Monroe County 4 H Enrollment Reaches New Peak
4 H enrollment in Monroe County hits a record 531 members this year with 888 projects. 200 new members expand totals. agricultural 4 H has 215 and home economics 316. Leading home economics projects include You Learn to Sew, You Make Your Own Clothes, and You Learn to Bake. Agricultural leaders are Swine, Beef, and Horse and Pony. General projects emphasize Garden, Handicraft and photography. Average participant ages and years in 4 H are 13 and 11 with three and two years respectively, and 60 percent live on farms. 34 clubs are directed by 51 adult leaders, including a long list of named volunteers.
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Monroe County
Dual Duty thread blends nylon and cotton for fine strength
A cotton covered ny lon thread named Dual Duty combines nylon strength with cotton benefits to produce a finer stronger versatile thread. Also notes rug tip shearing hides traffic patterns and zoned heating divides a home into thermostatic areas. Cashmere yarn described as the queen of sweater yarns with soft luxury and coarser blends in cheaper varieties.
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Central Asia
Livestock Prices Fall Amid Slow Slaughter Demand
Wholesale prices for cattle calves hogs and sheep slipped as Independence Day holiday curbed demand. Receipts totaled 41 680 head versus 44 621 last week and 43 797 a year ago with hogs and sows 75c to $1 lower. Slaughter steers topped at 25.25 with most Choice 24 00 to 24 50. veal calves declined 1 to 2 dollars per hundredweight. Spring slaughter lambs firm to 50c higher on Choice and Prime while other grades held steady.
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Producers Live Stock Marketing Association
I Remember by the Old Timer
Elizabeth Maxwell of Earlham Iowa writes a reflective reminiscence about losing loved ones and moving between home and new communities. The piece recalls an aunt a father brother and a farm in a personal arc of love loss growth and return. Contributions are invited to The Old Timer Box 639 Frankfort Kentucky.
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Elizabeth Maxwell
Earlham
Iowa
Frankfort
Kentucky
4-H Foods Demonstration Contest Friday Afternoon
The annual 4-H Foods Demonstration Contest will be held at the Farm Bureau Hall Waterloo Friday July 8 at 1 00 p m. Any 4 H member in a foods project is eligible to present a demonstration. The winner will represent Monroe County at the Illinois State Fair. The top alternates will also attend the fair and take part in food classes. Miss Anna Betty Huch Jefferson County Home Adviser will judge. The public is invited to attend.
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Farm Bureau Hall
Waterloo
al Hoffman
Monroe County
Anna Betty Huch
Jefferson County
Fairgrounds Streets Receive New Names at Illinois Fair
Visitors to the Illinois State Fair in Springfield will navigate a redesigned 366 acre site easier this year. Intersections formerly used for meeting friends such as Brown and Judy Avenues have been renamed to Main Street and Central Avenue. Farmarama Lane now leads to the Farm A Rama Building and other renamed routes include Rabbit Row Grandstand Avenue Four H Lane Coliseum Street Buffalo Drive and Honey Bee Lane.
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Springfield
Judy
Central Avenue
Buffalo Drive
Swimming lessons enrollment opens for second session
Columbia Bath and Tennis Club announces July 25 to August 27 as the second session for swimming and junior and senior lifesaving lessons with a deadline of July 9 for enrollment.
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Columbia Bath & Tennis Club
Lettermen release new love themed LP and classics list
The Lettermen, Capitol's long running trio, unveil A New Song For Young Love their 13th Capitol LP returning to love themes with tracks like Michelle Moon River Try to Remember and What Now My Love. The Cannonball Adderley Quintet with Strings offers Great Love Themes arranged by Ray Ellis featuring Somewhere The Song Is You Autumn Leaves and So In Love. Capitol also reissues Nat King Cole's Vintage Years 1945 47 with When I Take My Sugar to Tea You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You and more.
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Letterman
Capitol
Lettermen
Michelle
Moon River
Cannonball Adderley
Adderley
Ray Ellis
Nat King Cole
Nat
Angeline
Spinet piano bargain offer in Shelbyville Indiana ad
Classified blotter notes include a spinet piano bargain asking a responsible party to assume low monthly payments and to write Credit Manager at P O Box 215 Shelbyville Indiana. Also mentions carpet and furniture cleaning service and part time interview details in Millstadt Illinois.
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P.O. Box
Shelbyville
Indiana
Illinois Leads in Industrial Research Centers
Illinois, renowned for its industrial research prowess, hosts 290 facilities. A 52 page booklet by the Department of Business and Economic Development, Division of Community and Industrial Development, surveys these laboratories and serves as a guide for prospective new Illinois industries. Copies available from the department in Springfield.
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Illinois
Illinois Department of Business and Economic Development
Division of
Department of Business and Economic Development
S. College St
Springfield
Ill
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