Iowa Butter Leads New York Market In 1934 Throughput
New York City reports 1934 butter receipts from Iowa total 79,305,433 pounds, a dip from 83,752,200 in 1933. All sources delivered 263,256,521 pounds, the lightest since 1928. May was the heaviest month, November the lightest. Iowa remains top egg supplier to New York with 1,083,351 cases, while Pacific coast shipments fall sharply with California at 926,099 and Washington at 652,548 cases.
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York City
Iowa
New York
Minnesota
New Zealand
Canada
London
Pacific Coast
New Jersey
Chicago
California
Washington
Plager Reports 150 Cars Shipped To Drought Areas
Plager field chief of the conservation program says Illinois Minnesota and Iowa sent 150 carloads of forage to drought regions. Northern Iowa led shipments with mostly stover and little fodder. He expects a rise to 40 carloads daily and notes 24 carloads ordered in Grundy County and Black Hawk totaling about 100 carloads.
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Waterloo
Grundy
Fence Drift Caught in the Woven Wire
A foggy Monday night scene reports a fence drift trapping traffic on a side road. Slippery conditions, ruts, and poor traction raise crash risks as field men and officials contend with the obstruction and the troublesome rats.
Caves Considered For Roquefort Style Cheese Production
Minnesota College of Agriculture officials report caves in the Mississippi river sandstone near St Paul suitable for Roque fort cheese aging. The McGregor area, once used by local brewers to age lager, hosts preserved white sandstone caves with deep seamates. Nearby cheese factories in Allamakee Clayton and Winnebago counties ship cheese to Wisconsin storage plants for aging.
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Mcgregor
Minnesota College of Agriculture
Mississippi River
St. Paul
McGregor Brewing Companies
Ils
Allamakee
Clayton
Winneshiek
Mississippi
Wisconsin
Smith Elected President of Maynard Creamery
Smith Elected President of Maynard Creamery at the Harlan Co operative Creamery annual meeting. Ecker, Harrison, Sewell re-elected directors with Ingels and Malvern newly elected directors. Harmison and Patsy were principal speakers.
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Maynard
Iowa Farm Bureau to Convene in Williamsburg
Allan B. Kline and Benton county Farm Bureau officials will speak at the Benton county unit annual meeting in Williamsburg January 22. Officer elections are set as the main agenda item for the gathering at the Williamsburg venue.
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Lowa Co. Farm Bureau
Williamsburg
Allan B
Kline
Benton County
Burenut
Towa County Farm Bureau
Preston
Feeders Top At $7.15 In Maquoketa Cattle Sale
Maquoketa cattle sale drew a roughly 400 head offering at Bowman sales barn Saturday afternoon. Feeder cattle traded up to 7.15 dollars per hundredweight for eight hundred pound lots, with prices ranging from six to seven dollars.
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Maquoketa
Sueteen
Bowman
Delaware Farmers Adopt Resolutions at County Meeting
At the Delaware County Farm Bureau annual meeting in Manchester resolutions praised tax relief on land and officials, urged extension of Iowa land foreclosure moratorium, and debated a corn and hog program clause. Ray Glen was elected president. Warren Winch vice president. Harry Logan secretary. Lawrence Gienapp treasurer. Maude Boyland named 4-H girls chairman. Benj in Jaycox voting delegate. Joseph Herman service company rep. Allan B. Kline spoke.
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Manchester
Delaware County Farm Bureau
National Farm Bureau
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Ray Glen
Delhi
Warren Winch
Hopkinton
Harry Logan
Lawrence Gienapp
Oneida
Muscatine County Farm Bureau Elects New Officers
Fred Otto of Muscatine was elected president and W. C. Anderson of West Liberty became vice-president at the annual meeting. Austin Hoopes was named secretary and Merrill Satterthwaite treasurer. Mrs. K L McColm Letts took county chair, with Mrs. W W Legler Letts as vice-chairman and Mrs. E P Corwin Fruitland as secretary and treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Fred Otto
Muscatine County
Fruitland
Earl Lindle
Atalissa
Carl LeSever
January Quieted Farm Life Amid Lenten Snow Scenes
A country woman's diary reflects on quiet housework after children return to school and heavy fog. Snow melts revealing bare pastures as cattle fade into the yard. she tends hyacinths, reads Bess Streeter Aldrich, and notes lil mind January hardly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Breen
Kraschel Outlines 3-Point Plan For Iowa Agriculture
Lt. Gov. Kraschel proposed a long range Iowa plan to remove about 3,000,000 acres from cultivation and make the state self sufficient in food. The plan includes expanding pork packing, grazing southern farms, and planting marginal land to trees for parks. He urged cooperation with the federal conservation program and stronger state planning to guide future legislatures.
