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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1914
Page
6
A push will be made to enact a state law regulating charities. Advocates argue the measure would provide oversight, establish standards, and protect donors. The campaign emphasizes accountability and uniform rules across organizations operating within the state.
Des Moines Attorney General Cosson to draft a bill at the chamber of commerce request creating municipal welfare bureaus to register supervise and audit all charity groups. The measure would punish false solicitation misrepresentation and unapproved fundraising and aims to curb duplication of work and fraud.
London papers publish humorous and pointed personal ads as efforts to meet General Kitchener's army targets. A bid requests strong men not in the army while another proposes a doctor's wife fill tramway and other postings, promising wages go to families if men enlist.
In recent fighting near Ostend a French dragoon sustained six bullet and three bayonet wounds in the upper body. He is reported to be recovering.
An American Red Cross member recalls a Meaux battlefield report of German corpses and frozen lifeless poses as dawn broke over trenches. He describes ghostly scenes, rigid limbs, and silent figures standing at attention, the aftermath of intense fighting and mass casualties.
Cedar Rapids reports that a new corn strain from Hinck Jlank County Reid’s won at the Des Moines and Cedar Valley fairs, drawing heavy demand. Iowa State College seeks seed for Ames winter courses, while farmers in neighboring states also request seed as shipments continue. Despite exports, Cedar Rapids counties will retain enough seed for next year.
Lawrence Bryant, dying in a Muscatine hospital, was beaten by three men and thrown across a railway track to destroy evidence, according to the testimony of several children who witnessed the incident.
A three year old boy, son of Prank Snow, died when, while climbing onto a farm wagon, the wagon horses bolted and threw him under the wheels as a hired man hauled a load of corn. The incident occurred in Grant township.
Ottumwa's YMCA begins a competition with Burlington Waterloo and Keokuk. Two teams of about fifty men each started last week. Red and blue lights at night and flags by day indicate which team is leading the race.
National convention of Disciples of Christ to be held in Atlanta Georgia from Oct 7 to 14. Inelish Lutheran synodical meeting set for Oct 15 to 18 in Nevada. Presbyterian synodical meeting scheduled Oct 20 to 21 at Cornell Bluffts. Iowa Women’s Christian Temperance Union convention to be held in Creston from Oct 21 to 28.
Peter Hoelzner has word from the state game and fish warden that he will supply a half cut of black bass for Medium lake. Several citizens plan to secure a few thousand minnows from the national hatchery in Washington.
John Gentry of Burlington died en route to a Burlington hospital after his car overturned a short distance from Burlington. Passersby found him suffering from hemorrhages and summoned an ambulance.
While fishing in the race Ottumwa P. 5, Boyles pulled a suit case from the water containing clothing stolen from a local store. The clothes were turned over to police and identified by the merchant.
Dubuque August Thill, 26, a coal yard worker, was injured when a car he started on a grade rolled back and ran over his right leg. He suffered this severe injury in the yard.
Wall Lake-Yeggs robbed the Northwestern station here and escaped with only $10. The fourth suspect was described as an experienced thief for a clean job.
A young farmer near Blanchard is hospitalized with serious injuries after falling from a wheel scraper. He was thrown into the air and landed on the machine’s handles, one of which penetrated his abdomen.
A blaze at Sioux City Stock Yards burned a large hay and feed barn, causing about $8,000 in damage. The barn was owned by the Stock Yards company.
Bancroft farmer J. H. Hughes was killed when his car ran off a grade into Mud Creek channel and was badly smashed. He leaves a family of six children.
Centerville laborer Thomas Turner a coal miner at Mystic drank two ounces of carbolic acid in an apparent self harm attempt. He was rushed to a local hospital where doctors reported he may recover.
Waterloo brothers Fred and Adolph Kaltenbach on a bicycle trip through Germany were arrested twelve times as spies after war began. They traveled from Munich to their aunt’s home sixty miles away and faced searches and a midnight mob at their hotel.
Adel prepares for a fall festival on October 20 featuring free pumpkin pie from merchants. The day honors the Dallas county monument with Senator A B Cumming as speaker. Old settlers homecoming and a colt show with judging by an Ames expert are planned as additional attractions.
Waterloo-Vernon Cochrane aged 19 of Black Hawk county Jail escape fame ends his life by his own hand in Green Bay Wisconsin. His body buried in Wau Pun Wisconsin where his mother lives. Officers say a sweetheart near Green Bay and he forged a check and pleaded guilty before Judge Platt. He might have been freed due to youth if he stayed imprisoned into this month.
Cornell Wuffa J W Dorland and Gallup, the two bull moose nominees for the legislature from this county, have withdrawn. Rev. A 3 Adams, progressive nominee for congress from the Ninth district, accepted a district charge and will not seek the seat. Donelly is in another congressional district.
Council Bluffs reports J. Robert Minster aged 48 a prominent county farmer died in a hospital from injuries after a pitchfork swung by a fellow threshing crew member caught in a belt and struck him in the head two tines penetrating rain conditions not specified making the incident a tragic farm accident with notable local impact.
A debt free church was dedicated Sunday in Northam, a new Christian church valued at eight thousand dollars. Dean A M Hag gard of Drake University led the dedication ceremony, with Rev C N Bigelow serving as pastor.
Oscar M. Farb sells the Albert City Appeal to Will Lyons former foreman of the Alta Advertiser in Sac county.
Cedar Rapids Upper Iowa Methodist conference in session chose Dubuque St Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church as its meeting place for the 1915 gathering.
Ottumwa reports Bob Marshall a Black miner died when slate fell at Phillips mines Bear Creek. Authorities investigate cause and location of accident.
R C delegates from several counties met in Osage Monday for the organization gathering. Representatives from Alla makee Winneshirk Howard Chicka saw Mitchell and Floyd counties joined twelve corps in attendance.
A Union anniversary gathering honored Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Gearhart at their Hopkinton home marking sixty five years of marriage and family ties.
Storm Lake reports Chester N. Ambler, former foreman at the Pilot-Tribune, has resigned and will move to Grinnell to partner with C. A. Miller starting Oct. 1 in publishing the Grinnell Register.
An auto carrying three people left the road and plunged over a forty foot bank in a suburb. Elwood Bixby of Le Mars Indiana was seriously hurt while the others escaped with minor injuries.
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