Pocahontas Democrat (Newspaper) - January 7, 1932, Pocahontas, Iowa of la. COUNTY'S PRINCIPAL COUNTY AND CITY JANUARY 7, Slash Sleet Down Telephone Foot Plows Run Crews Down State Rushed HerA For communication oh farm lines and with neighboring towns was disrupted from Wednesday until Sunday morning as the result of the heavy sleet was the exchange which could be reached by telephone from Pocahontas on Friday Crews Out Within a radius of 40 more than three hundred telephone poles were between here apd Fort Dodge 175 poles were broken and wires strewn along the Fifty poles were reported broken down in this vicinity by F. W. manager of tho local crews of men were quickly brought in from southeastern Iowa and worked night and day repairing the damage done by the severest ice storm in many By Sunday morning service was renewed on all but a few outgoing and farm Service While many county towns celebrated New Year's eve by lamp and candle in Pocahontas light service was maintained without In many northwestern Iowa towns and farm homes electric service has not yet been Top Snow in Rural Fifteen Inch Bureau Is Wheel in Says has returned to northwestern Iowa with all of its ancient glory and at least so say the Pocahontas pioneers who first wintered here in the late and early on the heels of the sleet storm that this section has seen in the last ten came the Between Thursday noon and ot mow in the Friday another thin layer was added to the white Inches Tuesday Early Thursday morning the aii filled with snow which fell but Whipped along by a twenty mile northeast fall reached its height as a blizzard Tuesday afternoon and continued intp the The snow was still it was whirled away by the wind like piling up in town and billowy white landscape greeted all eyes in Pocahontas county Wednesday People don't get a square says M. W. retired Pocahontas county farmer and cards are stacked against Farm says Mr. a wheel in the Republican machine at Dea Moines and its affairs are so directed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Extension Department at The Bureau was originated with increased production as its but under present conditions there is no good reason for its and club work is sponsored only to fix impressions in the minds of the Since Wednesday Pocahontas has been without telegraph service All Western Union lines west of were placed out of by the storm and messages placed in Pocahontas have been transmitted by phone to that crew of Western repair meii is now working west and had reached Laurens by Wednesday a week after the Cars Road Garage men report many marooned on the particularly to the east and snow fell to the west and gathering on Windshields of cars made driving very while the drifted snow and soft spots in the made the going Man Named New Cow has been named as tester of the Pocahontas County Cow Testing succeeding Nels who recently to enter the dairy business at Mr. has completed the four year according to Floyd Johnson of the state extension and is well qualified to handle the new tester began his work Wednesday The which was planned at the County Farm on Tuesday night for the purpose of Hr. Littlefield with the members of the association was a date because of the snow and glad it finally had Plow Breaks noon the two snow plows which the state maintains m Pocahontas were sent out to keep the primary roads They stayed out all afternoon and all one of them breaking roads on Highway 10 west and the other on Highway 6 in with daybreak Wednesday the truck crews were relieved by more operators and another full day and night of plowing through four foot drifts followed before the roads were cleaned of all but a thin paving of and occasional drifts caused by the loose top Road Worst East and west roads were hardly passible and worst among these was the road from Gilmore Wednesday noon the tractor plow was sent out from Pocahontas to clear the road to Gilmore Here live and six foot drifts flanked the roadside and high ridges of tight-packed snow taxed the power the Papers Mr. Linnan sees little hope for assistance from the press of the stating leading papers in the country are allowed to print anything that is honest and fair to the and that has been the situation for the last twelve Every farm interest article printed in the leading daily in Iowa has to be submitted for an O. K. to a man whose best interests are not with the Farm Board is a dead failure and the only thing that can help the farmers is the Ruin 1920," said Mr. Linnan in the Federal Ready For tractor to Pocahontas at and simultaneously the report was made that all roads in the county wiere open and Foreman C. SUyton and his V. C. Gallon directed the and drove plows as MaU Oat Rural mail left on Wednesday as those carriers who had long alone the east and west running roads waited others the to the on roads that A few eoold te of Ugli Imt in most maS nnm Bank management agreed to deflate the east and inflate the They came out here and sold Northwest Iowa bankers on the idea of discounting farm paper with tte then in less than a year tightened up ruining both wral banks and farmers has a loan to extend of per acre is whether he knows it or The Credit Board will not help him because it is created not to actually help the farmer but to create a false Per Acre in farmer who is sold out insurance companies is receiving next to nothing for the actual value of the Every farmer in this county has an acre invested in farm land through such as counly courthouse and farmer gets nothing for his not because of but because people haven't buying Many Pocahontas farmers have only 70.0 to 800 bushel of com left to provide a means of after playing their cash Loan companies are getting to mortgage their 1982 and everything mortgaging m K lip an extension on with li prospect of being thrown out on roads without anything next Keeps Merchants Busy Business Fairly Annual Business Check-Up At Kills the holiday in most instances exceeded is generally granted now by Pocahontas ihost of who have completed their annual or - While unit sales did not run as high as last or in the number of as high as last for 4ut a mediocre run of business dunns the holiday season and so smaller than average holiday stocks were laid in. Many items were entirely sold out and most merchants report their stocks in as good or condition than last especially heavy sale on items retailing for less than one dollar were reported by one New are now being placed on merchandise which inventories shows depleted or below average store Beat Palmer Here WiU Stage First Ball Game As Opening Pocahontas All Stars and the Ware braved the blizzard New Year's eve and put up a fine brand of basketball for the few fans The local team showed too much size and speed and