Wyoming Chosen for Site Of Achievement Program
The Weeting Place gym in Wyoming is selected as the site for the 1940 county wide home project achievement day set for April 28 Mrs Sam Ellison Martelle county home project chairman announced leaders convened at the Legion hall Anamosa to plan the event and appointed committees for room lunch hostess exhibit and registration with many local residents attending the planning session.
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Wyoming School
Sam Ellison
Martelle
Legion Hall
Anamosa
Ellison
Clarence Reade
Frank Byerly
Tom Fichhorn
Peter Sievers
Harlan Russell
A. B. Cass
Ray Stivers
John Mayberry
George Fishwild
Henry Kramer
Clair Fayram
W. D. McLaughlin
Monticello
John Wilcox
Kenneth Meadow
Scotch Grove
Lloyd Hutton
Bernard Cass
Irza Ballou
Olin
O. T. Furst
Airt Engelking
H. C. Sievers
Patrolmen Lead Castle Grove Farm Bureau Highway Talk
Highway safety was the focus of the Castle Grove township Farm Bureau meeting held Friday at schoolhouse No 2. Patrolmen Swordes and Powers from the Cedar Rapids office led discussions on highway courtesy and traffic regulations.
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Castle Grove Township
Plans Underway For Bureau Baseball Team
Preliminary plans are under way to organize a baseball team to represent Jones county in the state Farm Bureau tournament. Players should contact Chairman Lee Crain or notify the Farm Bureau office. Farm Bureau members, their families and regularly employed help are eligible to play.
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Jones County
Farm Bureau
Lee Crain
Olin 4-H Club Discuss Farrowing at School
Twenty five members met at the Olin school for a discussion on sow care before farrowing and care after. They learned about marking pigs and starting them on feed. Lowell Arhendsen was elected president and announced the next meeting for April 24 at the schoolhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olin 4-H Club
Olin
Lowell Ahrendsen
Nearly Finished AAA Sign-Ups
County committees and clerical assistants from Cedar Clinton Dubuque Jackson Johnson Jones Linn and Scott counties met in Tipton to exchange ideas on AAA administration. Roy W. Dyas will lead, with topics covering 1940 compliance checks parity payments wheat 1940 county office procedures aerial photographs allotments 1941 and 1940 signup timing. Final 408 summaries await after May 1, with NCR-403 signup nearing completion and 1940 cropland participation to be totaled post May 1. Rock imbedded metals facts noted.
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Cedar
Clinton
Dubuque
Jackson
Johnson, Jones, Linn
Scott
Tipton
AAA
Roy W. Dyas
William Stanton, Jr
County Agricultural Conservation Association
Skimming Tales From Early Sand Springs Creamery
C K Greer recounts frontier creamery life in Sand Springs noting milk pricing by hundred pounds, equipment like churns and treading wheels, and evolving cooling methods. He recalls skim milk distribution, rivalries among patrons, boxing and social gatherings at the creamery, and a first patron story at Moody creamery.
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C. K. Greer
Sand Spring Mutual Cooperative Creamery
Mr. Greer
Sand Springs
CCC Begins Fence Changes for Erosion Control Plan
The Monticello CCC camp launches fence work tied to Soil Conservation Service er osion control on 15 farms in Jones Dubuque and Delaware counties. One thousand thirteen hundred and twenty rods of fence will be removed and nine thousand one hundred eighty seven rods added to enclose contour strip cropp ing areas and protect tree plantings with labor by CCC crews and materials supplied by farmers.
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CCC
Monticello
Soil Conservation Service
Jones
Dubuque
Delaware
F. L. Brinacombe
Frank King
John Britt
Delaware County
Herman Egger
Joe Manternach
Jones County
Lucille Embree Tops 4-H Record in Jones County
Lucille Embree of Mechanicsville has the top 4-H club record in Jones County for the fourth year, announced County Club Agent James Kearns. Her record book will enter the state contest to select four Iowa youths for the 4-H National Club Camp in Washington, D. C., in June.
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Lucille Embree
Mechanicsville
Jones County
James Kearns
Lucille
Iowa
Washington, D. C
Rome
Washington
Hawaii
4-H Girls Plan County Rally Day Meeting
Miss Fannie Buchanan an extension specialist from Iowa State college will visit to meet the county 4-H girls club committee at 10 o clock Saturday April 6 in the community room of the courthouse Anamosa. Afternoon session includes county club committee leaders assistants and one older girl from each club to finish plans and arrange club specifics. All clubs urged to attend.
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Fannie Buchanan
Iowa State College
Court House
Anamosa
County Benefit Dance Planned With Six Piece Orchestra
A county wide benefit dance is forecast to draw a record crowd says Lee Crain chairing the county sports committee. The event runs Friday at 9 p.m. in the Olin high school gym with Stone kine’s six piece orchestra scheduled to perform.
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Lee Crain
Olin High School
Stonekine
Efficiency in creamery markets shows near identical patron pay
The writer notes many farmers creameries operate independently taking in cream from various areas to make butter. Manufacturing costs are deducted from returns and the rest paid to patrons. End of year reports reveal the average price per pound of butterfat is nearly identical across creameries, indicating efficiency.
