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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1934
Page
2
The Jones County Farm Bureau will maintain a free seed testing program for purity and germination in 1934. Farmers may submit samples at the Bureau to be tested at Ames. the Bureau covers costs. Detailed sampling guidelines and seed types are provided to ensure representative tests and accurate results.
Tennessee Farm Bureau president J F Porter will address the Iowa Farm Bureau convention at the Shrine Temple January 24 to 26. Porter helps organize his state’s federation and chairs the American Farm Bureau board. he will be joined by Wm I Myers of Farm Credit. An opening “surprise night” and music contests are planned. 3000 to 5000 members expected daily.
Hundreds of Iowa farm families will take part in a special pageant on the second evening of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation state convention. A qualified committee leads the pageant with O W Beeler as general chairman and Mrs Ray mond Sayre directing the eighth district. The event features the dedication of county Farm Bureau flags, the culmination of a statewide flag making project by Farm Bureau women.
The article asks what a farmer may do with contracted land for government programs. It cites restrictions allowing planting permanent pasture, soil improvement, erosion prevention crops not for harvest, weed protection, or farm woodlot timbering. It defines additional permanent share as extra pasture beyond prior acres.
Jones county corn and hog producers are urged to collect supporting records for 1931–32 and 1932–33 including hog sales dates weights buyers and home farrowed pigs. Receipts weight tickets and witness statements may be used to verify counts aiding timely benefit payments.
Cascade Miss Marie Antoinette Klocker of Bernard and Jacob Ressler of Worthington wed at Sacred Heart in Fillmore with nuptial mass by Rev. J. J. Leen and reception for 35 guests. They plan a honeymoon in Chicago and eastern points and will live on a farm near Worthington.
Cascade community reports visits and family news including births and engagements. Basketball events feature Cascade Advertisers vs Bellevue Bears and notes on team lineup and season prospects. Also covered are accidents, obituaries, club meetings, school honors, and local sales with prices and attendees.
Center Junction hosts all day church meeting at H J Dirks home with the Trinity Lutheran circle and women from the Presbyterian Missionary society. Highlights include health themed programs, readings, a noon picnic, and reports by Irene Schrader Bernice Brokens Kate Dirks plus a note on the infant death Kathleen Marguerite Ortgies.
Morton Mills survives. Mrs. Black attended Lenox college as part of her aunt Adaline Holmes Lord family. Ibid bridge club meets at Mrs. Norton Loomis. Kensington club gathered at Mrs. William Meyers home with guests Mrs. Lee Marolf, Mrs. A. J. Miller and Mrs. Dora Morgan. Alice Johnson hosts A Go I Go club Friday. Eastern Star picnic supper at 7 30. Officer installation followed. Mrs. Myrtle Barnes of Delhi stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Nell. Mesdames McConnell and Mackintosh hosted about twenty friends with refreshments. A preschool CEWA project will open a school for under 16s unable to attend larger colleges. Nellie Campbell to lead the primary. Minnie Zeuch to lead adults. Postmaster applicants have received grades. new appointee expected soon. Donald Smith visited Dubuque on Saturday.
Sufferers should arrange to call on Dr. Wilbert Shallenberger M D specialist in rectal and chronic diseases who has years of successful experience in treating piles and other rectal diseases by non confining methods The doctor can be consulted at Manchester Hotel Glenn Charles Friday January 26 424th visit
The community recounts visits by Mrs. C. H. Nelson and family, Onslow guests Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chase, and CWA gravel project activity at Stahlberg pit. Socials include five hundred games hosted by the Serbouseks and Hinrichs, with prize winners named. High school plans three one act plays January 18 with listed casts, while basketball fans head to Iowa City to see Town-Illinois game.
Local report notes Jim suitor Ernie Blohm Bob an archeologist Robert Alyea Bu san Lucile Livingstone and N Holst attending Julius Ingwersen’s Lyons funeral. R G Hunt of Wyoming was a business visitor Monday. The Creamery reports a 35 percent butter price increase for the first two weeks of 19 compared to last year. Several new patrons joined during the pay months.
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