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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1928
Page
11
Numerous groups meet weekly in Eldora area homes and parks including Needlecraft and Lake Party gatherings. Utopia and Loyal Women hold year end and Friday meetings, while P. E. O. and various church classes conduct social events and quilt making. Reunions for Cable and Eilers families, Wa-tan-ye club formation, and a large park picnic conclude a busy social slate.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture imposes a new rule requiring buyers to file with the department the distinctive features of any cream grades not conforming to the standard. Buyers may continue using department grades, but using other grades requires a filed statement. The rule aims to promote grade based buying to improve cream quality, butter value, and producer income.
The case of Rose, an employee of Central States Electric Co., buying land in Ackley to claim taxpayer status, seeks to enjoin a contract with Fairbanks Morse for converting the municipal plant from direct to alternating current. The matter was not tried before adjournment at Pidtora and may resume in fall. Fairbanks Morse & Co. attorneys and the town attorney are ready. An appeal by Central States Electric Co. from the permanent injunction against the Hadley line was submitted in May and will likely be decided by the supreme court in June.
The state cigarette department reports May 1 1927 to April 10 1928 revenue of 1 070 378 78 with stamps sold increasing from 887 808 20 the prior year. April sales rose to 84 466 85 from 68 225 45 reflecting higher cigarette use.
The following teachers have been elected for the coming year A C Halden superintendent Marguerite Temple Fulton Di principal and English Faye Gwinn Swan domestic science Mabel Beehm Greeley Latin and eighth grade Dores F Brown Wyoming sixth and seventh grades Eather Baving Forestria fourth and fifth grade Trane Christiana city second and third grades Lynne Platt Knoxville primary work.
The Methodist Church outlines Sunday morning sermon on Knowledge by Do a The theme for evening will be at Task. Sunday school and Epworth return to usual hours.
A collection of brief, folksy vignettes and jokes from a historical page includes a playful marriage exchange with a parson, a Maryland farmer’s breakfast calm before illness, a whiskey trial line, a sun moonshine pun, an auto collision quip, and a dash of courtroom humor about India and a drugged prisoner.
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