Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls Meet at Royden Home
Jones County Farm Bureau notes the Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls gathering at Frank Royden's house last week. Joyce and Jean Royden hosted, roll call and minutes were read, several speakers presented projects on sewing, beds, memory pictures, and pillow cases, Virginia Wright joined as a new member, and Mrs. Clark was honored with cake and hose.
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Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls
Scotch Grove
Sunshine Girls
Frank Royden
Joyce
Jean Royden
Carol Naylor
Jo Royden
Eunice Kuhns
Lois Kuhns
Virginia Wright
Rainbow 4 H Club Meets At Streeter Home
The Rainbow 4 H club of Wayne met at Mrs J W Streeter s home on Saturday June 25 with the roll call Vacation Plans A short business meeting followed by a program Songs for children Frances Soper Bringing color to a girl s room with accessories LaVenne Streeter Importance of cleanliness Nylene Lincoln The social time was arranged by Marcell a Kahn Dainty refreshments were served The Wayne No 8 school program on June 23 was well attended and raised over 10 dollars to send Frances Soper to Ames as a delegate to the state convention.
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Rainbow 4-H Club
Wayne
J. W. Streeter
Frances Soper
LaVenne Streeter
Nylene Lincoln
Marcella Kahn
Wayne No. 8 School
Ames
Jones County
Iowa State College
Mount Vernon
Loretta Specht
Roberta Livingstone
Geneva Loomis
Betty Fishwild
Erma Lincoln
Florence Mardoff
Fortune Finders Club
Margaret Behrends
Lovell
Laboring Lassies
Rainbow
Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls
Gwelda Fairbanks
Oriole
Florence Mardorf
Wise Owl
Madison
Merry Maidens
Tru Blu
Happy Hour
Lois Bramer
Be Square
Ruth Humphrey
Greenfield
Wilma
Hloise Kuhns
Mildred Deischer
Agatha Lister
Paul Smith
Everett Vrooman
Nona Terhune
Rena Hoult
R. A. Naylor
Wisconsin
Naylor
F. H. Schlemme
Rochester
Minn
R. W. Brady
Mayo Hospital
Stahlberg
Dr. Thomas
Wilma Kuhns
Eloise Kuhns
Geneva
Sunbeam Mission
Verna Loomis
Constance Naylor
Presbyterian Church
Farm Bureau
Laura Sinclair
Eloise Sutherland
Emma Hughes
Esther Sinclair
B. W. Eby
Cedar Rapids
Eby
Thayne
Otto Powlishta
R. P. Clark
W. B. Clark
Clark
Lena Brockhohn
L. J. Schlemme
Richard Hanken
Sinclair
Esther
L. E. Callahan
Kittle Callahan
L W. Glenn
Monticello
M. M. Sinclair
Laura
L. E. Hutton
Merle
Ethel Courtney
Evelyn
Miriam
Eva Beals
George Courtney
Center Junction
Willard Yeoman
Tumb]-Inn
Walter Eby
George
Richard
Harold
Thayne Eby
Ray Wright
Geraldine
Virginia
June
L. J. Schiemme
F. E. Craig
Hazel
Ruth
Edwin
Ethel
Betty Lou
Clarence Taylor
Olin
Anamosa
Apple Growers Urged to Fight Pests After Heavy Rain
Horticulturist E H Nichols warns fruit growers to watch for disease and pests after two weeks of rain. Codling moth and apple scab threaten apples, with scab damaging 15 to 100 percent of fruit in unsprayed orchards. Cherries face leaf spot. Sprays suitable for both, mixing lime sulfur or Bordeaux compounds with hydrated lime to reduce burn risk.
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E. H. Nichols
Ames
Birds, roads and debts in rural America
A rural reflection argues for balanced priorities including road funding, debt adjustment, and environmental protection. It emphasizes birds as beneficial for pest control, cautions against public waste, and warns that unchecked debt could collapse the economy, urging honest public service and prudent spending.
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Bure
America
Europe
Farm Bureau
Farmers Unite for Equality and Democratic Platform Push
The article recalls farmers rallying for equality of opportunity and organized agriculture to restore prosperity. It notes the A P B F platform committee pressing its plan with the Democratic convention in Chicago as Eugene ONeal and Wheeler lead negotiations. It also reports on the Jones county 4-H girls attending the Ames conference with speeches, music, and festival events.
