Jackson Cape Girardeau Telephone Founders in Missouri History
This week marks fifty seven years since the first long distance Missouri telephone line linked Jackson and Cape Girardeau on December 18, 1877. Pioneers B S Ferguson Will Wheeler T F Wheeler and editor Frank A McGuire helped bring telephonic links in Missouri ahead of Hannibal St Louis and Columbia Rocheport lines, though the Jackson Cape Girardeau line was later converted to telegraphy.
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Jackson-Cape Girardeau
Missouri
United States
Europe
Jackson
Cape Girardeau
Frank A. McGuire
Jackson Missouri
B.S. Ferguson
Fagerson
Hannibal
St. Louis
Columbia
Rocheport
Kansas City
Ashland
Boonville
Jackson- Cape Girardeau
Harry B. MacMeal
Campaign to eradicate bots in horses in Linn County
Linn County leaders on Horse Bot Control met at the County Agent's office to plan a district wide campaign. They reported treating 1272 horses on 382 farms last year with worm relief and better spring work. Notable notes included a horse passing 62 bots in two days and treated colts thriving compared with untreated kin.
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Linn County
Herman Woodside
Cecil McGhee
Enterprise Township
Alvin Sevier
St. Catherine
Horse Treatment Plan Aims to Cut Costs for Farmers
A countywide effort led by Dr. M. S. Campbell and Dr. Wolfe outlines batching horses at farms to treat at 35 cents per head, with 20 head groupings. The program lists local contacts to assist farmers in gathering horses, stresses pasture improvement, and notes bats as a major colic factor.
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FE. A. Loomis
Meadville
M. S. Campbell
Wolfe
Wheeling
W. C. Crookshanks
Wm. Pendergast
Vernon Phillips
Lester Singleton
Joe Peery
Claud van Dyke
E. A. Loomis
Fd Sidebottom
E. Swain
C. R. Hinton
Tom Lightner
Honors For 4 H Records Winners and Pencil Awards
County agent awards 31 4-H club members with automatic pencils for top entered record books. Names listed include Dora Johnson May Smith Ortha Stark Dorothy Wilson Helen Frakes Marjorie Jerome Lucille Ware Lucille Jerome Marjorie Urbach Ethel Dennis Maxine Powell Helen Van Dyke Helen Ailer Naomi Keane Doris Burd Mildred Walsh Bill Strickler Ray Wade Pasil Stratton Lorene Guyer Hertha Guyer Raymond Peer Harley Fay John Bennett Mildred Thiele Roscoe Baugher Wallace Johnson Jr Eldon Lewis Roy Buckner Jewell McGhee.
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Dora Johnson
May Smith
Ortha Stark
Dorothy Wilson
Helen Frakes
Marjorie Jerome
Lucille Ware
Lucille Jerome
Marjorie Urbach
Ethel Dennis
Maxine Powell
Helen van Dyke
Helen Ailer
Naomi Keane
Doris Burd
Mildred Walsh
Bill Strickler
Outlook Conference for Linn County Businessmen
Linn County business men are urged to attend the Outlook Conference at the Brookfield Chamber of Commerce Rooms at 10 30 Friday December 21 The recovery program affecting farmers in Linn County and likely in 1935 will be the morning topic This program bringing in 400000 in a single year draws business men and farmers together to learn facts and adjust their supplies to farmers needs
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Sullivan County
Coleman
St. Louis
Kansas City
T. A. Ewing
Extension Animal Husbandman
Missouri College of Agriculture
E. A. Logan
AAA
D. C. Wood
Missouri
FCA
J. Robert Hall
Linn County
Outlook
Brookfield
Luncheon at Daniel Boone Tavern Hosts Legion Leaders
Mr and Mrs A D Peterson attend a Thursday luncheon in Columbia at the Daniel Boone Tavern for the American Legion. Principal speakers include National Commander Frank N Belgrano Jr of California Department Commander Wm A Kitchen of Kansas City and H S Beardsley of Chillicothe.
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Columbia
A. D. Peterson
Daniel Boone Tavern
American Legion
Frank N. Belgrano, Jr
California
Wm. A. Kitchen
Kansas City
H. S. Beardsley
Chillicothe
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Jackson Cape
Misouri
R & W Coffee
Nation Finest
Red & White
Kentucky
Ewing
George D. Jones
College of Agriculture
Jones
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