Missionary Society Luncheon and India Talk
The Methodist Missionary Society held a 1 pm luncheon at the Clark sisters home. Miss Mildred Pierce, back from India, spoke on tropical life noting three hot months followed by nine hotter ones and the local mission compound serving 30 acres with 200 children and 300 villagers. She described duties including land settlements, peacemaking, and hospital work amid cholera threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Mary
Carrie Clark
Mildred Pierce
India
Miss Pierce
George K. Meyer
Monticello
Northwestern University
Rug varieties and selection tips from Iowa State College
Iowa State College home economics specialists outline rug types such as flat, loop pile, cut pile, Brussells, tapestry, Wilton, Axminster, velvet, Oriental, fiber, grass and linoleum. They advise choosing by color design and wearing qualities, and explain backing materials like linen and hemp.
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Iowa State College
Inside Information For The Busy Housewife
Practical kitchen tips cover how to prick potatoes for steam release chop celery fine for soups and serve beets hot or cold. Sewing machine maintenance advised including cleaning oiling and test stitching to prevent oil stains on fabric.
Why Farmers Should Plant Trees a Forestry Expert Explains
Alfred B Hastings of the forest service in the USDA outlines why planting trees benefits farms. Timber gives idle land value by creating a marketable crop and yields thinnings, fuel, pulp, and lumber over time. Timber growing supports diversification, provides winter work, and serves as farm loan security.
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Alfred B. Hastings
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Farm Loan Board
Limesided Millionaire Enjoys Car Comfort vs Mortgaged Ford Owner
In the Boston Transcript line, a wealthy man in a luxury car is compared to a mortgaged Ford owner, humorously noting the millionaire never had such luxury time in his vehicle as the Ford owner did in his.
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Boston Transcript
Church Schedule Notice for Multiple Local Congregations
The notice lists service times, Sunday school, and events for CHWPSHES Reformed Church St Matthew’s Ev Lutheran Church and George W McNary’s congregation. It mentions German and English services, ladies aid meetings, choir practice, Epworth League, and upcoming quarterly conference with official board reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid
Ralph Otten
Comedic Snippets and Jokes From Various Papers
A collage of light humor and quips mentions Mae-Bill in hospital after windpipe injury during a game, a gift idea for a daughter, a prohibition on Scotchmen using Chicago phones, jail time jokes about Mose and the two week sentence, and a raucous line about hanging after killing a wife.
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Mae
Bill
Belle
N. Y
Women Win Rights Then Turn To Bridge Obsession
Ed Howe laments that after a long crusade for women’s rights the resulting justice is seen in women playing bridge daily and nightly. He critiques this shift as a mild but dangerous decline in traditional duties and public conduct.
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Ed Howe
Preaching and Practice in Ed Howe’s Home Meal
A Philadelphia Public Ledger piece notes Ed Howe’s sermons on temperance clash with a light meal shared with Adelaide at the Howe home. The dinner featured fried chicken cream gravy creamed potatoes corn pudding tomato and lettuce salad preserves jellies hot biscuits corn bread peach cobbler cake and coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay House
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Ed Howe
Adelaide
Howes
Local bakers resist out-of-town bread competition
The Humboldt Republican reports Rolfe merchants staged a boycott on Des Moines bread, arguing local bakers provide jobs and tax revenue. The Traer Star-Clipper notes Gladbrook used the same tactic. Des Moines wagons reach 50 to 75 miles. paved roads may extend reach, threatening Knoxville’s shops and local livelihoods as towns lose trade to city bakeries.
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Knoxville Express
Humboldt Republican
Rolfe
Traer Star-Clipper
Gladbrook
Iowa
Des Moines
Knoxville
Road law reminder cites arterial highways standard
The notice reiterates the 42d G. A. rule designating primary roads outside towns as arterial highways with right of way over intersecting routes. It states side road traffic must stop or proceed cautiously at arterial intersections as decided by the state highway commission. Also notes a warning that cottonseed meal should not be fed to young calves.
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State Highway Commission
Stray Sow Weighing 375 Pounds Found Near Farm
An estray sow weighing 375 pounds, from Raymond J. Clark’s farm, was found two weeks ago. Finder should call 66 F 22. Also offers work for board or room in Monticello, contact Supt. C I Bixler at the public school building.
