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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1946
Page
3
Harold Jordan of Onslow buys the Mrs. Dora Fisher building on Main street in Wyoming to install a new locker plant with completion expected by Jan 1. The Wyoming Journal location will be used and a public talk by Gene Siekmann is sponsored by the Presbyterian Men’s Fellowship on Nov. 14 at the gym auditorium.
Max McCrabb of Monticello will speak at the Scotch Grove Farm Bureau meeting November 13 in district eight schoolhouse at eight o'clock. Kathleen Paulsen will sing and a music quiz will follow. The event is run by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Paulsen and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Paulsen.
A sequence of church notices lists services and activities from multiple denominations including Saki Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Wayne Zion Lutheran, St. Matthew's Lutheran, The Methodist, Presbyterian, Westminster, Evangelical and Reformed, Congregational-Christian, St. John's Lutheran, Castle Grove Lutheran, and Prairieburg church events. It includes mass times, confessions, Sunday school, youth/leagues, guest speakers, and upcoming meetings and catechetical sessions with dates and hosts.
An emery wheel shattered at the C B and Q roundhouse in Creston injuring machinist Lester Saffel 45 whose skull fracture proved fatal. The accident prompted an official investigation and details remain under review.
Iowa State College entomologist Harold Gunderson proposes a farmer method to gauge rat numbers. If no rats are seen but signs exist, 1 to 100. occasional nighttime sightings imply 100 to 500. nightly and daytime sightings suggest 500 to 1,000. many seen at night and during day could total up to 5,000.
A semi commercial plant at a USDA laboratory will convert corn cobs into fuel. Tests show 90 to 95 gallons of fuel per ton of cobs. In the corn belt, 700 pounds of cobs per acre could yield about 30 gallons of fuel. Cottonseed hulls and other waste may also be used.
Miss Margherita Tarr of Iowa State College Extension spoke at a Jones county 4-H Girls leader training on Home Grounds Improvement Landscaping for Use and Beauty. She highlighted elm and oaks, shrubs, evergreens, plant selection by site and care needs. A planting demonstration is set for April 3 at a club member or leader’s home with follow up demonstrations at local meetings.
Mrs. Joe Matuska of near Spirit Lake died from asphyxiation due to smoke from a stove used as a laundry heater. The body was found about two hours after she collapsed. she was the mother of six children.
Instructions warn against overfilling the washing machine with water as it reduces efficiency and causes excessive splashing.
Jimmy Johnson three years old, son of Mr and Mrs Carroll Johnson, fell into the elevator pit at the Johnson feed mill last Wednesday. He suffered a broken nose and broken right arm above the elbow, was taken to a Monticello hospital for observation, and returned home Thursday.
Iowa State college specialist Richard B. Campbell says many landowners have ample mature timber that could be cut during the lumber shortage. He warns against overcutting to protect future use. Iowa has 2 250 000 acres of timberland, but only a portion is harvestable now.
Campbell estimates state timberlands produced 14 million dollars in 1945, noting much potential was lost due to improper handling. In another item, Linus Winter, 15, shot at a squirrel in Waucoma. a rebounding bullet struck his arm, causing two gashes while he stood near a block of salt.
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