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Newspaper
Monticello Herald
Location
Monticello, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1920
Page
4
A garbled OCR snippet references city, district, and legal names such as Penn, Cohen, and Kinney. Readable items are scarce, with fragments suggesting a formal notice or court-related agenda but lacking coherent facts or dates.
Warren G. Harding, a businessman by education, will become president of the United States, the first to rise to the nation's top office from a commercial background.
The library shelves glow with popular titles and unfamiliar tomes. Debates about war and governance surface amid discussions of new science books and classic literature as readers ponder future priorities and cultural shifts.
A critical piece argues the government uses war needs to politize industry, expanding public payrolls while shrinking private ones. It praises Warren G Harding as a practical businessman, contrasting theories with action and warning against tax and regulation that harm American enterprise.
Despondent sixty year old John Henry Crowell killed himself at home in Lafayette after suffering crippling injuries and financial reverses. He feared being a burden to his children and left letters urging care for a granddaughter if possible. Coroner examined the body and preparations for burial followed.
A Better Babies Contest will be featured at the Indiana State Fair the week of September 6. Mothers are urged to bring their infants for prize consideration and medical examination to aid in physical development. The event is organized by the Woman’s Building under Ada Schwettver and state health officials with specialists overseeing infant care. Mothers should request entry blanks and further information from the State Fair secretary in Indianapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Johnson and daughter Jessie returned to Monticello Friday after a four week tour of the East visiting Niagara Falls Albany Rutherford New Jersey Springfield and Hartford. The party also spent time in New York Philadelphia Washington Mount Vernon and Columbus with relatives before arriving home Friday evening.
Classified items include threshing machines wanted or for sale, second hand lath, and various local notices. Names like Miss Selene, Miss Nelive Gordon, Miss Partine Mastadia, and Miss Marshall appear with social events, concerts, and parties. Also listed are bull sale ads, land plots in East Monticello, and a property resale on Rich Street with a brick and frame house by the Tippecanoe river.
Japanese girls are shaved from birth until they turn three as part of a traditional care ritual. The practice reflects cultural norms surrounding infancy and early childhood in Japan.
The document itemizes town expenditures and tax levies for Liberty Township. It lists school and other district expenses, tax rates per hundred dollars, and total expenditures. Credit and net items are noted alongside per hundred dollar assessments and property values for 1921.
The Trustee of West Point Township White County proposes yearly expenditures and taxes by the Ad Visors Board at the annual meeting. The meeting at the Trustee Office on Sept Today 7820 at welock FM includes township expenditures 2170.38 and township tax 4 cents per dollar. General Township expenditures 3448.45 and tax 0.5 cents per dollar. Special School Tax expenditures 2577.79 and tax 1.1 cents per dollar. Read Tax expenditures 1041 and tax 0.1 cents per dollar. The notice lists assessed categories for lands improvements personal property roads and other items with credits and levies.
A ditch petition filed in White Circuit Court Indiana seeks to establish a new ditch and branch along a route starting about eighty poles west and twenty south of the southeast corner of a township in White County. The project parallels an existing open ditch previously established by James H. Roach et al. and aims to fish and extend drainage across the described land.
The petition to docketed in the court on the first day of September describes a proposed drainage work affecting lands owned by the petitioners George W. Kassabaum Fannie J Watson and relates to the Roach ditch and a branch called Honey Creek running through sections 2A 27N 1W in White County Indiana. The notice lists the proposed route and asks for court action to authorize the drainage improvements and assess benefits.
The trustee of Jackson Township White County proposes for the yeart expenditures and tax levies by the Rc Visory Board at the Annual Meeting. The detailed estimates cover maintenance and improvements, including road work, school, and public services, with total expenditures and levies to be announced.
Auctioneers from Indiana Iowa and Nebraska advertise 75 hogs to be sold soon. Breeders include AH hogs and spotted Poland China lines with several named handlers and buyers listed, urging early attendance for bargains.
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