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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1942
Page
3
Iowa announces Victory Food Specials for peaches from July 16 to August 5 and broilers and fryers from July 16 to 25. Supplies are abundant with a 34 percent rise in chicks hatched, aiding wartime needs and encouraging housewives to buy and can peaches and poultry.
Nine member entrants from Incal Farm Forum sign up for the 1942 Iowa ten Acre Corn Yield contest. The Farm Forum supports enrollment rules and fall yield checks, with Master Corn Growers medals for 190 bushels or more. Local group aims to learn production techniques and may discuss figures at a winter meeting. Local contestants include J B Ahlrichs J R Hintz Fred Cramer Balster Brothers Louis Hanken Ed Zirkelbach Allen Chatterton Marvin Lacock. The Forum aids adult education under Monticello public schools vocational agriculture.
On January 1 1938 Russia had 244000 collective farms averaging about 1200 acres. They were operated by 19100000 peasant families and formed 93 percent of all peasant households.
C L Fitch of Iowa State college will visit potato test plots in the county on Friday July 10. He will be joined by A F Walker and Paul W Borglum to tour plots at Welter Brothers Hopkinton with a 10 am meeting.
The Jones County Farm Bureau sponsors a ten acre corn yield contest for 1942 with entries from Anamosa Monticello Center Junction Olin Mechanicsville and more. Field checks will occur in the fall to determine the Jones county winner and all entries advance to the Iowa state contest.
Heat and flies reduce dairy output in July and August. County Agent James F. Kearns urges shade and ample water for cows, clean manure and straw to lessen flies, darkened barn windows, and supplemental feeding with hay silage or grain. One pound of grain per five to six pounds of milk produced daily is advised. Express Want Ads get results.
Mr and Mrs W A Mott Jr celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their Hale township home seven miles southwest of Wyoming with 49 attending including children grandchildren and great grandchildren. They married July 5 1892 in Fulton Iowa and have deep family ties across Anamosa Olin Oxford Junction Tipton and Fairview. Mrs Mott nee Catherine Coon is from Oxford Junction. Their son Wallace A Jr and other children and grandchildren populate the area.
Onslow reports War Bond sales from January 1 to July 1 totaling 54565.75 dollars with the post office at 25593.75 and Onslow Savings Bank at 28972. A series of local social notes follow, listing visits and gatherings across Onslow and nearby towns including Clinton Ottumwa Springville Denver Quasqueton and Oxford Junction.
Scotch Grove notes show next Sunday services canceled as the minister is on vacation with plans to resume on the 19th. The Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls 4 H club met with Eloise Sutherland. fifteen attended.
A series of weekend visits and travel additions fill the community scene. George Bohiken of Overland Missouri fishes Lake George Minnesota while Louie Hanken visits Chicago for a league game. Will Johnson of Mechanicsville calls on friends and Leslie Himebaugh Paul Paulsen Jr spend the Fourth at Camp O Delhi. Lucille Darting of Wilton Junction spends Thursday and Friday with relatives, escorted home by her mother May Himebaugh and nieces Kathleen and Ruth Paulsen.
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