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Reformed Church
Bernice Schneider
I. H. Schneider
Lovell Township
Edward Meier
Alfred Meyer
Edna Schneider
Albert Meier
Roland P. Kuentzel
The
Monticello
Meier
Monticelo
Legion Hall
Jessie
Hopkinton
Estray
Raymond J. Clark
Supt. C. I. Bixler
George E. Mardorf
Monticello Board of Education Holds September Meeting
Monticello Iowa September 5 1927 regular board of education meeting at 7 30 p m with members Stimson Shover Fraser George and Ricklefs present. Minutes approved and bills totaling numerous vendors including books supplies maps charts cleaners paper labor and insurance approved for payment. Tornado and fire insurance policy renewal awarded to J J Locher expiring September 9 1927. Meeting adjourned.
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Monticello
Iowa
Board of Education
Stimson
Shover
Fraser
George
Ricklefs
D. Appleton & Co
A. L. Kraemer Co
A. J. Nystrom & Co
Plymouth Press
Standard Oil Co
Baker Paper Co
Practical Drawing Co
Lefebvre Corporation
Ginn & Co
American Book Co
Hart & McCreary Co
Chas. Scribner's Sons
The
A. N. Palmer Co
Monticello Motor Co
Western Sales Agency
Sutter's Market
A. J. H. McNeill
L. Coyle
N. W. Bell Telephone
Geo. Sutherland
Fidelity & Cay N. Y
Express Fund
Chas
F. E. Stimson
Chas. M. Luett
Farm Bureau delegates study European conditions
American Farm Bureau delegates touring Europe found cooperatives and farmer groups offer few remedies for U S farmers. They note Americans enjoy more luxuries and wealth than European peasants despite rosy pictures.
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Chicago Evening Post
American Farm Bureau
Europe
United States
Ford bargains offered on old cars and trucks
One ton Ford truck with transmission and flat box priced at 85 dollars. A 1922 model Ford coupe listed for 75 dollars. A 1925 Ford roadster offered at 125 dollars. See Byrne and First or Wilbur Car tano.
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Byrne & First
Wilbur Cartano
Fordson
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Nan
Stanley Hanson
Irma Thompson
Edward Cashen
William Thompson
George Barnts
Methodist Episcopal Church
Maquoricta
Cashen
Neeley Cashen
W. L. Hanssen
Hoag Duster
Behrends
T. J. Trebben
Robert
Gerhard Behrends
Hei Doyen
Pomeroy
Lester Gearhart
Bridge
Gearhart
Agnes Stirton
Gerd Brockhahn
LaCrosse
Wis
Langworthy
Anna Connolly
Wisconsin
Tim Connolly
This Vicin
Ity
Henry Stuhiken
Brockhahn
Nanne Hanken
Mr. and
Mrs. Timmons
George W. Timmons
State Park
Anamosa
Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid Society
Luett Home
Ladies’ Aid of the
Presbyterian Church
Charles Luett
Mrs. Newton Parrott
Mr. Parrott
Newton Parrott
R. P. Knentzel
St. Matthew's Ev. Lutheran Church
H. L. Adix
Leonard Duckett
Christ
First Congregational Church
George W. McNary
Albert E. Coe
Epworth League
L. C. Lemon
Washington
Chicago
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Venus
Lloyds
Hendrick Ibsen
Ewdard Payne
Cecil B. Curtis
Palmer Drug Store
Geo. Schoon
O. W. Smith
J. L. Weber & Sons
Cascade, Iowa
Eugene Hall
Thos. F. Stimpson
Monticello Exchange
Underwood No
Ted Koop
Sunshine
Fred Huyck
Wilcox & Sons
Callahans
Ames
Paul N. Smith
Center Junction
BUICK
Fisher
Buick Motor Company
Flint, Michigan
Metal Motors Corporation
Ders
Ali Sf Flint
Breet
le Neane
F. W. Page
Monticello, Iowa
School Board Proceedings
Morris Supreme
Suters Market
Stover
John Fechtman
Lowell State Bank
L. E. Hoag
George Oltmans
Scotch Grove
L. J. Schlemme
J. LeRoy Farmer
Farley Produce House
Kuppenheimer
Husman & McCrea Clothing Co
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Middle West
Indi
Standard Oil
Michigan Avenue
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