Hogs heavier on Cedar Rapids market as prices rise
Weight of marketed hogs in Cedar Rapids is up, with Iowa farm prices near 10.50 a hundredweight and corn around 65 cents a bushel. Hog weights averaged 278 pounds locally last week, 288 in Chicago, with the market outlook noting potential government price advances and shifting feeding ratios over recent years. Market activity trends show August lighter sales and December peak, while 4 H livestock shows highlight champions from Washington and What Cheer with multiple breed victors and top showmen.
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Iowa
Linn County Aaa Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
William Lochner
Ray Anderson
Bob Foster
Washington
Washington County
Gladys Bonwater
Keswick
Keokuk
Foster
Angus
Bonwater
Farmers Market Place Want Ad Offers Farm Supplies
Mr Farmer advertises buying and selling stock and equipment seeds and feeds baby chicks poultry and supplies for farms or acreages for sale or rent. Read the Farmers Market Place daily in the Want Ad pages of your Gazette.
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Your Gazette
Cedar County 4-H Winners Praise and Best Wishes
A Cedar County reader serves thanks and praise after The Gazette reported four H winning entries at the All Iowa show. The letter extends congratulations for the seven firsts and asks Cedar to continue strong in Des Moines and Chicago, urging all 4-Hers to win without bragging or squealing.
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Cedar County
Gazette
All-Iowa
Cedar
Des Moines
Chicago
4-H
Hay load slips injures Geneseo farmer
Special to The Gazette. A Buckingham haying accident on the John Draper farm last week left Fred Norstrand with a broken ankle. He was riding atop a hay load when it slipped, tearing flesh, and he was taken to a Waterloo hospital.
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the Gazette
Buckingham
John Draper
Fred Norstrand
Geneseo
Norstrand
Waterloo
Winneshiek County Crops Still Need Rain
Decorah report notes a promised all day rain Sunday became only a light sprinkle, ending before noon and leaving dust. Continued dry weather worsens corn conditions and speeds up silo filling while pastures also suffer across Winneshiek County.
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Winneshiek County
Gazette
Decorah
Twelve Beeves From Louisa To Go To State Fair
Louisa county 4-H members exhibit 12 baby beeves at the state fair in Des Moines this week. Entries span Hereford and mixed breed groups, with 12 youths named including Fred Stone and Max Hafner. Dale Powers and Ralph Oak add Hereford heifers and a Duroc Jersey litter, while two judging teams feature Rutt, Deihl, Bieri, Parsons, Stone, Oak, and Estle.
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Gazette
Wapello
Louisa County
Des Moines
Fred Stone
Max Hafner
Louise Hafner
Jimmy Jones
Harry Hafner
Dale Hafner
Letts
Robert Pagemiller
Morning Sun
Harold Boulton
Soul Conservation at Iowa Fair Shows Simple Festival Pleasures
A country woman invites readers to enjoy festival time across Iowa fairs. The scene features a ferris wheel, midway exhibits, cold drinks, bingo, burgers, dancing, and benches for conversation as crowds savor the big days despite dust and tired feet. Multiple fairs offered.
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Iowa
Farm Choruses to Vie in Iowa State Fair Finals
Eighteen county farm women chorus groups will compete in the state chorus finals at the Iowa State fair directed by Sarah Porter Ellis Ames. Three choirs perform daily at 1115 a m from Friday through Thursday. Choral entrants were chosen in summer sectionals and the Farm Bureau exhibits include entries from Jasper Davis Marion Crawford Fayette Allamakee Clarke Cass among others with twenty seven Farm Bureau women's groups in the projects contest.
