Emmetsburg Local News and World War II Notes
Emmetsburg reports state AAA efforts to assist farmers moving hogs, with farm names and addresses sent to Des Moines as packers pledge aid. Hog congestion strains markets. 123 million hogs move through plants with 48 million capacity, while plants run day and night. Kentucky shell supply for 1944 hunting season is favorable. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service targets 240 million shells, with Chapman asserting needs can be met without harming military supply. Obituary notes include infant loss of Mr. and Mrs. Vandervelde’s child. high school commencement set for May 16. various local visits, marriages, and REA board elections noted.
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State Aaa
AAA
Iowa Aaa Committee
Des Moines
State Committee
Lawrence Brennan
Emmetsburg
Kentucky Fish and Game Department
Iowa Conservation Commission
Virgil Chapman
Kentucky
House Committee On Conservation of Natural Resources
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Chapman
Army
Navy
Vandervelde
Emmetsburg High School
Charles Hughes
Bert Hughes
Mary Price
Wilbur Price
Jessie Kelso
National Cash Store
Misa Price
Mary
Harry Kushner
Rochester
Michael Schuller
U. S. Navy
Mallard
Pearl Harbor
Temperature in Fairbanks Dips to 26 Below in January
January 8 saw Fairbanks record a temperature of 26 below zero as the region reports very little snow. The chilly conditions persist with sparse snowfall impacting local life and activities.
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Fairbanks
20 Years Ago in Graettinger and Surroundings
Recap of Graettinger area news from February 1944 including missing file copy, town flag purchase, sale of the 3804 acre Homan farm at $100 per acre, mortgage foreclosures, and local sports results with Ruthven and Graettinger basketball teams. Social notes report visiting Miss Alice Fisher, Mrs. Mary Norris birthday, travels of Tom Sullivan, and fare well party for Skow and Manley Hampson families moving to Walnut township. Local high school team rode to Sioux City tourney with players Green Johnson Petersen Elsenbast Erickson Young. zudem farm transfers within Schultz family and a hens egg bearing a letter S discovered on Mrs. Harold Schultz’s farm.
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Bill Godden
Percy Godden
Deming Airfield
New Mexico
Ensign Emroy Highley
Jack Higley
Oscar Suss
Ruthven
Frank North
Cylinder
Pocahontas Rea
Jack Planagan
Dinan
Grachtinger
Fd Turner
Pocahontas
Clyde Richardson
Charles Spies
Ann
St. Paul
St. Catherine's
Jeanette Brown
R. N
Sioux City
Norene Brown
Minneapolis
Ervin Bell
Vinton
James BR. Brown
Emmetsburg
Fernau
Clausen
Curlew
Palo Alto
P. F. McBride
Emmetsburg Hospital
Chris Schroeder
Will Hefley
Fort Dodge
Schroeder
Townsend
Hefley
John
Ray Calkins
Baltimore
Marguerite Calkins
Lester Barringer
Minnesota
Francis Schuler
Denver
Tom Schuler
B. A. Hyde
Seattle
Kathryn Brown
W. H. Brown
Cpl
Clifford Shriner
Seth Hovey
Fairbanks
Alaska
Heghone
The
Times
Homan
West Bend
Mary Norris
Tom Sullivan
Estherville
Frances Stewart
Kathryn Mahan
J. B. Skow
Lost Island
Skows
Manley Hampson
Walnut Township
Milking Shorthorn Bulls Boost Small Farms at Sunny Home
Sunny Home Stock Farm promotes Milking Shorthorn cattle as the practical dual purpose solution for small dairying and beef interests. The copy urges farmers milking 4 to 8 cows to replace with Milking Shorthorns to gain 8000 to 10000 pounds of 4 percent milk yearly and profitable calf futures, with bulls available at Sunny Home for over 20 years of dependable breeding nationwide.
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Sunny Home
United States
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Fred Linnald
Graettinger
J. M. Resh
Justice of the Peace
Iowa
Palo Alto Studio
J. Emmet Martin Funeral Service
P. McManus
Kore
Ur. C
A. Shiley
Lowa
Olene Jacobson
D. Vv
Telephone
Graettinger, Ee
B. BE. Dappen
P. Sherlock
John Galleger
J. J. Sullivan
Shultz
Frank Shultz
Mark Shultz
Claire Shultz
Dickinson County
Harold Schultz
Helgeson
J. T. Helgeson
Sunny Home Stock Farm
Hilmer H. Larsen
Wallingford, Iowa
Wallingford
Mud Lake
Grover
Ringsted
Farmall
New Idea
IHC
van Brunt
John Deere
Jane
Marion
BOONE
H. I. Spear Grodland & Reeves
Auds
Emmet County State Bank
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