Jones County Farm Bureau Begins 25th Year Of Service
The Jones County Farm Bureau marks its 25th year this month led by newly elected president C F Grafft. A 1940 board of directors meets at the court house to organize plans including a celebration at the next county meeting. Officers include R Grafft as president and H A Deischer as vice president with Don Wherry as secretary and William T Jansen as treasurer. Directors span Monticello Anamosa Olin and other townships with local farm leaders named.
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Jones County Farm Bureau
C. F. Grafft
Olin
Farm Board of Directors
Farm Bureau
Court House
County Farm Bureau
Board of
R. Grafft
H. A. Deischer
Monticello
Don Wherry
Wyoming
William T
Jansen
Anamosa
W. D. McLaughlin
R. D. Finnigan
Martello
S. H. Ellison
Home Project
Fred Heiken
Castle Grove Township
Lloyd Hutton
Lovell
John Hein
Richland
Harold Larson
Cass
Otto Danneman
Amber
Wayne
Bernard Cass
Scotch Grove
Scotch Grove Township
C. H. Myers
Fairview
Lee Crain
Jackson
A. C. Lincoln
Edison
D. J. Wasson
Onslow
Wyoming Township
H. J. Schmidt
Lisbon
Greenfield
H. D. Smith
Hale Township
Harro Ingwersen
Morley
Rome
C. T. Furst
Oxford Junction
Oxford Township
Early chicks pay big returns says Frank Priebe weekly letter
In his Poultryraisers column Frank Priebe argues starting chicks in February yields about 1.73 dollars per hour, far above March or April starts. He notes flock size boosts earnings, with 500 plus birds earning 1.81 dollars per hour, and says most farms still have under 100 chickens.
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United States
The Art of Carving Pork Loin
Instructions show loosening the backbone during cooking and placing the roast on a board for backbone removal. A single knife sweep frees the bone while ribs face the carver as a guide. The carver steadies the roast with a fork and slices thin portions for tempting presentation.
Large Jones County Hog Shipment Tops Chicago Trade
An 132 head consignment from Wyoming Iowa appears among light butcher hogs at the Chicago Stock Yards. The pigs averaged 182 pounds and sold at 6.05 per cwt, near the day’s top for light weights. The midweek high reached 6.15 per cwt with Wednesday’s session averaging 5.70, the best in five weeks.
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Chicago
Wyoming
Iowa
Jones County
Third Series of Home Project Training Schools Next Week
Miss Elizabeth Peterson from Iowa State College will visit the county January 9 10 11 and 12 to present the third training school lesson to home project leaders. The lesson titled Personal Design in Dress covers individual color and line preferences and how to test materials. About 103 leaders will receive the lesson material from Miss Peterson and share it with over eight hundred women in local home maker study groups.
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Elizabeth Peterson
Iowa State College
Peterson
Farmers Attend Hog Cholera Vaccination School
Seventy one farmers from Jones county gathered at the Anamosa courthouse for a hog cholera vaccination school. The Farm Bureau organized it at farmer request with Dr. K W Stouder from Iowa State College leading the course. Sixty two attendees passed the exam toward a state permit to vaccinate their own hogs.
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Jones County
Court House
Anamosa
Farm Bureau
K. W. Stouder
Iowa State College
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Spanish and United States histories of land ownership
A historical note explains that Spain once controlled a major portion of lands that now form the United States, highlighting shifts in sovereignty and territorial claims over centuries.
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Spain
United States
Light Increase In Local Rail Shipments
An 82 car rise in 1989 over 1938 was handled by the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul station as reported by agent M B Leonard. The year total reached 1 208 cars with gains in both inbound and outbound traffic. Leonard credited better business and lower Milwaukee to Monticello shipping rates.
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Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul
M.B. Leonard
Monnings
Sand Spring
Langworthy
Monticello
Leonard
Farmers Shipping Association of
Chris Reiter
C. A. McLaughlin
Walter Bohren
Fred Shover
George Manternach
M. J. Keneally
93 Corn Loans Completed For 81 000 Bushels
The county reports 93 corn loans completed totaling 81 838 bushels with checks totaling $81 006.87 arriving. Distributions occurred at Monticello and Anamosa with Wyoming today. Aggregate payments reach $274 474.49 from 1 699 checks. moisture averages 16 percent.
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Agriculture Conservation Program
Monticello
Anamosa
Wyoming
Four Farm Bureau Leaders Head Iowa Convention Program
The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation announces a January event in Des Moines featuring four regional leaders Arthur Packard Floyd Spencer R W Blackburn and Burke Burn as headliners under the theme A United Front for American Agriculture They will speak January 18 along with Dr C E Ayres head of economics at the University of Texas Officials say another leader will be added to the list
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Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Des Moines
United Front
American Agriculture
Arthur Packard
Vermont Farm Bureau
Eastern Agriculture
Floyd Spencer
Louisiana Agricultural Conservation Committee
Southern Agriculture
R. W. Blackburn
American Farm Bureau
National Organization and
Western Agriculture
Blackburn
California Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Onslow 4-H Club Elects Officers At Regular Meeting
Fifteen members and ten parents attend the Onslow 4 H Stock club meeting at Jack Orr home. Officers elected include President Boyd Chatterton Vice President Billy Callahan Secretary Jack Orr Treasurer Kenneth Heeren News Reporter Richard Nims. New record books and feeding bulletins issued. Thomas Keating added to membership. William Reade named leader.
