Jones County Rural Electric group finishes by law draft
Jones County Rural Electric Association directors met at the Farm Bureau office on Friday to complete organization and approve the by laws. Des Moines attorney Earl Wisdom, provided by the State Farm Bureau federation, advised. W. B. Meeks, chairman, authorized to represent the county at the Rural Electric Cooperative associations meetings in Des Moines during the Iowa Farm Bureau federation gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Rural Electric Association
Jones County
Farm Bureau
Earl Wisdom
Des Moines
State Farm Bureau Federation
W. B. Meeks
Electrc Cooperative Associations
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Beef Cattlemen Meet in Jones County Plan Banquet
Officers and directors of the Jones County Beef Cattlemen’s organization met at the Farm Bureau office in Jones County Friday evening at the call of chairman Louis Lorenzen. They set February 18 for the annual beef cattlemen’s banquet to be held at Olin high school. The group discussed market price fluctuations, yardage costs, three per cent shrink at Cedar Rapids, and government supervised market grades. An Eastern Iowa district meeting for cattle feeders is planned in Cedar Rapids January 29 with invitation to eastern Iowa feeders associations. Lorenzen said cattle feeders lack organization but represent a major industry. cooperation with Iowa Farm Bureau and American Farm Bureau is sought to address industry problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Beef Cattlemen's Organization
Farm Bureau
Louis Lorenzen
Olin
Cedar Rapids
Jones County Cattle Feeders’ Association
Iowa
Cattle Feeders
Max R. Farran
Randolph, Neb
Hopkinton
Woodward Cottage
Baldwinsville
N. Y
Sam Orr
Carson
Frank Bradle
Andrew Patton
McDonald Hospital
Hopkinton High School
Buck Creek
B. W
Johnston
Johnstons
Betty Thompson
Chicago
DeWitt Thompson
J. J. Dunlap
Elizabeth Campbell
Campbell
Miss Campbell
Joe McElmeel
S. C. Keith
Dale Wheeless
Tom Murray
Manchester
Citizens State Bank
Sunbeam Chapter
O. E
Delaware
Mr. Wendlandt
Delhi
Rattlesnake Patrol
Paul Ferguson
Fred Herman
Walter Cooley
Ray Englehorn
Thomas Tracey
Wendlandt
Merle Rimmer
State Farm Bureau Meeting at Des Moines Exposition
Rural Electrification is the theme of the Iowa Farm and Home exposition held January 20 21 22 at the Shrine temple Des Moines with the Iowa Farm Bureau federation convention. Exhibits show electric appliances line materials radios water systems and farm machinery alongside a farmer’s mart of 68 booths. Officials expect 4000 Farm Bureau members to register and a special exhibitor night with entertainment and contests on January 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrine Temple
Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Iowa
High Holstein Herd Leads Anamosa December Test
The Smith and Meade herd topped the Anamosa Cow Testing Association for December with 1188 pounds of milk and 41.7 pounds of butterfat per cow. Claude Latta’s grade Jerseys averaged 650 pounds of milk and 34.7 butterfat, while Wilcox and Son’s grade Holstein led cows with 1637 pounds of milk and 85.1 butterfat. Balster brothers’ grade Jersey followed with 874 pounds of milk and 73.4 butterfat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith & Meade
Anamosa
Wendell Donnelly
Claude Latta
Wilcox & Son
Soil Depleting and Conservation Bases To Guide Payments
Ray Stivers says soil depleting and conserving bases will be set for each farm under the 1937 agricultural conservation program to determine payments. County and township committees will explain payment calculations in meetings this week. Bases will reflect farm production systems and sound farming practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Stivers
County Agricultural Conservation Committee
