Pleasant Valley 4-H Club Meeting Minutes and Rally Day Note
Pleasant Valley 4-H Club meeting held June 8 at Elizabeth and Lillian Jacob home with seven members, Miss Benson, Mrs. Baumgartner, Miss Brainard, and guest Erma Grether. talks on posture and art, secretary resignation, marbelizing crafts, Rally Day at West Union June 4, Ames trip for Benson and Jacob, next all day meeting June 23. Volga City cemetery ration Day dinner raised 114 dollars. Snippet mentions local Dubuque visit and Echo Want Ad plug.
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4-H Club
Elizabeth
Lillian Jacob
Belya Benson
Miss Brainard
Erma Grether
Alvina Frieden
B. J. Baumgartner
West Union
Iowa
Volga City Cemetery Association
John Falk
L. J
Men With 98 Gallons of Liquor Stopped by Officers
State agents arrested John Bergman and Cecil Robinson Tuesday as they were about to drive their car containing 98 gallons of alcohol from the ferry at McGregor. Bergman and Robinson gave Bancroft as their home and were taken to the Elkader county jail by Sheriff E. H. McGhee awaiting arraignment in district court.
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John Bergman
Cecil Robinson
McGregor
Bergman
Robinson
Bancroft
Elkader
E. H. McGhee
Gopher bounty winner traps 230 scalps in five days
Henry Schultz of near Castalia delivered 230 gopher scalps to auditor Cline’s office last Friday at ten cents per scalp, earned from 70 traps across neighbors’ farms. He had produced 608 scalps at Decorah this season and 838 gophers total for bounty in 1931, prompting humorous note about mole skins.
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Henry Schultz
Castalia
Cline
Schults
Healeo
Winneghick County
Decorah
Fay ette county 4 associations hold joint picnic June 16
Three Fayette county contesting associations plan separate tours on Tuesday June 16 then share a joint picnic dinner at 11 30 a m at Klock's Island Fayette. Afternoon program includes judging contest speaking music and sports inviting all buttermakers and wives with coffee milk and ice cream provided by the testers Walter and George Falk accompanied by a business trip to Chicago and Janesville.
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Fayette County
Klock’s Island
Fayette
4 H Girls Convention Set for Ames June 17 20
Ten 4 H girls and nine Fayette county leaders will attend the state convention at Ames June 17 to 20. Participants must be 14 to 21, maintain good club records, and report back to their clubs. Delegates include one girl and one leader per club, with two orchestra delegates per county. Fayette will be represented by Leota Odekirk and Bernice Stelzmiller, along with Belva Benson and Lilian Jacob, as eight other clubs join the trip.
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Fayette County
Ames
Josephine Arnquist Bakke
Leota Odekirk
Randalia
Bernice Stelzmiller
Elgin
Belva Benson
Lillian Jacob
Happy Go Lucky
Summer travel plans and visits across Wisconsin and California
Mr and Mrs 8 W Rubyer of Randalia spent Sunday with Mrs C Theo Schmid and Mrs Tille Hanson. Mary left Monday via Oelwein for Los Angeles to spend the summer with Fred Hanson and relatives. Mrs Ermn Schori and daughter Geraldine, former Prairie du Chien residents, returned home after treatments and weekend stay.
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8. W. Rubyer
Randalia
C. Theo. Schmid
Tille Hanson
Mary
Oelwein
Los Angeles
California
Fred Hanson
Ermn Schori
Geraldine
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Birthday Bridge Soiree for Josephine Kniel in West Union
Josephine Kniel celebrated her twenty first birthday with eleven guests from West Union. A six o clock dinner followed by bridge featured pink and white decorations and numerous gifts. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Traeger and children, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick, Mrs. Leighty, Mrs. J W Bopp and Una Mary Montgomery, Hazel Gehring, Elsie Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Walthers and von Leo, Fern Stiehl, Helen Schumaker, and Art Cramer of Elkader en route from Lansing. Trade at home among friends.
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Josephine Kniel
Bridge
Miss Kniel
West Union
Edgar Traeger
Wm. Frederick
Martin Leighty
J. W. Bopp
Una
Mary Montgomery
Hazel Gehring
Elsie Smith
Wm. Walthers
von Leo
Fern Stiehl
Helen Schumaker
Art Cramer
Elkader
Pedd
Elgin
Lansing
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Herbert
Louis Becker
R. P. Strauch
Elgin Poultry Company
George Vaughn
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Northeast
T. A
Walter
George Falk
Chicago
Janesville
Schneider’s
Oelwein, Iowa
Ford
By Oeborne Ste Waren
Eremon Balt
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