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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1938
Page
3
The annual Fairview township Farm Bureau gathering occurred Wednesday evening June 1 at the home of Mr and Mrs C H Myers north of Anamosa. No program was presented. attendees spent the time socializing.
The committee will hold a regular meeting in Warren Rees' office Anamosa on Friday June 10 at 1 00 PM A district resettlement administration member will attend Farmers may attend to obtain the committees services.
H. H. Freeman of Olin started as county weed commissioner on June 1 under a state law shift from township to county control. The Jones County Farm Bureau backs the change, aiming for a more effective eradication program with farmer and group cooperation, not policing.
W D McLaughlin of Monticello served as president of Jones county Farm Bureau at the Cedar Rapids district meeting attended by Glenn Jones of Anamosa and County Agent Carl Smith. The gathering Tuesday June 7, called by the state Farm Bureau office, focused on policies and plans for the organization.
County home project chairman Mrs Bernard Cass announces a county wide meeting at the county home on Thursday afternoon June 16 with a tea and social time. Mrs Ray Sanford of Wayne township leads arrangements. The program includes selections by the county women's chorus and a talk by Miss Mildred Roxwell of Chicago on consumer education.
Jones County farmers face an average annual crop loss of 200 due to weeds. Four main weeds are cited Canada thistle quack grass creeping Jenny and horse nettle. An effective eradication campaign requires county-wide farmer cooperation and adherence to the new Iowa weed law mandating long term weed control plans. Larger weeded areas can be managed with summer fallow and smother crops like alfalfa while small patches may be treated with chemicals.
Jones County 4-H Dairy Heifer club members will hold an all day field event on Monday June 13 with Ernest Wright Iowa State Dairy association field secretary in charge. The program includes five stops across the county to discuss dairy calf club work including judging care feeding fitting and showing of heifers and keeping production records. More than 50 boys and girls are enrolled and all 41 club leaders and members will receive notices with times and stops.
The Jackson Boys 4 H club held its annual tour on June 1 with twenty boys, parents, and others attending. They visited homes of 4 H project participants in Jackson township, practiced livestock judging, and saw demonstrations on estimating cattle weights, fitting, and showing. A picnic lunch followed the tour and the afternoon included diamond ball and other sports.
The annual 4-H tour of the Olin club visited over 20 farms. Boys inspected projects and demonstrated cattle weight estimation, calf fitting, and showing. Four livestock classes were judged: baby beeves, beef heifers, dairy cows, and bull calves. A noon picnic and recreational activities followed.
A meeting of girls interested in forming a 4-H club was held at the George Fishwild home on Saturday June 4. Miss Betty Fishwild was chosen to lead the new club which plans regular summer meetings and to start 4-H projects in the fall.
A farming columnist urges selling surplus roosters and focusing on producing infertile eggs for better shelf life. He explains how heat degrades fertile eggs more than infertile ones and shares a farmer's observation of broken fertile eggs versus infertile ones after incubation.
The article offers practical meat dish tips including a 2 pound beef loaf with oats and tomatoes, a liver with bacon and breadcrumbs bake, and advice on cooking temperature to avoid shrinking. It notes brown gravy tips using browning agents and mentions the New York Philharmonic Society forming the first U.S. symphony in 1842.
Miss Ruth Cessna, extension nutritionist at Iowa State College, warns that frozen strawberries lose quality. She favors sound firm berries and outlines two methods: dry sugar mix or syrup, with ratios and cooling steps, naming Senator Dunlap Premier and Blakemore as good varieties for freezing.
The piece explains how rain and mud affect silk and other fabrics, detailing risks to luster, shrinkage, and color. It lists methods to remove spots including rubbing with coins or cloth, pressing, and damp tissues, and notes new silk finishes that resist water marks. Cleaning approaches for non washable fabrics include sponging with denatured alcohol and grease solvents for oil-based stains.
Dr Thomas J Lane of Cascade is recovering from throat infections at St Catherine's Omaha and plans to return home for a visit before starting internship at Mary's Help Hospital in San Francisco on July 1. He earned his MA from Creighton and BS from Notre Dame and taught at Santa Clara University with one pupil being Jackie Coogan.
The obituary notes the deceased was preceded in death by her parents two brothers and one sister. The casket was carried by E. J. Kean Thomas O Shea George McGovern Eugene Fagan Charles Rogers and Henry Devlin.
Farmers Mutual Insurance directors met last Thursday. Insurance losses include a cow struck by lightning for G. J. Hughes and E. F. Stickley and a sheep killed for A. Parke Ogden, with other small incidents. Local visits feature Margaret Deischer with Hilda Balster at the University of Dubuque and a rained out Castle Grove farm bureau meeting.
The new local vocational agriculture department launches a summer program for ninth grade boys. Projects include potatoes, gardens, orchards, weed control, spraying, and animal ventures such as sows, beef cattle, dairy heifers, colts, poultry, and bees. The Junior Dairy Herd Improvement group continues, Future Farmers chapters meet monthly, with activities like kittenball, a wiener roast, and a possible camping trip. An achievement day invites parents to tour farms. Mr. Walker offers technical guidance in farming, horticulture, and gardening with insect and weed control support. Office day is Saturday, headquarters in the manual training room.
The Jones county social welfare director reports property values with suspended taxes for Old Age assistance totaling 62774 dollars. Iowa seniors over 65 show high reliance on aid with 59000 monthly payments needed for about 59 thousand recipients nationwide. Jones county records show 470 total grants and 399 active recipients with four blind assistance cases.
The Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls gathered at Celestia Kuhns home last Saturday to learn canning rhubarb using a mix of sugar and rhubarb baked until tender and jarred hot. Mildred Jacobs demonstrated transplanting plants and Lor tine Jacobs discussed diva micro.
Parents’ inability to discuss difficulties calmly leads to maladjustment in 85 percent of children, while open frank dialogue reduces problems to under 25 percent. Calm talking over issues and admitting grounds for argument improves home atmosphere and child behavior.
The Monticello Express summarizes Iowa and Jones county AAA guidance on price stabilization via marketing controls and corn loans, and its effects on consumers including soil fertility and income. It covers export totals, tariffs, and farm income impacts with figures from 1936 1937 and 1917 era grain data.
Iowa health officials report 98 drownings in 1937 up from 78 in 1936 and 92 in 1935. Dangers include rivers boat overturns gravel pits and unsupervised homes. The warning emphasizes supervised pools and child water safety to prevent home drownings.
Mrs. Minerva Swatman of River ton in Fremont county found a three-foot bull snake in her vegetable cave. A mouse-trap had closed over the snake’s head, apparently drawn by the bait.
Iowa cattle feeders led in extreme top sales at the Chicago stock yards during May with eight top prices on 23 market days. Dubuque County farmers Fred Kurt J P Kurt and George Kurt posted three extreme tops, while J H Hill J Hansen Clinton County and John Kruse Jackson County also reported high bids. Delay Brothers Jones County sold 20 head at the May 17 extreme top for 10.50 per cwt.
The text discusses tariff effectiveness, noting the United States acts on an import basis and a tariff cannot apply unless the commodity is import-based. This highlights the legal framework for duties and how they target imported goods.
A western windstorm near Lake City unearths an 1836 brass plated mussie loading rifle barrel in a Mason Ross farm barn slated for demolition. Ross, unaware of its history, discovers the 102 year old artifact amid wreckage. The piece dates to earlier than the Christian era via unrelated note about Persian polo.
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