Farm and local ads and notices page update
Wide page of classified ads and community notices including WANTED farm help by a married couple Ray Lawwell Festville jobs and training offers for linotype operators at Iowa City and Elgin agents. FOUND two Echo tickets for Mrs Irene Ostlie. insurance protection ad by Employers Mutual. agricultural data and notes on livestock diet rates and butterfat records. Iowa roads funding and 30 mill levy ruling. vaccination and calf resistance advice. mange spray timing. germination testing for oats. dairy profitability notes and cattle rustling losses. cancer research drive in 36 Iowa counties.
Farm Ownership Families Meet in West Union
The 14th annual meeting of farm families in Fayette and Bremer counties, who acquired their farms through the Farmers Home Administration Farm Ownership program, convened in the West Union courthouse basement on Thursday January 24. Kermit M. Tieg FHA supervisor led the session with Fayette County FHA Advisory Committee members, as Arthur Porter ISC Dairy Husbandry professor spoke on industry problems and outlook. Most discussion centered on an analysis of the field’s challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayette
Bremer Counties
Farmers Home Administration
Court House
West Union
Kermit M. Tieg
FHA
Fayette County
Arthur Porter
ISC
Rich's Pipe Dreams Readers debate terminology and toll roads
Echo readers discuss why pot luck dinners became picnics and critique phrases like ill, suffered a stroke, and pretty wedding. Betty Elston urges plain language and explains using peace instead of truce. A note on lions not lionesses and a Gov Beardsley toll road study proposal ends the column with reader concerns about funding and self liquidating bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo
Betty Elston
Webster
Republicans Ready for Hot Primary Fight Says Larson
Larson asserts commissions boost citizen interest aiding enforcement in town. Attorney general will not back liquor by the drink measures next session, despite earlier talks with legislators on enforcement concerns during the last session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larson
Iowa
Attorney General's Office
Robert Larson
Lara
Farmers Plan Record Turkeys to Rise Eleven Percent
In mid January farmers planned to raise 11 percent more turkeys than last year, signaling a new record. Brucellosis vaccination of calves aged four to eight months is a step toward a cleaner herd.
Gardener Dies on Bus Ride to Des Moines
Perry resident Art Gardner collapsed from a heart attack while boarding a bus to Des Moines. The driver found him dead in his Woodward seat shortly after.
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Art “Gardner
Perry
Des Moines
Woodward
Mr Gardener
The Broadcasters Dear Old Lady Comic Snippets
A string of hazy classroom and street jokes unfolds with a spinster, a child keeper, a policeman, and a school scene. Quick quips include an ugly-face contest, a kiss from a boy, a teacher testing observation with a coin, a remark about a dress, and a gutter mishap.
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Ray Lawwell
Festville
Fowa
SUI
Iowa City
Irene Ostlie
Epley Bros
Edward F. Krueger
Robert Hangen
Joe Wander
Elgin
Clinton
Nehama
Elgin Echo
Smith-Corona
Lewis O. Butikofer
Avalon
Lea Schori
Paris
Dial
Roscoe Larson
The
Liip
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
A. P. Strauch
Dia
Walter Bruempel
Arlington
Archie Schroeder
Postville
Clarinda
Norman D. Render
Eunice Holdgraf
Institute Dietician
Render
Claude Coykendall
Iowa Good Roads Association
Coykendall
Thelowa Supreme Court
Towa State College
Guthrie
Rich
Pipe Dreams
Betty
del Brockway Paar Union
Wowa Rustlers
Gutherie County
Ierane
Bayword
John Twedi
Wenger Sales Commission
Harry Wenger
Diz” Dean
Auct
Enterprise 800
West Union Rendering Service
Lawrence Joerger
West Union Auction
West Union Auction Exchange
Wadena Livestock Exchange
Orvin Thompson
G. W. Alderson
Elmer Halverson
Kenneth Baldwin
Billy
Policeman
Ike
Darwin
Freddie
Dottie
de Sa
Desktsens
Blairs Spa
Blackbourn
Elgin Cooperative
Max Medberry, Mer
Elgin, Iowa
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