Jones County Farm Bureau Nutrition Classes Schedule
The Jones County Farm Bureau lists a second lesson in this year's nutrition course for women titled Feeding the Sick. Ruth Cessna from Town State College leads sessions daily February 11 to 14 at 10 am to early afternoon in various farm-home locations. The Holstein Breeders association plans its annual banquet February 18 with officer elections and a Europe trip talk by Ernest Wright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Ruth Cessna
Town State College
Washington
Clay
Scotch Grove
Wayne
Irving Ellers
Center Junction
Richland
Lovell
Castle Grove
Cass
Walter Eby
Monticello
Madison
Wyoming
Oxford
Hale
Lyle Tompkins
Jackson
Fairview
Greenfield
Rome
Ray Stivers
Anamosa
William Vincent
Jones County Holstein Breeders Association
Ernest Wright
Town State Dairy Association
Wright
Europe
United States
Holstein Breeders' Association
Porter to visit county for cow testing program work
A. R. Porter, new dairy husbandry extension staff member, will visit the county on February 14 to promote the cow testing association. He will collaborate with Wendell Donnelly, tester, and is known for managing Towana dairy farm at Davenport and judging Jones county fair dairy classes for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Porter
Wendell Donnelly
Anamosa
Porter
Donnelly
Towana
Davenport
Jones County
County ag planning committee advances soil program
Jones county agricultural planning committee met with Iowa State College experts to classify soil types and map acres by type. A crop rotation plan, soil fertility, and erosion control were discussed with a series of winter meetings planned to inform farmers. Women’s home project holds Saturday session. nutrition programs gain favor and may expand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Agricultural Planning Committee
F. S. Watkins
Soils Department
Randall Kiemme
Agricultural Economic Department
Iowa State College
Washington
William Stanton Jr. Bernard
Washington Township
L. T. Lorenzen
Wyoming
Madison Township
Herman Helgens
Monticello
Wayne Township
Ray Stivers
Olin
Jackson Township
Mr Conaughy
Martelle
Greenfield Township
Women's Home Project
Harlan Russell
Farm Bureau Leader Joins National Rural Electrification Board
President E A O Neal of the American Farm Bureau federation accepts appointment by Secretary Henry A Wallace to a national farm committee advising the rural electrification administration. The committee, set up at Morris L Cooke RFA admin request, must influence RFA policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Henry A. Wallace
National Farm Committee
Rural Electrification Administration
Wallace
Morris L. Cooke
RFA
February issue of The Nations Agriculture magazine highlighted Farm Bureau topics
The February issue of The Nation’s Agriculture, the official magazine of the American Farm Bureau Federation, covers resettlement jobs new adjustment patterns Americanization political foresight advertising benefits rural youth Congress inside trading with neighbors agriculture under the microscope homemakers page meetings and a party. It notes more than 900 letters were received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
United States
Nation’s Agriculture
American Farm Bureau Federation
Ita
Congress
Nation Agriculture letters praise January issue
Readers including American Farm Bureau Federation members praise the January issue of The Nation's Agriculture for its makeup and character. The magazine is distributed to Farm Bureau members at no cost as part of the organization's service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nation's Agriculture
American Farm Bureau Federation
Snow blocked roads shape Anamosa news items
Weather and transport issues loom over Anamosa with roads blocked by snow. William Slimmer of Olin suffers appendicitis and is transported by sled to Mercy hospital. Anamosa Farmers Creamery reports 1935 sales and average butterfat price. City council questions state audit bills and Cedar Rapids lodging costs. County supervisors miss a meeting due to snow, now rescheduled. Farm transfers include Earl McConaughy to W D Frantz and acreage sales near Martelle with ownership changes pending March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Slimmer
Olin
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa Farmers Creamery Company
Anamosaa
