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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1938
Page
4
A federal report shows butter in cold storage reached 201,543,000 pounds as of Sept 1, the highest on record. Cheese, meats, pork, lard, beef, lamb, poultry, eggs and other dairy items also show varied August to September changes with June purchases influencing totals.
A series of joint vocational agriculture district conferences and Future Farmers of America leadership conferences is scheduled across Iowa from Sept. 17 to Oct. 15, with events in Rockwell City Tipton Atlantic Decorah and Grinnell on specified dates.
Special to The Gazette reports heavy rain across areas from West Union to Edgewood. Corn and soybeans show mixed effects with earlier harvests delayed by persistent storms. Lightning damages farms near Oelwein and Edgewood, destroying barns and injuring livestock and equipment.
Farmers around Clarence fear mechanical pickers will struggle this year as heavy rains have caused corn to lean. A weekend storm brought hail to portions of the area.
Robert C. Clark, exten sion rural sociologist at Ohio State university, named in charge of rural young people's work in the Iowa State college extension service. Clark has guided rural youth in Ohio since 1936 and received a master's degree in June.
John Haack marketed a load of choice steers in Chicago on Monday. The cattle averaged 1224 pounds and sold for 12.85 per hundredweight.
Farmer Lyle Sutton delivered the largest drove of hogs from his Delhi area farm to Cedar Rapids packing plants. About 800 head weighed 276 pounds average and sold at $9.10 per hundredweight, generating a check exceeding $20,000 for 584 hogs delivered by Tuesday noon.
A series of auctions announced for September include feeder consignments at Beverly on Thursday the 15th, a general consignment sale at Iowa Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids on Friday the 16th, and Mathis Brothers closing out near Vinton 44 miles southeast of Cedar Rapids on Tuesday the 20th.
The Cedar Valley Veterinary Association met in Waterloo to discuss sleeping sickness in horses. Dr H E Biester of the Ames research staff advocated the chick embryo vaccine as a preventive measure. Other speakers included H A Seidell Des Moines W H Ahlers Dubuque P V Neuzil Blairstown A R Menary and J I Gibson Cedar Rapids C C Graham Wellsburg.
James D. Helmick topped the Louisa County Beef Producers Association guessing contest by estimating September first week cattle price at 13 dollars per hundredweight. The actual price was 13.35, with most guesses below 10 dollars.
About 100 Iowa hybrid corn producers attended the annual Corn Breeding Field Day at the Ames Agricultural Experiment Station on Tuesday. Demonstration blocks were inspected and seed production problems discussed while luncheons featured W. H. Pierre E. W. Lindstrom R. W. Jugenheimer and M. T. Jenkins. A second tour occurred Monday.
Miss Fannie Gannon Ames home management specialist leads a week of home project teas across Buchanan county with sessions in Independence for Fairbank Hazleton Perry and Washington townships Lamont for Buffalo Byron Fremont and Madison Quasqueton for Middlefield Newton Cone and Liberty and Independence for Westbury Sumner Jefferson and Homer.
Ames extension soil conservationist W. F. Watkins has been named to a federal position with the Soil Conservation Service in Washington D C. He will be succeeded by Lester E. Clapp as assistant state coordinator in the Soil Conservation Service per an Iowa State College announcement Tuesday.
A two day demonstration of electrical equipment for farm homes and buildings is scheduled for October 3 and 4 on the N. C. Holst farm east of Center Junction. The event is sponsored by the Maquoketa Valley Rural Electrification association.
In Tall Corn, West Union, Henry Nehring displays a hybrid corn stalk standing eleven feet six inches tall. The first ear hangs six feet eight inches above ground and the second at seven feet four inches, prompting jokes about giant harvest crews or ladders to reach the crop.
Fayette county 4-H exhibitors will display 30 purebred dairy heifers at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress from Sept 25 to Oct 2. Entries include Guernseys, Holsteins, Jerseys, and Brown Swiss with noted exhibitors and a county judging team led by Dean Platt, Elwood Mabon, Warren Severs, and Robert Adams.
