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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1931
Page
7
Des Moines master builders urge eleven trades to accept wage reductions from 12 to 37 percent citing wartime pay as stifling city improvements. Current hourly rates listed for lathers carpenters cement finishers iron workers hoisting engineers painters bricklayers plasterers common laborers mortar mixers and more.
A Iowa farmer notes higher educational costs in corn terms as school expenses rise. Bank failures after deflation hit Merchants National of Grinnell. assets sold cheaply to H B Moeller. Mississippi nine foot channel plan approved. Alma Wisconsin dam listed, with dam construction to start pending funds.
Friday November 13 is fixed as the date for the eighth national corn husking contest in Grundy county The event started in 1924 in Iowa with Iowa Nebraska and Illinois early participants Minnesota Missouri Kansas and Indiana later joined and this year Ohio seeks enrollment The National Broadcasting Company will broadcast the contest to more than forty states with farm hookups and ears of corn on bangboards for listeners nationwide Also note a separate observance for Montgomery Warren McCall a War of 1812 veteran buried in Elk Rapids cemetery Boone county with a grave marker unveiling during the Sept 23 ceremony.
The Plymouth Milling company of LeMars received a United States license and became a bonded warehouse for storing wheat. It has 180000 bushels storage across 120 cars and has already received 17 carloads from Omaha as part of Federal Farm Board holdings. The facility charges one cent per bushel per month.
In arguing tax cuts, teachers’ wages are cut with critics claiming pay should reflect the full year. Leslie G. Moeller of Waverly calculated that 27 teachers in Waverly schools earned $34,121.35 annually, which on a twelve month basis equates to about $2,430 per week.
Bremer county finds a 152 year old Connecticut lease dated June 21 1737 signed by Jacob Orcutt and Meritable Jones. The document surfaced with Marshall W Orcutt papers and now belongs to Kenneth B Orcutt. Nearby Fort Des Moines notes 310 soldiers 17th field artillery and a new 400 seat moving theater.
James Wallace Milne, 56, longtime Des Moines resident and newspaper editor, died of heart disease in his Hotel Savery apartment. Born January 13, 1875 in Scotch Grove Iowa he lived in Monmouth and Bussey before moving to Des Moines in 1904. He was a partner in Milne and Meek printers and a 32nd degree Mason. Survived by wife two sisters and two brothers. Funeral Monday at Dunn's with burial in Glendale Masonic cemetery.
A compiled church calendar lists services at Presbyterian St John’s Lutheran St Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Trinity St Joseph’s Catholic Wayne Zion and other churches. It notes Sunday schools morning masses confessions and special events with pastors and locations including Prairieburg Castle Grove and Monticello. An Oct 3 4 Ursinus Classis Young People conference is announced with a banquet. An increased demand for draft horses is reported from North Dakota.
Studies by the engineering experiment station at Iowa State College Ames show motorists spent over 291 million dollars to operate automobiles in 1930. The United States accounts for about three fourths of global cotton production.
A library notes six months of notable additions across fiction history travel and drama with authors including Rinehart Munthe Wister Glaspell Eddy Cather Aldrich and Keyes. The piece cites varied works from My Story to Shadows on the Rock and emphasizes reading as a profitable leisure activity.
The sixty sixth annual Jones County Sunday School Council of Religious Education convenes at the United Brethren church in Olin on Wednesday October 7. Morning and afternoon sessions feature devotions, addresses on leadership and building for tomorrow, and separate conferences for children, adults, and young people. Evening programs include a county chorus and a play followed by an address on Christian education for Christian citizenship.
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