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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1935
Page
7
Mrs Detlef Peterson of Reinbeck Grundy county is celebrated as a fishing champion. She walks a mile and a half to Black Hawk creek each season and even in vacation keeps worms ready for spring fishing. At 82 she remains a prolific angler, with neighbors endorsing her skill and stamina.
A clerk notes that Moore bought the book twenty years ago from a junk dealer who had acquired it from a woman who claimed she was tired of having so much trash around. The volume’s known history is limited to these exchanges and the dealer’s account of the prior owner.
An abandoned well on the George Schlosser farm near Ruthven in Palo Alto county was discovered after 50 years or more of unnoticed existence. Decayed boards let soil cave in, burying the upper three feet. The well, about ten feet deep, has a three by three foot boarded top and a large barrel below. the Schlosser family has farmed the land 35 years and were unaware of its presence until the cavern opened.
Jerome Nixon a 13 year old Boy Scout at Cedar Rapids is recommended for Scouting's Medal of Honor after diving into the Cedar River to save Mrs. George Shaw 33 from attempting to take her own life. Despite a tremendous handicap the youth saved her and has drawn wide praise. Scout master and others are pressing for the award.
Fred Pedersen Jr., 12, of Council Bluffs, crawled into a cement mixer with four friends. The machine jammed, two hours passed with him hung head down as volunteers failed to free him. The mixer was smashed apart with a sledge to release him and his father was summoned from Omaha.
In Albia Monroe county Mr and Mrs O G LeHew recall placing a discarded Christmas tree on the back porch last January. A wind from the east blew it away and it vanished. Recently a wind from the west blew another evergreen into their yard which they identified by its odd shape.
Sheriff Ross Graham of Bloomfield, Davis County, rushed an injured youth to a Bloomfield physician. After returning to his car he found a ticket issued for parking near a fireplug by City Marshal Frank Bellis. News spread as Bellis enforced the law on the sheriff.
Iowa National Guard units across the state will be equipped with electrically controlled gas discharge devices to deter armory break-ins. Last year six Iowa armories were looted of pistols and ammunition used by criminals. A CCC camp mascot St. Bernard at Eldora bore thirteen puppies on April 13, inspiring pride among the camp boys.
Shel don, O'Brien county, grocery employees found a whiskey bottle embedded in a box of apples shipped to the store. The bottle was empty and tucked in the second layer among the fruit. One theory suggests the packer hid the bottle to avoid suspicion of possession of a dead soldier image or item.
Local news recounts moves and visits including Onslow to Wyoming transfers, Des Moines business trip, and relatives visiting in Cascade, Cedar Rapids, and Monticello. The Onslow baseball team hosts Wyoming while winning the Jones county title with a 6 to 5 finish and seniors showcase the Blue Bag play.
The board of Supervisors leased the National Bank building from Charles Foley for two years to relocate the county treasurer and expand offices. The move shifts the treasurer to the former Anamosa National Bank space and reassigns the current relief offices to the second story. Receivers of two closed banks will use the former treasurer room, and county meetings will occur in vacated relief rooms.
Lovell's Laboring Lassies held their regular monthly 4-H meeting at Luella Balsiger’s home last Saturday afternoon. Dorothy Barlow led, with talks on winter birds clothing care and footware, demonstrations on collars and French seams, and a junior senior banquet dress discussion. Mrs. Will Balsiger distributed gifts. refreshments followed.
A Scotch Grove nursery hosts a mustache contest led by owner Frank Royden. Boys compete to grow the longest upper lip alfalfa while Art Himebaugh refuses to participate claiming bad luck. The article invites readers to visit the nursery and view the mustaches.
State highway commission in Ames hosted Delaware county delegates seeking paving for a six mile crushed rock stretch on primary 13 from the county line to Strawberry Point and for paving number 10 from Strawberry Point to Edgewood. Manchester officials were told that if federal funds are available, work will begin. this is the only unpaved segment on primary 13 long promised for years.
J J Locher, local insurance agent, received a gold sign from the American Insurance Company of Newark for representing the firm for over 25 years. The award was presented by a Western Department representative. a letter from Paul B Somers, president of the company, was also sent. Locher has represented the company since 1907. Also noted: one miner's inch of water irrigates five to ten acres, equal to 12 960 gallons in 24 hours.
John Pane-Gasser the dramatic tenor will sing the title role in Gounod's Faust for the Festival Opera company of Chicago at the Shrine temple in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday evening May 8. Pane-Gasser was born in Venice Italy, moved to Chicago at six, supported his family from age 14, and rose through civic Italian organizations to prominence before pursuing opera.
The Festival Opera company will be aided by an orchestra chorus and ballet from Coe college. Ard McLaughlin son of Mr and Mrs William J D McLaughlin will join the chorus. The new production method pairs Metropolitan stars with local performers and has thrived for seven years. Tickets can be reserved at the Shrine temple in Cedar Rapids and mail orders will be handled with care.
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