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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1929
Page
4
A housewife column offers adult Halloween ideas with spooky stunts, costumes, and decorative touches. It lists festive menus and easy to prepare treats such as cheese pumpkins, jellied items, and cider punch, plus ideas for decorations, games, favors, and prizes.
Reports from the Farm Bureau drive across the state reveal rising engagement. Linn county records 200 new members in two weeks while Franklin county boasts a high level of member involvement, with each member contributing to a self run drive and collective effort.
Roy M. Joslin of the Jones county Farm Bureau attended a Des Moines meeting called by the legislative tax committee to hear farm views on tax revision. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation leaders outlined a plan to repeal the state millage and replace it with income, corporation, gross revenue, luxury, and occupational taxes. Joslin urged members to support the substitution without tax increases.
Local Lutheran and evangelical congregations list Sunday services October 27 with times for Sunday school, morning and German worship, plus concerted events. Notable entries include Castle Grove Lutheran, St Matthew’s Ev Lutheran, St John’s Ev Lutheran, First Congregational, Wayne Zion’s, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches with German services and special observances.
In Center Junction heirs Lorenzo A Leek Stephen A Leek Ida Bell and Nellie M Woodward as sole heirs of Emily M Leek deceased transfer several parcels to James Mead for at least 500 dollars. The document lists multiple lot blocks and boundaries with varying conditions and dollar amounts accompanying each transfer.
Multiple 1.00 transfers and life estate reservations involve Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. W G Kohl and Laura Byerly conveyances, including undivided thirds and life uses in sections 16-83-4 and 11-86-4, plus Galli to Car tano and Bundy family transfers in Anamosa and Martelle. Notable exceptions and detailed parcel descriptions accompany each deed or qcd.
Mrs. J. B. Skahill aged 70 dies at her West Cascade home after nearly two months of illness. Survived by husband four sons including Rev. Harry Skahill and one daughter. Funeral at St. Martin's church with high mass and 28 priests present. Burial in St. Martin's cemetery.
Monticello Iowa held a special council session October 22 1929 with Matthiessen Arduser Hayes and Stuhler present and Hoag absent. The council authorized contracts for house numbers street signs brackets and posts with Tri-City Directory Number Co Davenport and approved sewer work on Maple Street. A petition for reconstrucing a Sycamore Street sewer was referred to the street committee.
A popular Delaware County retailer known as Joe Nieman drew 200 guests from across the county for his yearly patron dinner. For seventeen years he has traveled his selling route by wagon, knowing nearly every road and every resident. His deep local knowledge and wide ties are noted as exceptionally valuable to him.
In Revere last week a boy mourned his dead dog killed by a car. A neighbor’s boy teased him gently, saying his grandmother died a week earlier, prompting the grieving boy to retort that his grandmother could not be raised from a tiny puppy.
The article argues milk is unsuitable for brown cats as it requires large amounts to nourish them, unsettles the stomach, and invites sickness. It advises gradual diet changes following worm treatment, noting that fits come from worms, not meat.
Fragmentary discussion notes varying perceptions of interest and color in a narrative about therapy and exploration. References to Northpole, monthly topics, and unclear native story hints appear without clear action or outcome.
More Useful Brown appeared in police court for a drowning rescue reward. The magistrate urged pinning a medal to his chest and placing $25 in the bank. Brown, modest, suggested pinning $21 to his breast and depositing the medal instead.
Professor Drogger of Oslo University notes in Edinburgh that most Shetland and Orkney place names are Norse in origin. He links Norse farm names in Shetland, Orkney, Caithness and the Hebrides to social status and emigration patterns, especially from Agder Rogaland and More regions of Norway.
In crowded evening subway chaos a little boy sits safely in the last car vestibule as throngs push to board at Eighth Street. An irate father shields him, but the child smiles and says they cannot hurt him. The scene unfolds at a central Philadelphia station.
The article describes Samoan tattooing as thriving, covering bodies from hips to knees. It notes tattooers earn good wages using comb like instruments fashioned from human bones, with procedures lasting two to three months in a fixed retreat. Relatives supply mats, money, and food, and a patient “goes on strike” if gifts are insufficient.
The clock strikes twelve as Henpeck enters his suburban home. His wife demands where he has been and he stammers a confession about visiting a sick friend. She retorts with a sharp jab about money and fidelity, revealing marital strain.
Natives shown to the administrator at Heten using kite fishing from canoes. Large bird shaped kites with tail whips trap fish in a spider like web, catching multiple fish per day. They also stupefy fish with drugs.
The article notes William Tyndale's efforts to translate the New Testament and the Pentateuch into English were blocked in England. He traveled to Germany in 1524, met Luther in Wittenberg, and settled with his amanuensis in Cologne where printing began. He later fled to Worms where the translation was completed.
A digest of kitchen guidance urges more vegetables and fiber and outlines easy recipes. Stuffed onions use walnut filling baked in shells, Lima Beans with Prunes combines beans prunes beef and potatoes, and Carrot and Onion Salad pairs grated veg with rich mayonnaise for serving on lettuce.
Oil painting in Field Museum hall illustrates early life in a web of ice formed in water. Knight portrays algae in blue green pools tinting the squid, with stony basins and pink cushions, while black lava rocks show iron-bearing deposits and a barren landscape.
A Swiss Entomological Institute professor tested eight electric lamps 80 to 200 watts placed three feet high with water basins and petrol on top to trap and drown egg-laying moths. The method yielded 80 acres of perfect fruit while unprotected plots lost 30 to 60 percent, also successful for melons.
In the lagoon a ten foot shark basks in shade as a Kanaka paddler quietly approaches. He slips a rope over the tail and hauls the line, dispatching the shark with a club in a swift, silent fishing method.
A columnist cites the London Chronicle to argue that life’s difficulties test character. Even the privileged would tire without patience and work, and enduring burdens sustains humanity and keeps our cheerful serenity intact.
Elders recall youth when blue and red were cheapest paint options for farm buildings. Barn doors and trim often featured blue or red with white walls common. A blue pump contrasted green door yards and a blue weather vane rooster perched on red roofs, giving the countryside a patriotic look.
A magistrate lectures a prisoner on living upright in a tough world. The prisoner confesses confusion and asks how to stay straight while struggling to balance finances and basic needs. The exchange frames a moral dilemma about temptation and practical life.
The Smithsonian holds a Tuxtla statuette carved from jadeite found in Veracruz Mexico. It features a birdlike deity with a human head and Maya hieroglyphics including a date of 98 B.C. making it the oldest dated monument in America. The institution has many undated pieces that are older.
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