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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1917
Page
4
Correspondence from Center Junction notes demands on women to sew and knit for troops amid war. Mentions Red Cross meetings in Anamosa, teachers’ convention in Des Moines, attendance by local residents, and visits to relatives. Local social notes include Queen Esther Circle formation and travel to Maquoketa and Monticello.
United States Marshal I R Moore visited Wyoming on official business over the weekend. Farmers slow to mature corn shred feed. local A B C new machine at Tasker Atherton ready for work. Several local residents and educators from Cedar Falls Des Moines Chicago Onslow Rock Island and Extra Iowa noted in attendance or travel plans.
Center Junction Iowa reports a Red Cross accounting dated November 1 with receipts totaling 3238.18 including 177 membership fees and 207 apportionment to Anamosa, plus donations and sewing materials issued. Outgoing payments show 242.44 for dit and 426.68 in finished materials sent to Anamosa along with detailed lists of materials both sent and not sent.
The Onslow school fair last Friday evening drew about $38 in proceeds. Moves include Mrs. Spooner and Miss Mantle relocating to Algona, Harry Chase and wife to Anamosa, and Mrs. W. E. Smith attending a D A R meeting in Anamosa. Red Cross food sale planned next Saturday at two.
Sand Spring notes list visits and travels from November 5 including Mr. Ketterman of York PA visiting for Sunday school work Francis Murray's three month trip to the Dakotas Canada and Minnesota Mrs H S Pierce and daughter Lois with relatives at Hopkinton Margaret Murray visiting relatives at Farley and Dubuque L L Appleby and son Robert shopping in Hopkinton Will Beels of Hopkinton callers Jacob Lang of Missouri visiting parents Ruth Guthrie enjoying a school break Anna Guthrie of Monticello visiting her parents C C Marshall of Monticello on business in town.
Prairieburg residents note guests from Marion and nearby areas including Mr and Mrs Charles Wood and family and Mrs R Pinch. A late birth announced and a Red Cross pie social raised funds while a Came s hall dance was planned for charity.
The Farmers Mutual Insurance Association reports gains of over 166000 in risks in ten months with 1387600 of insurance in force and light losses. W F Hintz buys 120 acre tract from 8 Grover in Lovell township. Township trustees held a meeting last Saturday with road superintendents reporting.
Rev and Mrs R V Porter visited Hopkinton relatives before returning to Belle Plaine. Frank C Bentley wed Miss Edna Wallace at Rhodes on October 21 and will live in Hubbard where he will work in a store. A thunderstorm struck October end with lightning killing a steer under an oak tree. Delaware County Farm Bureau formed at Manchester on October 20 with F H Richardson as president and L G Gates as vice president.
Charles Nauman of Sherrill Mound was found guilty by Justice John J. Glab and fined 55.00 plus costs for selling frozen potatoes on the Dubuque market. He also promised to compensate two female witnesses. ten bushels were sold to Mrs Young and six bushels to the other woman.
The Monticello Express reports November events: corn at 67 cents a bushel, multiple deaths including C Henry near Sand Spring and Mrs Alfred Brazelton, C M Prader by heart failure, and Mrs Joshua Garrison in Monticello. Local sales include H W Sherman’s homestead and John Jacobs buying the Perrine farm. Fire at Diamond creamery caused 20000 loss with 6000 insurance. Chauncey Mead’s 90th birthday. Robert G Cousins spoke in Monticello.
A portrait of Iowa corn huskers highlighting the required gear and teamwork. The piece contrasts solitary labor with field races, likening husking contests to military battles and stressing physical fitness and grit as essential. It paints the cornfield as a daily, demanding arena.
A list of citizens drawn to serve as petit jurors for the November term 1917. Jurors must appear at the court house in AndmogA Iowa on December 8, 1917, at 10 a.m. Names cover Brown Greenfield Burroughs Rome Bramer Clay Chatterton Wyoming Cropp Onslow Curry Madison Dodge Madison Dallmire Oxford Dixon Washington Duffy Clay Duncan Greenfield Ellison Cass Eggert Oxford Finn Washington Folkerts Scotch Grove Fishwild Wyoming Fink Greenfield Geisler Washington Trultz Wayne Harrington Anamosa Hansen Wyoming Harms Monticello Inglis Wyoming Jansen Hale Klinkner Washington King Castle Grove Keating Clay Knapp Clay Sage Wyoming Lathrop Oxford McGregor Oxford Moran Richland Myers Wyoming Monroe Anamosa McMaster Onslow Podolak Oxford Poppe Wayne Powers Jackson Rogers Richland Robertson Anamosa Shedeck Wyoming Schmalfeldt Onslow Stover Cass Siebels Wayne Stout Wayne Von Sprecken Oxford Warren Onslow Winnis Monticello Meadow Richland Zimmerman Cass.
The piece argues that the best place for youth to grow is the farm, not the city. It claims country life builds efficiency, health, and proper cooperation between head and hands, and notes urban life offers only brief visits and temptations. It adds farm youths often earn more staying home, while city girls face hardship.
Leslie's Weekly urges renewed fervor at patriotic gatherings for the song America and suggests adding a popular Canadian stanza praising soldiers. The Atchison Globe notes a reflection on doing more when one feels they have exhausted effort.
B. Mitchell was seriously injured yesterday near Amber while guiding one of W. A. Hale's horses. The horse was frightened by an automobile and became unmanageable trampling Mitchell. he was taken to Mercy Hospital with likely fatal injuries. Mitchell has many years of horse handling experience.
The Camp Dodger is the official weekly publication for Camp Dodge Iowa. Editor L R Fairall Co H 350th Infantry Camp Dodge reports on soldiers training to defend democracy and Kaiser opponents. Jones county friends are invited to read this publication for news of the troops.
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