County Bases for 1937 Soil Program Outlined
The committee expects bases that proved equitable last year to continue with possible adjustments. Total county bases must not exceed the limit. The soil conserving base equals cropland acres minus the sum of soil depleting and orchard vineyard acres. Details on bases and 1937 provisions will be explained at township meetings for Jones county farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hmit
Jones County
Home Project Training Schools In The County
Miss Ruth Cessna from Iowa State College leads a week of home project training on Modern Trends In Bread Making. County leaders will attend meetings at Rowan home Stone City January 20 and at several farm homes January 13 to 15 in Monticello Wyoming Mar telle and other communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Cessna
Iowa State College
Wayne
Jackson
Fairview
Cass
Rowan
Stone City
Castle Grove
Lovell
Richland
Washington
George Hein
Monticello
Scotch Grove
Wyoming
Madison, Clay
Oxford
Peter Sievers
Greenfield
Rome
Hale
E. C. Gotsch
Martelle
Planning Project Starts For Next Year In Jones County
Jones county agricultural planning committee begins a year long program with 18 members from all sixteen townships. The effort, a joint project by the extension service from Iowa State College and the U S department of agriculture, aims to adapt the AAA program and develop a long term land use policy. Two main questions guide the study: final crop acreages under current conditions and the impact on livestock enterprises amid a shift toward more crop production. Representatives attended a district conference at Elkader on January 13 to review the plan of work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Wm. McLaughlin
Herman Helgens
Monticello
W. H. Buckner
Glenn Sones
Anamosa
W. B. Clark
Scotch Grove
A. J. Orr
Onslow
Ray Stivers
H. E. Levien
C. H. Freeman
Louie Lorenzen
Olin
L. T. Lorenzen
George Fishwild
Wyoming
J. C. McConaughy
Martelle
Frank Kulhavy
Oxford Junction
Jones County Committee
Elkader
Outlook Predicts Record Legume Plantings in Iowa 1937
H R Meldrum of Iowa State College notes plans to increase legume acreage to a record level in 1937. Farmers will reseed many fields damaged by 1936 drought and may profit from soil conservation payments for new seedings and soil amendments including ground limestone and phosphate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
H. R. Meldrum
Soils Department
Iowa State College
Towa
Meldrum
Wyoming Women and Officials Highlight Wyoming News
Wyoming reports on local governance and community life. Peter Eichhorn leads Wyoming Mutual Telephone as officers, income and salaries noted. Fire Dept. installs Morse as chief and lists crew. Meta Lewsen Wolfe, pioneer resident, dies in Cedar Rapids after long illness. Community groups like Midland Homemakers, American Legion auxiliary, and Royal Neighbors share events, meetings and installations.
Deaths of Harry Chaplin and Henry Fiedler In Iowa Town
Obituary notices report Hopkinton residents Harry Chaplin of Sand Spring and Henry Fiedler of Dubuque dying within days of each other. Chaplin, 70s, died in Monticello after influenza complications. buried there. Fiedler, born 1866 in Germany, died in Dubuque. buried Mount Calvary. Other items list New Year guests, church events, new residents, sales, and local meetings as Hopkinton social life continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinton
Harry Chaplin
Monticello
Chaplin
Sand Spring
Clara Hicks
Ray E
Russell
Onslow
Jack
Paul
William Murray
Lawrence Fiedler
Henry Fiedler
Dubuque
Germany
St. Mary's Church
Genevieve Ressler
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Worthington
Mount Cavalry
H. J. Dunlap
Thomas Dunlap
Buddy Landers
Vivian Dunlap
Duluth
Minn
Myra Dunlap Gillespie
Earl
Genoa
Neb
Jamestown
N. Y
Gladys Gillespie
