Settlement of Midwest Homesteading in Iowa
Paul W. Gates outlines Iowa land settlement from 1850s to 1860s. Prominent colonies formed by Hendrick Scholte at Pella and Amana Germans. Josiah B. Grinnell linked college plans to land schemes. Close Brothers and Iowa Land Company built bonanza farms in LeMars. Panic of 1857 and legislative efforts shifted Iowa toward Republican reform and federal homestead policy in 1862, enabling quarter-section claims after five years residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendrick Scholte
Pella
Amana
Josiah B. Grinnell
Iowa
Close Brothers
Associated
Iowa Land Company
LeMars
Union
Sharpsburg Visitors, Local Callers Visit Blake Home
Mrs Noy Kerne reports visitors to the George Blake home in Sharpsburg including Dallas Howes and family Kellerton Ralph Coulthard Grimes. Saturday callers Dale Wearmouth family Afton. Mrs Jesse Akers Grav ity spent Thursday afternoon with Georgia and Nellie Borden. Harland Grimm and Flo Grimm also mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharpsburg
George Blake
Dallas Howes
Kellerton
Ralph Coulthard
Grimes
Blake
Dale Wearmouth
Afton
Jesse Akers
Gravity
Georgia
Nellie Borden
Harland Grimm
Flo Grimm
Social notes from Sharpsburg and surrounding towns
Sunday afternoon visits and travels fill a small town schedule. Mr and Mrs Gene Mains spent days at Lakes. Harold Parker and family from Logan Kansas stayed overnight with Ray and Shirley Long in Sharpsburg. Ray Long and Shirley traveled to Independence Iowa to visit son Leon ard Long in hospital. Paul Fickess and family from Polo Missouri visited the Fickess home. Rev Paul Cronk and children from Burtrum Minnesota stayed with Albert and Mrs Fickess. Rev Walter Ortmann and family from Bedford were guests in Sharpsburg. Orville Cooper of Long Beach California arrived visiting many friends in Sharpsburg.
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Harold Parker
Logan, Kans
Ray Long
Shirley
Independence, Ia
Leonard Long
Paul Cronk
Burtrum
Minn
Orville Cooper
Long Beach
Calif
Sharpsburg
Dessa C Nelson Services Today
Funeral services for Mrs Dessamond Clabaugh Nelson former Bedford resident will be held today at 2 00 p m at the Essex Presbyterian church. She died Monday in Arlington Virginia interment will be in Essex Town She was the widow of Dr Easton Nelson veterinarian and was reared in Bedford later taught school here Her father Dr C S Clabaugh practiced medicine in Bedford She is survived by a son Alton Nelson and family of Falls Church Virginia
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Dessamond Clabaugh Nelson
Bedford
Essex Presbyterian Church
Nelson
Arlington
Essex
Easton Nelson
C. S. Clabaugh
Alton Nelson
Falls Church
Grace Merriman services held in Blockton
Grace L. Merriman 81 of Blockton died August 2 at Ringgold County hospital Mt. Ayr. Services were August 4 at Blockton Christian Church with Rev. James Ferris officiating. Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery Blockton. She belonged to the Christian church and Order of Eastern Star. Survived by brother Roy Ridge Muscatine Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace L. Merriman
Blockton
Blockton Christian Church
James Ferris
Merriman
Ringgold County Hospital
Mt. Ayr
Rose Hill Cemetery
Christian Church
Order of Eastern Star
Roy Ridge
Muscatine
Pasture Tour Highlights Birdsfoot Trefoil in Taylor County
Conservation article reports 40 cars and 70 people visiting the Phil Dwi nell Sven Akers farm for pasture practices. The Dwight Terrell farm north of Bedford features a birdsfoot trefoil orchard grass mix seeded in 1962 with oats as a companion crop. Proper soil treatment including liming and fertilizing aided establishment, and birdsfoot trefoil is praised for forage value and lack of bloat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Sneed
Drexel Gold
Phil Dwinell
Sven Akers
Page
Montgomery
Adams County
Taylor Countiaes
Taylor County
Dwight Terrill
Bedford
Suit Yourself And Early Fall Lines In Now
A column notes electric toothbrush debates and a reminder that five months remain until Christmas. It lists straw hats and summer wear bargains and mentions BCHS hosting its third foreign exchange student, a Brazilian teenage boy, for the 1963 64 school year with the Janson family in Gravity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BCHS
AFS
Brazil
Dr. Janson
Gravity
John E. Allen Dies in Kansas City
John E. Allen age 73 of Athelstan died Saturday in a Kansas City hospital. He is survived by wife Mary, two daughters Rosene Cook and Thelma Morris, a son Bobby Allen, five sisters and three brothers, and eight grandchildren. Services were held Tuesday at the Community Church in Athelstan with burial in Athelstan cemetery.
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John E. Allen
Athelstan
Kansas City
Mary C. Allen
Rosene Cook
Grant City
Thelma Morris
Avondale
Bobby Allen
Ronald Allen
Topeka
Kans
James Allen
Ivan Allen
Bedford
Iowa
Hester Lemrick
Wendell
Idaho
Maé@ Miller
St. Joseph
Ava Dull
State of California
Nancy Calvin
Harrisburg
Lena Luck
Chicago
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Midwest
Paul W. Gates
Cornell U
Poweshiek County
Ohio Farming and Stock Breeding Company
Butler County
Harrison
Monona
Cass
Shelby
South
Congress
Buchanan
Noy Kerne
Bob Grimmme
Gene Mains
the Lakes
Odin
Bag
Rath's
Gus Glaser
Sterling Franks
SWIFT
Vxe
Blue Lake
Cabare
California
Freestone Peaches
Washington
Hy-Vee
Boe
Oleo
Sunny Biscuits
Pepsi-Cola
del Monte
Jar
Nabisco
Iba
Cai Tae
Emtha Stames
Bufferin
Libby
Brac’s
Dan Johnson
Morton Hora
Ti As
Dessa C. Nelson
Grace Merriman
Bud
D&l
Terry McCormick
Dad
K. C
Bedford Telephone Exchange
Western Light & Telephone Company, Inc
Iowa State Commerce Commission
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