Expert To Lead Free Monticello Cooking School
Gladys E. Ertz, a national home economics expert, will conduct a free cooking school for Monticello women on Friday May 24 with two parallel sessions at 1 30 and 3 30. Free transportation is provided via R H Balster Farm Equipment Store, and attendance prizes will be awarded at every session. Ertz holds degrees from Carroll College Stout Institute and Syracuse University, with a career as head dietician and nutrition educator.
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Monticello
Gladys E. Ertz
Erty
Miss Ertz
Carroll College
Stout Institute
Syracuse University
Readine Eastern
R. H. Balster Farm Equipment Store
Pioneers Fight Prairie Fires in Early Iowa Story
A vivid tale from The Palimpsest recounts how Iowa settlers fenced fields with plowed earth and backfires to stop blazing prairies. Miss Marie Haefner describes how families used fire brands and hazel broom to create firebreaks, turning the flames away from crops.
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Towa
Horyon Wis
Iowa
Marie Haefner
State Historical Society of
Local notices and community events in Monticello area
Rural and civic notes report a state cream grading school in Jones county on Friday May 24. Local births, hospital updates, and family news include Ruth Ann Muller born May 8 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Muller, Genevieve Kuriger becomes Mrs. Muller, and Carl Owen Morning born May 12. Hospital and accident updates involve Manley Bryan of Hopkinton and Archie Payne of Hopkinton. Weather notes mention possible frosts with rapid May temperature swings. Community members attend meetings, visits, and travel between Cedar Rapids, Monticello, and Iowa City, including Alpha Delta sorority events and Federation of Women’s Clubs. Two Monticello residents, Mrs. Page and Mrs. Nelson, visit relatives in Montana.
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Paul Muller
Ruth Ann
Carl
Iowa City
University Hospital
Carl Owen
Alpha Delphian
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs
Cedar Rapids
George Timmins
Joe Barron
A. J. Rickless
Clarence Matthiessen
Pioneer Preachers Were Against Slavery
The article profiles William Salter a Congregationalist leader in Town who opposed slavery. It notes his abolitionist speeches in the late 180s his Underground Railroad activity from Burlington his Civil War stance for Union and emancipation and his view that ending slavery would bring virtue prosperity and a higher civilization. The piece cites The Iowa Journal of History and Politics as detailing Salter’s role.
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Pioneer Town
William Salter
Daniel Webster
New York
Salter
Burlington
Beame Nh Station
New
Wiliam Salter
Towa Journal of History and Politics
State Historical Society of
Iowa
North Union School Mothers Day Program Delights Monticello Guests
An unusually fine Mothers Day program by North Union school pupils in Boulder township featured tributes to mothers. Mothers from the Monticello Americanization committee and Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary were guests, each mother receiving a white carnation. A surprise display showed a picture of each mother on the blackboard. Monticello representatives included Anne Echternacht Mabel Jarrett Laura Waddick Florence Metzenberg and Honor L Clark.
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North Union School
Boulder Township
Monticello
Mabel Jarrett
Laura Waddick
Florence Metzenberg
Honor L. Clark
Farmers Urged Not To Kill Harmless Snakes
Community warns against harming non poisonous snakes that control rodents. They are valuable to farmers for pest control, killing rats and other pests far more than occasional poultry losses.
Judge Cleans House With Old Cases on District Court Docket
The Jones county district court dismissed about sixty cases from the January term after entries showed failure to try or dispose them. The March term adjourned and a final round of dismissals occurred before the May term opening.
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Jones County District Court
Suit Over Pound Fees Carried To Supreme Court
The Monticello ordinance banned stock from running at large during set hours and seasons, a ruling tied to the 1872 case involving Weir and Crane. The court's decision referenced the herd law and upheld enforcement questions, noting unclear payment details and costs while highlighting a long legal struggle from March 1872 to December 1873.
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Supreme Court
Monticello
Weir
Crane
Sacred Heart School Music Recital Set For May Evening
Sacred Heart School music department plans a recital in the school auditorium on Tuesday evening May 21. The program features thirty four numbers and will attract families and friends of the many participating students.
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Sacred Heart School
Salt production and agricultural uses in England
English Salt One million nine hundred and ten thousand tons of salt are produced in England each year with Cheshire and Worcestershire supplying most of the output. Salt is used in chemical factories and as fertilizer, boosting wheat yields by up to twelve bushels per acre, while benefiting pinks, carnations, and celery. Some plants like apple, cherry, and vine dislike salt, and sixteen bushels per acre can kill vegetation. salt is a widespread mineral, even emitted by Vesuvius.
