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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1941
Page
9
First day coverage of the All Iowa fair shows 238 youths in 4-H and vocational agriculture judging as exhibitors bathe clip and fluff dairy cattle and beef cattle. By morning 12 classes of judging underway with dairy and beef cattle eyed by judges. Morning wash racks bustle as animals await inspection and competition proceeds toward noon.
Secretary Claude R. Wickard named three new members to the state FSA advisory committee. Norman Norland Kensett farmer Donald R. Murphy Des Moines farm magazine editor and Donald K. Walter Burlington attorney will serve three-year terms, replacing Paul P. Stewart Maynard Fred K. Hawley Laurens and Lester S. Gillette Fostoria. Holdover members include Scott Ellis Dallas Center Ron ald M. Wilson Sac City A F Aitcheson Cascade Verne Timberlake Bedford and J J Boatman Montezuma.
Delta Warren Winners 4 H girls club held Achievement Day in What Cheer area. Exhibits chosen for the Keokuk county fair include Rozella Cline best groomed girl Gertrude Grothaus Janet Greenlee Hilda Taylor Shirley Burt Low Ruth Utterbach and Ruth Utterbach. Shana Fell of Sinseieer judged exhibits.
About 135 people attended the Washington county Bi Monthly Contest association picnic in Washington Iowa. Winners across categories included Doyle Brown Brighton 171 of 175 for men and Mrs Clarence Brown Brighton 172 for women with Richard Geyer Wellman 175 for juniors. DHIA contest winners were Lester Miller Wellman 293, Mrs Morton Emde West Chester 297, Roy Eckhardt Wellman 286. Prominent speakers were Cecil Rooks Floyd Johnston Paul McLean Tester Miles Daley and County Agent J W Chandler among others.
Entries in 4-H club and open class livestock divisions at the Keokuk county fair set a record with about 200 calves entered for the 4-H baby beef show. The fair runs August 16 to 19 with children's day on August 18 featuring livestock judging and a 4-H parade. Open class winners parade closes the event on August 19 and the baby beef auction starts at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Dr. O A Johnson a rectal specialist with 28 years of practice at 1324 Main Street Kansas City Missouri is featured in a home relief advertisement claiming treatment for piles. The notice lists his department number 752 and promotes at home remedies.
Brig. Gen. Hershey told the American Legion in Des Moines that selective service boards must avoid removing needed farm workers for defense production. He warned of a shortage as farm labor shifts to cities, noting farm laborers must be skilled and able to repair equipment.
The Iowa County Junior Farm Bureau presented the operetta Betty Lou in Marengo high school auditorium Friday night directed by Ellis Lloyd with Kathleen McGivern as stage director and Mrs. Burton Jones as dance director. Cast included Rita McGivern Kathleen McGivern Robert Burns Maureen McGivern Alicia McGivern Jane Blythe Kenneth Denzler and Nidey. Joe Operetta served as club agent.
Washington reports the federal land banks hold 18 799 farms at mid year 19 percent below last year. Foreclosures completed by June 30 1941 fell 40 percent to 3 044. One fourth of bank properties for sale were sold in the first half of 1941 versus 21 percent in 1940.
Dale Denlinger Jr. aged 13 won grand championship with a yearling Guernsey heifer at the Buckhorn creamery picnic calf club show in Maquoketa. Runner-up was a Milking Shorthorn heifer shown by Maxine Hartvigsen. First place class winners included Maxine Hartvigsen, Don Miller, Donna Myatt, and Donald Siders. Judge Jake Stimson, with State Senator D. D. Fuller addressing, plus a bake and sport program. The creamery produced 27 percent more butter than last year, about 250000 pounds annually, with 25 percent sold locally. 8253 pounds set a 1935 regional record.
The seventeenth annual Dubuque county 4-H girls Achievement Day is set for Tuesday. Miss Vera Waite will judge exhibits. A morning symposium of club presidents is planned, and demonstration teams will compete for county honors.
The Iowa City based J county Farm Dosen women's chorus will perform three times at the Des Moines Iowa State fair on Wednesday the 27th. They will sing in three different appearances across the event.
A country woman recalls rustic humor about corn, shaving missteps, and old radio style wit. The piece uses humorous anecdotes about rural life and self mockery rather than a formal event.
Johnson county 4-H members prepare exhibits for the annual show opening Thursday evening with a Pan American fiesta at 8. Judges schedule livestock and dairy events across Thursday and Friday including beef calves, lambs, poultry, pigs and colts with a grand parade and a Friday banquet. The show closes Saturday with a baby beef auction at 1 p.m.
Iowa City control oats topped the Johnson County Farm Bureau test plot on the Byron D Coglan farm in Penn township with 36.5 pounds per bushel. Eight varieties were weighed with Gopher 3 34, beam 103, 31, Van guard among others.
Dubuque county 4-H livestock club members plan their annual tour Friday starting at 10 30 a.m. at the J J Dougherty farm two and a half miles southwest of Peosia. Stops include John Till Peter Gotto McMahon Brothers Henry O Connell Vincent Luchsinger Gilbert Beichler and Arnold Pancratz with a picnic lunch at Bankston.
A Wellman area crowd toured Marion Stransky and Carl Anderson hog operations showing crossbred sows, average litter 7.4, 238 pound market hogs at 5.76 per cwt, and a cooling system with far field ponds. Anderson grows alfalfa, lime’s fields, and markets 12,542 hogs annually while turkey production is noted in Wellman. Carl Malone spoke on farm price outlook.
Notice is hereby given that the July 1941 appointment of administrator of the estate of Mary Machek, late of Linn County Iowa, is duly qualified. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment and all claims against the estate must be authenticated in the office of the clerk of the Linn County Iowa District Court.
On health grounds a closing out sale of cattle hogs sheep and other stock will be held on Wednesday August 13 starting at 1 PM at the farm located one half mile west of Springville go one block south of the Exchange Bank and west to the second house across the railroad tracks. O J Emmons clerk.
An official Buenos Aires decree of July 14 orders destruction of all government owned corn from the 1939-40 crop stored in cribs by August 31 1941. About 135 million bushels are to be destroyed as mold and insect damage reduce carry over.
A bull calf born to a four year old Jersey cow at 12 15 a m on Monday marks the first blessed event of the 1941 All Iowa fair. The calf is owned by Quincy Adams of Moulton. Both mother and calf are reported doing well.
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