Cornell College Chapbook Series Publishes Student Poems
Edward Weismiller, a Cornell senior from Appleton Wisconsin, plans to author edit design typeset and bind his own chapbook The Windy Miles Upward for Mount Vernon college this fall. The series emphasizes craft with student labor 250 hours monthly and prints by Hill side press owner Art Rogers.
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Nique
Edward Weismiller
Cornel
Appleton
Wis
College
Mount Vernon
Yale Press
Weismuiller
Canal Zone
Federal Student Relief Employment Administration
Art Rogers
Hillside Press
Tull
Rogers
Louise Rich
Lee, Ill
Cornell
SRE
Clifford Benton
Glen Ellyn
Ill
Bill Dean
Carroll
Lois Miller
Vinton
Yale
Iowa
Alma Broulck Carlin
Lisbon
Winifred Mayne van Etten
Am the Fox
Weismiller
Maquoketa Completes Waterworks Upgrade With New Wells
Maquoketa nears completion of a municipal waterworks project funded in part by a government grant. Two 500 gpm turbine pump houses, an elevated 250000 gallon double ellipsoidal tank, and new chlorinators will feed mains from two new wells. The $47,000 project includes flood protection adds and remote control pumps.
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Maquoketa
PWA
McCutcheon Well Company
Des Moines
Bluff
Spe
Patek
Main
North Summit
Otto Street
CCC
Pisa
Plans for 4th District Legion Session in Independence
Independence prepares for the Fourth district conference of the American Legion auxiliary with attendees including state and district leaders. A corn husking contest, decorations for the corn festival, and a full Thursday program conclude with a joint banquet and evening dance at the Gedney hotel and St John’s church auditorium.
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Brecial
Independence
American Legion Auxiliary
James I. Dolliver
Fort Dodge
R. J. Laird
Harold Gaunitz
Lansing
Frank Miles
Iowa Legionaire Auxiliary
M. L. Northrop
Des Moines
Merton Shelley
Iowa Auxiliary
Dora James Thorn
Gedney Hotel
St John’s Church
Washington Co.'s Largest Barn Nears Completion
The Henry Berdo farm barn seven miles northwest of Washington is touted as the county’s largest. Measuring 38 by 78 feet with sheds, it includes stalls for livestock, a ground floor for horses and cows, pens for sows, and stock cattle mangers. Loft space holds 3,800 bushels of corn, 4,000 of oats, and 60 to 70 tons of hay with multiple grain vents. The main structure rises 16 feet to the eaves and 47 feet to the peak, rebuilt after two barns burned in August, at a cost of about $5,000.
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Washington
Henry Berdo
Washington County
Government Will Buy Storage Eggs
New York City reports the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation will purchase storage eggs. Trades expect sizable orders in lots of one to ten cars, aiming to ease a demoralized market as heavy storage holdings limit movement and influence on fresh egg values. Butter and poultry markets show mixed shifts amid stock adjustments and ongoing demand.
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New York City
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
New Zealand
New England
Government buys eggs to aid farmer prices
The federal government spent about 285000 dollars last week to purchase 1265040 dozen eggs. The purchase aims to lift prices for farmers and the eggs will be given to state agencies for free distribution to relief clients.
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Washington
Women Plan E Iowa Federation For Churches
The meeting in Lowden gathered Evangelical and Reformed church women from Tipton Bennett Wilton Junction Wheatland Lowden and Clarence to explore uniting into a regional federation. Guest speaker Mrs Elsa Rickenbach of St Louis spoke on federation and a committee nominated temporary officers with Mrs A L Mensing Lowden slated as president.
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Lowden
Evangelical and Reformed
Tipton
Bennett
Wilton Junction
Wheatland
Clarence
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
Ladies Aid
St. John Evangelical Church of
Elsa Rickenbach
St. Louis
Women's Union of the Evangelical Churches of the Missouri Synod
F. J. Abele
London
Karl Fauth
L. Gunneman
J. Neugard
Ladies Aid of
Erwin Butterbredt
Benpent
Hugo Rix
Gus Alberts
Norman Bope
W H Hominghausen
J Neugard
F J Abele
A L. Mensing
Church union talks set after officers named
Mrs Norma Dettmann of Clarence is vice president along with Mrs Lane Strack bein Lowden as secretary and Mrs H G Hominghausen Wheatland as financial secretary. Others are Mrs William Rix Clarence treasurer and Rev F J Abele Lowden with Rev L Gunneman Tipton as pastoral advisers. They will fix the date of the next meeting where the proposed union into a federation will be decided.
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Norma Dettmann
Clarence
Lane Strackbein
Lowden
H. G. Hominghausen
Wheatland
William Rix
F. J. Abele
L. Gunneman
Tipton
1938 Farm Program for Jackson County Outlined
Special to The Gasette Maquoketa delegates from four farm groups drafted a 1938 soils program for Jackson county. Goals include 24 community meetings, 10 group discussions, two field tours, soil erosion exhibits in five towns, conservation talks with eight service groups, 200 publicity items, letters to non operating landowners, school and 4 H cooperation, and 25 new leaders. Conservation targets cover lime spreading to 50 000 tons, 2000 of 2400 farms adopting good crop rotation, field stripping and contour cultivation on 75 farms, grassed waterways on 2000 farms, cover crops on 400 farms, gullies dammed on 100 farms, tree planting on 50 farms, and wildlife fencing on 50 farms.
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Maquoketa
Jackson County
Henry Schumann
Jackson County Farm Bureau
F. E. Krause
Charles van Gorder
Jackson County Agricultural Conservation Association
M. W. Joiner
Jackson County Soils Improvement Association
W.A. Edwards
James Halasey
Marion
S.C.S
Lester Clapp
Ames
W. L. Watkins
Soils Division
Ames Extension Service
Soils Conservation Service
Farm Bureau
Hampshire hogs Bring $11.16 at Jackson county sale
Carl Mardorf of the Jackson county feeder region received 11.10 per hundredweight Thursday for a load of seventy five 210 pound Hampshire hogs.
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Maquoreta
Carl Mardorf
Jackson County
Hampshire
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