Westfield Social Notes Sketch Holiday Visits and Events
Westfield residents share weekend visits as Jack Taylor and partners deliver wood and coal to John Skogsberg. Host families entertain guests including Dewey Carter and Eber Waterman while Mrs Martin’s family travels from Minden to visit. A Ladies Aid meeting is planned for Jan 7 1960 and a Westfield Guild Christmas party is set for Dec 10 at Cy Knapp’s home. A Holiday Home Tour sponsored by the Methodist hospital auxiliary features the Nets and colleagues, with decorations and a nurse residence reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cy Knapp
Knapp
S. Schoenfelder
Percy Harrington
Ralph Gale
Idelline Simeon
Clifford Johnson
Oakland
Johnson
Harrington
Gale
Anna Martin
Charlotte Dennison
Ivyl Knapp
Albert Hummel
Normandy
Sioux City
Methodist Hospital Auxiliary
Hicks
Carlton Corbett
Dean Kerr
Public Health Powers and Tax Changes Highlight 1959 Shifts
A Nation's concerns on bureau authority and impacts on livestock and consumer goods frame the piece. It also summarizes major 1959 federal income tax changes from the Commerce Clearing House 1960 Master Tax Guide, including Form 1040W for wage earners, deductions rules, and notable Supreme Court decisions on tax treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwest
Tobacco
Cranberry Brothers
Commerce Clearing House
National Reporting Authority
OCH
U.S
U. S. Supreme Court
CCH
Fifty Plymouth County farms soil mapped progress report
Edward L Bruns of the Soil Conservation Service reports fifty Plymouth County farms have had soil maps prepared this year. The maps guide individual conservation plans, erosion inventories, and water retention projects in the Little Sioux Flood Prevention area with involvement from LaVern Feusilier Merle Sawyer Roy Wright Virgil Smith and Tindalls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth County
Feusner
Soil Conservation Service
Roy Wright
Union Township
Virgil Smith
Westfield Township
Tindalls
Johnson Township
Plymouth County Soil Conservation District
Elkhorn Township
Elkhorn No
C.S
Loren Eknett
Little Sioux
Jim Curnutt
Kingsley
Dwight Saunders
Wages Report Rules For Private Household Workers
A public notice urges household workers earning four dollars weekly or more to ensure their employer reports wages and pays social security taxes quarterly. It highlights required deductions, matching employer contributions, and filing via IRS Form 1040 or envelope returns. It also directs readers to IRS and Social Security offices for guidance and booklet 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Goldman
Sioux City
Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Service
Goldman
Internal Revenue Office
Social Security Office
Fourth Grade Portfolio Highlights From Classroom Show and Tell
In social studies students shared wood samples including red cedar limbs. Special Education notes cursive writing progress. Daryl Harold Earl created a mural on the Little Helicopter and Blue Hill Farm. Science lessons covered insect anatomy and roles. Paul Larry Lloyd produced a bulletin board featuring simple machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bette L
Donald F
Judy K
Lydia W
Carolyn B
Daryl
Harold
Earl
Blue Hill
Paul
Larry
Lloyd
Don Cunningham Health Note on Thanksgiving Dinner
Don Cunningham asks about health after Thanksgiving and whether cranberries were passed. He recalls avoiding poisoned weed killer solution and reflects on past consumption of questionable mixtures over forty to fifty years.
Pierson Reports County Extension Work for 1959
Four Extension Service staff and one office assistant represented Iowa State University in county extension programs in 1959. Arlie A. Pierson, County Extension Director, noted Eva Lund led leaders training in Family Finance and Legal Matters Hobbies and Crafts Food Preservation and Bread Baking and taught 23 adult family living groups about New Fabrics care. A Homemakers group formed near Westfield to study time and energy management and a Farm Home development group formed in Akron-Westfield area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State University
Arlie A. Pierson
Eva, Lumb
Westfield
Lund
Akron-Westfield
County Extension programs and 4-H year highlights
The report highlights Farm Management and crop production emphasis in the Agricultural production phase with monthly outlooks by mass media. County Extension Director led weed control and fertilizer demonstrations while Elmer Lund organized terrace construction tours. In 4-H, 689 members enrolled, 249 girls completed Home Furnishings, 853 articles shown at the County Fair, and 298 boys finished livestock and crop projects feeding 467 beef cattle, 39 dairy heifers, 695 hogs, and 20 horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Outlook
Elmer Lund
4-H Club Work Aids Farmstewardship on Grain Projects
Club members care for thirty acres of grain projects and twenty five acres of warden related plots alongside poultry. Girls 4-H clubs participate in community farming tasks and support local agriculture initiatives.
4-H Clubs Represented at Iowa and Clay County Fairs
Four-H club teams from the county fairs were selected from twenty eight competing squads demonstrated at the County Fair to compete at the Iowa State Fair and the Clay County Fair.
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Clay County
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Akron Register-Tribune
Ray A. and
Gerald F. Smith
Plymouth
Sioux
Woodbury Counties
Iowa
Union County
S. D
Akron
Q ‘Ins
Edward L. Bruns
Westfield School
Don Cunningham
Pierson
A.H.S
Akron School
TV and
Radio ‘Service
Jenson Electric
Willer Real Estate
Eagles
A. C. Klemme
Mel Lias
Iowa St
Chet. Campbell
Sargent St
Main
Glenn Kanago
Henry Dirks
Hardy ST
Iowa BT
Main ST
ART Bellwood
Frank Jeffers
Union
Willer Real Estate Co
General Insurance .— Loans
Farm Bureau
Rolan M. Blake
Des Moines
Orthern
Northern Natural Gas Company
Omaha, Nebraska
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