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Cedar Falls
INS
Iowa
N. G. Kraschel
Farm Credit Association
Kraschel
Iowa Packer
Rocky Mountain
Iowa State Planning Board
State Planning Board
18 Months of High Hog Prices Forecast Ames
The January Agricultural Economic Facts from Ames Extension predicts hog prices will stay high for 18 months. Iowa hog production drops to 40 percent of 1933 farrowings, with tighter slaughter supplies through summer 1936 and strong pressure for farmers to breed more sows for 1935 and 1936 pig crops.
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Ames
Ames Extension Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Central City Creamery Pays 35c For Butterfat
Patrons of the Farmers' Mutual Creamery in Central City received 35 cents a pound for the butterfat from the first half of December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central City Creamery
Sprefal
Central City
Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Company
Postville Buyer Converts Brickyard Into Feed Yard
E J Handy, a live stock buyer, has leased the HOH Douglass brickyard and is converting it into a feeding and conditioning yard. He plans to import cattle from outside points and feed and fit them for market.
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Postville
E J Handy
Hoh Douglass
Delmar Shippers Name Frank Ebersole President
DELMAR Frank Ebersole was elected president of the Farmers' Shipping association Monday afternoon in its annual election. Other officers include T. J Costello as vice president Paul Heneke secretary and treasurer A J Zismer shipping manager and P H D Zismer Harry Petersen and Eugene Romer as directors. The 1934 car shipments were three fewer than the year before.
Soy Beans Bring $1.50 In Vicinity Of Dysart
Approximately 700 bushels of soy bean seed grown near Dysart are trucked to a seed house at Story City by Walter Miller. Purchase price was $150 a bushel.
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Dysart
Story City
Walter Miller
Dam work continues on Wapsi river project
Fourteen men work six days a week on a dam across the Wapsi pinicon river. Begun last June, completion is expected by April 1. The project is sponsored by the Towa fish and game commission as a PWA project with L. C. Stearns of the state biological survey assisting Engineer R. W. Gearhart.
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Quasqueton
Wapsipinicon River
Towa Fish and Game Commission
PWA
L. C Stearns
The
State Biological Survey
R.W. Gearhart
Lost 4 Year Old Found By Police Before Dad Reports Her Missing
Four year old Betty Shaffer was found by police wandering near Tenth avenue and Third street SE carrying a quart bottle of milk. Dad LaVerne Shaffer arrived at 3 p.m. to report her missing, but the child was already in the matron's quarters.
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Dad
Betty Shaffer
LaVerne Shaffer
Eleventh Avenue SE
Tenth Avenue
Third Street SE
Wills of Julia Smith and Mary Parker Bishop Probated
Julia A. Smith died Dec 30 and Mary Parker Bishop died Dec 16. In district court Judge A B Clark admitted Smith will made May 10 1929 leaving James P Smith life estate and residuary legatees including Ruby Truesdell and Lester Smith with D H Smith executor. Parker Bishop will made March 24 1923 leaves grant S Bishop husband sisters Hattie Shunk Lizzie Meeker and Ruth Hunter with Grant S Bishop as executor.
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Julia Smith
Mary Parker-Bishop
Julia A. Smith
A. B. Clark
Smith
James P. Smith
Ruby Truesdell
David Louis Smith
Minnie Burnside
Maud Jessie
Ida Smith
Lester Smith
D. H Smith
Mary Parker
Marion
Desertion case yields withheld sentence for Elmer A. Kurt
Elmer A. Kurt of Marion received a withheld indeterminate one year sentence at Fort Madison state penitentiary for desertion. Judge F. O. Ellison presided in district court Tuesday morning. Kurt’s commitment was withheld after he signed a $500 support bond while Deputy Sheriff Richard Payn escorted him to court.
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Elmer A. Kurt
Marion
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
F. O. Ellison
Kurt
Richard Payn
Iowa Supreme Court Upholds Accident Award for Stingley
The Iowa supreme court affirmed an $870.70 personal injury judgment against William C. and Mildred Crawford of Cedar Rapids in a suit filed by Velenda Stingley after an auto accident. The suit, seeking $10 077.20, was heard in district court with a 1933 Oct 24 jury verdict. The Crawfords appealed.
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Iowa Supreme Court
Velenda Stingley
William C
Mildred Crawford
Cedar Rapids
Stingley
Crawfords
Births Reported For A. Ast rasky And John W Barry Jr
A daughter was born January 5 to Mr and Mrs A Ast rasky at 1512 Sixth Street NW. Another daughter named Jean Louise was born January 8 to Mr and Mrs John W Barry Jr at 210 Twenty third Street Drive SE and St Luke's Hospital.