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England
Cheshire
Worcestershire
Vesuvius
Sun Power Discovery Sparks Fire of Modern Engines
An unknown inventor initially focused sunlight with a magnifying glass to ignite material, accidentally revealing the sun's power. Later researchers refined the technique with larger devices and mirrors to concentrate heat, producing steam that later powered engines.
District Court Trial Assignments Light Amid Calendar Shortage
Judge FO Ellison faced a sparse trial calendar with seven cases and sixteen equity matters. Only eight could be placed on the government settlements docket as many items were deferred. The document lists Monday May 20 through Wednesday May 29 trials and notes a DeMolay boys’ baseball team signups and Mother’s Day church attendance.
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FO. Ellison
Jude Elson Sais
Hedden Ve
Bhassen
Stock Land Bank
Kedley Et al
Pirst ‘Trust Joint
Famed Bank
Ve. Sampson
First Trust
Dollat Stock Land Bank Ve
Pirst ‘Trust
Joint Stock Land Bank
Edwards
Andrew
Mar- Tissey
Wolfe
the Boys of
George Washington
Season Opens On Six Types Of Game Fish
The open season on flashing catfish wall eyed pike pickerel sheepshead and perch began yesterday morning. Fish may be taken by hook and line until November 30. The season also opens on silver bass crappies bluegills sunfish and rock bass except in certain lakes. small and large mouth bass season begins June 15.
Kittenball season opens with league plans and crowd improvements
The Monticelo kittenball association outlines opening schedule with Monday and Thursday games at 7 pm and Friday out of town nights. New backstop benches lights and two new light sets are planned. A 15 man roster must be submitted at the May 17 meeting. Teams include Firemen Herman Hoffman and Oilers Harry Ireland.
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Kittenball Association
Monticelo
oMeers
Paul Schuetz
Harry Ireland
Sam Rhatigan
Farmers’ League
Howie
Hogan
Smith
Monticello Bank
Firemen
Herman Hoffman
Oilers
DeMolays
Tirvill Rhatigan
Shomonts
Charles Reynolds
Stuhlers
Clarence Rhatigan
Midgets
Dale Greenawald
For Sale Notice Board Mixed Items
For sale listings include a yearling Poland China boar from Ernest Wahl and late seed potatoes from Carl Schnelter Route 3. Also offered are Holstein bulls, a 10 ft grain binder with power attachment, and one full-blood Shorthorn bull coming three years old by Marcus Kehoe.
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Poland
China
Ernest Wahl
New York
Carl Schnelter
Henry J. Rickless
Langworthy
Marcus Kehoe
FOR SALE AND CARD OF THANKS NOTICE
DR Salsbury s Phon O Sal tablets for coccidiosis in chicks fowl typhoid or cholera. Henry H Schoon AT FOR SALE Native dimension lumber pests cord wood and black wood Inquire of Amber Savings bank or Adelph Schoon Amber CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our sincere thanks to relatives friends for sympathy kindness and floral offerings in the sickness and death of our father Peter Melvin Like Mr and Mrs Alva Like and children.
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Salsbury
Henry H. Schoon
Amber Savings Bank
Adelph Schoon
Amber
Peter Melvin
Alva
Fragmentary Tale of Nat Tisner and Early Atlantic Slavery
An unclear extract recounts Nat Tisner described as a negro slave born around Ton who led a group from Virginia toward freedom and faced capture. The text references Columbus and the exploration era, mentioning inexact places such as Spain and the Americas and a supposed event with Warner and a hanging, all in a historic but obscured narrative tone.
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Nat ‘Tisner
Ton
Ag Thine
Warner
Millersburg Man Says He Collected From Gutters
Ren Johnson reports collecting 6.83 dollars last year by searching street gutters for coins dropped by pedestrians during an average 2 day period in Java.
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Ren Johnson
Millersburg
Final reports filed for several Jones county estates
Notice to all interested in Jones county estates that final reports and discharge applications for executors administrators guardians and trustees have been filed. A final hearing is set for May 27, 1936 in Anamosa Iowa before Clerk SEE BYERLY with appearances allowed to file exceptions and show cause.
