School News Highlights From Elementary to Seventh Grade
The page recounts weekly student activities across grades five through eighth. It notes tonsil removal and recovery, typing lessons on carbon copies and erasing mistakes, atom study, English prepositions, muskets and Battle of Bunker Hill lore, algebra topics on selling price and proportions, and reports by Ordell Kiosa on 17th and 18th century soldiers. Junior high basketball results against Mar-Mac are listed, with girls winning. Seventh and eighth grade math and science topics, and plans for January 31 Barter Day are included along with arts and reading updates.
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News World History
Ordell Kiosa
William Prescott
Bunker Hill
Dalet
Thompson
Berg
Lyle Anderson
Gene Olson
Busy social season as readings and visits fill week
The community notes classrooms with books and lessons on day and night while first and second graders share stories like Fun for Littl Quack and act out rhymes. A long list of weekend visitors, dinners, and rural prairie gatherings show thanks to guests from Waukon Elgin Waterloo and Decorah plus a Florida trip by Mr and Mrs Ray Reierson and family.
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Quack
Fairy and Brownie groups finish tests and prep March show
The fairies completed We Read Pictures on Thursday and the Brownies on Friday. Nancy Nelson and Kathy Timmerman had perfect papers. Paul Miller had his tonsils removed. The groups plan an art show on March 1. They are active in physical education art and started a Brownie drum corps while the fairy rhythm band enjoys rhythm activities.
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Fairies
Nancy Nelson
Kathy Timmerman
Paul Miller
Birthday celebrants and social visits in Clermont area
Clermont local notes recount a birthday celebration at LaVerne Larson home for Gary Larson and multiple visits across the region. Families including Larson, Olson, Amundson, and Auderson attended gatherings. shopping trips, college enrollment, and travel to Waterloo Cedar Falls and Dubuque are mentioned along with illness recovery and a card party.
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Elmer Larson
Ames Olson
Almer Amundson
Olver Larson
LaVerne Larson
Gary
Kenneth Amundson
Kevin
Alfred Baechler
Merrill Gunderson
Waterloo
Union Street
Anderson
Verni Brandt
Jimmie
Francis Butikofer
Cedar Falls
Butikofer
Gates Business College
Toby Kittleson
Charles City
K. Kittleson
Larry Kittleson
Marsha Louise Tomsheck
Ray
Tomsheck
Guy Muchow
Louis A. Olson
Marvin Larson
Dubuque
Interstate Power Company
Laurie Osterhus
Ossian
Richard Osterhus
Decorah Hospital
Len Simek
Keith McGowan
Pat Breheney
Clear
West Union
Louise Miller
Louie Schutte
Albert Lubke
Postville
Verni Engle
Lawler
Seed law requires test for selling farmers crop seed
Town seed law mandates testing of crop seed before sale. Farmers planning to market seed must obtain official tests to ensure purity and germination standards are met. Compliance helps protect growers and buyers and aligns with local agricultural regulations.
Happy Hustlers 4 H Hold First Meeting of Year
The Marton 4 H club Happy Hustlers met January 21 at Peter and Dianne Bilden home. Twelve members answered roll call with their favorite Christmas gift. The gavel came from the County Extension office and the club received the 4 H Club Prayer for 1937. Demostrations were Ears that Hear by Dianne Bilden and Lifting and Carrying by Peter Bilden. Slides from previous meetings followed. Next meeting February 18 at Ronald Halverson home.
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Marton Happy Hustlers
Peter
Dianne Bilden
County Extension Office
Peter Bilden
Ronald Halverson
David Helgerson
Growers Ready to Plant Oats After Seedbed Prep
Growers usually can afford to wait until a good seedbed is prepared before planting oats, ensuring better germination and stand establishment for a productive harvest.
Real Estate Transfers and Vehicle Listings Summary
Real estate transfers include Mrs Celia Kohls and Clarence Kohls transferring to Carl A G Hackmann a parcel in section 14 township 94 range 73. Vehicles listed include Louis I Olson or Ruth R Olson Clermont Chevrolet sedan Elgin Produce Clermont Chevrolet pickup Perry J Chapman Arlington Chevrolet sedan Wm R Lawrence Artington Studebaker sedan and Leon Ror with Patricia Hanson Clermont Chevrolet station wagon.
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Celia. Kohls
Clarence W. Kohls
Carl A. G. Hackmann
Louis I
Ruth R. Olson
Clermont
Elgin Produce
Elgin
Perry J. Chapman
Arlington
Wm. R Lawrence
Artington
Studebaker
Leon Ror
Patricia Hanson
Iowa Market Outlook for Hog Slaughter January February
Iowa markets expect hog slaughter from January and February to total about 3.35 million head, 20 percent below the prior two months and 6 percent under the 1950-54 five year average. Cattle and calves marketed for slaughter in December are placed at 330,000 head, up 4 percent from a year earlier and 28 percent above the five year December average. Feeder cattle guidance warns against unnecessary worming.
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Iowa
Enduring swimmer dies at Eldora home aged 89
One time famed endurance swimmer August Wille died at Hardin county home Eldora aged 89. As a youth he nearly swam the English Channel. He moved to Iowa Falls in 1919 and drew crowds by swimming the Iowa River while carrying a parasol and smoking a cigar. Rose Bowl ball story notes a souvenir from Kenny Pleen’s first touchdown run with Ed Stull and Prescott’s extra point kick.
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Hardin County
Eldora
August Wille
English Channel
Iowa Falls
Iowa River
Ed Stull
Steamboat Rock
Kenny Pleen
Stull
Prescott
Silage Quality Aids Pregnant Sows Feed
A good grade of silage provides excellent feed for pregnant sows, supporting nutrition and health during gestation.
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Hansen
David Asnes
Reusemester
Svendsen
C. A. Palmer
Roger
Waukon
Lee Palmer
Church of the Saviour
Laird Cline
George Vaughn
Lena Cooley
Warren ‘Harrington
Clara Helgerson
Heiser’s
Johanina Knudson
William Herman
Oscar Olson
St. Olaf
Tillie Johnson
Martin Gunderson
Harlan Schultz
Robert Daniels
Cedar Rapids
Warren Harrington
G. D. Grimes
Art Amundson
Wayne Shipton
Wm. Nelson
Harvey Meyer
Wanda
Louis Becker
Judy
Charles Becker
Judy Becker
Donald Yauslin
Barney Yaus
Clara Christianson
Aubrey Guyer
Melvin Engelhardt
Decorah
Robert Kerr
Walter
Lawrence Fritz
Carl Westpfah
Dickie
Dale Freeman
Ray Reierson
Florida
Pensacola
New Orleans
Vernon Reierson
Gene Thorson
Cathy
Alphie Thor
Son
Charles
Lloyd Bacon
Ricky
Raipe
Allen Bacon
Dwight Pete Bacon
Bobby
Harry Bacon
William Bacon
William
Lorranne Crowe
Cath- 430
Marquette
Dettmer
Ruch Moody
McGregor
Bil Hitch Leslie
Carolyn
Sumner
Leo Gretenos
L. H Thies
August Burrow
St Paul
Minn
Happy Hustlers
Marianna Propane CO
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Phillips
Philgas
Ffire
Postville, Iowa
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Elgin Echo
L. R. Tappan
Elkader
E. R. Withell
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Elgin, Iewa
Olson & Olson
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