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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1937
Page
5
Rushville and nearby towns are active with visits including Donald Anderson and Joseph White in Rushville, the Groves family near Bowen visiting Musick relatives, and multiple trips to Quincy and Golden for hospital, funeral, and social events. Local church plans, Christmas program, and library appointment noted.
Mrs. Stanley Cunningham and her son Richard are ill with scarlet fever at their southeast home. Richard is recovering while Mrs Cunningham remains quite ill. Rev. Wm Bailey preached at the Christian church Sunday services and at Breckenridge in the afternoon. The 4H Club meets Friday evening at Kathleen McCune’s home.
Old neighbors gathered at Dr. and Mrs. L F Workmans home for Beulah Workmans birthday with oysters pie and coffee. Guests included the Howes Thurnhoffer Mensendick and Brunenn families plus many others. Events also noted a pinochle high score Christmas gifts and a stork shower with plans for a December 23 church program.
Illness and family news fill the community notes. Names include Guthrie, Workman, Crawford, Rampley, Neill, Krauth, and Rose. The December Dorsas Society met with twenty four attendees. New Year dinners and Tuberculosis Seals drives are planned. Several trips to Keokuk and Hamilton are noted for hospital visits and family gatherings.
Fairview residents attended the funeral of Miss Jarry Dickerson at Chili on Monday. Reports from Donald Dickerson after appendicitis surgery in Quincy indicate he is recovering as expected. Local residents shared news from the past week including corn shucking help and visits by Clayton Kreider and the Kreider family. A Christmas entertainment and tree are planned for the Fairview schoolhouse on December 22.
Contour ridges and furrows on grassland store rain and raise hay yields. Farmers report 20 to 30 percent higher grass production after implementing ridges 15 to 35 feet apart or furrows 10 to 20 feet apart. Examples include DeWees in Oklahoma Jewell County in Kansas and Cope in Pawnee County Nebraska.
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Mrs Alpha Worrell and children, Quincy goers last Saturday. Mr and Mrs Hamil Williams and children spent Sunday at the Harry Williams home. Afternoon callers included Mr and Mrs Ed Carlin and Mr and Mrs Walter Lunt. C L Gardner spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Sparrow of Sutter. Roscoe Patton of Gelden, Harold Jones and family of Huntsville visited George Jones’s family. Chris Williams and Dean were in Plymouth last Saturday with Raymond White. Homer Rowland and family called on Linn Murphy Sunday. Kenneth Williams and sons visited Mr and Mrs Chris Williams Sunday.
The Pro duction Credit Corporation of St Louis says corn and soybeans stored on Illinois and Missouri farms can secure loans from local associations. Loans mature by sale time but no later than July 1 1938. Applications due by March 1 1938.
Grass growth on fertile pasture land hinges on soil water retention rather than total rainfall. The Soil Conservation Service notes that pasture productivity depends on how well the land holds rain water.
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