Colorado Wheat King Award Returns to Colorado Four Times in Five Years
Luther F. Givens of Sterling Colorado won the Pills bury wheat king title at the Chicago contest with Wichita hard red winter wheat testing 61 pounds per bushel. The state has now captured the national honor four times in five years, with judges from Minnesota Kansas Purdue and other institutions. Givens operates an 80 acre farm with hay sugar beets cattle and hogs. Second place went to R E Condon of Platteville Colorado with hard red spring wheat. The contest began in 1941 and Colorado has repeatedly led national wheat honors.
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W. J. Dryden
WSU Farmcultur
United States
Colorado
Luther F. Givens
Sterling
University of Minnesota
J.C. Hacke Jemun
University of News
A. L. Clapp
Kansas State Tericulture College
K. E. Beeson
Purdue University
Givens
Lena
Sterling Saddle Club
Wichita
R. E. Condon
Platteville
Colo
D. F. Sakuth
Yuba City
Calif
Ralph Osborn
Culver
Ind
Appleton Brothers
Canmandaigua
N. Y
Wiliam
Mapes
Colorado Wheat
Montana Grain
George Toftmann
Shift
Leo Lindstrom
Jesse Powers
Henderson
Montana
L. E B. Powerson
Victoria
Wheat King
Weacre
Logan County
R. E. Condo
Cole
Surplus Goods And Land Offered To U S Farmers
Washington War Assets Corporation outlines surplus items for farmers including farmland holdings about 10 000 acres and up to 100 000 acres overall with demand outstripping supply. Farm equipment policy excludes strictly agricultural gear though tractors and trucks may be repurposed for farming. Storage depots in Chicago Lon ington Ogden Atlanta and Bellmond hold telegraph and telephone materials plus a hemp and flax mill in Hartford Wisconsin for sale.
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Washington —War Assets Corporation
Department of Agriculture
COC
Hartford
Wis
U. S. Signal Corps
Chicago
Lonington
Ogden
Longtime Dunnell Farm Resident Counts 71 Years
Fairmont Daily Sentinel found Ellsworth Ziemer and C. K. Peterson still farming birthplaces in the area, but FP. S. E. Carlson stands out with over 71 years on the same Dunnell farm since his birth in 1874. He remains on the family site with his wife and son.
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Fairmont
Minn
Fairmont Daily Sentinel
E G. Swanson
Dunnell
Ellsworth Ziemer
Fremont
C. K. Peterson
S. E. Carlson
Harrisburg honors 1915 Pennsylvania potato champion
Mervin Ranes of Stewardstown produced 656 bushels of potatoes on a measured acre to win Pennsylvania’s 1915 champion potato grower title. The growers’ cooperative awarded the honor at a Harrisburg dinner.
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Harrisburg
Mervin Ranes
Stewardstown
Pennsylvania
Hanes
Indian Fighter Knight Dies in Tulsa at 105
William Franklin Knight, a storied frontier rider who knew figures such as Custer and Geronimo, died in Tulsa at 105. Born on a steamboat in Missouri, he joined Texas stage coach advance guards in 1866, ferried messages for Wells Fargo, survived multiple gunshot wounds, and hauled buffalo hides before retiring at 90. No immediate relatives found.
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Tulsa
Okla
General Custer
Geronimo
Jesse James
Walliam Franklin Knight
Louisiana
Texas
Wells-Fargo Express
St. Louis
Knight
Fort Worth
el Paso
One Third of U S Population Lacks Library Access
Washington report notes about 35 million Americans, mainly rural, have no library access. Senators Hill and Douglass and Rep Taft Douger introduce bills for federal grants of 25 000 per state with potential $50 000 matching funds for rural library work. 586 counties lack public libraries. Texas leads with 150, Kentucky 63, Louisiana and Mississippi 85 each. Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont have public libraries in every county.
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Lister Hill
Alabama
Emily Taft Dougelas
House
Senate
United States Commissioner of Education
Texas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Connecticut
Delaware
Iowa
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Oregon
Rhode Island
Vermont
Osage Ranchers to Hold Meet im Jume
PAWHUSKA OKLA The 10th annual convention of the Osage Cat tlemen s association will be held June 21 and 23 under president Gart her Drummond. Ranchers from surrounding states will hear experts on modern methods and enjoy a barbecue and cow boy dance. Accommodation shortages threaten to complicate the gathering.
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Pawhuska
Okla
Osage Cattlemen’s Association
Southwest
Garther Drummond
Drummond
Turning Point cliffhanger ends with a showdown and confession
In a tense scene Sherwin Hazlett defies danger to rescue Jane Keller from the pursuer Jordan after a tense creek chase. A struggle ends with Jordan wounded and Sherwin admitting love as Jim and Mac move to secure aid and the sheriff arrives. The episode ends with Jane demanding truth as the chapter closes.
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Jordan
Sherwin
Jane
John
Jim
Mac
Sis
Hexlett
Jin
Hazlett
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Turning Point
Mary Imlay Taylor
W.M.A
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Stenhart
Stenshart
Sherwin Cilaziett
Brendart
Chapter
Hazrett
Hemmings
Cutler
Culler
Ahern
Fanny Sewell
Old Mac
Las Palomas
Stenbart
Jane Keller
Bowers
Dane
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