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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1929
Page
1
The Monticello Express argues for drastic rural school reform citing decaying facilities and distant, poorly accessible schoolhouses, some set in fields far from highways. It calls for effective legislation to compel improvements and warns that other Iowa districts share similar conditions. It also critiques quack remedies versus medical expertise and notes Dr. Walter A. Wells critiques.
The article notes a revival of crosswords in newspapers as readers seek mental exercise and compares it to other activities. It also discusses Judge Kenyon’s stance on the senate race, advocacy for steady taxation including property and gasoline taxes, and a clash between labor and farm positions on tariffs and prices.
The article notes fashion now favors close fitting men and padded enlarged hips for women. It suggests swapping garments between genders as a costless way to conform to style dictates.
Senator Fess cites Andrew Melton that youths now face ten times better opportunities than in the past. The boom in branch houses and chain stores creates entry paths for young men into managerial roles, with salaried positions and potential advancement for the industrious and ambitious. Idle or careless youth gain no reward.
Ministers complain about heavy money-raising duties from headquarters for world service and outside activities. They say such collections undermine local homework funds and disrupt a pastor's primary duty to preach the gospel as interpreted by the church of Christ.
Races drew many attendees with high excitement but two accidents occurred leaving ten people seriously injured. The text contrasts how Rome holiday killings reflect different societal attitudes toward violence and spectacle.
Iowa teachers will integrate Know Iowa materials into curricula with Midland Schools Magazine distributing treatises on key industries. The series highlights printing, dairying, packing, building, mining, manufacturing, and agriculture to show Iowa's leadership and manufacturing dominance in the nation.
Robert Stewart discusses the oldtime family sized farm and its role in developing civilization. He notes farm labor matched family life, limited wages, independence, and benefits to rural stability and later success in finance industry and government. Life on the farm held many advantages in the past.
The Chicago Herald Examiner notes that over nine hundred thousand students will enroll this fall, likely more than in similar institutions worldwide. It argues colleges serve civic responsibility and social advancement but laments that many do not know their purpose or value, questioning whether higher education is a luxury or an investment.
San Marino, a small enclave on the eastern Apennines forty miles southeast of Ravenna, Italy, is regarded as the oldest republic in the world.
The state secretary orders field agents and peace officers to enforce truck license fees across highways. Meanwhile the National Tuberculosis Association notes Iowa leads in health work for the tenth straight year, with Ames winning its second inter city school health cup and Jasper County totaling ninety nine of six hundred thirty eight awards for health education.
The law requires school buses to display front and rear signs reading school bus in large letters. Boards may supply signs or require contractors to provide them. Future bus contracts must include front and rear entrances. Drivers must stop when children are loading or unloading.
Sherman Laddusaw of Plymouth county moved to Canton Oklahoma in 1889 after losing a watch in a field near Remsen. Roman Shea unearthed the relic while plowing, sending it back to Laddusaw in Oklahoma though the piece was badly weathered. County highway bond sales then surged with $3,000,000 raised as life insurance firms sought safe investments, prompting further county offerings.
Ames school children who saved about twenty thousand dollars in six years through a local thrift plan funded by banks will lose the privilege. Banks say they cannot cover expenses and the school board confirms the program will not continue. About two thousand children have been saving. Des Moines air mail tonnage rose ten percent in August from July and regional towns near Des Moines benefit from new postal rates. With five cent letters, mail to Des Moines is routed to airports for eastward delivery, and passenger planes of eighteen seats are planned.
Col. Morton C. Mumma of Sears Roebuck Des Moines reports the sporting goods dept issued 300 combined fishing and hunting licenses to Des Moines residents this season with hundreds more from the state. He clarifies that a single license covers both activities and that trapping requires a separate license, addressing a mistaken belief in the legislature's amendments.
Prominent Iowa figure Hon E R Moore of Cedar Rapids and former lieutenant governor filed a speaking engagement at a Masonic hall in Winterset suggesting activity for the coming year in state politics.
A visitor praised Devil's Backbone state park near Winterset and urged a “See Iowa First” slogan to promote awareness of the area. Other notes include pheasant hunting fines totaling $417 for Homer B. Alitzer and a $225 fish selling fine in Cresco, plus four men fined $50 each for pheasants in Wall Lake and a $25 reward offered for catching a fish dynamiter near Parkersburg.
County fair reports indicate strong season profits with expenses covered and a treasury surplus. State aid supports management efforts with the sole condition that gambling is prohibited on grounds and buildings.
In several counties of northern Iowa petitions circulate asking game warden to set aside days for lawful pheasant shooting. Open season remains optional with the warden and a small number of counties could risk a large influx of hunters if a broad area is authorized.
Mrs Paul Scholte of Pella Marion county lost a diamond ring stone while playing golf near the city. Fifteen to twenty school children assisted the search and Anna May Hoeksema found the stone. She received a $50 prize while each unsuccessful searcher received a dollar.
In O'Brien county renter Harry Downer is held on 7500 dollars bond on a charge of intent to murder. Dr Brown a government tester of cattle was testing cattle at the Downer farm with Deputy Sheriff Stewart and County Supervisor Bidwell. Downer armed with a repeating shotgun threatened the men and claimed the test law unconstitutional. The agents finished testing the cattle.
According to Miss Adelaide Nichols of Estherville Emmet county Miss Gertrude Vaile of Chapel Hill North Carolina was in Estherville conferring with Miss Esther Immer the county social worker Miss Vaile
Former president of the National Conference of Social Work and longtime director of the Colorado State Department of Charities, Miss Trene Oehrlein of Estherville has been named a history teacher at Haskell Institute Lawrence Kansas. A nurse? n/a.
Dean Holmes Cowper of Drake University leads Iowa in a search for the best young man and best young woman singer aged 18 to 25 to represent Iowa in the Third National Radio Audition. He chairs the 1929 audition for the Atwater Kent foundation Philadelphia and aims for Iowa entrants to compete for twenty five thousand dollars in cash and ten scholarships awarded to national finalists.
The article urges all farm bureau members to mark September 28 as a red letter day in the federation broadcasting history. Attendees of the Midwest training at Lake Minnetonka praise the Iowa Farm Bureau mock trial on stunt night as a real treat.
Arrangements are under way to air the prize winning stunt over NBCs entire chain of stations signaling broad network coverage for the event.
Sioux City Journal notes Senator Brookhart opposes the federal farm board citing its alleged failure to function while Iowa public opinion generally approves the board’s work. The piece highlights the board’s role in organizing cooperatives and meeting Hoover administration goals amid farm relief efforts. Brookhart offers no clear explanation for his stance.
A Humboldt Rotary Club talk warned that youths should not attend college until they choose a definite vocation. The speaker criticized college crowds for a perceived lack of life purpose and urged clear direction before pursuing higher education.
A general practice office operates in the Burrichter building with a local phone line at 236.
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