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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
8
Engineering notes from Town State College detail methods to limit headlight glare. Corrugated glass deflects light sideways and prisms bend rays downward. Indirect lighting achieved by numerous small cuts diffuses light in all directions.
Iowa farmers face ongoing soil erosion as rolling terrain channels runoff into ditches. Ditches waste land, hinder operations, and mar field appearance, prompting calls for better soil conservation practices and erosion control measures.
An OCR fragment describes ditch plugging with a straw layer at the bottom and raw garth kept by branches driven with nailed points. It warns not to divert water but to keep it in the old channel and mentions possible single or multiple holes after plugging.
The dairy department at Iowa State College reports calls for 200 men to fill posts in the past year. Three requests sought leaders to head college dairy departments, twelve for dairy educators from instructor to associate professor, and twenty-eight for superintendents or managers of large dairy plants. Remaining calls asked for managers of smaller plants or positions in various plants including buttermaking, ice cream, market milk, cheese making, and dairy laboratory work.
A speaker urges national unity through improved interstate communication by road and rail if needed, noting highways as essential complements to railroads. He argues most workers can afford cars, farmers can too, and governors cooperate on road schemes to prevent a fragmented nation and promote self reliance.
The Mills County Board of Supervisors met in regular session June 2 1919 with Sherman Jones H H Cheyney and Chas C Palmer present. Bills were audited and allowed including county fund items for supplies printing repairs clerk and sheriff fees jury and witness costs and jail expenses with allowances and orders issued to various vendors and officials.
Mills County Board in regular session adjourned on June 2 1919 to June 17 for semi annual settlement and June 27 for equalization as schedules were incomplete. Petitioners Frank B Wright and others seek drainage district repairs. Seth Dean appointed drainage engineer to report. Levee tax of 1 mill approved for St Marys Township. M K Moors school loan of 1700 approved. Jake Andres contract for Mulholland lateral Ditch No 5 approved. Board mileage and per diem allowed. Attest W M Moore Sherman Jones Chairman County Auditor.
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