Jones County Farm Bureau Picnic Announces Speaker
Allan Kline of Vinton, officer of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, will speak at the Jones County Farm Bureau picnic on July 4 in Monticello. He has played a key role in Iowa corn hog program administration and is noted as a progressive farmer with strong agricultural economics expertise. A full program with music sports and baseball will be announced next week. Plan to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan Kline
Vinton
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Monticello
Kline
Iowa
Jones County
Plin
Jones County Names Drought Relief Director
A telegram from Washington designates Carl Smith as county director of the agricultural drought relief service for Jones county. A drought relief organization is being formed via the Farm Bureau board of directors under the county agent’s supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Carl Smith
Agricultural Drought Relief Service
Jones County
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Chinch Bugs Widespread in County Barley Fields
A county agent survey finds chinch bugs in all parts of the county with barley fields showing infestation from slight to heavy. Oats and corn fields are clean. Barley is the preferred host, followed by wheat rye oats and corn. Creosote oil barriers may prevent migration to corn fields. demonstrations and free oil distribution are planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Farm Bureau
Iowa Counties Declared Secondary Drought Zones
A telegram from Washington declares all Iowa counties as secondary drought counties. This allows freight rate reductions on feed shipped into and livestock shipped out of counties and later returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Iown
Wheat contract inspector named for Jones county
William Bailey of Anamosa has been appointed official inspector for Jones county to verify compliance with wheat contracts. The second benefit payments on these contracts will begin once all covered farms are inspected, with increases to nine cents per bushel and rapid disbursement of over £0 million to farmers in drought areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Bailey
Anamosa
Jones County
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Farmers urged to update inventories for June and hog counts
Extension economist L G Allbaugh explains that farmers should inventory feeds and livestock as of June 1 to improve January 1 estimates, and to record hogs and births through June 1 for the corn hog contracts. He notes updating AAA records aids proof of compliance and contract accuracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. G. Allbaugh
Mr. Allbaugh
AAA
County Farm Bureau Home Project Leaders Meet at Monticello Park
The annual gathering in Monticello Park included over thirty five women led by Mrs J C Wood 6th district Farm Bureau committeewoman. Discussion covered county state and national organization concerns for home projects and the Farm Bureau.
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Farm Bureau Home Project
Monticello City Park
J. C. Wood
6Th District
Farm Bureau
of the Home Project and
Apple Prospects Poor Across Iowa and Nation
Iowa on June 1 shows apple condition at 46 percent of normal, far below last year and the ten year average. U S apple condition at 48.7 percent is among the lowest on record. eastern and mid western states report widespread damage from winter injury, frosts, drought and hot winds. Strawberries in Iowa are meager, raspberries may improve but drought could worsen them. cooling moths and continued dry weather threaten orchards, prompting strict spraying.
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Iowa
United States
Center Junction Man Wesley Hanken Dies At 34
Funeral services were held for Wesley C. Hanken at his Center Junction home and Sandhill Lutheran Church. Burial followed in Sandhill cemetery. Born January 27, 1900, he lived his life in Center Junction, worked after attending Davenport business college, and married Eva Moats in 1922. Surviving are his widow, five children, his father Gerhard Hanken, and other relatives. He had recent health struggles, spending time at Iowa City and Omaha hospitals before his death on June 14, 1934.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley C. Hanken
Sandhill Lutheran Church
Paul Gutknecht
Sandhill
Wesley Hanken
Gerhard H
Margaret Hanken
Center Junction
Rural Schools
Business College
Davenport
Eva Moats
Virginia
Wesley G
Naomi
Catherine
David
Hanken
University Hospital
Iown City
Evelyn Courtney
Robin Hood
Luella Seehusen
Mai
Marion
Audra Serbousek
Brown
Helen Himebaugh
Helen Himbaugh
Wee Willie Winkie
Betty
Lou McDonald
Tom
Tom the Pipjer
Jean Preston
Jean McNeilly
Guy
So Holyce Stim
Winterset
Madisonian
S. W. Clark
Harry Chase
Maxine Chase
Fred Bangs
Anamosa
