Des Moines Judge Herman Zeuch Falls to Death in Canopy Accident
Des Moines district court judge Herman F. Zeuch was killed when he stepped from a canopy onto a glass skylight above a building entrance and plunged fifteen feet to the sidewalk. Governor Hammill and other officials witnessed the accident as spectators gathered after the Manufacturers' Representatives parade. Zeuch, born 1889, served as municipal judge before joining the district court bench in 1927 and was completing his third year when he died. He leaves a widow, a daughter Virginia, his mother, and nine siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman F. Zeuch
Des Moines
John Hammill
Hubert Utterbach
Chamber of Commerce
D. F. Williams
Manufacturers' Representatives Association
Hammill
Herman Zeuch
Strawberry Point
Hopkintons
College of Liberal Arts
State University
Drake University
Zeuch
Batavia
Eighty-fourth Infantry
N. E B. Randall
Virginia
Mary Zeuch
Hopkinton
George Zeuch
Monticello
William J First Buys Two Passenger Plane
William J First purchased a Waco biplane capable of carrying two passengers plus the pilot. The 1027 model, previously privately owned, earned a C rating from the Commerce Department, the highest given. The plane uses an OX 5 Curtis eight cylinder ninety horsepower engine. First trained at Waterloo airport, and Monticello pilot W O Briggs flew the craft locally. Briggs gave Monticello residents fifteen minute rides at 2 50 each as the town plans its new airport with a thirty acre hangar site and a ten foot Monticello sign planned for a large roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. First
Department of Commerce
First
Waterloo
Monticello
W. O. Briggs
Canton
Illinois
Mon ticello P T A Seeks Slogan and Honors Student
The honors committee invites public slogans prioritizing child welfare with a $3 reward for the winner. Submissions must arrive by October 17. At the next meeting, the winner will be announced. An additional $5 award will go to the top all around senior high student based on scholarship conduct and activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Parent-Teachers Association
Frank Eilers’ Truck Catches Fire Between Towns
Frank Eilers faced a tense incident last Tuesday when his automobile caught fire while traveling between Langworthy and Monticello. A number of motorists stopped to help extinguish the blaze, and Eilers admitted the fire gave him considerable worry for a time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Eifers
Langworthy
Monticello
Frank
82,000 Fish Placed in Maquoketa River River
A game warden reports 82,000 fish released into the Maquoketa River over the last 30 days. Ponds nearby were seined, rescuing 60,000 crop pies along with 500 catfish 200 bullheads and 60 bass for stocking. Additional hatchery shipments from Sabula added 1,400 croppies and 200 smaller fish in one load and 700 fish including 150 bass in another.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maquoketa River
Monticello
Maquoketa
Sabula
Anamosa Beats Mount Vernon 18 to 0 in Football
Readable local sports notes report the Anamosa high school football team defeating Mount Vernon 18 to 0 last Saturday. Also listed are county events including a Catholic parish death in Maquoketa, student appointments, and several local accident reports.
Trains Change Time For Monticello Link To Chicago
Trains update for Monticello in October shifts morning departures to 7:00 to enable a connection at Oxford Junction with a fast train to Chicago arriving about 2:15. Train 33 to Davenport and Train 23 to Cedar Rapids adjust schedules. Cedar Rapids feeder train will not connect with Monticello Davenport service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Chicago
Oxford Junction
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Calmar
Monticello- Davenport
Notable Local Obituaries and Updates From Monticello Years Ago
Twenty five years ago items report deaths in Monticello and area including Joseph Moody in Tacoma born 1853 in Cook County. Mrs Julia Moody predeceased him. Also noted are church, school, and business changes, births, marriages, and land transactions involving locals such as Leclerc, Hepp, Stuhler, and Kissling, with prices and dates from the period.
