Perennial Flower Meet Set for Monday in Jones County
Jones county homemakers will meet Tuesday at 10:00 in Monticello community building and 1:30 in Onslow community hall to hear L C Grove from Town State college extension discuss dependable perennial varieties May to frost. Slides will show trials and garden pest control methods.
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Jones County
L. C. Grove
Town State College Extension
Jones County Farm Bureau
Monticello
Onslow
Grove
County Office Warns Against Refunds Solicitors
The Jones County Soil Conservation office warns farmers about solicitors promising refunds of processing taxes. William Stanton Jr notes schemes have persisted since 1986 claiming refunds under current or future laws. He stresses there is no law authorizing such refunds and urges against engaging intermediaries or yielding funds to false representations.
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Jones County Soil Conservation Office
William Stanton
Stanton
Internal Revenue
Congress
Wyoming Hog Drive Tops Market at $5.10 Cwt
Chris Eichhorn of near Wyoming sold 75 prime butcher hogs averaging 257 pounds at Chicago stock yards. The entire drove brought $5.10 per cwt., top price for the weights, with no hogs sorted out.
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Jones County
Chicago
Chris Eichhorn
Wyoming
Wyoming 4 H Boys Meet at Dennistons
Richard Eichhorn spoke to ten Wyoming 4 H boys and seven guests at Gene Denniston home January 22 about his Boys Short Course at Ames. A program planning committee was named and a party with the Wyoming 4 H girls was planned. After lunch hosted by Mrs Denniston members played games.
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Richard Eichhorn
Wyoming
Egg Production Costs and Profits in Poultry Farming
An Indiana farmer details weekly costs for 200 hens: 151 lb corn 124 lb oats 103 lb balancer, totaling $6.40 for feed and 70 dozen eggs produced, earning $7.18 that week. He argues lowering production costs boosts profits and offers tips to cut costs and increase output.
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Indiana
February Farm Activities Schedule From Jones County Bureau
The Jones County Farm Bureau lists February meetings and events across Monticello Anamosa Onslow Olin and surrounding communities. Highlights include Grass and Legume Silage Discussion February 2 and numerous 4-H Girls and Boys activities plus Tree Planting and Soil Conservation discussions throughout the month.
Leader Urges 4-H Market Litter Club Members to Choose Gilts
4-H club leader Jim Kearns calls for enrollment by February 1 1940 with a closing date of April 1 1940. Pigs farrowed Feb 1 to Apr 1 1940 are eligible for the Jones County fair.
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Jim Kearns
Market Litter Club
Jones County
Plans Complete For Legume Meet Friday
Plans are complete for the second grass and legume silage tour and meeting in the county tomorrow. The event starts at 1 15 pm at the Monticello community building with silage samples from nearby farms. Rex Beresford and Floyd Johnson of Iowa State College will attend. George Mitchell of Marion will describe his grass and legume silage cutting machine. H D Schnittjer of Delhi, an experienced user, is also expected.
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Monticello
Rex Beresford
Floyd Johnson
Iowa State College
George Mitchell
Marion
H. D. Schnittjer
Delhi
Jones County 4 H boys health champion James Miller
Jim Kearns reports on Jones County 4 H activities in Cedar Rapids area. James Miller underwent an appendectomy at St Luke s hospital in Cedar Rapids Saturday January 20. Merle Jansen had leg surgery at Mercy hospital Anamosa and is doing fine.
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Jones County
James Miller
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
James
Merle Jansen
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
Numerous Conclusions Flourish for Dickens Mystery Drood
The unfinished Edwin Drood has inspired more than 450 endings since Charles Dickens died in 1870. Readers and authors alike have crafted divergent resolutions, exploring characters and motives in myriad imagined finales.
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Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens
McLaughlin Re-elected Leader of Soil Improvement Group
W D McLaughlin, Castle Grove farmer, was re elected president of the Monticello Soil Improvement association at its January 22 meeting. Officers include James Littlefield vice president Lee Streets secretary Paul Schuetz treasurer John Hein and directors Herman P Egger Warren Winch plus others. The group formed last November to support CCC soil conservation work with a two dollar membership and plans erosion control across six watersheds totaling 8319 acres with limestone crushing contracts already in place. A Mother Daughter luncheon is planned February 24 at 1:00 pm at Anamosa Catholic church. tickets to club leaders and committee women. Final lunch plans to be announced later.
