Indian Cropping Title Recognized on Mesquakie Reservation
The Mesquakie tribe adopts individual cropping titles under a council approved constitution. Ownership assigns 1050 acres to 48 Indians west of Tama, enabling 1939 AAA farm program benefits. Signers include Dan Young Bear and Willie Poweshiek, with Horace Poweshiek as council chief and George Young Bear as secretary. Two women, Maggie Mitchell and another, hold assignments.
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Uncle Sam
Tama County
AAA
Mesquakie
Tama
Tina
Indian Affairs
Charles Gary
Montour
Harry Lincoln
Robert Lyon
County Aaa
Dan Youngbear
Willie Poweshiek
Youngbear
Pushetonequa
Poweshiek
Mike Manatee
Oliver Lincoln
Sam Peters
Horace Poweshiek
George Youngbear
Albert Davenport
Edward Davenport
Percy Bear
Peter Morgan
Charles Davenport
Maggie Mitchell
Jim Poweshiek
Grant Mitchell
Poweshicks
Fence Drift in Woven Wire at Iowa Farm Bureau Event
A Johnson county Farm Bureau gathering in Iowa Tuesday evening featured music from a Slip horn fiddle piano and squeeze organ. After greetings a program focused on fun included Nellie Mitchell and a list of assignees or participants such as Arthur Bear Jim Bear John Bear Jr John Benson Philip Benson and many others.
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Johnson County Farm Bureau
Iowa
Nellie Mitchell
Arthur Bear
Jim Bear
John Bear, Jr
John Benson
Philip Benson
White Breast
Fred Brown
George Buffalo
John Buffalo
C. H. Chuck
William Davenport
Valentine Davenport
Dave Eagle
Willie Johnson
Louis Jones
Kenneth Kapayou
Loman Kapayou
Harvey Lasley
Harry Mauskemo
Frank Mitchell
George Mitchell
Grant Mitchell
Conklin Morgan
Jim Old Bear
John Pete
Joe Peters
George Sanache
Moses Slick
Frank Scott
John Tatapache
Frank Wanatee
Wanatee Estate
Jim Ward
Harry Waseskuk
John Wayne
Frank White
John Young Bear
Farm House Destroyed By Fire In Garage
Special to The Gazette. The Vandemark farm house near Wapello, southwest of the town, burned Tuesday along with a garage and automobile and all household goods. Cause believed to be a short circuit in the auto, wind fanned flames to the house. Firemen could not save the structures. Mrs. Vandemark jumped from a window and injured her shoulder. the couple had no insurance.
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Wapello
Ed Vandemark
Wapcello
Vandemark
Vandemarks
600 Trees Awarded Four 4-H Club Girls In Louisa
Six hundred green ash seedlings were delivered to Louisa county 4-H club girls as awards from a wildlife identification and conservation contest at the state 4-H club camp. Betty Kerr received 300 trees, Joanne Bonnichsen 100 trees, Evelyn Hammer 100 trees, and Wilda Pogemiller 100 trees.
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Wapello
Louisa County
Betty Kerr
Joanne Sbonnichsen
Evelyn Hammer
Wilda Pogemiller
Farmers Market Place in Want Ad Section
Farmers are invited to explore the FARMERS MARKET PLACE in the Want Ad section for items of special interest. The marketplace highlights agricultural goods, equipment, and services relevant to farm operations and rural communities.
Husky chair featured in Poweshien exhibit at county event
In Poweshiek county, a sturdy husky chair owned by Mrs. William Steenhook from east of Grinnell, dated 1876 with corn husk rope, highlighted the Malcom township display during the annual achievement day program. The event drew 262 women and featured music by Grinnell College students, a 35 voice farm women’s chorus, an operatic excerpt by county girls, and a rural living standards panel led by Mrs. Raymond Pilgrim.
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the Gazette
Brooklyn
Malcom Township
Poweshiek County
Home Project
William Steenhook
Grinnell
Grinnell College
David Peck
Mary Fox
Ann Goptrude
Louise Baxter
Emory Grosenbach
Scarsboro
Hansel and Gretel
Marvin McLain
Raymond Pilgrim
John Ohland
Malcom
Edward Williams
Verner Bolen
H. Macy
Searsboro
Grace Middlemas
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
State Farm Bureau
Poweshiek
Poultry Marketing Co-Op
REA
The
Oil Company
Farm Bureau Insurance Company
Brooklyn Creamery
Marian Edwards
Ames Home
Edwards
Deep River Township
George Paul
Frances Hettler
Neighbors Aid Farmers In Field Work And Harvest
Neighbors near Bertram and Monmouth assisted farmers on Monday. At Bertram Floyd Kitchen's farm workers helped haul manure, clean sheds, and prep the field before his hospital return. A separate group sowed oats for Solomon Wyrick near Monmouth, with Mr Wyrick having undergone surgery in Iowa City last week.
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Gazette
Bertram
Floyd Kitchen
George Willser
George King
Joe Michalek
Fred Potska
Antone Biderman
Ernest Cjeka
Fred Clymer
Joe Vislisel
Joe Mikulecky
John McClelland
Roy White
Roy Elkin
August Pospisil
Louis Zobac
Dale Stoneking
Willard Mitchell
Austin Armstrong
George Geesey
Robert Luenicka
George Vislisel
Ann Marie
Alice Katharine Vislisel
Frank Biderman
Adeline Biderman
Emma Waskow
Monmouth
Soloman Wyrick
Mr. Wyrick
Iowa City
George Yadem
John Kostichek
John Bisinger
Edd Robbins
Jim Huffman
Will Robbins
Otto Bisinger
Howard Kriete
May Reyner
James Huffman
Shower for the Schwabes at White Schoolhouse
About thirty neighboring families held a charitable shower at the White schoolhouse southwest of Blairstown for Ernest and Mrs. Schwabe after their home burned. Neighbors brought clothing bedding and foodstuffs plus a coaster wagon for 3-year-old Rowena who escaped death by fire leaping from a second story window into her mother’s arms. The family will live in the washhouse while rebuilding and awaiting crops and a new home.
