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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1954
Page
5
The Greenfield Good Luck club met at Martelle schoolhouse in October with Susan Peet presiding. Members agreed each girl would pay 10 cents monthly dues to the club treasury and the group planned to buy listening records and film for the club photographer.
The 4 H club held its meeting with officer installation and new member initiation. Adria and Andria Meeks Phyllis Kahler and Anita Streets gave talks and demonstrations. Ardyce Ver Non led recreation and Judy McDonald hosted the November 17 gathering. Luella Ricklefs led the business session where Christmas exchange names were drawn with a 75 cent to $1 limit. Elaine Ricklefs Mari Caren Paulsen and Judy McDonald also spoke or demonstrated.
At the November 26 meeting Janet Steari presided as members voted to buy 50 more boxes of Christmas cards and to donate the same amount to a Retarded Children's organization instead of a Christmas gift exchange. The club will carol and deliver cookies to the county home and elderly in Center Junction. Demonstrations were given by Jerie Catlett Shirley Stears Kathleen Catlett and Marlene Dirks.
Robert Bunting Edwin Parker Sonny Barber Elvin and John Walker were welcomed as new members at the November 3 meeting at the schoolhouse. Hosts were Jimmy Schmidt and Dora Stewart. New enrollment cards were filled out.
Xwayne Master Farmers Regular meeting was held Nov. 17 at the Wayne Center school. A new flag was purchased for use at meetings. Leader Galen Harms explained record books and projected next year’s projects. Five new members joined: Bob Ahlrichs, Larry Heeren, Billy Bohken, Susan Ballou and Doreen Streeper. The Christmas party program was planned. Leon Wilken, Roger Soper and Leonard Monk served refreshments.
Members filled enrollment cards during the November meeting hosted by Larry and Bobby Dusanek. David Brunscheen and Galen Horan demonstrated model gates to illustrate the topic. Committees appointed for the Christmas party include Recreation, food, program, and a volunteer quartet for Fun Night on December 14.
Miss Janet Archibald of Springville, bride-elect of Marvin Tapken, was honored at a Cedar Rapids bridal shower hosted at the home of Mrs. R. J. Salzbrenner on November 23. More than 40 relatives and friends attended with hostesses Mrs. Salzbrenner and Mrs. D. E. Emerson assisting. Refreshments followed gift opening as games and visiting filled the evening. The note cites the USSR’s federation formation on December 30, 1922.
Scotch Grove 4 H members Bert Ballou and Mr Buol plus 33 others traveled by chartered bus from Monticello to Chicago for the International Live Stock show. They visited a museum and watched wrestling at Marigold Gardens and greeted fighters ringside. The group included Tom Streets Willard Price Ken Paulsen and John Heiken. The Scotch Grove Farm Bureau plans a Dec 8 Christmas program at Rocky Ridge schoolhouse presented by Scotch Grove Sunshine 4 H girls. Residents head to Cedar Rapids and Davenport for various events while mentions of Christmas gatherings and family visits fill the week. Iceland has no railway and on July 18 1938 Douglas Corrigan landed in Dublin on his wrong way flight.
The 4-H WAY notes seven girls and three boys at the officers training school. Several exhibitors including Gene Luckstead Delbert Hodgden and Garth Grafft will travel to Chicago while Galen Harms attends the national 4-H club congress. December promises parties and baby beef weighings in the last week of the month.
In 1954 twenty six percent of Jones County farms complied with corn acreage allotments, representing 26 percent of cropland. Iowa statewide 43.4 percent of farm units were compliant, with 45.2 percent of cropland, and county figures ranged from Emmett County at 72 percent to three counties below 20 percent.
The 1955 corn acreage allotment program will apply in all Iowa counties as in 1954. Detailed information is being prepared by the Department of Agriculture in Washington to determine 1955 allotments for commercial corn areas. Counties will be notified of their allotments so they can set farm allotments and inform operators in February.
Jones county extension staff will attend the annual Towa Extension conference at Iowa State College from December 6 to 9. Joe E. Legg county extension director Helen M. Tucker extension home economist and Jerry Parsons county extension youth assistant will attend and participate in training in communications.
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