cross work proceeds well with lists showing several schools already organized. Monticello public schools report 500 pupils. others include Castle Grove numbers nine and five with 13 pupils each, and teachers Essie Coleman Inez Hubbard.
The dispatch lists shipments for the Red Cross including 100 suits of pajamas 30 surgical gowns and 63 pairs of socks. It notes appeals to enroll 5000 graduate nurses by June 1 and 20000 for the year 1918, plus aims to relocate French children from Paris for summer safety.
A humorous exchange cites an executor weighing estate size to evade taxes and loan calls in a joke from Omaha News. The Sioux City Journal notes the difficulty in judging a calm demeanor when a man, like Baker, avoids agitation in a tough situation.
A folk style garden song parody titled A Garden 80ng to the tune of Over There. It urges workers to dig and plant, praising gardeners and collective effort for victory with a refrain about sending the word over there and shared harvest. The piece is attributed to Joe Lee Davis.
Cedar Rapids Republic an opinion notes a land owner with 640 acres and bank funds who refuses to fly the U S flag on his land and has not supported Liberty bonds or Red Cross. It argues traitors lose rights and suggests confiscation of property under law.
A discussion on wartime taxes targets multi millionaires who lose two thirds of income to taxes and heirs lose a quarter of estates. Provost Marshal Crowder orders Iowa local boards to call class one agriculturists without delay, risking short farm labor. Also printed is an original court notice from Jones County Iowa detailing a real estate dispute and quiet title action with a June term and potential default.
In Jones county Iowa a divorce action is filed by Stephen A. Leek against Jennie W. Leek in the June 1918 term. Jennie W. Leek is notified to appear by noon on the second day of the term in Anamosa or risk default and a judgment as prayed.
An ad invites all adults with cough cold or bronchitis to visit W W Stickford's drug store for a free sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup a remedy claimed to soothe lungs and provide a good night's rest with morning expectoration. The ad notes a fifty year successful record and notes availability in civilized countries.
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