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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
8
The piece reports on Lafe Young denying a misattributed letter to President Taft about Iowa legislators and political loyalties. It notes tightening credit from banks, cautious loan practices, and caution against early state race talk. It also cites Roosevelt on labor violence, La Follette’s presidential plans, and Governor Carroll's veto of a vetoed auto passage bill.
Women advocating voting rights march in New York City. If the movement grows and evangelical voices join, militant suffragettes may carry their zeal nationwide as what is trendy in Gotham tends to become national style.
The Pinkertons yield to Burns who tracks dynamiters and statesmen boodlera, continuing wartime security efforts with a solitary hunter's resolve.
A post office robber is killed in Paton after a town marshal loses his life attempting to arrest two men who cracked the safe. In other notes, Iowa congressmen shift stance on farmers free list while dictagraph surveillance and a fake Chicago Tribune Sunday edition are discussed as media fakes.
Speaking for Nebraska Collier's Weekly notes the state's pride in livestock. E L Bowera of Verndon marketed 1 287 hogs in two weeks raising and maturing them to an average 262 pounds each. They sold for 8 266 10 per hundredweight yielding 27 740 92 dollars. The report compares hog receipts to political lecture earnings.
Ex Senator Young argued congress should be home from the special session. He criticized Tafts justification for the session and suggested a simple announcement supporting farm price moves would suffice. Prices have fallen to levels that even distant eastern statesmen should welcome.
Mayor Sheehan led a crackdown on Saturday night and Sunday disturbances by nine offenders charged with drunken street activity. Fines ranged from 25 dollars to smaller amounts, with five inmates serving jail time and others paying fines. Public support urged safe, respectable streets for all residents, especially women traveling at any hour.
A comic verse recounts St. Peter checking a man named Pants in the afterlife. Accused of material greed and neglect of his wife, he is sent to outer darkness for loving wealth over piety and family, ending with a jab at saints fleeing to a new sky.
Bishop Thomas B. Neely of New Orleans will preside at the September 20 start of the Upper Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Waterloo.
Dubuque police arrested 1 015 men in the past year. Smallpox resurfaces in Iowa City with 20 cases in isolation. Coe College beat Upper Iowa University 92 to 380 in track. State University edged Cornell College 1 to 0 in baseball. Manchester boards hire costs at least 5 dollars a day. A man dies by his own hand in East Dubuque after dispute with ex wife. Jurisdiction over Cedar Rapids saloon petitions upheld with appeal to state supreme court. Over 3 000 autos registered in Iowa with values up to 40 million dollars. Tom Cassady markets a cement mixer and Monticello sidewalks stay intact after twenty years. Wedding in Wayne Illinois for Miss Belle Dunham and Count Adimari Morelli of Italy set for May 13.
May 1 1911 Anamosa board met with Chairman Murffeld and four supervisors present. Minutes approved. Cedar Rapids National Bank bond as county funds depository approved. W S Pangburn appointed justice of the peace for Scotch Grove. J Meade and J Stout named as Oxford township constables with Stout bond approved. T A King bond as steward of County Home approved. Fees allowed as corrected. Board adjourned to 8:30 the next morning.
Real estate transfers show E L Barber and wife selling to O S Wilson and J M Green for $1 and other considerations. L F Zeller referee transfers to Alonzo Cubbage a part of lot 3 in sec 20 83 issue. Anna Kulhave to Joseph Kulhavy lot 3 block 12 original town of Oxford Junction for 8400. Helen Thrapp to Jennie L Miller in section 18 83 3 for 50. Helen Thrapp to Kathryn R Sampica in section 18 83 3 for 150. Dr Frank Cook and wife to S B McGowen 120 ft lot 6 block 1 Cooks First addition to Oxford Junction for 1350.
County ledgers list payees including SD Alspaugh overseer and Hines Bros for provisions, Voorhees Coal Co, Anamosa Lumber Co, Tyler & Downing and Dr Frank W Port for services. Many names appear with May rent, salaries and supplies across departments, plus jail, sheriff, and public works expenditures.
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