Thieves Break Into Library And School
A group robbed Monticello library on Monday Sept 30 taking $3 from fines. The same night the public school and a rural school were entered. cash drawers were rifled, stamps and a Victrola were stolen, and fountain pens taken. Police now suspect a traveling band of yeges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Nella Hoffman
Marion
Gerdes Expands Poland China Herd At Cuba City Sale
G H Gerdes of Castle Grove township attended a Poland China sale at John Hendricks farm near Cuba City Wisconsin and bought a fine hog to add to his herd The top hog sold for 252 60 dollars Mr Gerdes is praised for his progressiveness
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. H. Gerdes
Castle Grove Township
John Hendricks
Cuba City
Wisconsin
Gerdes
World Peace Pact Concluded and National News
World leaders including Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and President Hoover concluded a conference outlining a peaceful relationship between Britain and the United States. Other nations invited include France Italy and Japan to discuss naval and armament limits. Also reported are updates on the World Series Athletics over Cubs, Chicago income tax projections, and various international and domestic affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
America
United States
France
Italy
Japan
London
Chicago
Philadelphia
Athletics
Cubs
Blacklidge
China
Russia
Three River District
Harbin
Protestant Episcopal Church
School Notes Report Highlights Field Trips and Week Activities
Weekly notes describe a pep meeting before the Galena Monticello game, biology and methods field trips, a junior picnic at Anamosa state park, and exam week with new report cards tracking tardies absences citizenship and grades. An honor award for the best all around student is planned, and each class will present a program in the auditorium Friday. Louise Thomas recovers, Hugh Lambert misses school after his mother's death, and Monticello staff travel to Waterloo for a state vocal competition with about 500 students involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Lambert
Philomonte
Monti High
Louise Thomas
New Auxiliary V F W Organized Yesterday
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars formed in the Memorial building with officers led by president Mrs Henry Che and vice president Mrs W A Suthers. Inspected by Mrs Irene Dodds and Cedar Rapids and Des Moines helpers, the group opens with thirty charter members and strong community plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Memorial Building
Henry Che
W. A. Suthers
John Jacobs
Elmer Hubbard
George Barnts
Ray Echternacht
George Timmins
Henry Helms
Irene Dodds
Town and
South Dakota
Cedar Rapids
John McMahon
Des Moines
Association of
Enabnit Sr of Ryan Dies After Long Illness
Christian Enabnit Sr died at his Ryan home on Sunday September 29 after a two year illness. Born August 15 1864 in Grindelwald Switzerland he married Anna Bohren in 1878. Survived by widow three sons fifteen grandchildren one brother and one sister the funeral was held October 1 at the Ryan Lutheran church conducted by Rev E Melchert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Enabnit
Ryan
Enabnit
Grindelwald
Switzerland
Anna Bohren
United States
Richland Township
Jones County
Enabait
Christ
John
Herman
Ulrich
John Egger
Monticello
Enaball
Rev
E. Melchert
Mrs. Charles Lambert Died At Hospital
Mrs. Charles Lambert of Monticello died at John McDonald hospital last Sunday after a partial paralytic stroke. Born August 5, 1880, she married Charles Lambert in 1903 and had four children Coy Hugh Charles and Mary. Funeral services were at the Presbyterian church with Rev. Leonard Duckett officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lambert
Monticello
John McDonald Hospital
James Gray
Hopkinton
Lambert
Presbyterian Church
Leonard Duckett
Public Health Service September Report on Rural Schools
The report notes 31 rural schools and one graded school visited with 572 pupils inspected. Of these, 141 were underweight, 34 had nose and throat issues, 5 had defective vision, and 402 had decayed or defective teeth. Emma J. Phillips records dental health efforts under the Iowa plan, with two rural schools already reporting 100 percent on honor rolls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Lampa
Hazel Hill
Greenfield Township
Vrooman
South Madison
Jane Wiley
Bureau of Dental Hygiene
State University
Wiley
O. K
Wyoming
Emma J. Phillips
Driest September In The Past 21 Years
September 1929 in Dubuque records was the driest since 1908 with 1.55 inches of rainfall and a 62.6 degree mean temperature below normal. Only seven measurable precipitation days occurred plus two thunderstorms, one severe on the 28th, near Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau Office
L. Walter Dick
Dubuque
Monticello
R Store Buys Steiner Grocery In Monticello Deal
