17 Oct 1929
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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1929
Page
1
Housekeeping focus moves to Sioux City with Miss von Krog and Mr. Gaffney, a State University of Iowa journalism graduate, as connections form amid college circles. Plus local school notes from Hughes and Hardin County deeds, crops, and a humor line about mufflers.
Practical notes cover desserts like Apple Betty and fruit bettys, whipped cream dressings for salads, veal seasoning ideas, cattle losses and farm management to reduce stress and improve weight gain, Swiss chard prep and serving, Lamb leaflets, dairy cow calving care, cockerel growth, Johnson grass meadow rotation, leather care with greases, milk cleanliness with small ton pails, and continuous pig growth guidance.
The article discusses how overloading young horses can cause bulkiness and punishment for tasks they cannot perform can have the same effect. It notes sheep suffer parasites more than other livestock and lists measures like pasture rotation, forage crops, feeding from tracks, draining swamps, and restraining wandering dogs as valuable. It also mentions the naked and hungry in China are different, not trying to keep in style or reduce.
Steamboat Rock residents and visitors share Sunday gatherings at multiple homes. Edna Burns leaves for Waterloo for restaurant work. Otto Neilson closes out furniture sale after selling the local creamery. he and Mrs. Neilson plan trips to Des Moines and then Denmark to see relatives.
NEW PROVIDENCE CG. R. Andrews of the high school has installed a radio in one classroom and plans to let his agricultural class hear lectures from Ames. They enjoyed part of the world series last week. Post office repairs and garnish refinishing have brightened the interior under the postmistress. New mailbox numbers were added. Marie Wilson spent Sunday with Penn College friends at Oskaloosa. Mrs. Luella Faris and others visited the Rufus Faris home in Marshall county. Mr. Faris celebrated a birthday. Mrs. T B Chance and relatives drove to Waverly to see Frank Caster’s hospitalization following a horseback injury to Ray Croc, age about thirteen. Rev. and Mrs. Foster shopped in Marshalltown. Mr. and Mrs. J H Conrad celebrated a birthday at R G Conrad’s home. a birthday cake was had for BE. F Morris’s new Ford. Howard Shives of South Dakota visited O E Shives in town. The baseball team defeated St. Anthony 11 to 0 on the home grounds Tuesday. Glen Shockey and family visited friends near Iowa Falls Sunday. Wilbur Davis and family visited Rhodes and Marshalltown relatives on Sunday.
A reader’s classifieds list items for sale and rent including a residence on 14th Ave at a bar gain to contact Henry W. Sedvert, the 16th Ave rental by Mrs Thalia Edick, the Brooks farm of 125 acres near Eldora via I H Merrick, a complete set of orchestra drums owned by Alice Needham, a pure bred Percheron stallion listed by L V Carter, Maude Scurry’s Pine Lake cottage, a modern six room house, a Winchester 12 gauge pump gun, and a job ad for a girl at Way side Inn plus various aprons and produce offers from J C Penny Company and Mrs John Wehrman.
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