Soldiers Home power plant plan advances in Iowa
The Iowa board of control received permission to build a 376 638 dollar power plant at the state soldiers home in Marshalltown. The 54th general assembly set a record in official printing with 113 613 dollars, driven by more bills and longer ones. A single poem cost about 43 dollars to print in the house journal. Iowa Democrats considered Stevenson while Kefauver clubs formed in central and northern Iowa. Some still expect Barkley to seek the nomination.
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Soldier's Home
Iowa Board of Control
Budget Committee
Marshalltown
54Th General Assembly
Town Budget and Control Committee
The
House of Representatives
Iowa
Budget panel orders fund use for Oakdale hospital
The budget committee, noting the state board of education has $590,188 in unobligated funds, voted to direct using these sums to finish the Oakdale hospital construction despite earlier legislative inaction. Representative Dewey Goode argued funds exist. board meeting not until May, leaving outcome uncertain and foreshadowing possible dispute between groups.
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Pital
Oakdale
State Board of Education
Dewey Goode
Bloomfield
Board of Education
Goode
Catholic action talk anchors Wadena church gathering
In St. Patrick's Church Rev. Luke Donlon welcomed guests and introduced speaker Hey William Michael from Dubuque who urged Catholic action. A.C. Co. W. members, St. Patrick's pupils, and junior high girls performed a musical program before a luncheon hosted by Monona women for delegates from Elkader Garnaville Strawberry Point Volga Wadena Garber and Littleport. The next meeting will be at Volga.
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St. Patrick's Church
Luke Donlon
St. Patrick’s
Joanne Frommelt
Patricia Frommelt
Elaine Sweatka
Holy City
Catherine Huckstrade
Yvonne Sweatka
William Michael
Dubuque
A.C. Co. W
Alice Sniffin
Wadena Deanery
Monona
Elkades
Garnaville
Strawberry Point
Volga
Wadena
Garber
Littleport
Card of Thanks from Iowa City Hospital Patient
John Staffenhagen expresses gratitude to relatives friends and neighbors for cards and letters while a patient at the Iowa City hospital. They were deeply appreciated.
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Iowa City Hospital
John Staffenhagen
Golf Fans Enjoy Sunday Round at West Union
About six golf fans walked the course twice on a sunny Sunday afternoon as interest in the game grows locally. Market Day specials at Falk's featured pork liver 3 pounds for 25 cents Kellog's corn flakes 15 cents and a 2 lb box of crackers 29 cents. The Elgin Furniture Store offers a complete living room outfit for 95 dollars including an upholstered arm chair a davenport junior floor lamp and a mahogany finish end table. Despite bad weather and slick roads attendance at the minstrel show last Wednesday and Thursday rose with proceeds from an M E Ladies Aid benefit adding over a hundred dollars to their fund. Walter C Falb of Elgin was mentioned.
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West Union
Falk's
Elgin Furniture
M. E. Ladies Aid
Walter C. Falb
Elgin
Miss Bernice Phillips Wedding in Postville
Miss Bernice Phillips of Postville wedding took place Friday afternoon April 22 at the bride’s parents home in Postville. Other water users will join Elgin’s list as W. J. Kohler lays a new main on Franklin Street connecting homes of Mrs. Rennison Rudy Yunker Gottfred Pfister and likely Sam Lehman.
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Bernice Phillips
Postville
Elgin
W. J. Kohler
Franklin Street
Rennison
Rudy Yunker
Gottfred Pfister
Sam Lehman
Iowa Hog Market Surges in March From Towa Farms
March marketings from Iowa farms show 1,633,000 hogs, up 23 percent from 1,328,000 a year earlier and 59 percent above the 1947-50 March average of 1,030,000. Cattle and calves totaled 174,000 head, down 10 percent from March 1951 and 27 percent below the long term March average. Cattle on grain feed in Iowa feedlots stood at 960,000 head on April 1.
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Towa
Iowa
March Egg Production Higher in Farm Flocks
Farm flocks in To wa produced 625 million eggs in March, up 8 percent from 486 million a year earlier and 2 percent above the 1941-7?50 average. March output trails only the 639 million eggs set in March 1946. Layers totaled 28.5 million birds, up 4 percent from 27.39 million a year ago.
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Towa
Feed cattle on hand figures rise in early 1951
The report notes crowds of cattle on feed totaling more than 941000 head by April 1, 1951, marking a 6 percent increase from 914000 head on feed in April 1950. The figures illustrate a significant year over year growth in cattle on feed.
Tractor manure spreader accident near Bellvue
Gregory Herrig of near Bellvue used a farm tractor to transport children to school when the vehicle hit deep ruts. The attached manure spreader’s moving cross bars grabbed the daughter as the machine jolted into gear and the reel contacted her.
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Gregory Herrig
Bellevue
Emmetsburg Lawyer Emery Nefstead Dies in Gun Accident
Emery Nefstead, an Emmetsburg lawyer, was killed when a safety catch on his gun slipped as he crawled under a fence during a hunt in Illinois. The weapon discharged into his heart, fatal injuries reported. Karen required 200 stitches to close wounds on her left leg. Farmers expect about nine percent more insect weed and fungus killing chemicals needed this year than last.
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Jspreader
Illinois
Emery Nefstead
Emmetsburg
When the President Faces Visitors and Plant Aid Promises
In a humorous office exchange a visitor is told the president is unavailable, the wife claims access, and the reply echoes that line. Terra-Lite vermiculite offers soil conditioning benefits for flowers and vegetables, improving aeration and moisture retention in various soil types. A fable joke ends with colleges adopting a sheep skin in disguise of a lion.
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N. E
Cedar Rapids
O'Neill Drug
Elgin Echo
Smith-Corona
George Hyde
Clermont
Echo Office
Chang
Avalon
Maytag
Reuben Howard
Dial
Carrie Steel
J.O. Anderson
Forrow
LaVerne! Larson
Duroc Boat
Clarence Buroden
W. D. Allis Chalmer Tractor
L. T. N. Olson
Jess Moody
Louis Hofer
Ben Hofer
Sam Dennler
Maynard
Lantz
Echo
Altip
Iowa City
Jacob Butihofer
Ruby Benson
Town
Fred Butikofer
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
R. P. Strauch
Alta Gehring
Avalon Theatre
Minnesota
Poland
Cornelius Reierson
Capper Hatchery
Maynard Lantz
Harold Kimball
Don Wilson
Jim Gunderson
Brockway
Union
Vine
Wadena News
Marketings
Wenger Sales Commission
Harry Wenger
Diz” Dean
John Deere
Falb & Light Farm Implements and Service Dial
Guernsey
Wadena Livestock Exchange
Orvin Thompson
West Union Auction Exchange
G. W. Alderson
Kenneth Baldwin
Schori Bros
Erates
G. W. Alderson - Elmey
Halverson
Orr Thompson
Auct
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Elgin Cooperative Grain
Medberry
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