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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1925
Page
6
The state university releases findings from surveys suggesting reforms including abolishing the coroner and moving to appointive officers. Voters would resist surrendering local elective control, fearing university influence over county governance, a clash that could defeat the proposal.
A thousand Iowa mayors are invited to a Des Moines conference in late month to discuss traffic problems and sewage disposal. Experts doubt lasting gains from talks. real progress hinges on strict enforcement of motor vehicle laws and near-term crackdown on dumping sewage into rivers.
George D Herron, the socialist once at Grinnell College, dies in Munich at 63. He left his wife and children, divorced, then married Garrie Rand, with whom he ran the Rand school of socialism which failed. After expatriating from the United States he appeared briefly when President Wilson named him a commissioner to a Russian conference. He was intelligent but impractical and egotistical.
The house of bishops found Bishop William Montgomery Brown guilty of heresy and he seeks court intervention to block deposition. He argues his opinions justify continued leadership, while critics say a religious instructor must align with denominational tenets and retire if out of harmony.
A Tipton man who arranged a mail order marriage faced arrest after a prospective bride failed to meet his expectations and could not pay her passage home. Authorities cited an old statute to charge him with transporting a pauper into the state.
In Omaha, President Coolidge told the American Legion that national superiority should yield to humility and restraint. He rejected 100 percentism and Nordic supremacy, signaling a broader, more tolerant view unusual for his administration.
Hopkinton farmers dominate the Iowa poultry report from the Ames extension service. Russell Lux's White Leghorn flock produced 4,972 eggs from 205 hens at 78.2 percent efficiency, with a $147.51 profit after $87.69 feed costs. W P Lord led Black Minorca production with a 60.8 percent egg rate. Average month yield across 382 flocks was 12.8 eggs per hen, with total receipts $23,567.10, feed costs $9,590.48, and profit $15,977.22.
Sioux City Journal notes Gov Hammill's crime policy stance favoring quick, sure penalties as deterrents. He opposes leniency and warns parole abuses, calling for double discretion by the state board of paroles after conviction.
The Knoxville Journal suggests Iowa farmers could unite to control corn marketing. It argues that setting a $1 per bushel price and refusing to sell below it would help establish a fair market price and ensure cost of production plus a fair profit.
The clipping reports mixed items from Iowa communities including endowment fund oversubscriptions in Dubuque and Buchanan counties, local obituaries, high school football results, a Cascade druggist permit for medicinal alcohol, anamosa water crisis, a murder and jail escape in Dubuque, and various court rulings and public notices. It notes several sports scores and local civic proceedings.
Bert E Hamblin suffered heavy losses when a Tuesday evening fire destroyed his large hay barn housing over a hundred tons of hay and damaged the machine shed corn crib and other outbuildings. The fire threatened the main house but neighboring help and a strong water supply limited further damage. No livestock were lost and insurance covered part of the destroyed structures.
Miss Lieth Bancroft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Bancroft of Marshalltown, wed Glenn Hall cashier of a bank in Ritchie Montana last Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Hall plan Iowa visit with the bride’s parents after the ceremony.
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