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Onslow
Jack Orr
Boyd Chatterton
Billy Callahan
Kenneth Heeren
Richard Nims
Thomas Keating
William Reade
Velma Nielsen
Larkin Club
Dora Martens
Fannie Hicks
Louise Gutzeit
Jennie Jordan
Thelma Gill
Sam McCarty
Marguerite McCarty
Sunnycrest
Dubuque
McCarty
August Ahrendsen
Emil Paulsen
E. Horton
Fred Ladehoff
M. P. Paulsen
Peter Sievers
Wyoming
E. K. Peters
E. F. Paulsen
W. K. Kennedy
Eleanor
Marilee
John Pichner
Cedar Rapids
Hot Springs
George Paulsen
Altraman Club
Telephone Co
Onslow Mutual Telephone Company
B. W. Streeper
J. R. Kennedy
C. M. Holst
Lewis Peterson
James Moran
J. C. Eenne E. Horton
Frank Byerly
Elsie Callahan
Frank Conley
Wilfred Wherry
Dick and
Derrill
Florence Wherry
August Hanson
Lewis Stone
Eagle Point
S. G. Hutton
Frank Walker
Monticello
David
Huttons
Walker
Vera Paul
Hutton
Ruston
Chicago
Wm. Ritenour
Phyllis
Red Oak
Wayne
Glenn
Washington
Harold Jordan
William Fletcher
Gilman Lozier
Lloyd Preston
Will Goardie
Adam Straub
Edwin Reid
G. R. Reid
Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church
Monticello Lumber Yard Ad and Humorous Chats
A local Monticello section features the St. Anthony and Dakota Lumber Yard with weathered jokes and newspaper filler. It promotes Storm King coal deliveries and Zonolizing homes for fuel savings while hinting at interior remodeling ideas and a cozy basement or attic play space.
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Monticello
St. Anthony
Olive G. Demoss Weds George L Lasack in Wyoming
Olive G. Demoss of Wyoming and George L. Lasack son of Mr and Mrs Adolph Lasack of Oxford Junction were married in Anamosa at 9 30 on Saturday. The ceremony was followed by a luncheon at the Lasack home. The bride, a Paris Academy of Beauty graduate, has operated a Wyoming shop since 1933. Lasack is a manufacturer and partner in a business.
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Wyoming
Olive G. Demoss
George L. Lasack
Adolph Lasack
Oxford Junction
Anamosa
Joe Straka
Agnes Lasack
Chicago
Lasack
Oxford Hay Loader Company
Purcens
Robert Hansen
United States Miitary Academy
Annapolis
August J. Hansen
Wyoming High School
Robert Alden
Helen
Helen Alden
Chillicothe Business College
Chillicothe
The
Mary’s
Methodist Aid Society
Ernest Reitz
Lester Barron
Davenport
Elsie Mott
J. W. Thomsen
Paul Levsen
Howard Gee
A. W. Peck
Nellie Atherton
Howard Willison
George Sears
Dora Thomson
C. H. Rogers
Marshal
E. N. Stoffel
George Lyons
Henry Bramer
Ruth
Howard Jamison
Esther
Mabel Streeper
Martha
Maxine Cook
Electa
Lee Allen
Sentinel
G. H. Herzberger
Reunion notices and social events fill Wyoming area
The article lists numerous holiday gatherings and clan events across Wyoming and surrounding towns. It notes reunions of the class of 1938 and 1939, installations in the Order of the Eastern Star, visits by midshipman Robert Hansen and others, watch night parties, missionary society meetings, 4-H club trips, and a minor roof fire at Mrs. Tompkins residence with slight damage.
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Brunscheen
Oliver Brunscheen
Marvin Brunscheen
Melvin , Sievers
Richard Eichhorn
Wyoming Township
Paul Koch
Des Moines
L. M. Koch
Ivan Mader
Ranger Teff Missing After Ice Rendezvous Mission
Ranger Joseph Teff failed to appear at a scheduled rendezvous prompting Ed Davis to search for him. The trail led to a hole in the ice of the Minas Ter river near a gloves and pickaxe bay.
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Federal Ae
Joseph Teff
Ed Davis
Minas Ter River
I 'A
Trapper’s Body Recovered From River After Fatal Fall
A trapper named Teff died after a fall into the river with his heavy jack and traps still on him. The body was recovered hours later.
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Teff
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Frank Priebes
Weekly Letter
Poultryraisers
Jones Co
Wyoming Shippers
Program of
F. B. Convention
C. E. Ayres
Department of Economics
University of Texas
4-H Club
Claytonian Homemakers’ Club
Lilly Smola
Rufus Brown
Koppess
Willard Larkey
Donna
Benny Ketchem
Paul Ketchem
Bobby Nis
Sen
Neal
Larry Paulsen
Dale
LaVern Tjaden
Norman
Gale
Merlin Ahrendsen
Marjory Paulsen
Pearl Horton
L. Green
Frank Sayer
Bertram Weller
Marliss Ann
Elmhurst
B. W
Evanston
Freel
Arthur Pottle
John Peterson
Harold Overholt
Erroll Farwell
Miss LaVerge Sem
Clinton
Howard Green
Alicé Overholt
Elsa Schroeder
George Bechtel
HeeHaw News
Johnny
Sally
Wolfe
Freddy
Luther League
C. E. Wherry
Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
Noble Grand Circle
E. R. Marshall
Earlville
Department of Agriculture
Ralph Slade
Wednesday
Asony
Irvin Gents
Monticello, Iowa
Auto Wreckers
Alva Zimmerman
Monticello’s
Melotte Separator
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