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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1955
Page
3
In 1954 the JuneJuly cattle and calf marketings are expected to top records with about 620000 head sold for slaughter, up from 597000 a year earlier and far above the five year average of 451000. May marketings rise 3 percent from year ago and 22 percent above the 1948-53 average. June slaughter marketings forecast at 325000 head, 8 percent above 301000 a year earlier and 44 percent above the 5 year average.
Classification of local ads shows for sale listings including personalized wedding napkins, lawn mowers, a 23R1 chair stroller, a mahogany spinet desk, and two like new spinet pianos with delivery. Contacts include Ruth Clasen, Murphy Music Co., and Hermansens with address hints in Iowa and Minnesota.
Iowa economists Clark Bloom and A A Montgomery analyze postwar output per worker in manufacturing using 1947 and 1953 data. They rank Iowa 11th in value added by manufacture growth, eight percent above the national average, with Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Kansas leading.
Iowa farms expect hogs marketed for slaughter in June and July to total about 2,000,000 head. This would be roughly one percent above last year’s 1,981,000 head but still down from earlier projections.
June hog marketings expected at 1 000 001 head a 1 percent drop from June 1952 and 12 percent below 3 year average. Producers plan 1 900 000 head for slaughter in July which would be 3 percent above last year’s July 974 000 head and near the 5 year average. May sales set second highest record at 1 350 000 head with wear of near record April and March. Average age of hogs in May 7.3 months compared with 7.3 months in 1934 and 7.1 months in April 1953. Cattle and calf slaughter projections for Iowa are 4 percent higher for June and July.
Voters names and township lists appear in the election notices with candidates in Nevada Silver Lake Vernon townships. The readable fragments name Arbogast Bennie Berkland Melvin Berkland and others alongside Raymond Besch Robert Darrah Eldon Fehr Everett Myers LeRoy Sprout and more.
Officials Buck Vandervelde John Reeves and Harold DeMoss of Estherville led pickup acts while Dave Lynch directed the arena. Horsefly Sherin performed a saddle bronc stunt with Bob Scott of Omaha judging. Secretaries Dorothy Zaugg and Andrew Vandervelde kept records as Rickie Reeves bullfighted a young calf.
Notice to voters in Kos suth and Palo Alto counties Iowa that a special election is ordered for May 18 1945 to decide issuing bonds not to exceed 450000 for a high school building program including a new school building a site in the SE quarter of section 16 97N 30W Kossuth County and adjoining athletic field land improvements.
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