were out in front 37 to 17 end of the For Ray and Kenneth and Hynes all showed to advantage while Levene played well for the the 1982 Indian team and were out in front by a large score at the end of the The high school was at a in size and experience and were unable to get under They handled the ball well but were unable to work the in for Pocahontas Indians will resume their basketball schedule Friday night when they Palmer on the home teams have lost veterans of season and will be out to show their In the past three seasons the Indians have emerged victors in the seven between the two Tm Indians wiU be eat to keep this intact ahow an brand of caum wIU be at 7:80 by bull between fhe tasa of flw two nd some communities are reporting town clocks that refuse to run since the ice and sleet of last in Pocahontas it's the fire whistle that was most affected by the coating of ice and Accustomed to hear tKe siren blow loudly and vigorously at residents have heard it only faintly since the ice storm came the first of failing Tony who numbers the care of the siren among his less frequent went up and scrapped off the ice. The zard came along and again the whistle lost its vibratory It won't be long says Mr. before the siren recovers from the effects of the and Pocahontas people can again time their noonday with the fire Flagor hung up a new mark for Pocahontas sportsmen to equal when he went out last Saturday morning and brought down one rabbit and two chickens with the same Flagor was hunting in company with G. Pascal on the Pascal getting a glimpse of a rabbit in the he Some yards from the dead two were found equally So the Pascal family enjoyed a chicken Sunday while ate the This kind of shooting as Mr. Flagor explains is in two family meals with one R. Stahly for is announcing his candidacy for of Pocahontas County in this - Stahly is wide and known throughout the He is the proprietor of the Cities Service station of Pocahontas and was formerly connected - with the Auto company of this announcement is the first to be for the sheriffship as far as it is known at this Effected By Reductions Is Estimated Engineer's Salary Reduced Road Workers Wages Cut 5c an the steps taken to curb expenses in other Iowa the Board of Supervisors of Pocahontas County reduced the salaries and wages of all county employees in the Session held last January 2nd. The salaries of the county officers and the supervisors are set by law and therefore are not to reductions unless made by the in salaries for the year range from to Patrolmen and road workers wages were cut 50c a or Be an In Attorney Abe De Vaul is ill in the University Hospital at Iowa He went down Tuesday to obtain medical treatment for heart with which Mr. has suffered for some C. B. McCartan is handling private legal matters for Mr. De Vaul during his It is expected that the County Attorney will return home in about two CASES criminal cases have as yet been filed for the January term of the District according to Clerk C. G. and only a small number of civil or equity have been recorded so far for the next term of which will be called on January 26th by Judge George Grand Jury has been summoned to appear on Tuesday January 26, and the Petit Jury will appear on February 2nd. Burns Is during the night from Sunday to Monday the Ford car ftf Holder caught fire and badly damaged it before the flames died Holder went out Monday morning to drive the car he found a badly burned car in place of the one he parked late the night The windows were the body charred and other traces of a fierce fire were No one saw the car burning nor was the cause of the fire The gas did not probably because of the quantity of gas In the The loss is covered by BoMd L O. O. An Odd and ara has I fai Man's Eye of the 10. O. r. aad be liiM on Plover a severely burned eye when the radiator cap blew off on his car and boiling water spouted striking Steams in his Mt The cap had been loosened by to taking it aid was administered at it was found that no injury had been done to the Mr. Steams wiU steer dear from all boOing Drama at Program for Rialto and January 8 and 9, the attraction at the Rialto Theatre will be Hoot Gibson in Gay which is said to be a stirring exciting romance of the old from his usual Hoot essays the part of an economical of Yankee antecedents who finds it necessary to become a in order to win the girl he Eventually he finds another solution to his of winning the before he can work it he is involved in an exciting drama of cowtown Jeo E. Brown Here Boy Makes the First National in which Joe E. and will play here until Tuesday funniest man of the is star comes to the Rialto Sunday January 12. picture is unique for a number of first of which is the fact that in it Joe E. comedy effects with resorting to slapstick as in his former Boy Makes is an uproarious drama of college based on a very human play by J. C. and Elliot The story is good and the people are real amazing sum of romance and adventure that is tallied in the big cities of aud most frequently is enacted about us without our eyes and senses the ever-present clues and is projected for our energetically and eloquently in the new photoplay being headlined Wed. and at the Bialto Theatre a Paramount mid lovenT axe 110 95 95 95 95 100 2900 136 125 160 the exception of the county whose salary is figured on an annual all reductions were made on a monthly The revised schedule of salaries follows Auditor Clerk 85 85 Clerk Sheriff 90 Co. Cut 10% All will 10% in their salaries for the 1982 as a result of the action taken by the Board of Supervisors at last Saturday's the case of the stewart of the County his salary includes that of the who does not receive a salary from the Tax Saving Mill The saving effected by these salary reductions will exceed in 1932. Not including the wages of patrol and road the actual annual saving is as computed by County Auditor Roy terms of the saving amounts to of a on a quarter section of taxable property the saving in taxes will amount to 76 Sworn In Ralph Hudek was inaugurated as a new member of the Board of Supervisors at Saturday's Mr. Hudek has been elected for a period of three years and succeeds E. A. who held office for two Melson was chairman of the new Board at the beginning of the Ship More Hogs In brought to their ' amid big eity when the survivors of a social Farm farai sales are being announced for the Coming days in this issue of The Don't fail to read S. Cole a auction on 12th. commencing at 1:80 p. at the farm 8-4 mile west of Five head of IS head of 64 head 4>f hiM tooU and f wiU be Mary a closing out sale to January il tha fium wait of head of 6 of one of their and be The first of the auction to ha the In will bft hald thU B. lindaman at thaae Jki Ite 1*10 be
