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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1929
Page
5
Multiple death notices and funeral details from Eldora and Hardin County listeners. Mrs. John Newby dies at 60 after long illness beside Ridgefarm origins. Bertha Satterfield and Clarence Burlingame mourned. Plopper and Walker obituaries noted with church ties and community roles.
The article discusses burial rites for Rev. Evg erett Trimble and Rev. Charles Macy, and explains Iowa’s vital statistics system. It covers registration districts, local registrars, and filing deadlines for births within ten days and deaths before burial. It also outlines reasons a birth or death certificate may be required, from citizenship to inheritance and pensions, urging proper record filing.
About 600 Chevrolet dealers met at Shrine Temple Des Moines for the annual sales talk and banquet at the Ft. Des Moines Hotel. They praised the new six cylinder valve in head car and a planned 1,250,000 unit production for 1929, predicting record sales. A. J. Baumgartner joined in the upbeat assessment. Detroit teams shipped stage scenery and crews for a lavish display.
W G Spurlock warns that winter cream handling produces poorer cream due to delayed cooling and improper storage. Farmers move separators indoors to avoid freezing, but neglect whisking and cooling. A park policeman notes daily troubles, recounting a donation and a humorous misunderstanding in a clipped, partial excerpt.
The stock market notes report cattle and hog trends with bear prices on beef and a bullish hog market. Financiers face a glut risk as supply remains ample, with heavy cattle slipping from modest gains and light stock holding steadier. Lamb prices show modest declines after a late week peak. Shippers stay active as demand mirrors price shifts.
Plans call for forty one sectional tournaments across Iowa with each center hosting 15 to 20 nearby teams. First rounds begin March 1 or Feb 28, Eldora draws Webster City for its panel, and multiple towns including Clarion Dows Eldora Iowa Falls Radcliffe Stanhope and others enter. County and boys girls tournament schedules follow with byes and finals set for Feb 15 16 and Feb 22. Home Declamatory contest results and local notices cover honorees road funds and local incidents in Hardin County and Iowa Falls.
Iowa cattle feeders report eight percent more cattle on feed for market at January 1, 1929 than a year earlier. If all are marketed by March, this equals about 432,000 head. In early 1928 Iowa shipped over 400,000 head to market in three months and about 180,000 head of beef steers went to Chicago, roughly 42 percent of the region's early year receipts. The movement of stockers and feeders and other trends show continued high prices but signals toward a peak in the cycle, with restocking taking years. The report also notes a 1927 Yearbook finding that horses replaced by machinery reduce feed demand and increase land for other production.
The Eldora Community Club will host a meeting and dinner at Bateson Building on Tuesday evening February 12. Dinner served by the American Legion Auxiliary. Wives of members invited. Supt. von Krog discusses The Training School and its Relationship to Eldora. Fred Ford speaks on the Farmers' Co-operative Creamery. Evening open for general discussion.
A terse exchange centers on a boy asking about the bottom of family jars while an experienced speaker hints at illicit hootch. Billy confronts his father kissing the maid, prompting a misdirected glance for the mother. Thompson urges his son for glasses, revealing a misperception about parental affection.
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