Notes Of The Farm Excerpt At Ed Ruxton Home
At the home of Ed Ruxton he returns from town with peats and wire to build a new fence. He farms about 40 acres with 237 spring pigs, 40 other hogs, and thirty sheep. Mrs Ruxton owns two incubators ready to hatch. They live five miles east of town on the Grundy Center and Eldora gravelled road. The text notes a hen manufacturing plant and how egg output depends on hen type and care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Ruxton
Fred Upton
Upton
Wilbur Hudson
Art Ruxton
Art
Clarence Giblin
R. P. Henderson
S. EB. Davis
Feeding and Poultry Notes From Local Farms
The piece describes summer poultry feeding with a dry mash mix of oats corn and tankage or milk as substitute, plus constant access to grit oyster shell and charcoal. It records farm scenes at Fred Upton Earl Brooks Wilbur Hudson Art Ruxton and anecdotes about hens and brooders, plus orchard spraying guidance and ant pest control.
Eggs and poultry figures from a rural Michigan farm column
A reader asked about hatch times, with a paper replying three weeks for chickens and four for ducks. The notes describe Clarence Giblin and others northeast of town with acres, crops, hogs, cows, and hens setting, detailing counts of chickens, eggs, and incubator hatching.
Steamboat Rock Community News Highlights Local Visits
Steamboat Rock notes include Mrs Angie Gellhorn hosting the Ladies Aid Thursday afternoon and various visits by residents to Eldora Des Moines Hampton Waterloo and Marshalltown. The hall training school team postponed a rain game with the town team, an illustrated lecture on mission awards in Arca, and a farm bureau meeting at Mrs Roy Finater. Members of the Progress Club elected officers and planned a May meeting at Mrs Chas Starr’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid
Congregational Church
Angie Gellhorn
Edd Harris
Des Moines
J. G. Bridgens
Eldora
A. Ruppelt
Grundy Center
Winifred Grame
J. F. Muller
Anna Folkerts
Grace Frerichs
Jurn Frerichs
Eldora Hospital
Nellie Karsjena
Mra
Edd Karstens
Pearl Griffith
Wm. Griffith
Hampton Hospital
Mr. Griffith
Earl Perry
Farm Bureau
Roy Finater
W. A. Meyer
Gon. George
Wellaburg
Martin Nissen
Hampton
Dores Jaspers
D. Estrame
Monay
Fern Griffith
Waterloo
Presbyterian Church
Arca
Warren Starr
Progress Glub
Noyes
Vica Pres
Don McCaw
Sec'y
Treas
Chas. Starr
Henry Edick
Marshalltown
Dores
Hay
Bert Miller
Baby Pen
Blooming Prairie
Minn
Myre
W. Cartwright
Thomas Flesmer
May Smith
Ackley High School May Events Preview and Plays
Ackley H S outlines late spring schedule with May 2 game at Ackley May 10 County Tournament at Hubbard May 24 senior play Hearts and Diamonds May 25 Baccalaureate May 27 junior senior banquet and May 29 commencement speaker Prof J P Ryan Grinnell College Head of Public Speaking The May 2 program at the gym features an orchestra and high school girls in a musical and literary show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ackley High School
Ackley
Hubbard
J. P Ryan
Grinnell College
Marshalltown residents and workers noted this week
Mrs Jess Medue visits with her fireman husband who operates the steam shovel. A K Patterson left Tuesday for Thor Kansas to work for the C N W there. Mrs Matilda Birch hosts visitors and celebrates her 88th birthday. James Fuller suffered a minor chin injury when struck by a spike at work on Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jess Medue
Marshalltowns
A. K. Patterson
Thor
Matilda Birch
Lom] Wilson
Wiwarden
Will Lynas
St. Paul
Mike Lepley
St. Joe
Birch
James Fuller
Local Social Visits Reported Around Eldora and Des Moines
Mrs Sadie Freselle of Eldora and her mother Mrs M Gates visited last week. Mr and Mrs Vance Adams and Ron were guests in the Lewla Sprain home near Eldora Sunday. Virgil Glore stayed several days in Liscomb with his grandmother. Mrs D W Tower entertained sister Mrs S Perkins of Eldora Monday. John Fuller and Virgil Glore were in Des Moines on business. Mr and Mrs Frank Hoffman of Minneapolis visit Chas Morons home. Mesdames Guy and Lewis Campbell left for Quimby Indiana where their husbands work for a sand company. Mrs Mae Wood stayed with her mother Mrs M Gates over Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Freselle
Eldora
M. Gates
Vance Adams
Ron
Lewla Sprain
Virgil Glore
Liscomb
D. W. Tower
Mra. S. Perkins
el Flora
John Fuller
Des Moines
Mra
Frank Hoffman
Minneapolis
Mesdames
Guy and
Lewis Campbell
Auto
Quimby
The
Sand Company
Mae Wood
West Ellis Visitors and Local News Reflect Small Town Life
Mrs. Greenfield from Chicago visits relatives formerly Alma Brightwell. Local families share gatherings, illness notes, and travel updates including Cavern Strauss, Ruby Wood, Della Warner, and Bessie Thompson. Death of Cynthis Stuart prompts condolences. a nursing remark closes with a proverb on grievances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenfield
Chicago
Alma Brightwell
Boyd Moody
Clarence Stont
Little Cavern Strauss
Bessie Thompson
Donia
Harvald Haston
Tone Bullis
Little Ruby Wood
Della
Ida Bell Warner
Harry Warner
Will Clingerman
Racine
Diebler
Cynthis
Stuart
Miss Stuart
Mrs. Percy Marriage
Hinkley
Minn
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Ralph B. Hardy
Insurance Farm
City
E. E. McFarland
W. G. Leslie & Co
Optometrista
Eldora, Lows
Eldora Rendering Works
Ledger
Edmund Chiropractors
Loop
Earl Brooks
Earl
Anadreas
Ataga
FI ‘Ng
Wm. Roll
H. S
New Geerdes
West Ellis
Cecil Hife
John Pieper
Pasadena
Calif
Will Wood
Harry Lord
Nelson Lord
Mary Lou
R. E. Gardner
Nellie
Warner
Jone Bullis
Percy Martiage
B. Stuart
Clear Lake
L B Stuart
Hines, Minn
Crosley
N D
BH. Stuart
Teastrike
Cecil Nolte
Clint Clingerman
George Nolte
Vivian
August Voight
Steve Winians
Aiden
Eldora Creamery
H. Soballe, Prop
Eldora, Iowa
Haas CO
Ie Mount Vernon
Vernon
Down Stairs
New Swisses
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