Helen Lahey
Monticello
Pauline Serbousek
Robert Mead
Lavern
Minn
John Alexander
Hendrix Scotch Revue at Great Jones County Fair
A Scottish revue titled Lad and Five Lassies will perform at the Great Jones County Fair in Monticello in August 1934. The troupe wears native costumes and features songs sword dances highland flings with bag pipes drums and engaging outdoor entertainment. The Kirtles return to perform during August 1934.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Jones County
Sunday Social Notes from Springville and Nearby
Sunday callers visited J F Livingstone and H E Stingley homes while multiple families hosted guests from Cedar Rapids, Maquoketa, Anamosa, Amber, and Monti cello. Local students and teachers changed plans with visits and a rural teaching post announced for Joyce Preston. A white Angora cat wandered to the Paul Smith home seeking its owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springville
J. F. Livingstone
Peter Prahm
Jane DeShaw
Monticello
Maquoketa
N. GC. Holm
Dorothy Dreibelbis
John Miller
Anamosa
Jefferson and
Ames
Sam Alexander
Olin
John Alexander
William Alexander
Eileen Chase
Rance Brady
Martelle
John Paul
Babe
Cedar Rapids
H. E. Stingley
Charles Gray
James Gray
Ivan Gray
Amber
Frank Badger
E. Duncan
Bernell
Catholic Guild
Ralph Berkley
Scott McDonald
Henry Heeren
Barbara Jean
O. O. Watson
Dorothy Ann Johnson
Jean Preston
Vivienne Anderson
Eleanor Brust
Rock Island
Irwin Wood
Moline
Thelma Husman
Elsie Holst
Pacific Coast
Joyce Preston
Frank Preston
Hopkinton
Cornell
Vernon, Fysen
Read, Prahm’s
Paul Smith
Community Farm Bureau Program Opens With Music and Talk
About 150 people attended a Scotch Grove farm bureau meeting featuring a community singing led by Mrs. William Laude and a humorous reading by Miss Beatrice Bailey. Ray Anderson of Cedar Rapids Gazette spoke on cattle shows drought and the corn hog program. A new program committee was appointed, and a social with ice cream followed. Nearby, 51 pounds of catfish fueled a Scotch Grove park picnic for Eastern Town Grain Dealers members from multiple towns. The Scotch Grove 4-H club held a farm tour with stock judging and a hail game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Laude
Monticello
Gene Byers
Beatrice Bailey
Maxine Wirth
Dorothy Bader
Ray Anderson
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Anderson
Farm Bureau
Edwina Hughes
Laura Sinclair
Thelma Gregory
John Perrine
Eastern Town Grain Dealers Association
Scotch Grove
Cascade
Sand Springs
Hopkinton
Center Point
Central City
Amber
Anamosa
Olin
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Fairfax
Walford
Mechanicsville
Tipton
Stanwood
Maynard Kuhns
LaVerne
Community notes and 4-H rally set for Monticello area
Local 4-H leaders Alvin Kuhns Myron Kuhns Dick Naylor and John Ingels guide boys in training with county agents as Mrs John Lange Jr reports a cactus in bloom at sixty blossoms The community mourns Wes ley Hanken who died after health struggles leaving five children Pratt and courtship news include visits by A B Nichols and C P Abbott Scotts Grove club activities and a county 4-H rally at Monticello high school with music memories and demonstrations by Kuhns Singlair and Sinclair families
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Lange
C. P. Abbott
Great Falls
Montana
Scotch Grove
A. B. Nichols
Courtney
Center Junction
Wesley Hanken
University Hospital
Iowa City
Omaha
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Monticello High School
Pauline Oltman
Laura Singlair
Esther Sinclair
Antioch Church
Presbyterian Church
DeShaw
Monticello
Prahm
Sinclair
Kitty Callahan
Lyle
Lawrence Glenn
L. J. Schlemme
L. E. Hutton
Merle
Carol Naylor
Constance
Rock Island
Latter Day Church
Clair McCutcheon
Billy
Melvin
Clinton
Harold Marshall
Patricia Ann
Glen
Wyoming
Leona Stott
Montice
W. S. Eby
Mickey Mouse
Gladys Ladehoff
Opal Sinclair
Oral Schlemme
Hester Sinclair
Harrison Loomis
Geneva
Verna
Eileen
W. B. Clark
Jack
Jerry Naylor
Harry Scheele
Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls’ Club
Wilma
Celestia Kuhns
Mayeda Weers
Eloise Ku
Health talk and games organize church gathering
Members are reminded to attend a health talk and participate in games. The event includes sewing activities and notes that Mr and Mrs R A Naylor with son Dick and daughters Laurel and Boss traveled by car to Rock Island on Sunday.
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Hanken
Mia
R. A. Naylor
Laurel
Boss
Rock Island
Sunay
Hopkinton News Reflects Deaths and Local Events
Funeral services held for Mrs. W. A. Hull in Hopkinton after a stroke. Obituaries note her life on a local farm and family ties. Local pastors led services. burial in Hopkinton cemetery. Other items include Castle Grove death, church pulpit plans, homecoming travels, travels of residents, Bible school enrollment, and social gatherings.