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George Washington
Thas
Grorce Washington
Vesserv
Chicago
E. A. O'Neal
Wheeler
Resolutions
Congress Hotel
Farm Bureau
O'Neal
Ames
Yellow perch dominates local waters with distinct markings
The yellow perch is widespread in our waters and easily recognized by black crossbars and rich coloration on the lower body. It is carnivorous feeding on crustaceans and small fish, spawns in spring with eggs cemented in long strings, and grows to under a foot and about one pound.
Black bass caught out of season nets Willian Boni case
Sioux City deputy game warden Schwob arrested Willian Bent for catching a black bass out of season. Bent confessed and received a $20 fine but could not pay, resulting in a six day jail sentence. Boni asked to read at the county library during detention and was granted permission with a note to read state fish and game laws. Boni had earlier faced a charge of shooting a skunk out of season and pleaded self defense.
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Sioux City
Schwob
Willian Bent
Boni
Sisk
Iowa Fish and Game Commission Sets Closed Trout Season
The Iowa commission decided future trout streams will close during the closed season to protect trout, based on a recent survey. No open season date for next year is set yet. this year’s season runs from April 15 to September 1.
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State Fish and Game Commission
Iowa
Commission
Commission caps season for ruffed grouse turkey woodcock
The state fish and game commission issued a ruling commended by Iowa sportsmen by closing the season on ruffed grouse wild turkey and woodcock. Law would have opened November 1 for grouse and turkey and October 1 for woodcock, but the commission acts to ban shooting until July 4 1933.
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State Fish and Game Commission
Iowa
Prairie chicken history and restoration chances in Towa
Aldo Leopold surveys show prairie chickens in Towa survive only in two cover types: stony upland plains and undrained or previously drained marshes. He notes past overhunting and habitat loss drove decline and argues restoring cover could revive the species, with cautious optimism.
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Towa
Aldo Leopold
Leopold
Killing the Iowa Crow. Series on the crow by Holmgren
Outdoor Iowa prints short stories by H. A. Holmgren deputy game warden Algona on the crow. The articles describe its habits, damage to game and insectivorous birds, and its craft at avoiding hunters. Interest grows among Iowa sportsmen and efforts spread across communities.
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Iowa
H. A. Holmgren
Algona
Kossuth County
Izaak Walton League Crow Destruction Contest at Waverly
In Bremer county at Waverly the Izaak Walton League reports 435 crows destroyed in a recent contest. William Tofte notes 850 crows killed in 1931 in the same localities. Team leaders were Jim Behrends and Dr. H. H. Brierly with scores 277 and 158.
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Waverly
Bremer County
Izaak Walton League
League
William Tofte
Tofte
Butler County
Jim Behrends
H. H. Brierly
Leopold’s Iowa survey cites prairie chicken decline and urgent conservation
Aldo Leopold reports about 1 000 prairie chickens left in 19 counties as settlement reduced cover and grains increased. He notes the bird’s historic spread from northern prairie to Iowa and warns immediate action is needed to salvage any remnant for future generations.
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Iowa
Aldo Leopold
Leopold
Iowa Prairies
Pigeon Exodus Through Iowa Draws Settler Battle Echoes
Ed C. Volkert of Dubuque argues that early settlers faced heavy damage from passenger pigeons as they sowed grain by hand in the Wisconsin Northwest Territory era. He recalls pigeons swarming fields and devouring seed before cover, likening them to later grasshopper pests in the Dakotas and Nebraska.
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Ed C. Volkert
Dubuque
Iowa
Mr. Volkert
Wisconsin
Northwest Territory
Europe
Northwest
Western Plains
Dakotas
Nebraska
Bass Fishing Rules From Izaak Walton League Advice
The Izaak Walton League urges two rules for bass lake fishing. Do not take fish until they have spawned at least once and only after the spawning season ends. Practice legal limits and return excess fish carefully for future sport.
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Izaak Walton League
National Press Service
Iowa
Value of Birds to Man and Earth
A brief reflection on the benefits birds provide to people. Birds eat weed seeds and insects, protect crops and forests, and inspire with song and beauty. Sea birds warn mariners, help locate fish schools, harbor birds clean refuse, game birds supply food and sport, and carrion eaters purify the air. Protect the birds.
Langworthy Residents Attend Fourth Celebrations and Visits
Local social notes report Laura Peterson visiting in William Oltman’s home and many townsfolk hosting guests from Amber Anamosa Scotch Grove Center Junction and Wyoming. The Fourth featured a Langworthy Amber baseball game ending 9 6 and a dance with multiple family visits and funeral attendance.
