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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1909
Page
5
The board of supervisors is expected to back a plan for a larger county home with modern sanitary improvements. Debates focus on whether to sell the 300 acre farm or shrink the site while keeping location, with the main aim a bigger, better facility for those in need. Additionally, figures discuss school vacations, politics, and legal matters affecting state and national discourse.
John Powell buys 4160 acre Tama county farm at 162.50 per acre. Anamosa jail turnkey Thomas Buckner dies at 91. Sun day revival in Cedar Rapids reports 1718 conversions and $7719.16 raised. Iowa monuments repair budget estimated at 15000. Maquoketa to urge extra M & St Paul train service. Five football scores listed with Drake and Simpson triumphs. Anamosa widow Mrs N S Noble dies aged 84. Plaints of field injuries at Cornell vs Ames.
Mrs. Lucy Nance of Epworth is in Dubuque jail charged with murdering her husband Charles Nance who died October 28 after strychnine was found in his stomach. The coroner’s jury returned the verdict of poisoning and recommended arrest. Nance ran a Farley barber shop. the couple previously lived in Center Junction.
The Manchester Press laments farmers too poor to buy warm blankets for their teams. Hogs cost $7 and milk $1.50 per hundred, while some owners ignore cold horses to argue tariff and politics. A harsh fate awaits those who let animals freeze on winter nights.
A witty syndicated essay notes that wisdom is scarce and scriptures are easier to quote than lived. It argues a husband’s happiness versus a widow’s unhappiness, and jokes about teaching new graduates to learn, and a husband’s skill at fixing a furnace.
A Milwaukee woman traded a jar of butter for another after discovering a mouse in the churn. The shopkeeper, trusting her account, moved the butter to a new jar and returned the mouse butter to the customer with thanks, noting the incident shows unnecessary squeamishness.
A collection of quips on gender and intellect critiques in breezy editorial style. The paragraphs poke at boys brains and girls voices with sharp witticisms on learning hair color caution and speech.
The speaker condemns the saloon as the deadliest foe to home church and state. He likens liquor to a mongoose destroying family peace, finances, health, and character, arguing saloons erode virtue and lead to ruin and despair.
The Muscatine county board of supervisors declared the saloon petition insufficient after withdrawals lowered the count below the legal requirement. Promoters attempted to withdraw but the board ruled the filed petition must stand and be acted upon.
From the Springfield Republican an item notes Rudyard Kipling was accused of slander by defining women as a rag and a bone and a hank of hair. A Lonaconing woman seven years married answers with a rhythmic synopsis describing a man as a rag and a drone and a tank of air.
L C Way sold a 640 acre farm twenty five miles southeast of Regina Saskatchewan for 18560 dollars about 29 dollars per acre. He had bought two sections 125 miles southeast of Regina for 29800 dollars and received a 6400 dollar advance offer, with plans to hold the land.
A reader notes two costs of a paint job first cost and durability. Painters say three years is a good repaint interval but Devoe Lead-and-Zinc Paint often lasts six years or more, sometimes ten or twelve. The ad promotes KL and Devoe.
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