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DeWitt 4-H Show Board and Land Expansion Details
The DeWitt 4-H show section outlines a nine to fifteen member board rule, land purchases totaling seventeen acres from 1940 to 1951, and buildings including four livestock barns and a 4-H auditorium. Bleachers were added in 1953 54 by local business leaders and the Chamber of Commerce. The show now features about 1,000 livestock head and 1,000 girls exhibiting, with the 1964 dates set for August 3-7. Current officers are Vic Stueland Joe Ryan Jim Miller and Pat Gallup, with a wide slate of directors from Clinton to Delmar to Goose Lake.
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Home Economics and
Farm Project
4-H
Iowa
Clinton County
Vic Stueland
Calamus
Joe Ryan
DeWitt
Jim Miller
Pat Gallup
Bill Hominghausen
Emil Matthiesen
Bryant
Bob Hamilton
Clinton
V. C. Rutenbeck
Delmar
Delbert Mommsen
Goose Lake
Lewis Rathje
Paul McClinnon
Lost Nation
Joe Mente
Wheatland
Paul Hofer
de Witt
Virtus Jagger
Welton
Ray Green
Grand Mound
Lyle Hofer
Camanche
Jimmy Miller