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W. A. Hull
Hugh
Mary McCurdy
Hopkinton
Hull
W. H. Hull
W. J. McCurdy
A. B. Soule
David de Best
W. ©. Kehoe
Castle Grove
Kehoe
Eleanor MacDonald
Earlville
Randall Morgan
Roy Porter
Presbyterian Church
Paul F. Johnston
Johnston
Alice Johnston
Grimes
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
James Litlefield
Mose Lamott
Ernest Gearhart
Kate Lang
Lou King
M. E. Church
Hattie Livingstone
Iowa City
Robert Green
William Meyers
Donald
Kitty Meyers
Monticello
Gene Thompson
Local Social Notes From Hopkinton Area
A roundup of visits and gatherings around Hopkinton including the Marolfs staying at the Reeves house and Netcotts visiting Guthries Independence, friendly Bible class at Mrs. Downs, Larkins vacationing in Windsor Canada, and several doctors visiting or returning from cities. Christian Endeavors shifts to 6 46 pm in summer. Kill Kare club events noted. Norman Landers III visiting Oelwein. Brown Sawyer family visits Iowa City. Reeve and Demaree travel mentions. Kill-Kare picnic planned at Lux grounds.
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Spillville
Ridgeway
Pee
Raymond Marolf
Christian Endeavors Service
Kill Kare Club
Ray F. Billings
W. E. Zeuch
Zeuch
Denver
Roy Jeffries
Hopkinton
Jeffries
Rochester
Minn
Waukon
Earl DeShaw
Monticello
Dr. DeShaw
Norman Landers III
Oelwein
Smith
G. G. Brown
Iowa City
E. G. Burrows
Pearl Reeve
Buck Creek
Robert Demaree
Colo
Lux Grounds
Local social notes mention visits and travel
Miss Gertrude Reeve returns this week from Ottawa Beach Michigan and visits Chicago and Cleveland. Zade Reeve Millikan also heads to New York with a Midwest stopover. Mr and Mrs Delbert Stingley visit the Olin Morton home as relatives gather in a family weekend scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Reeve
Ottawa Beach
Mich
Sunday Social and Health Notes From Local Families
Amber Freese Henry Freese Wahl Willins Jansen Zimmler man hosted Sunday dinner with Louie Helgens family. Fred Tebo recovering from appendicitis at Mercy hospital Anamosa. Robert Dirks ill last week. Mrs Jansen Gerdes Hoult visited sister Mrs Carlson in Camanche with Harms family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Freese
Ernie Wahl
Sand Spring
E. E. Willins
Will Jansen
W. J. Zimmerman
Louie Helgens
Fred Tebo
Mercy
Robert Dirks
Louie Dirks
Alva Gerdes
Rena Hoult
Camanche
Arthur Carlson
Willie Harms
Community notes and social tidbits from Wayne and nearby
Families and friends visited in ae and Mar om on Sunday. E. E. Willis builds an addition to a restaurant to convert into a barter shop. The Rainbow club of Wayne township schedules an event on June 23 at the Midland. Four armed Mrs Fogfield and daughter spent Sunday with Mrs Wilson in Maquoketa. Ethel Jean extended her stay with Grandma. Otto Danneman Boland and Zimmerman households hosted Mrs Siebels birthday party with cards and refreshments. George Weilein, former Waterloo police chief, arrested north of In the Wapsi river for illegal fishing. fined 20 dollars and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Harms
Henry Marris
Marom
E. E. Willis
Rainbow Club
Wayne Township
Midland
Fogfield
Bughter
Can
Wilson
Maquoketa
Ethel Jean
Otto Danneman
Cletus Boland
Beverly Ann
W. J. Zimmerman
Will Hilda Tessmer
Edna Buol
Rhinehart Siebels
George Siebels
George Weilein
Waterloo
Wapasi
Wellein
Justice of the Peace
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Jones County Farm Bureau
Chinch Bugs
Martelie
Ohn
Gwen Tudor
Julian Kinler
Kansas
Waconia
Commodity Credit Corporation
Commmodity Credit Corporation
Home Project
Charles J. Murray
St. Louis
St. Louis University
C. J. Murray
Ray Phelps
J. D. Smith
Humphrey
L. A. Lust
Dorothy
Tarkhill
Mary Cline
Melvin Bradley
Wilfred Bradley
Tom Waller
Fred Bradley
Dubuque
John Cline
West Union
P. R. Wheeless
Helen
Wiltsie
Marjorie
Brandon
Elizabeth Campbell
Chicago
Jake Dunlap
McGregor
Arend Balster
McLaughlin
Graham Crackers
P. A
Hutchinson Ice Cream CO
BUICK
Flint
McLaughlin Buick Co
Pho
Iow
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