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Des Moines
Sarah Porter Ellis
Ames
Farm
Butler
Calhoun
Carroll
Jasper
Benton
van Buren
Page
Madison
Winneshiek
Kossuth
Cee
Buena Vista
Warren
Johnson
Fayette
Wapello
Ringgold
Farm Bureau
Davis
Marion
Crawford
Allamakee
Clarke
Cass
Audubon
Delaware
Fremont
Marshall
Floyd
Clay
Wright
Franklin
Chickasaw
Polk
Scott
Adams
Jones
Appanoose
Story
Hardin
Pottawatomie
Woodbury
Emmet
Louisa County 4 H Girls To Exhibit At State Fair
Louisa county 4 H club girls will exhibit items at Des Moines state fair this year including an interesting center in a girl's room three classes window curtains reclaimed picture frame with picture dresser scarf slip covers for chairs decorative pillow and home furnishing activity poster the Jolly Workers club names include Barbara Lieberknecht Jane Derby Louise Hafner Mary Jane Stodgell Jo Ann Morris Kathleen McCormac Clarlene Werner Inez Mentink and Theda Scales.
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Gazette
Wapello
Louisa County
Des Moines
Barbara Lieberknecht
Jane Derby
Louise Hafner
Maxine Blankenhorn
Theda Scales
Jo Ann Morris
Inez Mentink
Mary Jane Stodgell
Kathleen McCormac
Clarlene Werner
The
Jolly Workers Club
Silo Filling Starts in Troy Mills Area
A soaking rain ends a long drought and heat wave in the Troy Mills area. Farmers report corn damage from the heat and are cutting fodder as silo filling begins this week to store feed.
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Troy Mills
the Gazette
Benton area farm purchases cited at 185 and 175 per acre
Mrs Minnie Knaack and her son Walter, farmers near Van Horne, bought an 86 acre well improved farm four and a half miles northwest of Van Horne from Mrs Anna Johnson Rickette for 185 an acre. They also bought the Jake Meeks 80 acre farm north of Keystone for 175 an acre.
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van Horne
Minnie Knaack
Walter Knaack
Anna Johnson Rickette
Knaack
Jake Meeks
Keystone
Notice of suit to quiet title in Linn County Iowa
In the District Court of Linn County Iowa plaintiff Jane I Whitney sues Paul Kiene and many others for quieting title to described real estate in Linn County Iowa. The petition seeks to establish ownership and bar all unknown claimants by adverse possession and lost deeds, with default set for September 15 1941 if defendants fail to appear.
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District Court of
Iowa
Jane I. Whitney
Paul Kiene
Midland Railway Construction Company
William McQueeen
Mary McQueen
James C. McQueen
Jonya McQueen
James McQueen
J. C. McQueen
John B. McQueen
Huldah L. McQueen
J Wilson Gift
J. W Gift
John W Gift
Sadie J_ Gift
John Lefurry
John Lefurgy
George W. Wilson
Jennie L. Wilson
J. L. Wileson
Horace B. Claflin
Union Investment Company
Otis T. Richmond
P. K. Tinker
John Trulock
Pierre ‘T. Betts
Pierre T Betts
Maria Betts
Maria F Betts
Betts
Mary A. Seat
Maria F. Betts
William C. Betts
James Augustus Betts
James A. Betts
Joseph Trulock
Wm. L. Hill
Catherine Hill
G. W Lovell
G. L. Lovell
Alice Conklin
Verner Conklin
William W. Hill
S. A Sarles
Sarah A Sarles
G. E. Sarles
Mary H Hill
Vincent Hull
Vincent Hill
Sth
Meridan
Linn
District Court
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Iowr
Bie
Rave
Reon
Geo, C
Claassen
Pie Eaters Vie At Tipton Farm Festival Contests
About 300 people attended Tipton Cedar county Farm Bureau sports festival on Saturday. Pie eating with no hands drew crowds as Tipton residents dominated winners across events including kids and adults in dashes high jump football throws and baseball tosses. 4-H clubs competed in softball and rolling pin throws with Cedar Pep 4-H girls edging Cheerio girls in softball while Worsham and Kell led slipper kicking.
