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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 14, 1914

Page

8

Anamosa Board Sets Bid Openings and Election Roles

Anamosa acts on April 9 minutes, approves road bid openings for Hanlon and Porter hills with Clyde Smith lowest bid, and assigns a primary election slate across townships. The board also appoints judges and clerks, orders blank-card claim forms, and schedules subsequent meetings through May 6 1914.

Anamosa Finn Bohren Hale Murfield Thomsen Austin Western and Russell Grader Bobren Porter Hanlon Ingraham Beam & Neville Hanlon Hill Porter Hill Eldred & Wherry Clyde Smith Truman Peet T. W. Foley Porter and Hanlon Hills Thomson Henry Bremer Hill Wyoming Township Quirk Hill Oxford Township Christophersen Hill Hale Township Theo I'bomsen B. Smith W.L. Hanssen J. ©. Griffith Wm. Flaherty O. P. Hanssen R. O. Bullock E. W. Lewis G. W. Mead BE. J. Hines

Classroom roster and county road expenditures listed

Front Row reads names Fannie Henderson Myrtle Ricker David Corbett Edith Davis Florence Carmichael Halstead Carpenter Florence Thoeni Edna Byers Ralph Mattiessen Second Row includes Mary Doxsee Merrill Ricker Third Row lists Ben Reichart Harry Cooper Bessie Errickson Karl Young George Starks Mary Guler Ethel Young Marie Brainerd Mabel Inglis Fourth Row names Harold Leake Fred Kilers Myrtle Marshall Ethel Magee Beulah Simpson Selina Suter Katie Dirks Back Row shows Mary Seales the teacher Harry Gan deceased and many others. County road spending shows detailed items with entries for bridges roads lumber and grading across districts and the county treasury totaling 8432 43 43 50 19 22.

Fannie Henderson Myrtle Ricker David Corbett Edith (Bejasch) Davis Florence Carmichael Halstead Carpenter Florence Thoeni Edna (Templeton) Byers Ralph Matthiessen Mary Doxsee Merrill Ricker Ben Reichart Harry Cooper Bessie Errickson Karl Young George Starks Mary Guler Ethel Young Marie (Bateman) Brainerd Mabel Inglis Harold Leake Fred Kilers Myrtle Marshall Ethel Magee Beulah (Barrows) Simpson Selina Suter Katie Dirks Mary Seales Harry Gan Pearl (Barnts) Sehneider Bonnie Warner) Gearhart Farry Campbell Millen Mead Mary Dirks

LIFE ON HOLLAND CANALS AND YEAR ROUND SPRING CLEANING

Observers note canals around Rotterdam with barges and boats kept spotless by constant cleaning. A perky dog guards vessels while human captains are seldom seen, and unique Dutch humor marks the scene. The piece mentions curious names and tight canals where barges sometimes touch, their disentanglement a nightly mystery in the shipping world as described in Ig. V. Lucas’s Wanderer in Ireland.

Totter- Ulam Holkiud Stotterdam St. Sepulchre’s Wolborn Irelland Ig. V. Lucas

The Chrysanthemum and a Trade of Time

The piece traces the Chrysanthemum’s English origins at Chelsea Botanic Gardens in 1764 and credits the Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum Society with popularizing it in the 1800s. It notes the society’s 1846 exhibition as a global influence and school of chrysanthemum culture.

England Europe Botanic Gardens Chelsea Tower Stoke Senator Sheppard Texarkana

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