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Laura Peterson
California
William Oltman
Elsa
Clara
Gertrude Prult
Emma Dirks
Henry Heiken
Donna Lee
Jack
Scotch Grove
Clifford Arduser
Mary Peterson
Center Junction
Herman Stutt
Arlene Ann Arduser
Purl Taylor
Monticello
Amber
Langworthy
Louis Popenhagen
LaVerle
Anamosa
Ed Prult
W. J. Brandt
Gladys DeMoss
Wyoming
Louis Ireland
Mary Thuman
Gerd Prult
A. L. Groover
Richard and
Stanley Dean
Peoria, Jr
J. H. Batchelder
Shoes Dominated by New England Makers in Nineties
The article notes that over 35 percent of United States shoes were produced in New England during the nine year period, highlighting regional manufacturing strength and concentration in that era.
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United States
New England
Phoenicians Credited With Discovery of Tides Moon Link
The article attributes the discovery that sea tides relate to the moon to the Phoenicians, highlighting an ancient scientific insight.
Monticello wedding ties Scotch Grove to Galena ceremony
Scotch Grove Rickels Himebaugh and Miss Nola Reynolds of Monticello wed in Galena on June 29 with attendants Henry Oltman and Emmaline Hoffman. The couple will live in Scotch Grove where Himebaugh works for Arend Balster.
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Rickels Himebaugh
Nola Reynolds
Monticello
Galena
Henry Oltman
Emmaline Hoffman
Seotch Grove
Himebaugh
Arend Balster
Frederic Blake
Seattle
Wash
Scotch Grove
G. J
E. C. Hughes
Hugh Robinson
Kathryn
Taylor Ridge
Til
M. M
D. O. Sinclair
Iowa City
New York City
New York
Robinsons
Robinson
Presbyterian Church
Monticello area social notes include picnics and visits
The Monticello and Sand Springs community centers saw a children's Presbyterian picnic in the city park with many local families, visits to homes around town, a 15th wedding anniversary party with 500 in attendance, and creamery data noting May butterfat prices and production records.
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W. H. Behrends
Dorothy Lee
Esther Heeren
Betty Higby
Margaret Henricks
Illinois
Presbyterian Church
Lou King
Fred Welter
Julia Jones
Elkader
Wheat Cox
Sand Springs
Monticello
Pete Gadient
Fourth of July Celebration Draws Hundreds in Amber
Amber Robert Moore of Des Moines state secretary of the Farmers Union spoke to several hundred at Amber on farm price parity and fair production costs. The day featured baseball races an airship ride and a Monticello high school orchestra. A dance followed in the H Dirks bowery. Local groups sponsored the event with praise for the committee. Others noted include reunions and visits by families from Monticello Columbus Junction North English Marion and Wyoming.
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Robert Moore
Des Moines
Farmers’ Union
Amber
Moore
Monticello
Monticello High School
H. Dirks Bowery
Charles Suett
Monticcello
Ed Duncan
Manchester
Harley Breed
Marion
Local officials file expense reports. Worcester leaves Anamosa church
County records show several Republican and one Democrat filing primary expense statements this past week. The Anamosa Methodist congregation learns Rev Worcester will depart for Rockford Iowa after five years, with Rev Green assigned to the local church and Viola duties.
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Harry Holcomb
S. M. Hosford
Hartley Wilkinson
Warren Rees
E. M. Russell
Upper Iowa
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mason City
Fredrick D. Leete
Frank C. Worcester
Rockford
Iowa
Worcester
Elizabeth
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Anamosa
H. D., Green
Methodist Church of
West Branch
Green
Herbert Hoover
Viola Methodist Church
Real Leadership and World Security in Hoover Plan
The Bronx City Journal praises Mr Hoover for a common sense plan likely to profit powers and smaller governments with no security risk. It notes French arms buildup and mutual protection, while calling the altruistic effort by the chief executive unlikely to overcome fears and prejudices in the old world.
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Bronx City
Community humorous note and old-time ads from Monticello paper
A nostalgic Monticello page mocks crooning and old social mores while listing coal prices paint ads and signposts. It includes jokes about engagement and gender roles and mentions Minnesota paint and Pocahontas coal.
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Jones County Farm Bureau
Ginger
George and Martha Washington
Ira Schroeder
WOT
Andy
Edna Rhoads
Bernice Sealine
Margaret Meyer
Tolbert MacRae
Iowa Line
Towa Fishee
Anamosa Journal
Vol. I
Hee Haw
St. Anthony
J. R. Barron
Noah Webster
Ed McBride
Wm. Schlimmer
P. A. Kurt
Minnesota
Iceman
Times
Mose
Cherry Blossom
Zeke
Jess
Kentucky
Betty
Americas
Hotel Sherman
Sherman
College
PenicaGo
Nyt
Evry
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
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