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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1942
Page
3
The 4 H clubs host a rally day at the Wyoming school gym on Wednesday at 9 30 a m to boost club organization and wartime youth service. The program includes songs pledges salutes business meeting a noon luncheon and a Better Groomed Girl revue with delegates to the state convention to be presented.
Scotch Grove 4-H boys met May 20 at the Ketelsen home with eleven members present. led by county club agent Paul W. Borglum the group discussed contouring as one aspect of soil conservation and noted liming phosphate fertilizer and proper crop rotations as essential. Lunch was provided by Mrs. Freda Ketelsen.
Jones county 4-H boys enter 23 purebred litters by 20 members for 1942, up from 17 litters by 17 boys in 1941. Eight and four tenths pigs per litter farrowed, 6.5 pigs saved per litter. litters smaller but death rate lower. breeds include Chester white Hampshire Poland China Berkshire and Duroc.
Jones county 4-H members may enter the Victory Market Pig club and Pen of 3 project with enrollment due June 1 at the Farm Bureau office. Pigs may be purebred grade or cross bred farrowed after Feb 1 this year, owned solo or in a parental partnership, and fed by the member.
Iowa farmers convert 20000 CCC owned steel corn bins into wheat storage. Ellison and MacArthur say dismantled bins moved to North Dakota Kansas Nebraska and South Dakota to relieve Midwest storage amid bumper wheat forecasts. Trucks will haul grain back to Iowa for livestock feed.
Hopkinton and Cedar Rapids residents wed at Trinity Methodist Church Cedar Rapids on May 16 with plans to reside there after June 15. Engagements and community notices follow, listing local marriages moves and social events across Hopkinton.
Cholera hits Castle Grove causing the loss of nearly all dogs owned by C. J. Opfer. Five Castle Grove graduates from Monticello High School are named Helen Deischer Verona Krombinga Helen McLaughlin Donald Caspers and James Hubbard. Local residents, visitors, and callers are noted including Lyle Hosford Her man Egger family in Cascade township and Mrs C A McLaughlin. A Peniel chapel service was skipped as Rev James Hodgson attended baccalaureate at Coe College.
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