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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1937
Page
28
Domestic raw wool stocks remain below average with fairly favorable demand. Consumption of apparel wool by U S mills in the first eight months of 1937 rose 8 percent from 1936, the largest eight month total since 1923.
Edgar Beach manager for the Maquoketa Valley Rural Electrification project said four southwest Jones county townships Fairview Greenfield Rome and Jackson have had construction released to the contractor. Poles are arriving and pole holes prepared with work expected to start early this week.
Public sale of farm items announced with bidding details and terms. Auctioneers A T Bere listed with date and car sale conditions. Several garbled lines reference farm goods and participants, inviting bidders to attend and review terms before sale.
Secretary of Agriculture Thomay L. Curran invites dairy industry interests to a Des Moines statehouse meeting to discuss establishing a state milk control board in Iowa.
The Iowa County Warehouse Board selects corn sealers for the 2028 program. Meetings cover testing of grading standards, farm bureau participation, and upcoming projects in Sumner, Lenox, Washington, and nearby townships with multiple school and local official notices.
A reflective prose piece extols the peaceful beauty of Iowa county timbered hills. The observer contemplates divine creation and seeks capacity for appreciation as he travels winding roads at dusk seeking worthiness of nature's gift.
The Independence Chamber of Commerce directors voted to pay 7 cents a bushel above market price for corn entered on the Corn Festival Day October 22. Payment will be in scrip usable with Chamber members for purchases on festival day, the rate reduced from 10 cents due to a recent drop in corn prices.
A guidered market note records buyers and sellers in Chicago where sixty head of 192 pound hogs were marketed at a price of 1105 dollars per hundredweight.
The county husking contest at DeWitt tested eight participants over eighty minutes under cloudy skies. Clarence Gartman of Elwood won with 2 222 pounds or 31.75 bushels, edging Erwin Meier and Ben Wulf among others. first prize was 25 dollars with total prizes 50 dollars.
The first two county husking meets in Iowa progress toward the state championship set for near Oskaloosa on Nov 2. Carl Carlson of Audubon eyes to defend his state title while Elmer Carlson, Audubon’s younger brother and 1935 national champ, aims for a comeback. Eastern Iowa meets are listed with Cedar Bluffs, Belle Plaine, Independence, Fayette, Montezuma, Keokuk, and Wilton areas among sites.
Stanwood farmer Lucien Burgess sold a 69 acre unimproved tract to Mrs. Tom Woods and Mrs. Bessie Decker of Clarence for 7800 dollars, about 112 dollars per acre. The land will remain under Burgess management as an investment and will be operated by his son.
Farmers like James Hoben receive five dollars per ton for pumpkins sent to a Muscatine canning plant. No crops are under contract and pumpkins are smaller this year. One ton yields about twenty to twenty three canned cases. Fall alfalfa seedings are good but webworms threaten some fields. Corn husking advances with many mechanical pickers. Riley Slocum reports seven hundred bushels daily. A Wednesday night freeze ends truck crops. Apples and pears are harvested but yields are light.
West Liberty fair association elected Leslie Steen president and M A Hemmingway vice president at the annual meeting. Ivan Noland became treasurer, D C Hazlett marshal, six directors reelected for two years, and Wilbert Ruess assigned to fill Dr L A Royal’s term. A $253 treasurer balance was reported. Delates to the State fair managers’ meeting were appointed for Des Moines in December.
Three tons of straw, ninety three bales, were loaded on a wagon at the William Janss farm three miles south of Troy Mills. Baling was done by O. R. Kramer and Son. Other local farmers baled straw this fall. in the photo are Edmond Cook, Sport the dog, Mr. Janss, Wilbur Keller, Marle Kramer, on the road, Clare Washburn and Wayne Baty by the wagon.
Burris S. Brown closes out at Center Point. J. Sueppel Hampshire sale at Mount Vernon and Manchester livestock auction listings include Tuesday auction events across several towns.
Advertisement lists sales for a 165 acre Dumond estate farm two miles west of Toddville, a Bert Miller Duroc Jersey sale in Lisbon, and a Holstein and Guernsey cattle consignment sale in West Union on Wednesday October 20.
On Thursday October 21 Joe Vosmek completed a 114 mile trek south of Toddville marking the end of his eventful journey. The route took him through rural roads as onlookers tracked the final miles and noted his endurance.
Saturday October 23 schedule lists E. E. Reynolds 189 acre farm four miles northeast of Alburnett. J. J. McCune Aberdeen Angus sale in Williamsburg. Friday November 5 G A Alden eighty acre farm one hundred fifty four miles north Springville.
At least twenty Fayette county farmers will attend the agricultural hearing before a senate committee in Sioux City October 18 to 20. Attendees include J F Wilkinson J R Wood W S Rothlisberger Harold Brownell L D Hitch Harry L Olesen I F Shaffer Kenneth Kerr A C Nesbit J F Pet ratz Ed Treptow Chris Decker Carl Miehe Ed Meyer George Platt E D James Herbert Meisgeier Harry Nus and County Agent Paul McElroy.
John Mommsen sold yearlings near Miles in a Chicago sale, achieving a new October record at $19.15 per head for a load of 1,063-pound Angus cattle.
Iowa farmers gather in Sioux City for a mass meeting before a U S Senate agricultural committee hearing on farm proposals. Farmers from Iowa Nebraska Minnesota and South Dakota join to present a unified plan guiding forthcoming farm legislation. The Farm Bureau seeks extended time for its views as Midwest agricultural groups organize the event led by Milford S Beeghly with Senator Harrington arranging the hearing to be led by Chairman George McGill and ending around October 21.
Drainage district officials will discuss raising funds for pumping operations in districts 13 across Muscatine and Louisa counties. Property owners will be asked to contribute toward next year’s pumping costs during a joint supervisors meeting on Oct. 20 in Wapello.
Government livestock experts forecast a notable rise in lambs for market in 1937 38. The Corn Belt and Texas will increase lamb feeding while western states shrink. Texas usual grass fat yearlings and large Texas lamb movements shift to other states, with feeder lambs moving to Iowa Missouri Illinois Indiana and Ohio.
ANAMOSA The Jones county 4-H boys fall frolic and recognition program will be a father and son banquet at Martelle the evening of Oct 21. Theme is the Big Roundup with talks by Dale Newman W D McLaughlin president Jones county Farm Bureau Delbert Grafft J S Quist Ames assistant state club leader Carl Smith county agent Edwin Andrews Irvin Sievers president Jones county boys 4 H clubs Ed Helgens county 4 H chairman Ray Sorensen Jones club agent toasts master.
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