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A. Astrosky
Sixth Street
John W. Barry, Jr
Twenty-third Street Drive
Jean Louise
St. Luke's Hospital
Farm Auctions Scheduled Early January Sales
Public sale listings include Mrs. Alice Farnsworth five miles east of Marion and S. E. Arbingast two miles northeast of Lisbon on Wednesday January 9. Thursday January 10 features K. W. Brandt six miles northeast of Keystone. Tuesday January 15 hosts Penn's dairy cattle sale at Mount Vernon.
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Alice Farnsworth
Marion
S. E. Arbingast
Lisbon
K. W. Brandt
Keystone
Penn
Mount Vernon
Ellison Farm Sells For 77 50 An Acre
Mount Vernon lumber dealer Charles Hedges bought the 240 acre W G Ellison estate farm two miles northeast of Mount Vernon in Linn Grove for 77 50 an acre. Ottis Ellison, administrator, represented the heirs. Possession passes March 1. The farm is well improved with four recorded transfers in the chain.
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Mount Vernon
Charles Hedges
W. G. Ellison
Linn Grove
Ottis Ellison
Sam Ellison
City Briefs And Personal News Roundup
Loans of 50 to 500 to 5000 advertised. Mrs W A Suthers 1406 Sixth Ave SE undergone major operation at St Luke s hospital. H B Dickerson Mount Vernon Rd at 43rd St SE reported beef theft Monday night. Fred C Sorenson 402 Sixth St SW and F H Davis Cedar Rapids were fined 2 and costs for parking offenses. El Kahir temple Shrine annual meeting Wednesday 7 30 with officer elections and reports. Lloyd Matheny Alburnett waived to grand jury on desertion charge and released on bond. Fred Walton Des Moines to install Cedar Rapids Lodge 278 AOUW officers today 8 pm Moose Hall. Daniels Park Presbyterian aid society meeting moved to Mrs E Dailey 894 Daniels St NE.
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el Kahir
Lloyd Matheny
Alburnett
Justice A. S. Reed
Fred Walton
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Moose Hall
Aid Society of the
Daniels Park Presbyterian Church
Ira Whitman
Daniels Street
E. C. Dailey
St John’s Parish Meeting Set for Wednesday Evening
St John’s church schedules its annual parish meeting for Wednesday evening with supper at 6 15 p m served by a joint committee of St John’s guild St Elizabeth’s guild and St Margaret’s Altar guild Reports will follow and the vestry will be elected for 1935.
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St. John's Church
St. John's Guild
St. Elizabeth's Guild
St. Margaret's Altar Guild
Old Age Assistance training session in Cedar Rapids
East central Iowa investigators will attend a school of instruction at the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday at 9 30 a m. C Johnson of Des Moines will direct the session. The Linn county office will be closed all day Wednesday because of the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Age Assistance Commission
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Accused Of Injury To Building in City Parlor
Ralph Robovsky of 1007 Sixth Street SE appeared before Justice Reed on a charge of malicious injury to a building filed by J L Prochaska. He allegedly threw an ice chunk through a window at the Silver Palace beer parlor's south end. The case was dismissed after Robovsky settled the window damage Tuesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Robovsky
Sixth Street
Justice A. S. Reed
J. L. Prochaska
Robovsky
Silver Palace
South End
Ed Reed Fined for Assault and Battery in Local Case
Ed Reed was fined $10 plus costs by Justice A. S. Reed after a fight with John Erceg. the fine was suspended on payment of costs. Reed was arrested by Constable John Taylor. Everett Brady faced larceny charges for taking a sheep skin coat from O. J. Smith.
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Ed Reed
John Erceg
Justice A. S. Reed
Reed
John Taylor
Everett Brady
O. J. Smith
Ed J. Clapp Appointed Sales Manager at New Process Co
Appointment of Ed J. Clapp of 412 Twenty sixth Street SE as sales manager of The New Process Laundry Co. announced Tuesday. Clapp, a University of Iowa commerce graduate, previously worked with a local department store and now directs laundry and dry cleaning sales for commercial and family service departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed J. Clapp
Twenty-sixth Street
New Process Laundry Company
College of Commerce
University of Iowa
Clapp
New Process Company
Defendant to Be Heard Over Coat Debt Dispute
Brady requested a hearing before Justice Reed scheduled for 1 30 p m Wednesday. He claims to have traded a spit of clothes for a coat and owed a small balance last Thursday but could not pay and promised Smith payment this week.
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Reed
Brady
Smith
Evangelical Clergyman to Speak Each Evening This Week
The Rev. I. L. Baumgartner of First Evangelical church will speak at 7 30 each evening this week at Second Evangelical church on Eighteenth avenue at Ninth street SW. The public is invited to attend.