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Tipton
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Roger Ruchotzke
Ethel Domer
Don Davidson
Mechanicsville
Ben Penningroth
County Farm Bureau
Kenneth Oldham
Richard Kiser
Wilton Junction
Donald Crock
Merlin Ruchotzke
Peace Penningroth
Luetta Licht
London
Willard Eiler
Marjorie Dickinson
Ivan Crees
Atalissa
Worsham
Mary Johnston
West Liberty
George Worsham
Joy Kell
Cedar Pep
Cheerio
Cheerio Club
Wapsie Workers
George Johnson
Herschel Flater
Notice for Permanent Sidewalks Cedar Rapids 1941
City of Cedar Rapids invites sealed proposals for constructing permanent sidewalks on designated streets. Work starts by September 12, 1941 and ends by October 12, 1941. Proposals opened September 4, 1941 at 10 a.m. Bond required with 10 percent bid.
Cedar Rapids sidewalk order lists numerous property parcels
City Council adopts resolution B-2261 to build permanent sidewalks along multiple blocks in Cedar Rapids Iowa. The list names numerous parcels on Third, Tenth, Fourth, and nearby streets, with blocks and lot numbers under Carpenter's Third addition and related references, in Linn county. The action references ordinance B66 and Code of Iowa 1939 sections, and mentions properties owned by Greene and College, Cobbans and Adams, Bradley and Adams, and others in the planning of sidewalk construction.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Maudem, Krebb
Linn County
Second Avenue
Auditor's Plat
Third Street
Carpenter
Tenth Avenue
Tenth Street
Cobban S
Adams
Bradley
Cobbans
Adam
Greene and College
Fourteenth Espers
Fourteenth Street
First Avenue
Greene and
Colene
Edit
Greene
Ont
Bik & Greene
Colle i
Ttn
Greene and Collex B Avenue
Collexe
Eastern Iowa fairs and 4-H shows this week
Keokuk county fair What Cheer Aug 16 19 Washington 4 H show Washington Aug 18 20 Poweshiek 4 H show Grinnell Aug 18 20 Union district fair West Liberty Aug 18 21 Fayette county fair West Union Aug 18 22 Jones county fair Monticello Aug 19 22 Iowa State Fair Des Moines Aug 20 29
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Iowa
Keokuk County
What Cheer
Washington
Poweshiek
Grinnell
Union District
West Liberty
Fayette County
West Union
Monticello
Des Moines
Johnson County 4-Hers Move Show to All Iowa Fair
Johnson County 4-H livestock youth will exhibit at the All Iowa fair in Cedar Rapids next year instead of the West Liberty fair. County Agent Emmett C. Gardener said premiums were reduced at West Liberty, discouraging Johnson County 4-H stock showings this year.
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Towa City
Johnson County
Cedar Rapids
West Liberty
Emmett C. Gardener
Gardner
Buchanan County Fair reports 1400 paid admissions and total premiums
Secretary O Gates of the Buchanan county fair association said the fair closed Friday night with 1400 paid admissions. Total premiums reached 4600 dollars, with 4-H premiums totaling 735 dollars. The fair paid 1000 dollars for labor.
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Independence
B. O. Gates
Buchanan County Fair Association
Cedar Rapids sidewalk plan affects Greenes and College blocks
The city orders permanent sidewalks on Cedar Rapids streets including Greene and College blocks and Original Town areas. Notices will publish in two Gazette issues with final date September 4 1941 for property owner permits and construction to start by September 15 1941. The City Clerk and Mayor certify the ordinance and plan.
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Fifteenth Street
Greene and College
B Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Fourth Avenue
Idlewild
Fourteenth Avenue
J C. May
J. C. May
Twelfth Avenue
Fourth Street
Stibbs
First Avenue
Seventh Street
Eighth Street
Sixth Street
Town Street
Fifth Avenue
Wellington Place
Wellington
Seventh Avenue
Sixth Avenue
Second Street
Mansfield
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Towa
Maude M. Krebs
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Wayne Johnson
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