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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1934
Page
4
The column details community happenings across Onslow and surrounding towns. Social visits include Dana McGovern in Chicago and reunions at Belle Vue State Park. Local sports feature Onslow defeating Big Rock 7 2 and kit tenball exhibition. A 30th wedding anniversary surprise, school openings, and a bank stockholders meeting are noted along with travel to Chicago for games and a car crash near Clinton.
Wayne Zion Lutheran German service at 10 30 a m September 9 Sunday school 9 30 a m Confirmation class Saturday 9 to 11 45 a m Congregational Church morning worship 11 00 a m sermon An Affair of Honor St Joseph s Catholic Prairieburg masses Sundays 7 00 and 9 08 a m confessions Saturday afternoon evening Sacred Heart Masses 8 00 and 10 00 a m devotion at 2 00 p m confessions Saturday 3 30 5 00 and 7 00 8 00 p m First Friday devotions 7 00 a m others St Matthew s Lutheran 9 45 Sunday school 10 45 English service 7 45 Luther League 2 30 installation of Pastor J Pannhuk Hopkinton Iowa St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Sunday school 9 15 a m mission work sermon German 10 00 a m English 2 00 p m Rev Rufus Young German Rev Peters Guttenberg dinner served Reformed Church Loyalty month ends Sept 30 mission festival Sept 30 to Oct 6 Presbyterian Church Sunday school 10 a m morning worship 11 a m Christian Endeavor 6 45 p m evening service 7 30 p m Men s Brotherhood Sept 11 8 00 p m Ladies Aid Sept 12 1 00 p m Great Bend Tribune note fragment about jelly miles and taxis.
The article notes rice and wheat as the world’s two key foods. Rice feeds more people, while wheat supports roughly half the global population. Wheat varieties include bread, duram and others, with diseases rust and stinking smut posing major threats.
A reflection on Hindu marriage customs contrasts Western female independence with arranged matches. The piece argues widows face remarriage bans, creating many eligible men while individual choice is limited for Hindu women from the Maharanee to the sweeper.
The Washington Star describes Dalmatia as ethnically mixed and historically fluid. It notes the region shifted from under the Ottoman and Austrian spheres to various powers through centuries, ending up under Austrian control until the World War era.
The myth concerns Aurora daughter of Hyperion who loved Tithonus. Granted immortality but not perpetual youth Tithonus aged endlessly while Aurora neglected him. In time he withered into a helpless form and was transformed into a cricket as his life stretched on.
Montreal Herald notes ball speeds in a Germany versus England Davis Cup match. Top serves hit 49.5 miles per hour while net speed reached 94.5 mph eyeballed as across the Atlantic flight analogy.
The Montreal Herald reports cockroach racing in Juan-les-Pins where bettors wager thousands of francs. Light at the start and a dark box at the finish lure cockroaches along narrow glass tracks as bookmakers watch the unlikely spectacle.
The redbud or Judas tree is tied to old fishing lore. Observers link blossoms to fish activity with beliefs that larger fish spawn near redbud flowers and luck comes to fishermen casting when dogwood blooms. The tree grows from Canada to the Gulf, with Indiana noting a specimen of two feet nine inches in girth and fifty four feet tall.
The text explains rayon as artificial silk from cellulose and outlines processes using cotton staples or wood pulp. It notes chemical treatment to extract pure cellulose, forming pulp then fibers, with details about extrusion and hardening steps.
The practice traces to early times with Sozomen noting Paul of the Fourth century reciting 200 daily prayers. Willis of Malmesbury places a 145 york era widow Godiva’s jeweled string for prayer on Coventry’s religious house, while Thomas of Cantimpre uses rosary in a mystical sense.
The Cineinatic suspension bridge over the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington claimed to be the oldest in the United States with construction beginning in 1846 and completion in 1868. A separate bridge spanning the Allegheny River between Pittsburgh and Allegheny is noted as an earlier design begun in an earlier century and completed later, highlighting differences in span lengths.
Fragmentary OCR mentions a student at a college driving an automobile and paying rent, with garbled phrases about comforts of fame and weekly assistance, leaving the overall event and details unreadable.
Natives hold Everest as a goddess mother of the mountains guarding sanctuaries. High peaks in the Himalayas host spirits, some benevolent, others malevolent, with Principal deities of Hinduism blamed for disturbances. Nanda Devi rises 25,500 feet in Garhwal as sacred smoke from a god's kitchen. Beneath Badrinath and Kedarnath, a holy high priest remains in communion with the gods. only top caste Brahmins may approach within five feet of him, and the temple has three doorways after copper, silver, and gold.
A naval article describes enormous devilfish near Sokotra in the Red Sea. These giant rays have square flat bodies up to 20 feet wide and a bite capable of severing limbs. The head sits at one corner, with fins on the other corners and a tall tail stem.
An amateur archaeologist in Johannesburg discovers sacrificial graves of a new type and a ceremonial altar with tiny stairways likely for Pygmies. He uncovers an enormous irrigation system, remains of a large dam by a vanished race, and an authentic mining implement used by unknown Palabara copper miners.
Property owners Harl Newhard George Ricklefs and Clarence ee Pd-10-2 warn the public to stay off their land and avoid hunting or trapping on the premises to prevent trouble.
Public notice states the district court of Jones county Iowa has appointed and commissioned an executor for the estate of William Kehoe deceased. Creditors must file sworn claims with the court clerk within the legal time and debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs.
District court announces hearing for final proof and probate of the last will and testament of Edward Hoyt, deceased, filed August 6 1934. Hearing at 10 o clock a.m. on September 10 1934 at the May term to determine admission to probate. interested parties may appear and contest. SEE BYERLY Clerk. Julia A Fearde Deputy. Doxsee Doxsee Heiserman attorneys for estate. 9-3
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