Contests Set for Iowa State Fair 1951 Program
The Iowa State Fair announces a full schedule August 26 through September 3 featuring contests from horseshoe pitching to old fiddlers. Highlights include a $300 prize horseshoe tournament and a $900 team pulling contest with three weight divisions, plus a $500 baby health prize and a $135 sheep shearing prize. The event also includes an All Iowa Quiz Derby, a $100 checker tournament, and numerous 4-H contests, with about $150,000 in prizes across nearly 4,000 classes for livestock grains and farm products.
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Iowa
Cookie Baker
Rural Youth Discuss Personality at Winnebago meeting
The Winnebago Rural Youth group met at Thompson School on Monday evening May 4 to discuss personality. Patricia Griggs led the session with small group participation while Dorothy Branstad presided. Announcements covered the RYP district camp at Lake Okoboji June 30 to July 2 and a weiner feast at Rice Lake June 19. Gene Abbey and Joan Johnson oversaw recreation and refreshments.
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Winnebago Rural Youthh
Thompson School
Patricia Griggs
Dorothy Branstad
RYP
Lake Okoboji
Rice Lake
Gene Abbey
Joan Johnson
Ruth Friesenberg and Harriet Wentworth to Attend State 4-H Convention
Ruth Friesenberg Harriet Wentworth and other 4-H club delegates from Winnebago County will attend the Iowa Girls 4-H Convention at Iowa State College June 19 to 23. Delegates include Darlene Thompson Shirley Jacobson Janny Thompson Suzanne Kuns Bonnie Arnevik Arlene Wooge and Bonnie Ledgard with Sharon Trail and Harriet Wentworth representing the county. Mrs Paul Kuns will accompany the group. The program theme centers on the international situation and youth solutions with top speakers booked and daily activities planned. Delegation housing will be in a women’s dormitory on campus.
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Iowa
Iowa State College
Winnebago County Extension
Ruth Friesenberg
Buffalo Boosters
Darlene Thompson
Center Cinderellas
Shirley Jacobson
Eden Farmerettes
Janny Thompson
Forest Hustlers
Suzanne Kuns
Grant Gleaners
Bonnie Arnevik
King T.N. T
Arlene Wooge
Linden Lassies
Bonnie Leegard
Loganettes
Sharon Trail
4-H
Harriet Wentworth
Paul Kuns
Topnotch
Doron
Annual F B Picnic Attend Conference To Be Held In July
The Fort Bureau picnic is planned for July with committees from Buffalo Center Township and King Newton Center. Leaders listed for Buffalo and Center with King and Newton awaiting committee names. Richard Cayler joined a Minnesotan angling trip. weather hindered fishing. Des Moines delegates at Iowa Farm Bureau mid year met June 4 5 to discuss price controls and inflation policy.
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Fort Bureau
Buffalo, King, Newton
Center
Buffalo
Fred Hippen
Tjark Krull
Adolph Hartman
Kenneth Buns
Frank Eich
Louis Steen
Don Bacon
Charles Lemme
Harold Frone
Martin Schuck
Pete J. Peterson
Carl Moe
King and
Newton
Richard Cayler
Jack Wentzel
Roger
Winoha
Minnesota
Ray Steffens
Earl Bendickson
Lake Mills
Lester Gingrich
Thompson
Iowa Farm Bureau
Des Moines
Farm Bureau
54Th General Assembly
Sports Festival Committee Named 1951 Ames Event
Farm Bureau president appoints the Sports Festival committee to plan the annual Iowa Sports Festival to be held in Ames September 7 and 8. Members include Alvin Hofbauer Grant Township Thomas Lubben Lincoln Township Gerald Gustafson Mt. Valley township Norbert Dorow Extension Director and Lester Gingrich fieldman. Additional committees will handle individual events. Time and place to be announced.
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Farm Bureau
Alvin Hofbauer
Grant Township
Thomas Lubben
Lincoln Township
Gerald Gustafson
Mt. Valley Township
Norbert Dorow
Lester Gingrich
Iowa
Ames
Locals go fishing with Foxhilit dealers group
Mr and Mrs Guy Barton and Mr and Mrs Wm Larson left last Friday for International Falls to join a large Foxhilt feed dealers group for a fishing excursion at Lake of the Woods Canada The Foxhilt Feed Company of Des Moines hosts the party
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Guy Barton
Wm. Larson
International Falls
Lake of the Woods
Canada
Foxhilt Feed Company of
Des Moines
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Winnebago County
F. B
Electrolux
E. M. Olson
Wesley, Iowa
Dad
Hunter
John & Jerry Hardware
Buffalo Center
Gardner
Fisherman
Tai F LU Tae
Tribune
Jordal
H. H. Bennett
Lakota
Reddy Kilowatt
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