First Time Indian Ownership Recognized on Mesquakie Reserve
Iowa records mark the first official individual ownership of reservation land by Mesquakie Indians west of Tama. The council, empowered by a tribe sanctioned constitution, assigns land for cropping title which cannot be sold or leased. failure to till for two years prompts reassignment. AAA signups begin for 1939 benefits. 48 assignments cover 1,050 acres with potential payments near 2,500 dollars.
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Indian Affairs
Iowa
Uncle Sam
Tama County
AAA
Mesquakie
Tama
Charles Gary
Montour
Harry Lincoln
Robert Lyon
County Aaa
Dan Youngbear
Willie Poweshiek
Youngbear
Pushetonequa
Poweshiek
Chief Poweshiek
Mike Manatee
Oliver Lincolin
Sam Peters
Horace Poweshiek
George Youngbear
Albert Davenport
Edward Davenport
Percy Bear
Peter Morgan
Charles Davenport
Jim Poweshiek
Grant Mitchell
Poweshieks
Fence Drift at Iowa City Farm Bureau Event
A lively Johnson county Farm Bureau gathering in Iowa City featured music from a slip horn fiddle piano and squeeze organ. Attendees shared greetings and enjoyed a program focused on fun with Nellie Mitchell and a list of assignees and local names read aloud after the handshake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson County Farm Bureau
Iowa City
Farm House Destroyed By Fire In Iowa Farm
Ed Vandemark farm home southwest of Wapello burned Tuesday. Garage and automobile plus household goods were lost. Wind spread fire from a shorted car. Vandemarks uninsured. Mrs Vandemark jumped from a window and injured her shoulder. Wapello volunteer department could not save the buildings.
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Wapello
Ed Vandemark
Vandemark
Vandemarks
Hundred Trees Awarded to Louisa 4-H Club Girls
Six hundred green ash seedlings were awarded to Louisa county 4-H club girls for a wildlife identification and conservation contest at the state 4-H club camp last summer. 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 Bonnichsen
Evelyn Hammer
Wilda Pogemiller
Farmers Market Place Want Ad Promises Special Items
Farmers are urged to check the Want Ad Farmers Market Place for numerous items of special interest. The short notice highlights agricultural products and services offered in the advertisement section.
Husky chair figures in Poweshiek exhibit event
The Poweshiek county home project annual achievement day showcased a sturdy husky chair from Mrs. William Steenhook of Grinnell seated since 1876 with corn husk rope. The Malcom township display featured a reseated chair by local women, amid music by Grinnell College students and a 35-voice farm women’s chorus. A 40-girl Hansel and Gretel dramatisation, a rural living standards panel led by Mrs. Raymond Pilgrim, and exhibits from local co-ops highlighted the program attended by 262 women.
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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 Help Bertram Farm Before Hospital Visit
Bertram farmers and a large group of neighbors hauled manure and cleaned sheds on Floyd Kitchen’s farm near Bertram. Workers included George Willsel, George King, Joe Michalek, Fred Petska, 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, and Robert Luenicka. A picnic dinner followed, served by multiple Vislisel and Biderman families among others.
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Gazette
Bertram
Floyd Kitchen
George Willsel
George King
Joe Michalek
Fred Petska
Antone “Widerman
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
Antone Biderman
George Vislisel
Ann Marie
Alice Katharine Vislisel
Frank Biderman
Adeline Biderman
Emma Waskow
Neighbors Help After Surgery in Monmouth Area
Seven neighbors assisted Solomon Wyrick near Monmouth after his operation last week. Helpers included George Yaclem John Kostichek John Bisinger Edd Robbins Jim Huffman Will Robbins and Otto Bisinger. Dinner was prepared by Mrs Howard Kriete May Reyner and Mrs James Huffman.
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Monmouth
Soloman Wyrick
Wyrick
Iowa City
George Yaclem
John Kostichek
John Bisinger
Edd Robbins
Jim Huffman
Will Robbins
Otto Bisinger
Howard Kriete
May Reyner
James Huffman
Shower Helps Blairstown Neighbors Aid Schwabe Family
About thirty families gathered at the White schoolhouse near Blairstown to honor Mr and Mrs Ernest Schwabe after their home burned. Neighbors brought clothing bedding and food and to ease their move, a coaster wagon was given for 3 year old Rowena who survived by jumping from a second story window into her mother's arms. The Schwabes plan to rebuild and live in the washhouse until their new home is ready.
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Gazette
Blairstown
Ernest Schwabe
Rowena Schwabe
Corn club plans seed project entry in county plots
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 the samples will be mixed together to make one uniform sample.
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Wapello
Louisa County Corn Club
Levy Of 1 A Car On Hogs For Lard Fund
At the Benton county cattlemen’s annual meeting in Vinton about 213 livestock feeders heard a proposal to raise a lard advertising fund by a levy of 1 per carload on hogs shipped to central markets. Rex Beresford urged members to forecast Chicago price ranges for cattle in September, with guesses from 9.10 to 14.50 per hundredweight.
