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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1934
Page
7
Boys in Laurens vocational work class, Laurens were busy completing projects. They made a wagon box and repaired a sidewalk. Desks were refinished, cloak racks and magazine racks were produced. Gas engines were repaired and harness oiled. Neck yokes were also crafted.
A grain elevator at Judd split open after overloading and released about 19000 bushels of grain over the ground. A 60 by 10 foot section tore from the side, fourteen feet up, with fair weather hoped to limit losses during reloading. Meanwhile Des Moines druggist W. E. Kerr recalls he intended burglary insurance after his shop was robbed for the 14th time in 19 years.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. George of Laurens Pocahontas county were riding when a bee flew into Mr. George sleeve caused loss of control and the car overturned. He suffered a broken breastbone and both were badly bruised. The car was not seriously damaged.
W H C Mantie of Britt hosted a large turtle soup party following the capture of a fifty pound turtle at Eagle lake. Mantie dressed the animal and A B Brekke prepared the soup at a cafe, yielding about twenty pounds of meat for fifty guests who attended.
Sac City and Sac county face a perplexing mystery as 21 shoats found nearly starved and influenza struck in the railroad stockyards. North Western railway officials investigated with no clue on origin or ownership. Pigs were handed to the county surplus pig representative for fattening and distribution to relief agencies.
A seven pound ten ounce radish on display by Mrs Isna Masters near Mapleton Monona county and a ten pound canllower grown by L C Ponte from Red Oak Montgomery county with a root nearly three feet long showcase the season’s curiosities despite challenging growing conditions.
Jones County race results show E. McNamara reelected county supervisor by 1445 with 4240 votes. Evelyn A. Brown 2795. Clerk of district court Lee Byerly won by 1473 with 4290 votes. W. W. Hanken 2817. Sheriff Henry Eichhorn reelected by 1584 with 4416 vs 2832 for W. H. Null. County recorder Bess E. Sherman won by 682 with 3899 to 3217 for Bessie M. Carlson. County attorney Marvin C. Levien reelected with 4050 votes to James L. Cave's 3044. Coroner J. J. Hayes reelected with 3668 to L. A. Iverson's 3235. Mayberry narrowly defeats Fagan for board of supervisors by 20. Holst and Shimerda reelect on the board. Voter turnout in Monticello close to presidential year. heavy precinct turnout noted. Justice of the peace Francis Shimanek and Ray Echternacht elected. Schoon and Kehoe chosen city constables.
Marinus Nelsen of Audubon area lent L. J. Anderson eight dollars sixty cents to invest in war savings stamps. Anderson bought the stamps and cashed them for ten dollars, placing the proceeds in a bank. Nelsen, later of Ringsted, visited Audubon and was surprised when Anderson returned his bankbook showing a ten dollar, 17 year accumulating interest account.
A lad in Ida Grove Ida county built a homemade fieldpiece from a tree limb and an inner tube sling shot. He anchored the butt on the ground and used the tube as the power source to hurl missiles far away. His father deemed it too dangerous and it was discarded.
Republican incumbents in the Eighteenth Judicial District appear to have won re election based on unofficial totals from Linn, Jones, and Cedar counties. Top vote geter H C Ring led with 19 434, followed by John T Moffitt Atherton B Clark and F O Ellison. Democratic candidate Haas trailed narrowly.
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