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa
Board of Supervisors
Earl McConaughy
W. D. Frantz
Martelle
Frantz
Carl Armstrong
Production Credit Assn Holds Annual Meeting With New Directors
At Turner hall January 31 the Davenport Production Credit Association re elected Peter Beck Maquoketa and William Davidson Stanwood to three year terms on its board. Meiburg Randolph and Ran dolph remained as officers and directors with about 54 farmers attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner Hall
Davenport Production Credit Association
Peter A. P. Beck
Maquoketa
William Davidson
Stanwood
Beck
Mr. Davidson
Association
W. F. Meiburg
Davenport
J. O. Shaft
Camanche
George F. Randolph
Albert Carroll
Clinton
Scott
Muscatine
Cedar
Jones
Jackson
Rrower-Stockholders
E. R. Heaton
E. A. Storz
Production Credit Corporation of Omaha
Ed Lacey
Clinton County
Ralph Wingert
William H. Davidson
Cedar County
H. J. Farnsworth
Muscatine County
A. E. Carroll
Scott County
Melvin Joiner
Jackson County
N. F. Ll
A. R.S. Blake
Morrell Leeds
R. B. Herr
Lee Riggs
Trouble Shooters Travel Snowbound to Repair Line
Otto Hagan of the Trouble Shooters office attempted to fix a country line in Sac City and Sac County. He faced blocked roads, lost his team, fled, then hiked with skis and a roll of wire through biting cold to restore the connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sac City
Sac County
Otto Hagan
Harvest Delays Hit Cedar River Ice Cut at Waverly
Workers on the Cedar River at Waverly Bremer county faced delays as ice thickness varied from too thin due to snow to too thick from bitter cold. After a week they will pause again until ice thaws to workable conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar River
Waverly
Bremer County
Center Junction Obituary and Community Notes
Rickels 49 died at home east of Center Junction after a life spent in the area. He married Wilhelmina Lang in 1910. survivors include five children and five sisters and three brothers. Funeral at Presbyterian church Center Junction Thursday at 2. Burial Scotch Grove cemetery. Also reports postponed shippers meeting, a Presbyterian Ladies Band sewing session, and church events with committees named and details of meals. Weather and coal shortages affect town. schooling and creamery closed. various visits and social club activities noted. East Cascade first graders score 33.3 in nationwide reading test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Rickels
Gerd
Margrethe Bohiken Rickels
Scotch Grove
Center Junction
Wilhelmina Lang
Louise
Willard
Lincoln
Lettie
Fay John
Kent Moats
G. Hughes
Presbyterian Church
A. Alyea
Shippers Association
Augusta Norris
Presbyterian
Elmer Andrews
Prahm
Robbie
Chase
Carrie Preas
Ethel Courtney
Nelson
Dawes
Fred Carson
Alyea
Kitchen
James Livingstone
John Livingstone
Andrew Serbousek
Willis Martin
J. N. Smith
Irving Esler
Lou Ahraken
Paul Smith
J. M. Moses
T. E. Stanton
S. G. Thompson
Frank Husman
Belle Dodson
John Carson
Ella Schrader
Guy McDonald
Onslow
Wyoming
Olin
Winifred Robbie
Stanwood
Evelyn Robbie
Shellsburg
R. S. Robbie
Maurice McNeilly
Harley Bulgren
Lyman Thompson
Cedar Rapids
George Burch
Harm Dirks
Monticello
Birds Best Friend Traveling Salesman Feeds Cold Weather Birds
A salesman based in Fort Dodge Webster county carries a half bushel of cracked corn to feed birds stranded by snow. He stops when he sees flocks on the highway and scatters feed, noting that birds gather in great numbers for the winter sustenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dodge
Webster County
Wyoming News Roundup Highlights Local Events and Accidents
Alvin Brunscheen 17 suffered frostbite on both hands while shoveling snow to free his truck after aiding a stalled motorist west of Wyoming. Otto Rohwedder reported a horse valued at 225 dollars dead near the Herman Rathje farm. A bus outage left roads drifted preventing school transport. Local Golden Gloves attendees from Wyoming included La verne Carson and others. Births noted at three area homes and social club activities reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin. Brunscheen
Henry Brunscheen
Wyoming
Otto Rohwedder
Herman Rathje
Cedar Rapids
Laverne Carson
William Ravenscroft
Melvin Thomson
Ernest Weller
Elmer Buckingham
Gordon
Charles Marshall
Henry Broderson
Howard Day
Claude Sears
Hoeven
David Jones
Gus von Sprecken
Social Card Club
Emma von Sprecken
Anna Carstensen