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Jones County Farm Bureau
Monticello
Court House
Anamosa
Onslow
Maquoketa
Wyoming Township Farm Bureau
Electric Farm Motors
Olin High School
Wyoming City
Onslow Community Hall
Greenfield Township Farm Bureau
REA Cooperative
Catholic Church
W. D. McLaughlin
Castle Grove Township
John Hein
Richland Township
Otto Danneman
Wayne Township
Wendy Marek
Cass Township
Jones County
Herman P. Egger
Cascade Township
Dubuque County
Warren Winch
Union Township
Delaware County
McLaughlin
CCC
Plan Meeting On Diseases of Grain At County Seat
Jones county farmers meet at the courthouse Monday at 1 15 PM with J H Standen Iowa State college extension plant pathologist to learn chemical dust control of seed borne diseases including stinking smut and barley stripe Damping off and seedling blight discussed with mercury dust. A motion picture on Crop Disease Control and a 1988 national corn husking contest video will be shown. Farmers may bring questions on plant diseases or weed control.
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J. H. Standen
Iowa State College Extension
Jones County
Court House
Carl Smith
Smith
Standen
What Can I Wear What clothes can I wear
At the Worth while Homemakers club meeting on January 24 at Mrs. Delmar King’s home Mrs. Max Specht and Mrs. J E Ahlrichs analyzed each woman’s type and tested colors. A pot luck dinner was served at noon and participants left with a new cheerful outlook on being better dressed through project work.
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Max Specht
J. E. Ahlrichs
Delmar King
Cattle in York Nebraska Struggle After Eating Marijuana
Local cattle near York Nebraska stagger and lose balance after grazing on marijuana weeds. A veterinarian explains the herd’s disorientation is caused by the drug in the fields affecting their senses.
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York, Neb
Norman Martens Elected As New Center Junction Fire Chief
The Center Junction annual meeting saw Norman Martens elected to succeed nine year fire chief Abram Alyea who resigned. The new chief will appoint assistants later. The meeting also noted refreshments by Mrs. Alyea. Community events included the Cooperative Creamery annual meeting and a Methodist Ladies Aid hot lunch for 114 people.
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Center Junction
Abram Alyea
Alyea
Norman Martens
Center Junction Co-operative Creamery Ronineny
Methodist Ladies Aid Society
John Mayberry
Oria Dawes
George Plueger
Arthur Wilcox
F. D. Sutherland
Fred Welch
Harm Dirks
Herbert Cox
W. H. Hansen
Arnold
John Alyea
Ruth
John McNeilly
Laurel
Lois Naylor
Merlin Moses
McDonald Hospital
Monticello
Franz Charbonneaux
S. K. Thompson
S.G. Thompson
S. W. Clark
Women’s Missionary Society
S. G. Thompson
T. E. Stanton
Peter Prahm
Arnold Upland
Ames
R. W. Brady
Lisbon
Elmer Schrader
Robert Ralston
Champaign
Catherine Thompson
Maquoketa
Dick Thompson
Lenox
Aviation chairs and literature professorships funded by magnate
Bir Basil Zehatoff, a munitions magnate, set up chairs of aviation at the Universities of Paris Petrograd and London and endowed the Marshal Foch and Field Marshal Haig chairs of French and English literature at Oxford and Paris universities.
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Ditions
Bir
Basil Zehatoff
Paris
Petrograd
London
Marshal Foch
Oxford University
Field Marshal Haig
Paria University
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Frank Priebes
Litter Club
Edwin Andrews
Edwin
Irvin Sievers
Bill Reade
Clay
Thomas Hartley
Morley
Richards
Walker
Frank Walker
Mr. Walker
Lewis Burrichter
Roland Buel
Samuel McNeill
Hopkinton
Soils Improvement Association
Harold Alyea
Clinton
A. Alyea
N. C. Holst
Montana
Frank Himebaugh
Helen
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Frank Livingstone
Hugh Keister
Canton
Mra
Bernice McCarty
Traer
Chester White
Iowa
J. B. Seehusen
W. E. Tuetken
Monticello, Iowa
Bolson
Farmer’s Mutual Creamery Company
Fred Lehman
Center Junction Creamery Company
Jone H. W. Cox
Quality Poland
Saber Coon
M Thurs
Paenlge
Grid’ Chan
Diamond
Model King
Queen Marie
Baronet
Black Diamond
Paria Endee King
Helgens Brothers
Duncan
Null
Bebee
Animosa
Earlville
Jones County Produce
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John Deere G. P
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Farmers Implement Company
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Madison Township
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McCormick
J. A. Larimer
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