Anamosa hosts a Jones test associations tour and cattle judging contest on September 22 starting 12 30 p m at the state reformatory farm. Judges from both associations will form a team to compete at the Waterloo Cattle congress with stops at the farms of Byerly Latta and Mes serli and Thomas.
John Jansen drove a 977 pound load of yearling steers to Chicago for the Monday market. The cattle topped the weight class at 12 dollars per hundredweight, selling for the top price.
Production gains top the Fayette County Cow Test association No. 3 for the year ended Aug 31 with King and Kiederlen herd leading at 135 pounds butterfat increase. Average on 360 cows was 8713 pounds milk and 335.9 pounds butterfat with high performers listed.
Spring bloom reported on the Jess Zbornik farm southwest of Randalia with an apple tree snowball and bridal wreath bush in bloom. Wholesale food prices across seven nations, in pre war gold terms, rose to 226 in 1919 then drifted to two thirds above and two thirds below pre war by 1929. Notice of hearing on frotoed plans specifies sanitary sewers in Cedar Rapids Iowa with cost estimated at 7301.83 and outlines streets to be affected and invitation for objections. City Clerk L J Storey signs the notice dated September 12 1938. published in the Cedar Rapids Gazette September 13 and 14 1938.
Sealed proposals to furnish material and labor for curb and gutter on 18th Avenue Southwest Cedar Rapids Iowa from 6th to 9th Street. Work to begin by October 6 1938 and finish by November 6 1938 with payment in assessment certificates. bids opened September 1938. 10 percent certified checks required. City reserves right to reject all bids.
McGregor IA. The school board accepted the resignation of R D Noble as superintendent and elected James Broderick the new superintendent. Broderick has served as high school principal for eleven years, succeeding Noble who departs for Oelwein after eight years in McGregor.
O. J. Smith, 52, of Toddville, charged with reckless driving after a freak August 31 crash where his truck hit a California car and ended in the Bemis Food shop window. He was fined $10 and costs, with the charge reduced to operating a motor vehicle with faulty brakes on the assistant city solicitor’s recommendation.
A general bread price drop from 12 to 10 cents for 20 ounce loaves took effect in the east as a bumper wheat crop reduces costs. Local cuts appeared in Boston Rochester Buffalo Albany and Syracuse with varied reductions. New York City lowered 18 ounce loaves from 11 to 10 cents and may drop to 9, saving consumers about 5.5 million dollars annually.
City of Cedar Rapids Iowa announces a resolution of necessity to construct sanitary sewers on 30th 31st and 33rd Street Southeast and related streets. Public hearing set for September 29 1938 at 10 AM at City Hall with objections to assessments and plans to be filed by property owners.
Bruce A Davies departs Mount Vernon avenue SE for Elgin Iowa to become sales manager for a signal company. Families from Cedar Rapids, Fairfax and Protovia travel to visit Father Sindelar’s friends and relatives. Eli Boudwin and Bernard O Brien receive 30 day floater sentences for vagrancy after a Monday arrest. J C Shelton pays 25 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to disturbing the peace. St Gertrudes circle of St Matthew s church hosts a dessert bridge at 1261 Elmhurst drive NE hosted by Mrs Ray C Phelan. Calvary Baptist church Bible classes hold a picnic supper at 1047 Seventeenth street NE with transport meeting at 6 pm.
Dr. C. O. Flagstad of the University of Minnesota gave an illustrated lecture on Immediate Denture Service at the Cedar Rapids Dental Society’s first fall meeting at the Montrose hotel. Seventy dentists attended, including thirty local practitioners.
The Rev. E. J. Wykle and his son John left by motor Tuesday for Los Angeles California to join Los Angeles College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons where John will begin his second year. They are joined by Fred Samek who will study at the same college. In Mr Wykle’s absence Olivet Presbyterian church will be supplied by local ministers with Dr William M Evans and Dr George Bryant scheduled to speak on September 18 and 25 respectively.
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