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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1929
Page
3
Wyoming area reports on Bert Peck two miles southwest continuing his 17th season of sorghum production and syrup cooking using a gasoline powered mill. Output ranges 500 to 1600 gallons per season as prices rose from 7 10 to 1 75, with demand waning due to groceries and candy reducing need for syrup.
The Clo club elected Miss Maude Earhart president and officers including J D MacAllister vice president and R L Joseph treasurer. Committees cover program civic social publicity. Community club hosted a meeting with readings and a Scout trip recap. Church reception honored the new pastor A B Soule. A Sabbath school is held weekly with 28 attendees.
Mrs Barnes and others travel between towns for work and visits while the Presbyterians meet in Storm Lake. Teachers from Monticello and Lime Springs visit Hopkinton. Burdette Easter visits friends. Potteries discuss potato prices as Norton Loomis ships produce from East Grand Forks. Birthday festivities for Donald Dunlap, and hospital news for William Bradley, punctuate a week of family and church events in Iowa communities.
An account recalls a farm bureau gathering at the Scotch Grove mill last Tuesday with a bonfire, blankets, music, and moving pictures between two trees. It notes attendees, talks by the county agent and Ezkey, coffee and snacks, and a pleasant departure from routine.
Fritz Ladehoff and Harvey Town motored to Wyoming Thursday. Mrs. Strickel, niece of Mrs. Brokens, will be remembered as Miss Anna Cooper before her marriage.
Farmers from the area attended Hei Schoon’s sale on Monday with buyers present from 12:30 until dark. Milk cows sold for 90 dollars each, cattle averaged ten cents a pound, corn 90 cents per bushel, barley 70 cents, hens 80 cents each, while machinery prices were weak. Auctioneer was Frank Story of Wyoming.
Mrs Lucy McMaster died Monday October 7 at her Onslow home after illness. Born April 27 1863 in Princeton Wisconsin she moved to Iowa as a child and lived on a farm near Onslow until her 1885 marriage to C W McMaster. Survived by two sons two daughters six grandchildren and a brother she was predeceased by her husband in 1917 The funeral held at the Presbyterian church with Rev G C Fiett officiating The pallbearers were six farm relatives and numerous distant relatives attended from several towns.
John Dolan Sr of Prairieburg died Saturday morning from a brain concussion after a fall. Services were held Monday forenoon with burial in the cemetery south of town. Guests at the Glenn Richards home over the weekend included Mr and Mrs Roy Richards and son Gilbert of Waterloo. Mr and Mrs James Smith of ...
Marion and relatives from cnat were entertained at the I QQ Trues dell home Sunday. Mrs Amy Schoonover and sons of Cedar Rapids guest at Mrs L A Schoonover and Mrs Julia Randall attended the A L Truesdell home. Tharp was a Marion visitor with BE DeLanecey Eva and Mr Mrs Flockhart of Anamosa also in Burg. Mrs M McLaughlin of Cedar Rapids visits her daughter Mrs H J Henderson.
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader notes gasoline line taxes fund road building well and are easily collected, sparking interstate agitation to use the revenue for other expenditures.
The passage warns that extending the gasoline tax to other purposes would jeopardize the entire structure. It argues the current burden is light but proper and cautions against widening the tax.
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