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Schwabes
The
Gazette
Blairstown
Ernest Schwabe
Rowena Schwabe
4-H Hybrid Project Seeds Enter County Corn Tests
Wapello Louisa county corn club members will enter seed produced in their project in the county corn test plots this year. A quart of seed is to be obtained from each member who raised hybrid seed last year and all samples will be mixed to make a uniform price sample.
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Wapello
Louisa County Corn Club
Levy Of $1 A Car On Hogs For Lard Promotion
Benton county cattlemen propose a $1 per carload levy on hogs sent to central markets to fund lard advertising. At the annual meeting in Vinton 213 feeders attended. Lewis Greaser Elected President. August Kluss and Otis Tuttle named directors. Secretary to be the county agent successor. Attendees discussed Chicago Producers spring cattle marketing survey and urged members to submit price predictions for the first week of September.
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Gazette
Vinton
Chris Kinsel
Benton County Cattlemen’s Association
Lewis Greaser
August Kluss
Luzerne
Otis Tuttle
Norway
Jim Green
Rex Beresford
Ames
Carl Oldsen
Herman Aaberg
H H. Schloeman
Des Moines
Chicago
Beresford
Benton Cattlemen
Hog lot sells Hampshire hogs at Chicago sale
A feeder near Atkins sold thirty 299 pound Hampshire hogs at Chicago for 675 dollars per hundredweight. The May and June pigs were delivered to the market Monday and priced at 675 per CWT.
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the Gazette
Atkins
Joe Beatty
Hampshire
Chicago
State Girls 4 H Confab Dates for Ames Convention
The twelfth annual state 4-H girls convention will be in Ames June 14 to 17 with the theme A 4 H Girl Looks at Democracy. Edith Barker announced that 950 local clubs are to select one official delegate each, plus adult leaders, county committees, and state officers candidates. County eight-club areas may nominate farm girls aged 16 to 20 who have served in 4-H roles for at least four years. a ticket of eight delegates will be elected from county submissions.
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Ames
Edith Barker
AAA Expenditures Reach Nine Month Total
The agricultural adjustment administration spent 453 457 777 dollars in the nine months ending April 1 including 29 921 982 in sugar payments and 35 634 011 in soil conservation for 1937 and 1958 crop years. State payments listed include Illinois 15 186 716 Iowa 27 654 942 Kansas 10 781 039 Minnesota 10 448 940 Missouri 11 100 278 Nebraska 14 983 522 South Dakota 13 399 029 Wisconsin 10 395 069.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Iowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wisconsin
95-Pound Shorn Lambs Bring $8.75 Cwt. At Waterloo
Grinnell firm A. J. Blakely and Son sold 41 head of shorn Welaine Merino lambs near Grinnell at Waterloo. Average weight 95 pounds. Ewe and wether lambs brought $8.75 per cwt with one call out at $6 per cwt, the season’s top price at Waterloo for clipped lambs.
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Waterloo
Gazette
Grinnell
A. J. Blakely and Son
Reed Says Season Is Ten Days Late
Iowa crop reporter Charles D. Reed reports seasonal progress is delayed at least ten days with oats barley and flax half planted in eight northeast counties. Rapid field clearing and spring plowing occur while some seed rots or is damaged by freezes. Strawberries suffer winter-kill and bud losses from recent frosts.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Reed
260 Pound Gain Leads First Quarter 4-H Beef Feeds
A Wapello Iowa county baby beef club report shows Louise Hafner of Letts leading with a 260 pound gain in 90 days for a calf. Other top gains include 240 and 220 pounds for two more Hafner steers and 250 pounds by an Angus fed by Everett Deh Ray McCulley.
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Wapello
Louise Hafner
Letts
Louisa County
Louise
Everett Deh Ray McCulley
Hogs Top at 537 and Cedar County Feeder Tops Market
W Meyer feeder of Tipton Hawt Cedar County sold forty one hogs weighing 259 pounds each in Chicago Monday achieving seven dollars per hundredweight, a top for their weight.
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Tipton
H W. Meyer
Cedar County
Chicago
Youth Understands Problems Through Open Discussion
A speaker urged honest frankness between generations saying youth see the answers and that the curtain between age groups is lifted. The piece, by a country woman, emphasizes broadening horizons and sincere discussion of troubling youth problems.
Conservation League Organized In Fayette
A Fayette county conservation league was formed Monday evening in West Union by 75 sportsmen and farmers to cover the north twelve townships. A separate league for the south eight townships is already in formation at Oelwein. Officers include President Clarence Hoag Elgin Vice-president Dr J M Smittle Waucoma Secretary John Camp West Union Treasurer L E Billmeyer Hawkeye Directors William Mullins Fayette H A Schaefer West Union Frank Jones Lima. The group was promoted by J J Murphy Independence and conservation officer.
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West Union
Fayette County
Oelwein
Clarence Hoag
Elgin
J. M. Smittle
Waucoma
John Camp
L. E. Billmeyer
Hawkeye
William Mullins
Fayette
H A
Schaefer
Frank Jones
Lima
J. J Murphy
Independence
Conservation Officer
Chemurgie Conference At Columbus May 19 20
Columbus Ohio will host a mid American conference sponsored by the National Farm Chemurgie council. Representatives from agriculture industry and science will attend on May 19 and 20 to discuss policy and research trends.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Farm Chemurgie Council
Conference of Representatives of Agriculture, Industry and Science
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