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I. L. Baumgartner
First Evangelical Church
Second Evangelical Church
Eighteenth Avenue
Ninth Street
Canopus Club Installs New Officers At Luncheon
New Canopus club officers were installed at a Hotel Roosevelt luncheon. Stanley Moore serves as president with V Lenzen as vice president and James E Patterson as secretary treasurer. Directors include Ariel Angott Paul Beddell Dr Hoyt Thomas G W Vincent and Henry Gundling.
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Canopus Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Stanley Moore
V. Lenzen
James E. Patterson
Ariel Angott
Paul Bedell
Hoyt Thomas
G. W. Vincent
Henry Gundling
District Judge rings at Cedar Rapids traveling men dinner
District Judge H. C. Ring will deliver the principal address at the annual Cedar Rapids Traveling Men's club dinner Friday at 6 30 p.m. at the Elks club. Howard H. Hahn, president, will give a brief address. Other officers listed include J. W. Thompson Burt Day Peter Bailey Walter Workman A. E. Chase Lew Zalesky Emil Pazdera and Joe Danziger.
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H. C. Ring
Cedar Rapids
Traveling Men's Club
Elks Club
Howard H. Hahn
J. W. Thompson
Burt Day
Peter Bailey
Walter Workman
A. E. Chase
Lew Zalesky
Emil Pazdera
Joe Danziger
Linn County Leads Urban Areas in Old Age Pension Tax
The 1934 old age assistance tax collection shows Linn County at 76.30 percent, Bremer at 90.34 percent, and Pottawattamie at 39.61 percent. Total fund receipts reached 1,004,403 from 1,460,929 taxpayers statewide with 52,641 in Linn and 41,305 in Pottawattamie. Polk County averaged 61.51 percent.
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Towa
Linn County
Leo J. Wegman
Bremer County
Pottawattamie County
Polk County
Hearing Planned on Cedar Rapids Iowa City Truck Line
The Town railroad commission will hold a 10 a m hearing in Iowa City on the White Line certificate to operate trucking between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City linking with Davenport Des Moines. A parallel hearing at Marengo will review Iowa Freight Lines for Cedar Rapids to Sigourney route and connections to Ottumwa, Oskaloosa. Harry F Sundberg of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce will attend with local business reps.
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Town Railroad Commission
Court House
Iowa City
White Line
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Des Moines
Oxford
Muscatine
Marengo
Iowa Freight Lines
Sigourney
Ottum
Mix Best Cough Remedy At Home Easy Big Saving
A home cough remedy promising rapid relief with a simple syrup made from two cups sugar and one cup water, then adding 24% ounces of Pinex to make a pint. It claims superior effectiveness to store bought medicines, long shelf life, strong soothing effects, and a money back guarantee.
Dairy Milk Price Dispute Ends in Public Standoff
dairy producers and distributors clash over a $2 per hundredweight price as milk deliveries continue at the same time some producers claim they will not halt supply. Distributors warn higher costs and possible outside sourcing if talks fail, while prospects of a retail price war loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Valley
Co-op
Marriage Licenses Reported in Cedar Rapids Area
William Rossey of Cedar Rapids and Meahcaba Habhab of Fort Dodge. Jay D. King and Marie L. Gray, Cedar Rapids. Ernest Buelow and Pauline Robertson, Central City. Russell E. Beck and Gertrude Burge, Tipton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Rossey
Cedar Rapids
Meahcaba Habhab
Fort Dodge
Jay D. King
Marie L. Gray
Ernest Buelow
Pauline Robertson
Central City
Russell E. Beck
Gertrude Burge
Tipton
Oslo home of Roald Amundsen Becomes National Shrine
The residence of famed explorer Roald Amundsen in Oslo Norway has been elevated to a national shrine drawing visitors and scholars alike to reflect on his polar expeditions and pioneering navigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raald Amundsen
Oslo
Norway
Rheumatism Relief With Gly-Cas Prompts Local Praise
Mrs. T P Barnes of Newton Iowa credits Gly-Cas with rapid relief from years of rheumatism kidney issues and digestive distress after a 30 day trial. She says stomach and kidneys stabilized and toxins eliminated leaving her greatly relieved and energetic. Gly-Cas sold by Thrifty Drug Store.
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First Street
Third Avenue SE
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Larry Condon
Alice M Hall
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Eighteenth Judicial District
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C. T. Doolittle
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Morris Plan
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Sixth Avenue SE
St. Luke’s Hospital
H. B. Dickerson
Mount Vernon Road
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F. H. Davis
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St. John’s Parish
Justice Reed
NEW Process CO
Second Evangelical
Linn
T. P. Barnes
Newton
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