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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
Mr. Beresford
Benton Cattlemen
Atkins-Joe Beatty hog sale near Atkins reported
Special to The Gazette notes a feeder near Atkins sold thirty Hampshire hogs weighing 299 pounds each at Chicago for $6.75 per hundredweight. The May and June pigs were part of the sale, reflecting strong feeder demand.
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the Gazette
Atkins
Joe Beatty
Hampshire
Chicago
State Girls 4 H Convention Planned At Ames June 14 17
The twelfth annual 4 H girls state convention at Ames June 14 to 17 will have the theme A 4 H Girl Looks at Democracy. Mrs Edith Barker announces 950 local clubs to nominate one official delegate each. Attending will be adult leaders, county committees, county presidents, long time record entrants, and trip awardees from fairs.
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Ames
Edith Barker
AAA Expenditures Reach 9 Month Total in USDA Report
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration spent 453,457,777 dollars in the nine months ending April 1, including 29,921,982 dollars in sugar payments and 35,634,011 dollars in soil conservation for the 1937 season. It lists 197,608,127 dollars in soil conservation and 16,363,403 dollars in sugar for the 1938 crop year with state payments shown for Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
95-Pound Shorn Lambs Bring $8.75 Cwt at Waterloo
Grinnell based A. J. Blakely and Son, two miles south of Grinnell, marketed 41 head of shorn Delaine Merino lambs at Waterloo on Saturday. They averaged 95 pounds and sold at $8.75 per hundredweight, with one bid at $6. The $8.75 price marked the season's high thus far for clipped lambs at Waterloo.
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Grinnell
A. J. Blakely and Son
Waterloo
Reed Says Season Is Ten Days Late In Iowa
Iowa crop reporter Charles D. Reed says vegetation is at least ten days later than usual. In eight northeast counties half the oats barley and flax remain to be sown while rapid field clearing and spring plowing proceed. Some seed rotted or died from freezes and stands appear patchy with occasional strawberry losses reported.
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Reed
Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
260 POUNDS GAIN IN NINETY DAYS
A baby beef club summary for Louisa County shows Louise Hafner of Letts leading with a calf that gained 260 pounds in 90 days. She also feeds two more steers that gained 240 and 220 pounds. Other top gains include 250 pounds by an Angus fed by Everett Deihl and 245 and 235 pounds for two Angus steers. The six high-gain calves averaged 1 311 pounds of corn, 69 pounds of oats, 137 pounds of protein supplement, 126 pounds of hay, and 242 pounds total gain. The six low-gain calves averaged 764 pounds of corn, 230 pounds of oats, 39 pounds of protein supplement, and 274 pounds of hay for a 90-day gain of 137 pounds.
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Wapello
Louise Hafner
Letts
Louisa County
Louise
Everett Deihl
Ray McCulley
Tipton hog feeder sells top weight hogs at Chicago
H W Meyer of Tipton Cedar county marketed forty one hogs weighing 259 pounds each at Chicago Monday for seven dollars per hundredweight, the top price for their weight.
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Tipton
H. W. Meyer
Cedar County
Chicago
You Can't Feel Youth Says A Country Woman
A COUNTRY WOMAN argues that age barriers have faded and youth now speaks with clarity. The speaker urges openness, understanding, and frank discussion of youth’s troubling problems to heal and progress.
Conservation League Organized In Fayette
A Fayette county conservation league for the north twelve townships was formed in West Union by 75 sportsmen and farmers. Officers include President Clarence Hoag Elgin and Secretary John Camp West Union, with Director William Mullins Fayette and others. The group was promoted by J J Murphy of Independence, conservation officer.
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West Union
Fayette County
Oelwein
Clarence Hoag
Elgin
J. M. Smittle
Waucoma
John Camp
L. E. Billemeyer
Hawkeye
Willliam Mullins
Fayette
H. A. Schaefer
Frank Jones
Lima
J. J. Murphy
Independence
Conservation
Chemurgic Conference At Columbus May 19-20
Columbus hosts a mid American conference sponsored by the National Farm Chemurgic council. Representatives from agriculture industry and science will gather May 19 and 20 to discuss cooperative aims and shared advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
National Farm Chemurgic Council
Agriculture, Industry and Science
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Ray Anderson
Maggie Mitchell
Nellie Mitchell
Arthur Bear
Jim Bear
John Bear, Jr
John Benson
Philip Benson
White Breast
Fred Brown
George Ruffalo
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
Conklin Morgan
Jim Old Bear
John Pete
Joe Peters
George
Jersey Cattle Club
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Ivan N. Gates
West Liberty
Louisa
Tate AY
Husky” Chair
Home Project Women
Schwabes
Ae Union
ABEL
Ilinois
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Smulekoff
General
General Electric
GE Thrift
Third Avenue
Conservation League
Keystone
Mid-States
E. Cohn & Sons
3Rd St
9Th Ave
Penick & Ford
Rapaport
6Th Avenue Auto Wrecking CO
West End
16Th Avenue Bridge
16Th Ave. SW
Fostoria
Rapaport’s
16Th Ave
Fifth Ave
Rapaports Auto Parts Co
Reliable
Gillette
Felt
Vulcan Springs
Royal Chemical Line
Universal Parts
Inpaco
Wausau
Maurice
Harry Rapaport
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