Valparaiso
Ind
Jessie Dunlap McGuire
Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
W. J. Kirkwood
Ed Bacon
John D. Smith
J. D. MacAllister
Young
Local notes from Center Junction Hopkinton and beyond
Dubuque residents Fordyce and McKeever join Hopkinton figures H J Dunlap Julius Berlich Paul Ferguson Thomas Tibbitts and Rev E A Cochel in regional references. Center Junction sees Sunday school party reward, elections, basketball victories and community activities amid travel and illness notices.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jones County Farm Bureau
Beef Cattle Organization
State Farm Bureau Meeting
C. T. A. Report
Home Project Training Schools
Drouth
H. W. Farnham
Berean
M. E. Aid Society
F. E. Allen
Reformed Presbyterian Church
David M. Beggs
H. D. Green
Florence
Thornhill
Gutensohn
Schmitt
W. P. Nicholas
G. J. Zeilinger
Provan
Peter Eichhorn
Wyoming Mutual Telephone Company
Paul Levsen
C. J. Ingversen
P. S. Jansen
Francis Woodworth
C. W. Mallicoat
J. T. Swordes
C. F
Fire Dept
W.N. Morse
Wyoming Fire Department
W. W. Bronson
Theodore Becker
Ernest Reitz
Howard Demoss
Claude Sears
Clifford Morse
John Siler
Gordon Marshall
W. E. DeMoss
al French
Elmer Buckingham
Lyle Jenkins
Arthur Luke
Howard Day
Paul Cooper
Orval Buckingham
Hydrant
Howard Countryman
George Luke
Elmer Dodge
Opera House
Morse Cafe
Meta Lewsen Wolfe
St. Luke’s Hospital
Madison Township
Hans and
Anna Levsen
Henry Wolfe
Lutheran Church
Aid Society
Diana Fret Club
Midland Homemakers Club
Carl
Peter Levien
Clarence
August Levsen
Maquoketa
Lutheran
American Legion Auxiliary
Memorial Hall
Levi Mallicoat
Midland Homemakers’ Club
Co. A. First
Peter Sivers
Fred Lazare
Newton
Anna Carstensen
Andrew Jansen
Peter Fredericksen
Henry Nissen
E. R. Marshall
Fred Fritz
Wyoming I.C.C.F
Paul Jones
Willam Peck
E. Young
M. E. Miller
Chris Anderson
Fred Pankow
Inside Guardian
Charles Rogers
Outside Guardian
Ray Griswold
Noble Grand
Henry Fishwild
Kyle Poole
A. N. Reade
J. S. Parr
Clance Sears
Lester French
FE. R. Marshall
Ellen Marshall
Elias Anderson
Nelson Brownell
Walter Edwards
Earl Mallicoat
Hawthorne Club
Charles Marshall
Elaine Searcliff
W. B. Brown
L. M. Koch
Ki and
Canova
S. D
James Sangler
Evelyn Spangler
Engle Grove
Leonard Brammerle
Spragueville
Emma Siler
Pearl Rogers
Sarah First
Oracle
Laura Curry
Anna Holub
Elizabeth Alden
Arminda Bender
Viola Demoss
Minnie Anderson
Mildred Dusanek
Outer Sentinel
Lillian Robers
Inner Sentinel
Pauline Demoss
Curry
Mire
A. W. McDonald
Center Junction
Mra
Peter Prahm
Presbyterian Sunday School
Helen Himebaugh
Maurice McNeilly
Charlotte Rickels
Jack Stingley
A. Upland
Methodist Sunday School
Vera Moats
Estella Stingley
Edward Snell
Darline Johnson
Dorothy Mead
Betty Lou McDonald
Maxine Moats
Duncan
Grace Mead
C. A. McDonald
Rachel Dodge
Snell
Dean McDonald
Kent Moats
Ed Duncan
McNeilly
DeWitt
Ozzie Simmons
Gladys McNeilly
Clara Barton
The
Red Cross
Katherine Robbie
May Himebaugh
Mary Bulgren
Elda Dirks
Leona Thompson
Catherine Thompson
Morley Cagers
Owen McGuire
McGuirre
Ray Davis
Lewis
Merlin Pyrethelhis
Lient Nata Reta Noah
Ellees
Imogena Chase
Hopkinson
Lenox College
Ben Heiken
Delvar
Lenora Heneke
Elizabeth
Harry James
St. Luke's Hospital
Afies James
Maroons
Mechanicsville
Marty Stingley
Wi Duncan
Stingley
Howard Carrol
Clark's
L. A. Dreibelbis
Merlin
James Blatt
Wittsburgh
Iowa City
Fred Mimaur
Mount Vernon
Chris Gill
Rufus Sharp
Adelbert Aultman
Longmont
Cole
Carl Harris
John Martens
S. L. Davis
St. Petersburg
Florida
Mr. Davis
Elmer Schrader
Elmeree
Harry Chase
Pauline Prahm
Robert Serbousek
Robert Eye
Wisconsin
Mac i Ian
de Laval
Balster’s Appliance Store
Gerd Zimmerman
Richland Township
Guernsey
Hampshire
John Deere
Sattley
Deering
Stewart
Concord
Edward Behrends
Null & Appleberry
Monticello State Bank
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