Maquoketa Valley REA Wins Big Loan for New Lines
Maquoketa Valley REA gains a 790000 loan from the National REA to build 88 miles of distribution lines in Jones, Jackson, Delaware, and Dubuque counties and to construct an Anamosa office building. The project will serve 183 signed members and include new substations and tie-in lines to improve service.
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Maquoketa
Maquoketa Valley
Anamosa
Anamosa City Park
Jones
Jackson
Delaware
Dubuque
Golden Wedding Anniversary Celebrated in Center Junction
Sunday marked a major milestone for Mr. and Mrs. George Voorhies as they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Center Junction with an open house and pot-luck. The couple, married in Anamosa on February 13, 1899, have three children and three grandchildren and have spent most of their lives in the area.
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George Voorhies
Center Junction
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Harold
Marie
Robert Reese
Good Heath
Scotch Grove Club Notes Host Bay Manship Talk
Twenty four women met at Mrs Ida Cass home for a Bay manship talk by extension specialist Miss Lucille Rea. County economist Emelda Kunan organized music and announcements. A pot luck supper and a district eight schoolhouse party plan followed. The Iowa Electric Co extends lines in Scotch Grove. two transformers placed on the John Stahlberg farm circuit. 4H club to meet Feb 19 at Mrs Louie Hanken’s home.
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Scotch Grove
Ida Cass
Lucille Rea
Emelda Kunan
Esther Sinclair
Windsor-Ransford
Anamosa
Joanne Wright
Joyal Farm Bureau
Irving Eilers
Kinion
It Ain't HAY by Ray
Hog prices rose for two consecutive days while an economist predicted a dip and rebound of two to four dollars per hundredweight. The piece notes rising seed sales, bromegrass planting in Jones county, Ladino clover and Birdsfoot trefoil adoption, and advances in mixed feed and egg yolk coloring. It highlights a cattle guard installation by the Schneiter family, gullies from improper farming near Cascade and Montecello, and soil conservation efforts with student Jim Heiken winning a conservation essay prize.
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Kansas City
Ray Naylor
Jerry
Ray
Jones County
Lincoln
Achenbach
Fisher
Cascade
Monticello
Jim Heiken
Louis Heiken
Izaak Walton
Jim
Heiken
Contour strip farming boosts yields in Monticello youth program
A Monticello public school sophomore and members of Future Farmers of America and Castle Grove 4 H club advocate level row farming. They describe higher yields and show peers focusing on productive farms rather than prizes.
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Monticello Public School
Future Farmers of America
Castle Grove
Bot and
la Verne Buol
Kenneth
Howie
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Maquoketa Valley Rea
Carl and
Paul Manternach
Si Loras College
Afro
Georgee Manternach
Carload
Ray Kreeb, Mer
Bess Erickson
St. Louis
Bertha Locher
William Thompson
Jud Nichols
Henry Becker
Dyersville
Meta Kasper
Carroll Padhaski
Laura Potterfeld
Rose Wenger
Florence Roberts
Norman Grassfield
Waverly
Harvey Good
Adelma Jean
Manchester
George Good
Paul Sachsland
Jimmy
Heinrich Paul
Ernest Wahl
Mrs
Earl Wahl
Ames
Roy Pearson
Glencoe, Tl
Phillip Harrington
Anamosa B.P.W. Club
Kula Orchestra
MR. and
Monticello Express
Michigan State
Ohio State
Stahlers’ Stores
Guo Ufreat
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Stuhler
Washington
Pittsburgh
Nicneill
Illinois
U.S
Bill Allen
Purina
Rotary
Fred Schneiter
George Schneiter
Fred
Lyle Behrends
BI An
Freese
Monticello, Iowa
E. H. Huibregtse
Monticello Monument CO
West First St
Oliver
Monticello Sales
Tom Eden and
Louie Hanken
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