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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1925
Page
6
Heavy rain and hail damaged Hastings electric service leaving town in darkness. Children's Day exercises were postponed from last Sunday and rescheduled for Sunday night June 24. The issue notes baptisms at the Methodist church, local visits, travel, and community updates from residents including Otha Wearin.
An old text lists fruits and vegetables like pears asparagus cucumbers oats tomatoes and cherries, noting garden harvests and simple prep ideas. It gives a pea soup method, fresh green peas cooked with saving liquor, and a milky onion broth thickened with flour. A chicken stock recipe with celery carrots bay leaf and lemon uses gelatin to mold with asparagus tips and pimentoes.
Des Moines hosted a conference of farm bureau officials and state leaders to begin a tax inquiry on Iowa farmland. Dr. J. C. Watson of the Illinois Agricultural Association outlined methods used to prove farm values against levied taxes and achieve reductions, aiming for fairer tax burdens on farms.
The meeting compared farm land valuations with taxes paid. Iowa farm owners work a full quarter of the year to cover current taxes, while farmers pay about 66 percent of state taxes though only 40 percent of residents are farmers. Farm bureau officials seek equitable tax adjustment to prevent overburdening farmers.
In April prunes on the vine and a fine succotash are disrupted by Boreas from Chilikoot pass. The wind chills greens and crops, spoils grape fell, and dust unsettles whiskers and hair. Rain arrives like a flood, nips corn, drowns bees and bullfrogs, leaving the speaker blue yet hopeful for bull frags.
The first national roundup and world championship rodeo will be held in Grant Park, Chicago, August 15 to 23, under the auspices of the Association of Commerce. Tex Austin will direct events with $30,000 in cash prizes, aiming to elevate rodeo to a major American sport alongside baseball and football. Broncho riding, steer wrestling, calf roping, and other western events will feature top riders, judged by three leading judges, attracting many Mills county enthusiasts.
British weather office assigns the blame to two stationary low pressure zones in the eastern U S and the west. The arrangement draws hot air from Central and South America into the middle western United States, producing abnormal weather patterns. The U S weather bureau has not agreed with the British ministry.
The low and high pressure centers stay fixed, creating a vast atmospheric lane. Gulf winds and Cuban tropical air pour over the central and northern United States, driving heat currents into the Midwest and East. As long as the centers remain stationary, warm air from South America continues to flow into these regions.
Recommendations of the law reform committee of the Iowa State Bar association include allowing a jury in civil trials to sit overnight and reconvene next day, and permitting prosecutors to reference a defendant’s failure to testify as evidence of guilt in criminal cases. Other proposals merge law and equity into one civil action, permit post verdict jury directions, and have appellate guidance on verdicts. The report also notes a judge may state his view of evidence weight in instructions to juries.
A garbled OCR style list presents numbered clues and word fragments across topics like music, chemistry, anatomy, and travel. It includes hints to a poem, boxing, Viennese dance, and various linguistic and factual cues, ending with a note that a solution will appear in a later issue by Inoue.
One line notes that very few of the modern girls are backward in observing paint-up week, suggesting broad participation and adherence to the community event.
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