August Jansen
Earl Wneggy
Sioux City
George Ireland Jr
Will Husmann
Fred Buchholtz
Ald Society
M. E. Church
Tree Sparrow Notes and Local Readings
This Monticello Express editor notes a bird series on wintering Tree Sparrows in Iowa with details on their behavior and seed diet. It lists honor roll pupils at East Cascade school and reports on local weather disruptions, medical updates, and business ads from Cascade Harness and Shoe Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Cascade
Norma Nachtrieb
Maribel Freeman
Mary Irene McNally
Ebien McNally
Milton Koppes
Bernadine Nevens
Kathleen Barrett
Marian Nachtrieb
Ray Hunter
St. Martin's Church
Thomas Rooney
Bernard Gavin
Gavin
Mercy Hospital
Lloyd Hoffman
Mary Ressler
Cascade Harness and Shoe Hospital
Cascade
Louis Saints
Local notes from Sand Spring and area visits
Mrs. Fred Egger traveled to Des Moines for her ill daughter Mrs. Dean Morton with Mr. Egger accompanying to Cedar Rapids where Morton’s condition improved later. A party at J L Batchelder home and several visits by residents to Cedar Rapids, Monticello, Edgewood, and Freeport mark a busy week in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Egger
Des Moines
Dean Morton
Egger
Cedar Rapids
Morton
Leo Bohlken
Lucille Bohlken
D. Schoon
Miss Dirks
Amber
John Eden
Monticello
J. L. Batewelder
Clarence Lasche
Louis Smith
Worthington
Smith
Florence Murray
George Helms
Billy
Monticella
W. Murray Jr
Hopkinton
Charles Stevenson
Clarence Siefert
Norma Jean
St. Paul
John Batchelder
Peter Peutz
Cascade Airs Honors Volunteers Rescue on Snowbound Road
A driver, a physician and a parish priest accompanied a seriously ill boy as thirty volunteers shoveled a snowbound Cascade to Monticello route to reach McDonald memorial hospital. Dr Beddoes praised the workers for saving the young life and preventing certain death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cascade
Monticello
Melvin Koppes
McDonald Memorial Hospital
James Delay
H. C. Baldwin
Des Moines
William Mundell
Artillery
Fort Des Moines
John Mundell
Virginia Mundell
American Legion Auxiliary
D. D. Moore
East Cascade
C. D. Baldwin
Helen Baldwin
Dubuque
Andrew Pedersen
Peter Pedersen
Death of William Rickels at J R McNeilly Farm
William Rickels 47 died Monday at his home on the J R McNeilly farm. He leaves wife Minnie Lange Rickels and six children Willard Lincoln Join Louise Lottie, plus three brothers and five sisters. Funeral at Center Junction Presbyterian Church with burial in Scotch Grove cemetery. A Women’s Community Club travel program is planned for February 19 if conditions permit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Rickels
J. R. McNeilly
Gerd Rickels
Willard
Lincoln
Join
Louise
Lottie
Rickels
Minnie Lange
John Lange Sr
G. J. Rickels
Atkins
Car
Henry
G. J. Hughes
Willard Himebaugh
Scotch Grove
Frank Pelkey
Wyoming
Kent Moats
Center Junction
August Bahl
Richards
George Oltman
Presbyterian Church
Women's Community Club
R. A. Naylor
Where I Would Like to Go and Why program review
Three talks given by Mrs May Himebaugh Mrs R A Naylor and Mrs H J Dirks formed the program with Mrs Zirkelbach directing the month’s stunt Edwin Craig and John Stahlberg Jr hosted a bobsled ride and oyster supper at the F B Craig home Guests from Mechanicsville Martelle and Amber were noted and the school closed due to bad roads
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone
May Himebaugh
R. A. Naylor
H. J. Dirks
Zirkelbach
Edwin Craig
John Stahlberg Jr
F. B. Craig
Mary Joy Finne
Mechanicsville
Lunatra Sinclair
Marvin Leacock
Robert Peet
Martelle
Finnegan
Miss Sinclair
Wilma Craig
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jones County Farm Bureau
Cow Testing Association
Home Project Committee
O'Neal
The
Anamosa Eureka
Production Credit Assn
William Walter
Elmer Johnson
Mary Tompkins
John Jurgensen
Ernest Reitz
C. T. T. Club
S. V. Williams
John von Sprecken
William Peck
Hawthorne Club
August Thomson
Phoenix
Arizona
Rooney
East Cascade High School
Coordinated Studies In Education
Minneapolis
Minn
East Cascade Public School
Birds
Tree
Monticello Express
Towa
T. G. Scott
George Hendrickson
Towa State College
Ames
Cascade Airs
Thomas J. Lane
D. O. Sinclair
Willms-Heeren
Joe Fisher and His Orchestra
Ee Letts
Northwestern
Bell Telephone Company
Buick
BILES
McLaughlin Buick Co
South Cedar St. Monticello
Iowa
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