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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1945
Page
2
A family guides readers to sugarless holiday sweets with recipes using corn syrup or honey. Includes Chocolate Fudge and Fruit Candies with steps, substitutions, and shaping ideas. Also notes government poultry buying raises prices and farm economist Francis Kutish comments on pullet programs and spring egg demand.
Iowa state's Farm and Home Week returns to a four day program on the Ames campus from February 11 to 14 1946 with radio coverage by WOI. The schedule features a corn exhibit homemakers day sheep horses and small grain beef dairy forage crops and soils daily mass meetings and various associations meeting including Rural Life and Fellowship Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Iowa Dairy Goat Association Swine Producers Agricultural Experiment Association Horse and Mule Breeders Lamb Feeders Beef Producers and Rural Young People Assembly dates to be announced.
A brief household tip advises rubbing gently with art gum to remove spots from wallpaper. It claims this will absorb dirt and grease and reduce stains effectively. The guidance emphasizes applying light pressure for best results.
The Clay Busy Bees 4 H girls held their annual Christmas party December 14 at 8 30 in the home of Edna Herren with Ruth Ann Wilcox as assistant host ess. The program featured readings and songs led by Marilyn Larkey Norma Waggoner Vivian Palmer Edna Herren Barbara Chatterton Phyllis and Shirley Harms Ruth Anne Wilcox and others. Prizes were won by Mrs Allen Chatterton and Mrs Harm Harris. A gift exchange followed and refreshments were served by the hostess with help from mothers present.
Monticello amateur boxers are invited to compete in the Golden Gloves tournament to be held in Clinton from February 19 to 23. Sponsored by the Clinton Herald, the event offers free entry, training locations, and air travel for winners to Chicago for the Tournament of Champions. Weight classes range from 112 pounds to heavyweight.
A Madison Wisconsin distributor sought 89 point butter but only 93 score butter was available, 2000 pounds bought. Buttermaker Robert Kopp notes a regional butter shortage as dairymen shift to cheese and sweet cream for higher profits.
Horticulturists at Town State College prescribe a bulb fumigation method to destroy thrips under gladiolus husks. Place bulbs in paper sacks with napthalene and seal airtight, fumigate four weeks, then separate flakes. Best done in December or January to avoid injury on dormancy break.
Merle Hutton recently purchased a dry cleaning establishment at Dodgeville Wisconsin. He received an honorable discharge from the army on October 23 after serving in Normandy North France Ardennes Rhineland and Central Europe. He has spent the past month with his parents Mr and Mrs Lou Hutton following his service and before entering the dry cleaning business he worked at Hargrave dry cleaning in Monticello.
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