Hardin County Extension Service Year in Review 1955
The Hardin County Extension Service report outlines a broad program under county director Dick Pulse. Key efforts include youth building, farm and home management, brucellosis testing, 4-H growth, a larger junior livestock show, soil testing and conservation, and a new county council structure replacing the farm bureau. The year saw 616 meetings with 23,823 attendees, plus 347 volunteer meetings with 5,449 participants. Over 1,208 farm and home visits and 3,000 office visits were logged, with 400 news articles and more than 13,000 bulletins distributed. The document highlights extensive farm, home, livestock, youth, and community education activities and calls extension work the nation’s most intensive adult education program.
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Hardin County Extension Service
Dick Pulse
Hardin County
County Farm Bureau
County Extension Service
Hardin
Cooperaton
County Livestock Association
Fair~ Grounds
D.H.I.A
U. S
A.S.C
Soil Conservaton District
Breed Associations
Hens Satisfied with Secretary Season Parity Prices
Hens are the only farm livestock satisfied with Secretary Season, and their production now brings parity prices, according to the Grundy Center Register.
The Old Goat and Hodgepodge at a party night
A columnist from Algona essays on politics and society with light humor. Duane E. Dewell is praised as a writer and Senate leader while the note quotes jokes about politics travel, weather and daily life. The piece reflects gentle satire of contemporary events and public figures.
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Algona Advance
Duane E. Dewel
Algona
Towa Senate
Congress
Amaranthine Society to present program at high school
Yesterday and decades past in Eldora feature a mix of readings and music by local participants led by Frederick Ellsworth George Greer Tom Meader May Farr and others at a five cent admission. J W Pickett of Union dies after long illness with autopsy showing plural abscesses. Eldora firehouse plans a masquerade ball at the opera hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amaranthine Literary Socilety
Frederick Ellsworth
George Greer
Tom Meader
May Farr
Mary Butterfield
Stella Patterson
Lewis Stout
Jennie Clark
Ella Buchanan
Nellie Farrow
Ale DeGroff
Frank Conger
Fred Winchester
Clara Garget
J. W. Pickett
Union
Eldora Fire Company
Mark Moir
D. G. Meader
Eldora Mills
Marshalltown
Meader
Iowa
T. G. Copp
Eva Lawrence
Rose Harris
Jessie Meader
Hattie Meader
Eva Carter
Edith Meader
W. E. Brightwell
Jennie Mossman
Harry Marks
Webb Wilson
Io Lynk
Alfred Wardman
Fred Boody
Homer Burgess
Earl Borsack
Fay Sheffeld
Don Rathbone
Harry Miller
Roy Lockwood
Eldora Creamery
Peter Jensen
Allen Putnam
Earl
Eldora
Dr. Diehl
Ralph Rogers
James Rogers
Meeker
Lloyd Hamilton
National Farmers Organization Calls for 100 Percent Parity
We, the farmers of America, form the National Farmers Organization to secure 100 percent parity for all farm products. The resolution calls for floor prices on hogs and cattle, emergency credit, a halt to monopolistic market manipulation, stop desert land reclamation waste, wheat allotments by bushel, cooperation with the USDA, nonpartisan aims, and a pledge against violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers of America
National Farmers Organization
Department of Agriculture
Congress
United States Department of Agriculture
Dampened Spirits Over Tax Mail Delay
In a Belle Plaine Union letter to the editor, residents report state income tax forms arriving just before Christmas causing worry. They note mail delays likely unavoidable and fear potential effects on the state's economy and taxpayers' load.
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Belle Plaine Union
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Eldora Herald- Ledger
Towa
States
Town Press
George
Max van Derveer
Katharine Piper
ICRE
Dale Peshla
Charles Davis
Paul Mason
Jim Ruby Gene Poshla
State Farm
Eedom
Balicgholdes i
Robert RK. Hurst
St. Elpora
Pe Piper
Fatrapine Piper
Edick
Harman and Howell
Steamboat Rock
Pythian Club
H. W. Concer
E. W. Dunn
C. S. Newcomer
Will Martin
Dr. Herrald
F. Wehrman
M. D. Wilcox
H. J. Genson
Union Roller Mills
Wayne Janssen
Lawrence Wiesner
Esther Megan
Margaret Bridgens
Lucy Ford
Mildred Ayers
Dave Follett
Cornell College
New York City
C. A. Boeke
Dorothy Marsh
W. E. March
A. B. Haupert
Glidden
Omaha
The
Old Age Assistance Board
Tihe
Margaret Reed
Otis Whitehead
New Providence
Marian Ziesman
H. A. Ziesman
Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Graham
NFO
Parkas
Grahams
Rylon
Hirst
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