Smith Announces New Service on Fruit Spray
Jones county growers will receive spray timing reminders via a card service arranged with County Agent Carl Smith in cooperation with Dr. W. S. Edgecombe Iowa State College extension horticulturist. The program aims to ensure sprays are applied at the correct time to improve fruit quality, with specific chemical guidance provided for apples pears plums peaches and raspberries.
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Jones County
Rees
Carl Smith
W. S. Edgecombe
Iowa State College
Smith
County dairy meeting plans set for April 26 in county schools
Co. B Jessen Anamosa Nolan Zugschwerdt Olin and Frank Walker Monticello vocational agriculture instructors met County Agent Carl Smith and Club Agent James Kearns on Friday to organize 4-H and FFA dairy meetings in county schools on April 26. Ernest M. Wright of the Iowa State Dairy Association will visit to aid boys interested in dairying and will present dairying films.
Debt Advisors To Meet Friday Afternoon
The Jones County farm debt advisory committee will hold its monthly meeting at the court house in Anamosa at 1 p.m. Friday. Farmers seeking counsel may attend. J. Keith Noll, farm security superintendent from Cedar Rapids, will attend.
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Jones County Farm Debt Advisory Committee
Court House
Anamosa
J. Keith Noll
Cedar Rapids
Rites For Mother Of Amber Woman Held Sunday
AMBER Mrs. William R. Martens learned Thursday of the sudden death of her mother Mrs. G R Davis of Martinsburg. The Martens family left Friday and the funeral was held Sunday. Also notes on a bridge party hosted by Miss Julia Toenjes and Mrs. H A Toenjes with guests from Denver and area and prizes awarded. A separate item reports a 60th birthday dinner at Mrs. Minnie Schlemmer’s home honoring the guest list including Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Dorcas and others.
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Malinda Schlemmer
Minnie Schlemmer
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
Wayne Ladies’ Aid
Otto Otten
Alva Gerdes
Herman Zimmerman
Ed Meister
H. A. Toenjes
W. R. Zimmerman
Herman Helgens
Julia Toenjes
George Andrews
Margaret May
Elizabeth
Denver
Colo
Warner Heiken
Herman Folkers
Ed Herren
Helen
Bernice
George Siebels
Carl Schoon
Carl Folkers
Lena Folkers
Epworth
Albert Harms
Herman Harms
John Bodiker
W. W. Stickford
Hayo Schoon
Richard
John D. Poppe
Carl
Elwin Siebels
Louise Caspers
Louie Helgens
Harvey Helgens
Erich
Herman Hoefker
Harvey Siebels
Joe Ladehoff
John Wennekamp
Langworthy
Louie Porter
Hopkinton
Cecil Evan
Olin
Harold Porter
Will Jansen
Will Bramer
Maquoketa
Tom O'Toole
Albert Oltmans
Otto Danneman
Amber
William R. Martens
G. R. Davis
Martinsburg
Bridge
Michael Martin
Mary Shuflin
Phil Daly
Emma Zimmerman
Henry E. Dorcas
Lorene Dorcas
Lisbon
Marvin Clark
Martelle
Otto
Oxford Boys Hear CCC Technicians On Soil Erosion Work
Ralph Clark agronomist and Frank Mohler engineer from the Monticello CCC camp spoke to ten Oxford 4-H members and ten parents about Soil Conservation Service work to check soil erosion. Clark showed a film strip and Mohler a contour strip layout model. after talks, questions were answered. Following roll call on feed protein, Melvin Lazare spoke on halters for livestock.
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Ralph Clark
Frank Mohler
CCC
Monticello
Oxford Boys
Soils Conservation Service
Clark
Mr. Mohler
Melvin Lazare
Meeting at Latare Home Planned for May 6
A notice states the next gathering will be held at the home of Merlin and Melvin Latare on May 6. The brief item lists no additional agenda details or attendees.
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Merlin
Melvin Latare
Bolson's Fertilizer Promoted to Farmers
Farmers urged to switch from Bolson's Mineral Conditioner to Bolson's Fertilizer asking buyers to say Give me Bolson's. The ad touts the product as among the best and promises a noticeable crop difference at a low price.
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Bolson
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Wm. T. Jansen
Ray Peet
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Tom Eichhorn
Harlan
Russell
J. E. Ahrri
Castle Grove
Olin Boys
John McKenna
Creansery
Bill Greer
Moody Cream
Mrs. L. C. Lawrence
John
Cooperative Creameries
Veron Brockman
Earlville
Iowa Department of Agriculture
SPEC
Schlemmer
Kenneth and
Keith
Elsie Schlemmer
Clarence Drake
Clarence
Carl Schlemmer
Nashville
Carl Sieveka
Center Junction
Larry
Roy Streeper
Dave Taylor
Frank Johnson
LeRoy Taylor
Cletus Boland
Waterville
Boland
John Dirks
Henry Harms
Eileen Bohlken
Willie Harms
Louie Dirks
Otis Thomas
Will Dirks
T. R. Bohlken
Henry Freese
George Bodiker
Clarence Herren
Rhiny Wessels
Oliver Row
McCormick-Deering
Shaffer
Oxford
Stahler’s Shoe Department
Farmer’s Mutual Creamery Company
Fred Lehman
Monticello, Iowa
Darling
Mae
John Deere
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