First Farm Sale Opens Season in Quarry Area
September brings the public sale season with J W Brothers near Quarry offering horses cattle hogs and farm machinery in the first sale of 1911 712. Auctioneer Jobo B Manship and clerk G CO Reichsamen lead the listing while J R Manship promotes selling services and the Reporter office offers bill printing and advertising support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Brothers
Quarry
Jobo
Manship
G. CO
Reichsamen
Local Briefs and Fall Events at LeGrand
Local briefs list school opens Monday and Palmer college fall term starting September 19. State fair attendance noted with visits by H. C. Herbert, Wayne and Walter Reed, and multiple residents touring Des Moines. Arnolds' store advertises Red School House Shoes and fall dress goods. Articles mention local shoppers, visitors, and community notes including year meetings, conferences, and a urging of back-from-street barn placement by Bigelow as a civic example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer College
H. C. Herbert
Andrews
Messrs
Wayne and
Walter Reed
Ben Sawyer
John Krughel
E. L.condon
H. W. Trowbridge
Hiram Hammond
Hannah Farquhar
Geo. A. Deshler
Iowa
Oskaloosa
J. W. Piper
A. B. Kendall
Pres. Watkins
Central Iowa Christian Conference
Barnes City
P. M. Herbert
Geo. H. Carter
Mrs Margaret Sharp Dies After Long Illness At 71
Park Rapids Clipper reports Mrs Margaret Sharp wife of Thomas Sharp died at her Osage home after a prolonged cancer illness. Born May 30 1840 in Ohio she lived through Civil War hardships, widowhood, and remarriage to Thos M Sharp. Funeral held at Osage Baptist Church with Rev T W Milliken. Survived by husband and two children Alva C Deester and Florence Winship. she was last survivor of her family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Sharp
Park Rapids
Minn
Clipper
Sharp
Thomas Sharp
LeGrand Mills
Christian Church
Jacob Deeter
Alva C. Deeter
Florence V. Winship
Baptist
Osage
T.W. Milliken
Detroit
T. M. Sharp
Alva C. Deester
Conservation Congress to tackle soil fertility in Kansas City
Henry Wallace of Des Moines says the National Conservation Congress in Kansas City September 25 26 and 27 will focus on soil fertility. He argues virgin soil is exhausted and America must raise average yields through farming science and rural development addressing stock farming dairying and soil matter while highlighting leaders from University of Illinois Missouri and Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Wallace
National Conservation Congress
Kansas City
Des Moines
Congress
Wallace
Mr. Wallace
United States
Russia
India
England
Germany
America
Oyd Hopkins
University of Illinois
Illinois
Mumford
University of Missouri
Hoard
Wisconsin
Dairyman
Ton Fyck
University of Kansas
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Fidelity Savings Bank
Marshalltown, Iowa
E. M. Mills
LeGrand
Dy, M
ML Evans
LeGrand, Town
C. Lynn
Marshalltown
J. Swatzlander
Willbeat
L Town
Pickard
Brown - ST. John CO. Livestock Commission
Union Stock Yards
Ohio
Bert Everist
H. J. Bowen
LE Grand
Dray & Bus Line
Town Square
Arnolds
Anna Herbert
Elna ‘Hanson
Reuben Davis
Oft
Clemens
E. H. Sharp
Mary McClure
Gilman
Alice Robb
T. ©. Mikkelson
Sam ‘Tweed
Highland
J. R. Manship
M. M. Evans
A. T. Sawyer
R. M. Tweet
South Dakota
Racine
Chester
Barns
Bear
Bigelow
Conservation Congress
United Presbyterian
Farm Life Commission
Senate
Theodore Roosevalt
Gertrude Hanson
Tama
Chas. Reed
Kraghel
Reed
M. W. Perisho
Frank King
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
A.D. Summers
Savings Bank
Main & Center Sts
Marashalltown, Iowa
Simkins & Estel
Weo
W. K. Arnold & Sons
LE Grand and
Gowrie
Menagerie
Wild West
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