Weekend Avalon show and local notices in Iowa city paper
Lost tickets for Geo Butikofer at the Avalon and echo guest invites headline a blend of local entertainment notes. The issue also covers a 4 percent short term 34 year Federal Land Bank loan, farm sales data, and short community updates including Waverly electrical anomaly, antique pin find, and fast hay harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo
Butikofer
the Avalon
Glen E. Yates
National Farm Loan Association
West Union
Iowa
Towa
Waverly
R. E. Doonan
Birtus Copley
Grundy Center
University of Michigan
William Arnold
Ann Arbor
Copleys
Timothy
R. O. Skellenger
Adair County
FSA Loans Aid Veterans to Start Farms
Farm operating loans have been extended to several hundred honorably discharged service men with no other credit source to finance food production. The loans enable veterans of the present war to lease or buy land and obtain equipment and facilities to begin farm operations. Food allotments for farm help are extended to livestock and seasonal workers for 60 days or less, up from 30 days. Workers employed over 60 days must continue to turn in ration points to their employer for point based meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FSA
United States War Expenditures Rise in 1944 Report
The 1944 war expenditures reach 89.9 billion dollars, up from 75.1 billion in 1943, a near 20 percent rise. Totals from July 1 1940 to June 30 1944 amount to 199.9 billion dollars. State highways require repairs as wartime needs loom. An immediate program targets 34,000 miles of rural and urban roads. Electric irons, 2,037,838 units, approved for civilian production, are mostly household models. Most irons are not rationed and many should be available this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
U. S
OPA Reduces Oats Price Ceilings Across Regions
The office of price administration cuts oats ceiling prices by about five cents per bushel. New base prices at terminal points range from 71 cents in Seattle and Portland to 83 12 cents in Philadelphia to reflect parity to producers for the current crop year. Also announced are new non-highway gas coupons E-2 and R-2 issued to farmers and other non-highway users, usable with existing E-1 and R-1 coupons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Seattle
Wash
Portland
Ore
Philadelphia
Brainard Ladies Aid and visitors minutes
Mrs Chas Peters was a visitor in the F W Lyon home last Tuesday afternoon. The Ladies Aid Society met last Wednesday June 19 with Mrs Levi Learn. Ten members answered roll call. Guests included Mrs Ray Gilbert and daughters Peggy Helms Mrs Harold Learn Laura Learn Lola Eva Ruth Alice and Clara Boyer Mrs Wm Nutting and sons spent Friday in the parental F W Lyon home. Guests in the Ray Gilbert home Friday were Mrs Dan Craft Mrs Melvin Hanson and children Mrs Ethelyn Johnson Mrs Nellie Ramsey and Marjorie McVey. Mrs Johnson and Mrs Ramsey left for Newton Friday night. Ray Gilbert and Willis Lyon took them as far as Oelwein. Lola Eva Ruth and Clara Boyer went to North English Saturday to
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Peters
F. W. Lyon
Ladies’ Aid Society
Levi Learn
Ray Gilbert
Peggy Helms
Harold Learn
Laura Learn
Lola
Eva
Ruth
Alice
Clara Boyer
Wm. Nutting
Dan Craft
Melvin Hanson
Ethelyn Johnson
Nellie Ramsey
Marjorie McVey
Johnson
Ramsey
Newton
Willis Lyon
Oelwein
North English
Local residents host visits across multiple homes
A sequence of social calls spans Friday to Sunday with many households hosting guests. Vistors include Mrs Jim Bartlett, Mr and Mrs H W Helms, Clive Helms and children, Don Cummings Elaine Marian Patterson and friends, Wm Nutting and sons, George Boyle and Ethel, Frank Lyon, Eva Rutledge, Willis Lyon, Ray Gilbert, D H Craft, M R Hanson, Herman Boyer and Stanley, Vern Boyer and Alice, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Mays
John Rutledge
George Boyle
Ethel
Frank Lyon
Wmn
Ray Gilbert
M. R. Hanson
Herman Boyer
Stanley
Vern Boyer
Alice
M. A. Boyer
Can You Remember Local Homes Yet Growing Porches
A dated community note reports Honace Yack adding a large porch on the south and a smaller one on the east at his Main Street home. The piece also lists Lena Baumgartner purchasing Mrs. Donald Dean’s residence in the town’s west area and mentions threshing starting next week with grain harvest challenges noted. Ern Bauder returns from a year in the U.S. Army in France and reports good health. Several locals, including Helen Nicklaus, Florence Berg, Nellie Kiple, and Marie Falk, have returned from Fayette summer school. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hughes and R. P. Strauch plus Hilda Strauch visit Elgin for two weeks. Mrs. Ed Hanson and Mary visit Irvin Hendershott in Oelwein. Some Iowa egg buyers discontinue grading due to price concerns, with plans to resume to encourage higher-quality production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honace Yack
Main Street
Lena Baumgartner
Donald Dean
Ern Bauder
U.S. Army
France
Ern
Helen Nicklaus
Florence Berg
Nellie Kiple
Marie Falk
Fayette
F. W. Hughes
R. P. Strauch
Oelwein
Hilda Strauch
Minneapolis
Minn
Elgin
Ed Hanson
Mary
Irvin Hendershott
Tractor overturns with Ray Phelps rescue near Waverly
Ray Phelps of near Waverly was the underneath man when his tractor overturned. Neighbors righted the machine and rescued him. Neither Phelps nor the tractor was harmed.
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Lucky
Calucky
Ray Phelps
Waverly
Phelps
Never Too Old James Butler Paints Lenox House
Ten year old John Butler of Lenox is described as busy this summer painting his house. He began intending to paint only the polithes but ended up painting the entire house, completing the task despite his young age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Butler
Lenox
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Cargill
Capper
C. J. Mulford
John Camp
Torkelson Bros
Ford
Larson Roofing Co
Clermont
Betfce
Grether
Exchange
Echo
Groth Produce CO
Postville
Mark Thain
Guernsey
Paul Waters
Pastville
Elgin Echo
Grove
Monona
Carl
Hackmann
The
Herbert Ash
O'Neill Drug Store
Echo Office Supplies Department
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
R. P. Strauch, Iagent
Echo-Enterprise
Rompous Mneral
Maynard Lantz
Elgin, Iowa
West Union Rendering Works
Enterprise
Seal of Minesota
Seal of Minnesota
Merlin Choice Bakers
Blackhawk
Weibel
MillCo
Goma
CG. J. Mulford
Martin Senour
Elgin Farmers Coop AX Medberry, M
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