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Rainfall in New England and Pennsylvania for five months before May had been 33% less than normal. In Ohio, rainfall was down 44%, in Indiana 46%. At Monticello, Ill. the Sangamon River had only 10% of its normal flow...
Mallory R. Smith, Greenville, S.C., Sherman M. Tonkonow, Meriden, Conn., Ralph B. Sussman, Newark, N. J., Norman D. Blotner, Beverly, Mass., Joseph V. Cavanagh, Providence, R. I., George H. Fraser, Monticello, Ia., Isadore Gromfine, Buffalo, N. Y., Murray Horwitz, Hollis, L. I., N. Y., Paul Melrose, Hartford, Conn., Jacob Rabinowitz, Catskill, N. Y., William P. Reiss, Newark, N. J., and Joseph S. Rogan, Roxbury, Mass...
When Colonel John Stuart found some fossils in a Virginia cave, he naturally sent them to Monticello where Jefferson was known to include old bones among his strange (and, folk said, atheistic) interests. In 1797 Jefferson described the fossil creature before the American Philosophical Society (of which he was then president) as a kind of enormous lion because of its eight-inch claws. Wrote he: "I cannot . .. help believing that this animal, as well as the mammoth, are still existing." When Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark up the Missouri River and Captain Zebulon Pike into the Rockies, he half-hoped...
When 70-year-old Editor Joe Dale of the Lawrence County Press in Monticello, Miss, discovered that he would have to have an operation, he found over $1,000 in unpaid subscriptions on his books, only $6.17 in the bank. So he made an earnest appeal to his subscribers (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week, in New Orleans, Editor Dale had his operation, lay resting in a hospital bed. His subscribers had paid him a little over $100, a friend had lent him the rest...
...Dale's father settled in Monticello, Miss, before the Civil War, edited a newspaper, taught Joe how to set type. At 17 Joe started the Lawrence County Press. That was in 1888, when few of Lawrence County's present citizens had been born. Sometimes the crops were good, and Joe Dale prospered. Sometimes they were not so good, and Editor Dale did not press his hungry subscribers. He had been in business seven years when his plant burned. Joe started over. Then he got married, raised three sons (one is a country editor in northern Mississippi), three daughters...