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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1928
Page
3
Local and personal notes cover visits from Lewis Austin of Dumont, a hospital surgery for Mrs Todd, and social calls by the Leslie and Lawler families. Announcements include Easter clothing shipments from The Maas Co, lamp-out hotline, and farm products ads for Purity Dairy and ammonium sulfate fertilizer. Des Moines and Rochester trips are noted, with health and education updates for Ethel Ryan and Mabel Lawler.
The conveyance notes Frank Bahr moving to the M. Haas farm in the northwest part of the state and various residents, including Robert Burlingame away on field work, Dr Norman Kunath visiting What Cheer, and Mrs Bridgens involved in a car accident near Marshalltown. Additional visits to Cedar Rapids, Chicago relatives, and hospital update on M J Priske are recorded along with a Rug Cleaning service advertisement.
Local reminiscences and visits fill a Marshalltown social roundup with numerous mentions of residents and guests. Names include Martha Polley, Mixa Satchell, John Bruce, Fannie Morse, Sitan Bore aff, and many Marshalltown and nearby town visitors. The column notes travel, hosting relatives, and community events across several towns and states.
Congregational Church invites Easter services with morning attendance at Sunday School and a seven thirty communion service Thursday. A special anniversary communion in memory of Texas and its apostles will be Thursday April 6. Methodist Church joins union prayer service and baptism at morning worship with a musical vesper at four. no evening service. Church of Christ celebrates sunrise prayer at seven with victory theme for morning, choir cantata at 10 and Easter message in the evening. St Mary’s includes Good Friday Masses and sermon by Henry Nosbich. Baptist focus on resurrection with Easter singing, youth program, and 7:30 p.m. gospel service. all welcome.
H A Huff and Dr Voldeng visit Eldora with others arriving from Grinnell and Marshalltown. Miss Dorothy Marsh returns from Marshalltown to visit parents. Grinnell students enjoy spring vacation. Gerald Grown returns from Brookings. A W Edgington notes 25 years in Hardin county. Mrs Nissen visits with hay run. Life at Eldora includes home histories and a dress sale notice.
North Carolina State horticulture expert Robert Schmidt advises home gardeners using hotbeds and cold frames to rush early planting. Place hotbeds in sheltered south-facing spots and ensure drainage. A typical hotbed size is eight by six feet with fresh manure heating, while cold frames follow a similar setup without heating material to harden plants before transplanting.
An old Kanwan State Agricultural College report notes vitamin A and vitamin D in feeds and direct sunlight as essential on poultry farms. Under poultry husbandry and chemistry departments, experiments show ultraviolet exposure prevents roup and cures weak chicks, with UV lamps or sunlight aiding recovery.
Farmers show interest in barley for poultry feed and heat efficiency under a Cornell grain and mash mix for laying hens. The scratch grain blends 500 pounds cracked corn 200 pounds wheat 200 barley 100 heavy oats. if oats scarce omit oats. Laying mash uses 100 pounds ground barley replacing oats with 1060 pounds yellow corn ground barley middlings bran meat scrap 50 percent protein. Three pounds fine table salt per 500 pounds dry mix.
Exercise boosts sow litter strength and winter pens should give sows room to roam. fat sows yield weak litters. Scattered feed on ground prompts activity. A bachelor notes women like small talk. The Fiddler Crab’s colored claw signals its tune. Girls at Willum Mary College face dates only if over 80. A Kalamazoo man shot his mother-in-law for a rabbit. King Ferdinand is said to be nervous, but in America. A camouflaged still raided in New Jersey. Truth endures though eclipsed. drama favors leading ladies who cook. Big and small men exist in the world. a blockhead cannot fit opinions to your channel. Silver dollar at 4 8 tat some men fing ithoult vo o ’Talap
A collection of social updates lists visits and moves among local families in Austin Minnesota. Names include Kimmel Besar Colbernson Landis Wright Trimble and Speers with travel mentions to Fulton Moline Chicago and Cedar Rapids. The column notes new spring fashion at Haag Store and a jury service detail for local residents.
Ly and Myre Paul Lancaster and hon spent Sunday with relatives at frinnell. Steve Clary of Oskaloosa spent Tuesday here with his brother, J. H. Clary. Carrall Riley is the new barber at the City Barber Shop. He started last Thursday. Mrs. Harry Lockwood and Mrs. Neva Kimmel were Marshalltown visitors Friday morning. Cal Boylan delivered a rug to a customer near Owasa last Friday for the Haas Store. Ethel Adams of Gifford is spending this week here with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wright. Margaret Peterapp of Marshall town spent Monday and Tuesday here with her sister, Misa Katherine Pateraon.
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