A. W. Steiner sells his Monticello grocery stock to the R grocery owners George Zeuch Julius Westphal and Lawrence Robertson who plan to move stock to the Steiner store by October 25 the former owner began in 1899 and has long served customers in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Steiner
Monticello
George K. Zeuch
Julius H. Westphal
Anamosa
Lawrence Robertson
Steiner Grocery
Steiner
Joe Peterlin
Corporal Kagan to Stageat Monticello in Two Nights
The Parent Teachers association plans a two night amateur comedy Corporal Eugene a lively look at rookie life in a barracks setting. George Van Buren leads Red Eagen with Gladys Stickford Sally O Neill and a large Monticello cast delivering song and dance numbers. Admission 50 and 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teachers Association
Corporal Eagen
Universal Producing Company
Eugene
Monticello
Corporal Fagen
Red Eagen
George van Buren
George Barnts
Eagen
Goldstein
Sally O'Neill
Gladys Stickford
Harold Wilcox
K. P
Tarvits
Red
Izzy
Sally
Harry Manire
Lillian Byerly
Celestine Bader
Michael Eagen
Victor Dautremont
Able Goldstein
Henry Helms
Kate Maurice
Minard Stout
McGinnis
Norman Clark
Karloozy
Royal Corbett
Emil Stutt
Trial in Starry v Starry Lynch Ends with Lynch No Consideration
A single jury case this term in district court ended with a verdict for the defendant Lynch. The note for 17000 dated around August 1 1920 found no consideration for Lynch signing the note. Supreme Court previously reversed the district court ruling and remanded for a new trial. The jury reached an agreement after overnight deliberation finding no binding obligation on Lynch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starry
Starry & Lynch
W. Starry
Glenn Lynch
Wilbert Starry
Lynch
Supreme Court
District Court
Clark
Monticello
Cow Testing Association Reports Strong September Milk Output
The association’s September average reached 472 pounds of milk and 19.2 pounds of butterfat. Hoag and Deischer purebred Holsteins led with 1,155 pounds of milk and 32.6 pounds butterfat across six cows. Other notable records include Ahirichs 659 pounds milk 30.5 butterfat and Oltman 610 pounds milk 28.8 butterfat among graded herds. Total cows counted were 424 milking and 83 dry with 16 cows over 40 pounds butterfat and 6 over 50. separator loss totaled $21.61.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association
Hoag and Deischer
J. E. Ahirichs
William M. Oltman
Louis M. Lange
Jerseys
Wilcox & Sons
Guernseys
W. D. Me
Aaughlin
Wyman Fulton
Fannie Mae Hicks Fractures Collar Bone
Stenographer Fannie Mae Hicks of Dubuque fractured her collar bone when a horse she rode at her parents home in Richland township fell. She is in McDonald hospital for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie Mae Hicks
Dubuque
Howard Hicks
Richland Township
Fannie Mae
McDonald Hospital
Dame _Nature
Also Mentioned on This Page
H. Zeuch
Parent-Teachers Assn
Frank Eilers
Mount Vernon
E. J. Craney
Chester Miller
Chester Coon
C. A. Coon
Hale
Fred Kouba
Charles Niles
Clifford L. Niles
Marian McElligott
Hugh McElligott
Minnesota
Coe
Monmouth
Northwestern
Cornell
St. Ambrose
Midland
Morningside
Augustana
Iowa Wesleyan
Graceland
Iowa State
Grinnell
J. G. van Sickle
Floyd Hurt
Morley
Frank Robinson
Randall State
Eugene State
J. A. May
Manchester
Young State
Howard Jeffries
the Express
Joseph
Bowen's Prairie
W. E. van Buren
Methodist Episcopal Church
Upper Iowa
Edwin A. Sparks
Chicago University
Lewis Hepp
William Stuhler
O. H. Saetje
H. M. Carpenter
Elmer Hicks
St. Louis Exposition
James Lundin
David Farrell
John Hayden
Marcus Hayden
Bowen’s Prairie
James Milne
Scotch Grove
H. C
George F. Leclerc
Lulu Leclere
Dubuque County
Mary Smith
Douglas H. Smith
Lorain
Ohio
O. C. Hunter
Model Grocery
E. H. Erickson
Hans Ruof
Frank Nickel
George Davidson
Andrew Davidson
Cornwall
Ontario
Agnes Mitchell
Jacob Kissling
Porter Farm
Bruce Cropp
Poland
Reds
Albert B. Fall
E. H. Doheny
Interior
Fall
Farm Board
Southern Cotton Growers Cooperative Association
Florida Citrus Exchange
Citrus Exchange
Charles A. Lindbergh
Guatemala
Santa Cruz
United States Department of Agriculture
United States Senate
Philippines
Senate
Brookhart
Steck
New York
Zeola Burlingham
Rose Wilcox
Monticello Public School
A. B. Grimes
Edna Schoon
Edna Siebels
Raymond Schoon
Curtis Moncerief
Chris Enabnit, Sr
Public Health Service
Corporal Kagan
Louisville
Kentucky
American Legion
Herman Schneider
Harry Hoag
William H. Jarrett
Clark Hubbard
John Ross
Proctor Wilkens
Monticello Legionaires
Lincoln
Mammoth Caves
Park Chamberlain
Donnelly & Lynch
Benjamin Holley
George Wilson
J. E. Remley
Jones County Court House
Clarence Kuriger
Albert Pospishal
Pearl Studer
Margaret Wroblewski
L. C. Grassfield
Herbert Timp
Barney Magee
Jens Nissen
Robert Powers
Thomas F. Kula
J. P. Koster
Anna Martens
John C. Martens
Guardian
Continental Minors Bank & Trust Company
Cora N. Root
Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Company
Nathan B. Lathrop
O. L. Karsten
William S. Hill
Cow Testing Association
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