Fertilizer Supplies Assured Despite War
The National Fertilizer Association cites ample fertilizer stocks for the current season. Charles J. Brand says the U S now ships from Chile and is a leading producer of synthetic nitrogen and ammonium sulphate. Domestic potash production covers over 60 percent of usage with foreign sources available. Prices for fertilizer run lower than prior to the last World War, though overall commodity prices rise about 22 percent. Mrs Z O Blackford and daughters visited Mrs Mary F Willcutts Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Brand
National Fertilizer Association
Chile
Mr. Brand
Germany
Bly Family Exchanges Visits Across Indiana And Converse
Mr and Mrs F J Bly of Converse visited Thursday and Friday with Mr and Mrs Ed Bly. Mrs Herschell McCrory and children from Indianapolis are spending the week with her parents Dr and Mrs F M Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Bly
Converse
Ed Bly
Miss Patsy Riley Returns Home From Visit
Miss Patsy Riley returns to her Blue Ridge home Saturday evening after spending two weeks visiting Miss Nancy Truster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patsy Riley
Blue Ridge
Nancy Truster
Opening Day Fishing Scenes across Indiana Anglers
Hoosier anglers opened the 1940 fishing season on bass bluegills and other game species with thousands of fishermen on state lakes and streams. Commissioner Virgil M Sim mons said reports from game wards across Indiana show a large crowd and more successful catches than in past years. New waters opened include Greenwood Lake Bear Creek Lake and Hominy Ridge Lake while Hovey Lake becomes a public fishing site. Wardens report few license violations and emphasize growing adherence to fishing laws under the conservation program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Lakes
Indiana
Division of Fish and Game
Greenwood Lake
Martin County
Loogootee
Bear Creek Lake
Yellowwood State Forest
Nashville
Hominy Ridge Lake
Salamonie River State Forest
Wabash County
Hovey Lake
Posey County
Air Corps Technical School Expands At Chanute Field
The Chanute Field Branch of the Air Corps Technical School at Rantoul Illinois offers free education to young men as the Air Corps expands to 45000 enlisted. About 17882 will study courses ranging 16 to 24 weeks at Chanute with three at Lowry Field Denver. A new 9 million dollar station rises on the old Chanute Field site with barracks hangars roads and a 120 bed hospital planned for July 1 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Army Air Corps
Air Corps
Chanute Field
Air Corps Technical School
Rantoul
Illinois
Lowry Field
Denver
Colorado
Qhanute Field
A Global War Opinion Rants On Pacifism and Hitler
A voice opines on world conflict, praising wedding economics and anti war sentiment while mocking pacifists. He warns of Hitler's blitz and the danger to the United States, suggesting isolation and trade as remedies and imagining a Knightstown mill move to avoid wartime fuel costs. The piece closes with political jabs and a cryptic note of contribution.
St. Louis Man Freed Over Speeding Charge
Morris Laches escapes speeding charge after alleging the arresting officer had to borrow his pencil to write out nine summons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Laches
St. Louis
Memorials and historic trails charm Coun cil Grove Kansas
A travelogue highlights Council Grove and Beatrice Nebraska as historic hubs. It praises the Madonna of the Trail Memorial and Council Oak marking Santa Fe Trail rights of way, and notes Daniel Freeman’s 1863 homestead monument with efforts to designate a national park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Grove
Kansas
Jim Farley
United States
Daniel Freeman
Government seeks explosive chemists for civil service exams
The U.S. Civil Service Commission calls qualified explosive chemists and chemical technologists to apply now for federal positions. Salaries range from 2600 to 4600 dollars yearly. Applications must be filed by June 24 for eastern states or June 27, 1940 for western states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Defense
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Washington
D. C
Colorado
Secretary of the Board of
U. S. Civil Service Examiners
United States Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
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F. R. Newby — — Notary Public
Carthage, Ind
J. M. Stone
Golden Rule Hatcheries
Rushville
Owen Gray
Carthage
Knightstown
King’s Beauty Shop
Ratliff
Rex E. Sexson
Greenfield
Ind
Rush County Loan & Finance CO
Helen K. Minneman
Rushville, Ind
Consult
K. E
W. 3Rd St
R. C. McBane
Morristown
Oliver
Bargain
John Deere G. P
John Deere No
Carthage Tractor & Implement Co
Texaco
GAS Valor
Firestone
Harold Phelps
Z. O. Blackford
Shelbyville
Mary F. Willcutt
Seeeteenmeceeene
English Channel
Hitler
Western Hemisphere
Atlantic
Pacific
Japan
Shore
France
America
Lan Frost
White House
Jim Smith
Earth
Salt Lake City
Brigham Young
Homestead
Omaha
Beatrice
Nebraska
By Warren Bayley
The
Carthage Hardware Co
Government
N. H
Arlington Hatchery
Carthage Grain Co
Hogle & Ronan
Bausback Fertilizer Co
Pahn
Shelby Ville
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