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District Court
Jones County
Frank H. Peckoush
Joseph Pekar
J. J. Locher
Caroline Beutler
Wesley B. Hanken
Rudolph H. Hanken
William H. Hanken
Anamosa
Iowa
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Opera House
State Department of Agriculture
Manley Bryan
Hopkinton
John McDonald Hospital
Oakwood Cemetery
William H. Jarrett
Elsie Meade
Margaret Supple
R. Fay Clark
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Archie Payne
Tom Hogan
Castle Grove
W. W. Stickford
Fred Kay
Elizabeth
Coe College
Alpha Mn) Delta Sorority
Cora Sexton
Mary Hudson
Hiland Ward
Lloyd Sexton
George Allison
Maquoketa
Charles Wollert
Long Beach
California
Fred Crosby
Covgan
Mo Litchfield
Waterloo
W. EF. Page
Glendive
Montana
Nicholas Nelson
Billings
Page
Jennie Alo- Way
Vis Winer
Dora Brucks
Nelson
Ruch Nelson
Kelley Springfield Tire Company
H. P. Gallagher
James B. McDermott
Leo Foulkes
K. M. Davis
George H. Good
J. N. Ramsey
Sharpless Separator Company
Charlies Vernimont
Violet Hay
Orville Russell
Ora Hay
Harry Miller
Iowa Electric Company
Harriet A. Potter
Olive Sinkey
First National Bank of Hawkeye
Monticello State Bank
F. H. Miller
Center Junction Savings Bank
E. F. Borschel
Bernice Peacock
L. A. Andrew
Warren Rees
L. F. Zeller
F. S. Leonard
Irve W. Gay
United Investment and Realty Company
Theodore Martin
Frank Manteja
Tyler & Downing
Millard C. Crispin, Et al
Warren Hay
Edwins Blayney Rockstad
Paul
LaVerne Rockstad
Laura Emmerson
Gilbert Emmerson
John Hosch
A. C. Hills
Etta B. Hoffman
Hans W. Moore
June Hay
Clifford Hay
George Vesey
Jessie M. Vesey
Nettie Ackerman
William E. Ackerman
Onslow Lumber Company
R. Co. Bullock
I. Kairns
M. F. Kairns
F. D. Joseph
Peter C. Koppess
Albert E. Barker
Trilla McCurdy
Maude Grimm
Samuel Grimm
Harold Schweitzer
Irene Schweitzer
Bertha Moore Schnepp
Asa, Schnepp
Whalen Vs
Whalen
William P. Whalen
J. F. Whalen
George J. C. Moenck
Clara
Moenck
N. M. Waite
E. L. Milsap
Roy Peek
Lowell Peek
Florence Orr
William H. Orr
Roxey D. Bullock
Roy O. Bullock
Siebels Bros
John Knutsen
W. C. Holst
George Henrichs
Joseph Benhardt, Sr
Melvin Andre
Harry Pegorek
Bisenius & Sons
Farmers’ & Merchants State Bank
Irve Gavin
Oxford Junction Savings Bank
James Luke
First National Bank of Lost Nation
Jenkins & Ale
Rudolph Latare
Sun
The
Express
Shiloh
Tennessee
Union
Confederacy
Gene Byers
Music Shop. Ie
R. J. McNeill
Howard Deischer
Harvey Harford
Norman Clark
Fred Shover
Ray Hayes
A. G. Bohlken
Iverson
Methodist Ladies
Red Half Blood Hound
Brownie
Newton Parrott
Reed Baby
Wisconsin
Harm Dirks
Center Junction
W. H. Hanken
Guernsey
Lou Ehrisman
Buff Orpington
John Yossi
Fitzsimons Bros
Farmers’ Grain Company
Scotch Grove
Renk Bros. Shoe Shop
Mary E. Hicks
Onslow
Farmers Implement Co
Monticello Express
F. H. Otten
Town
E. Cohn & Sons, Inc
L Street
Wrile McKay Nursery Company
Madison
Helmer
C.M & St. Paul Freight
Cass
Columbus Methabella
Alora
Cranada
Spain
Colombus
Quen Tsabedia
New World
Jave
Java
Shuttleworth
Remington
T. J. George L. P. Waddick
Byerly
Julia Foarde
the Cheater
Marigs
YES MA
Des Moines
Kirkwood
DODGE
Plymouth
Buick
Essex
Eiben
Monticello, Iowa
FUR Sale
Smart Wear
Owa
Montreal Fur Trading Co
America
Walden
Smart Wear Shop
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