Local residents host visiting relatives and friends
Numerous households hosted guests from nearby towns and states. Names include Bundies, Brehm, Keithley, Sloan, Hummel, Kuhn, Carlstead, Schrock, Fore, Cook, Brumbaugh, Williams, Humphreys, Haning, Burwell, Maggart, Rhodes, Haley, Barrows, Warren, Harmon, Cokerham, and Dickinson. Travels span Oklahoma, Iowa, Neb a nd Missouri with several weekend, afternoon, or Tuesday visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy
Bundies
Margaret Fore
Clyde Cook
Oklahoma City
Lula Brumbaugh
Edward F. Williams
Ruth Humphreys
Kirksville
J. R. Williams
Hollis Haning
St. Joseph
M. L. Haning
Ottumwa
Iowa
John Burwell
Randolph County
E. L. Haley
Robert
Bruce
Mickey
Ardith
Bertie ‘Gooch
Lyons
Neb
Mr. Haley
Patrick Haley
Irene Barrows
E. R. Barrows
Near
Purdin
Shirley Warren
Beryl Warren
Hugh Warren
Elvin Harmon
L. V. Harmon
Topeka
J. B. Harmon
Citizens Savings Bank
Charles Thompson
Holliday
P. E. Cok
Willing Workers Meet in Jenkins District on July 24
The Willing Workers of Jenkins district met with Louise Hollon on July 24 with fourteen members and four teen visitors. They opened with the First Psalm, sang When the Roll is Called Up Yonder, and held a roll call and hankerchief exchange. Isabel Gooch and Sylvia Skeen tied in a sewing contest won by Isabel, and Lottie's side led attendance by ten points. Louise served ice cream and cake as the meeting closed with the Lord's Prayer. next gathering August 7 with Emma Haley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenkins
Louise Hollon
Hankerchief Exchange
Lillian White
Isabel Gooch
Sylvia Skeen
Isabel
Lottie
Louise
Lydia Shepherd
Emma Haley
Parade of ripening corn marches across the nation
A vivid, nation wide scene describes a Great Parade America as a field of corn fills the landscape. The march moves from south to west to north with no destruction or fatalities while the corn tassels advance before the midwest planting finishes. Ears reach the table in the south before Michigan corn ripens, though frost threatens farther north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Michigan
Corn March Across the Nation Shapes Food Needs
The article stresses the corn crop as vital to supply famine relief and nutrition across regions from the Gulf to Canada. It notes variety differences by area, with corn used for food fodder or drink and potential successes and losses shaping livestock feeds and markets amid wartime and hunger concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Gulf
Canada
Shafter Social Notes Mention Local Visits and Funerals
Mr and Mrs Harry Hanson and children of South Dakota visited with her parents the Palmers. Several attended the funeral of Mr Tom Morris at Mt Olive church. Friends and relatives from Maryville Enid Canton Brookfield and Purdin gathered for meals and visits including Carr ie Bowyer Thurlo Hicks Arnold and Gilmer families and the Bars to Walnut Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Hanson
South Dakota
Ross Palmer
Tom Morris
Mt. Olive Church
Jess Bruce
Nolan Bruce
Maryville
Morris
Sherburn Fields
Florence Freeman
Enid
Okla
Eunice F. Dickinson
Canton
Carrie Bowyer
Price Gilmer
Grover Garrett
Purdin
Lilburn Gilmer
Ernest Pearson
Edgar Morris
W. E. Morris
Russell Paul
Reger community sale and family updates in Roger
The article reports the sale of the late A S Maggart’s household belongings in Reger and a charivari for newlyweds Mr and Mrs Samuel Artz. It notes social visits, farm work on the Reger farm, a missionary talk at the Church of God, local travel, and several farm and community happenings including softball scores and remarks on wartime food demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Maggart
Reger
Samuel Artz
Bertha Faulkner
Pearl Daily
Eula Shatto
Rachel Booth
Milan
Roger
Willie Rogers
Edith Fierkey
Timothy
Arthur Reger
Everett Robinson
Galt
Leah Henry
Leah
Chicago
Thomas Henry
Henry
Phyllis Crowdis
Kansas City
Walter Artz
Earl Smith
John DeWitt
Junior Crowdis
Reger Farm
Church of God
J. B. Harmon
John Crowdis
Elsworth
Smith
Ada Smith
Myron Williamson
Green City
Bob
Bessie Bardon
Cora
Bob Crowdis
Kirksville
Guy Maggart
Aviation Institute
Mrs Lloyd Bowyer Calls On Mrs Carrie Bowyer
Mrs Bowyer visited Mrs Bowyer on Monday in a brief social call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Bowyer
Carrie Bowyer
Wheat Loans and Insurance Offered to Local Farmers
The County AC P Committee announces wheat loans through the Commodity Credit Corporation and insurance via the county AC P Office. No.2 Red Winter wheat prices at Kansas City are 77 cents per bushel. Four Sullivan County growers Doyle Carter Paul Hill H L Spangler and H E Creason receive indemnity for losses due to chinch bugs and drought. Farmers with 1941 allotments are eligible for insurance and loan protection against natural risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commodity Credit Corporation
Kansas City
Sullivan County
Doyle Carter
Paul Hill
H. L. Spangler
H. E. Creason
Egg Shortage From War Shrinks Dutch and Danish Supply
A Amsterdam dispatch reports twelve million hens roughly two thirds of the Netherlands stock will be slaughtered by September 15 due to feed shortages. Britain, relying on Dutch and Danish imports, faces an egg shortage and turns to home stores. Denmark also slaughters poultry as imports from the United States halt. The article notes egg prices rising to 60 cents a dozen as shortages bite. AAA Announces 1940 Soil Building Rates. The piece explains reduced ACP payments for 1940 to fit available funds and notes 1939 funds and programs affecting the allocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Priebe
Netherlands
Amsterdam
London
Britain
Denmark
England
Ministry of Food
United States
Washington
Glenn G. Freeland
Sullivan County
ACP
Congress
Also Mentioned on This Page
Erham
Patty Jo
Bonnie
Bobbie Cokerham
Jess
Harvey F. Dickinson
Columbia
Willing Workers Club
Humphreys
Methodist Church
McCall's
Magazi
Ian
E. Lye
SELEC
Woman's World
Poultry Tribune
American Fruit
G. Capper's Farmer Nat’l Livestock
J Farm Journal and
Farmer’s Wife
Plymouth Rock
Leghorn World
Amer
Poultry Journal Breeder's Gazette
Rhode Island
Country
Eee Cweekly
Farm Journal
Innas Wife
American Fruit Grower
American Poultry Journal
Cloverleaf American Review
Breeder's Gazette
Plymouth Rock Monthly
Rhode Island Redroman
Orld
Cee Couuuggoon
R.F.D
AAA
Athletic Union
Eclipse
Nesco
Liberty Bell
Armour’s Treet
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