Purdue specialist to help Carroll farmers plan improvements
Office of the County Agent announces R B Hull of Purdue will visit Carroll County to guide farm and home grounds layouts. Ten farms already on the list, with sketches of trees buildings and improvements. Also Legume Production and Farm Management schools planned for Delphi and Camden with soil testing and practical discussions to boost profits and reduce drought risks.
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Hull
Carroll County
Maggart
Court House
Delphi
Purdue University
Purdue
Purdue Specialist
Bottum
Indiana
Webb Robeson
Adams Township Farm Bureau Penny Supper Draws Crowd
The Adams Township Farm Bureau meeting drew strong attendance for a penny supper. Clarence Cleaver spoke on the upcoming membership drive, with talks by new county chairman Monroe Meade and Mrs. Meade. School children performed music and readings.
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Adams Township Farm Bureau
Clarence Cleaver
Monroe Meade
Bait Beer and Beans Bologna Sharlie Smith Shell Station Pittsburg
A compact local item notes Sharlie Smith operating a shell station in Pittsburg selling bait beer and beans. The entry lists a 48 2t figure likely a stock or price note.
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Sharlie Smith Shell Station
Pittsburg
Washington Township Farm Bureau Holds January Meeting
The Washington Township Farm Bureau met January 14 at Deer Creek school with Oral Caldwell presiding. Officers for 1938 were installed: Ollie Seward as chairman, Leroy Robeson as vice chairman, Geneva Moore as secretary, William Moore as treasurer, Helen Riggs as S. and E. director. The membership drive chairman Earl Downham appointed Bertha Seward Thelma Smith Helen Riggs William Moore and A. A.
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Washington Township
Indiana Nonmanufacturing Jobs Rise in December
Indiana nonmanufacturing employment and payrolls increased from November to December. Data from 1,382 establishments show an 8.1 percent rise in employment, 5.3 percent in payrolls, and 6.2 percent in man hours, driven mainly by retail trade expansion says Martin F. Carpenter.
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Martin F. Carpenter
Indiana
Community program by Mrs Thelma Smith
The program was presented by Mrs Thelma Smith with refreshments of candy served to 100 members and guests.
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Thelma Smith
Townsend Urges Full Support for President's Birthday Ball
Indiana Governor M Clifford Townsend proclaims January 29 as a statewide observance for the fifth annual President's Birthday Ball to fund infantile paralysis treatment. Seventy percent goes to Riley Hospital and local agencies, thirty percent to the Warm Springs Foundation.
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Indianapolis
M. Clifford Townsend
Indiana
Riley Hospital
Warm Springs Foundation
United States
I. M. Clifford Townsend
Rabbits Killed by Automobiles in Indiana
Game wardens compile data on rabbit fatalities on Indiana highways to gauge yearly cottontail losses to vehicles. Commissioner Virgil Simmons notes some sportsmen claim road deaths exceed hunting harvests. Remains of rabbits on roads are common year round, especially in late spring when young rabbits are abundant.
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Indiana
Virgil Mf. Simmons
Department of Conservation
County Receives State Tuition Aid Distribution
Indianapolis January payments total 6 943 300 for 19 838 teaching units under the Gross Income Tax funded state tuition support. Floyd I McMurray reports the January share of 700 per unit with a planned total of 800. Carroll county gets 34300 toward reducing property taxes. The program began in 1933 and will continue with a July 15 distribution.
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Indianapolis
Floyd I. McMurray
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Department of Public Instruction
Carroll County
Rochester man fined for permit and weight tax violations
Clyde Neff of Rochester was fined by Justice of the Peace Rossie Dern a total of 54 dollars for carrying passengers without a PSCI permit and for not paying his weight tax.
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Clyde Neff
Rochester
Justice of the Peace Rossie Dern
PSCI
Editors Will Hear McNutt Next Month
Paul V. McNutt of Bloomington has accepted an invitation to address the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association at its mid winter meeting in Indianapolis on February 19. The former governor, with secretary Wayne Coy, plans to depart Manila January 29 to report to President Roosevelt on Philippine affairs and his presidential prospects. McNutt, a 1940 Democratic aspirant, sent a two word cablegram confirming the engagement.
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Paul V. McNutt
Bloomington
Philipines
Indiana Democratic Editorial Association
Indianapolis
Wayne Coy
Manila
Roosevelt
McNutt
Ray S. Smith
Hoosier Sentinel
State Democratic Committee
McNutts
Association
Indiana
Tax payments rise in third quarter of 1937
Gross income tax receipts for the third quarter of 1937 totaled higher than the same period in 1936 by nearly $900,000. Returns filed also increased by more than 7,000. The figures were announced today by Clarence A. Jackson, director of the Gross Income Tax Division.
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Clarence A. Jackson
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Legume Production School
Camden
Ralph Maggart
Jackson Township
Robert Hedde
Carolyn Hedderich
Fred Hedderich
Frederick Trapp
Deer Creek
Donald Bowman
Jack Bowman
John Bowman
R. J. Maggart
Kenneth Newell
Robert Robbins
Robert Rohrabaugh
Robert Seehase
Bernard Schmitter
Joseph Schmitter
William Schnepp
Madison Township
Donald Buck
Wayne Rule
Robert Schnepp
Jefferson Township
Clay M. Maxwell
Ernest N. Scott
Liberty Township
Clayton Mullin
John Mullin
Murlin Mullin
Clay Township
Charles Shulthers
Robert Thomas
Monroe Township
Ned Long
Don Wheeler
Washington
William Bankhead
House of Representatives
Ludlow
Farm Bureau News
Adams Township
Carroll County Beverage Company
S. Wash. St
Delphi, Indiana
Townsend
Philco
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