Jones County Farm Bureau Members Praise Organization
The Farm Bureau is praised for aiding 4-H and home projects, providing guidance, networking, and potential for better legislation. Members from Richland, Madison, Lovell, and Fairview townships share benefits, while a Monticello meeting led by C V Holsinger discussed storage methods for fruits and vegetables and available advisories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
C. V. Holsinger
Iowa State College
Farm Bureau
Wortman elected 1934 county home project chairman
Mrs. Sam Wortman of Martelle won the position at a Farm Bureau women leaders meeting succeeding Mrs. H. Stover as county chairman. Mrs. Harold Hartman was elected county secretary and Mrs. Jessie Koch became county publicity chair. Madison Merry Maids 4-H met at the public school to review fair booth results and received $18.94 in savings to the club with $13 from a prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Wortman
Martelle
Farm Bureau
Wortman
Greenfield Township
H. ©. Stover
Harold Hartman
Fairview Township
Jessie Koch
Wyoming Township
Madison
Merry Maids
Jones County
Evelyn Courtney
Milk Association Sees Record Low Butterfat in Sixteen Months
With 443 cows idle and milk output at 86 dollars, the association average sank to 501 pounds of milk and 18.3 pounds butterfat. Silage use rises, beans cut for hay, and several members rely on beans as a protein supplement. Twenty four cows exceeded 40 pounds butterfat, led by A80 and Aagg ie, while Tom Shover’s herd topped producers with 746 pounds milk and 25.7 pounds butterfat. The Men's Reformatory herd tied with Schoonover Oltmanns for highest butterfat average among herds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aaggie
Tom Shover
Schoonover & Oltmanns
Edwin Wilcox
Prentice & Streeter
W. H. Finn & Son
D. Mayberry
Baby beef club enrollment urged for 1934 year
The 4 H baby beef club aims to train rural youth through four key benefits Head Heart Hand and Health with emphasis on selecting feeder calves cattle management feeding rations and calf judging. Eligible members aged 10 to under 20 by January 1934 must enroll by December 1 1933 and pick a calf between March 1 1983 and September 30 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baby Beef Club
Calf Feeding Interest Encouraged for Next Year
County agents and club leaders invite all interested boys to express their plans for feeding a calf next year. The outreach emphasizes broad participation and ideas from youth in the program.
Paul Smith farm harvests corn test plots for October field day
Harvest under way on the Paul Smith farm cites twenty five corn varieties open pollinated top crosses and hybrids to compare moisture and yields. Prizes include half bushel seed corn for the farthest distance and for the driver bringing the most people. Six Million Pigs Bought in Program. Approximately six million pigs and 200000 sows were purchased and slaughtered under the federal emergency hog marketing program ending September 29. About $30 million paid to farmers and 100 million pounds of cured meat produced. Initial distribution to needy families has begun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Smith
Iowa
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Federal ‘Emergency Relief Administration
Roosevelt
National farm groups to form advisory council on agricultural policy
Led by the American Farm Bureau Federation a national agricultural council will be formed. It will confer with government agencies including the AAA and Farm Credit Administration on procedures for major welfare programs. E A O Neale notes national organizations should help shape national agricultural policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Agricultural Council
AAA
Farm Credit Administration
E. A. O'Neal
Conference of National Agricultural Organizations
Chicago
Wallace
O'Neal
Secretary Wallace Supports Farmer Committee at Chicago Conference
In response to Mr. O Neals letter Secretary Wallace endorses a farmers committee and urges collaboration with producer organizations. He cites the Chicago conference as broad support from groups such as the American Farm Bureau Federation National Grange and Farmers National Grain Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Neal
Wallace
Chicago
National Agricultural Council
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
National Committee Farm Organizations
Farmers' National Grain Corporation
American Cotton Cooperative Association
National Livestock Marketing Association
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Kansas Farmers’ Union
Dan A. Wallace
the Farmer
Clifford Gregory
Prairie Farmer
Inventory shrink and farm income in 1931 1932 Iowa study
The piece explains inventory shrink due to price drops and analyzes 1931 and 1932 farm data from east central Iowa under Farm Bureau and Iowa State extension. It notes cash incomes per farm, the impact of shrinking inventories on net income, and predicts 1933 will show rising values and higher net cash income if inflation continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Wallace
Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
East Central Town
Towa State College
Iowa
Hopkinton News Highlights Local Social and Club News
Hopkinton sees Rev E P Ament depart for Rome to study theology. Community members visit, dine, and honor clergy while relatives travel from Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. The Hopkinton Vigilante Rifle club earns NRA charter. W M S met with devotions and reviews Labrador works. Coe College band members return from the world’s fair.
Hopkinton Social Roundup Sees Visits and Moves
Attendees from Hopkinton include Rev. David de Best and family along with several locals at a Friday banquet. Plans note Mrs. J. D. MacAllister and Miss Betty MacAllister visiting Chicago with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Reeder and Mr. and Mrs. Will Dennison of Cedar Rapids. Ladies' Aid meets October 18 at the Presbyterian parsonage with hostesses Mrs. Manly Bryan and Mrs. Bert Freee. Moncell o visitor Blanche Matthieasen accompanies her mother Mrs. Rosalia Cummings of Cedar Rapids. Center Junction residents Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson relocate to the W. A. Milroy house. Kill Kare club held a family picnic at the Russell Lux home last Thursday. Rev. Raymond Grant of Minneapolis, formerly Buck Creek, has been transferred to Duluth replacing Dr. Charles Nelson Pace. F. A. Irish visited Sabula in the Doran Beitz home. Dr. G. G. Brown and Virginia Ann Brown visited Iowa City. Mr. and Mrs. McIlrath of Lowden spent the weekend with W. S. Johnston’s family. Jennie Ferguson returns from three months in Atlantic City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. P. Ament
Immaculate Conception Church
Cedar Rapids
Hopkinton
Worthington
Father Ament
Rome
Old Country
Lester Ament
Mae Dunlap
Grand Rapids
Mich
Chicago
Flora Hoover Smith
Grinnell College
F. D. Joseph
Lenox
Roy DeShaw
Strawberry Point
Archie LeClerc
Manchester
J. R. Kirkwood
Russell Lux
W. J. Kirkwood
Catherine
Lila Land
Earl Rynerson
Davenport
Aynerson
Raymond Wallace
Coe College
G. G. Brown
James Davis
Saunders House
R. P. Wheeless
Waterloo
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Alice Johnston
Mattie Anderson
BE. A Dunlap
Hopkinton Vigilante Rifle Club
National Rifle Association
W. W. Meyers
Berkley Smith
A. J. Miller
Clark DeShaw
Leo Sullivan
Cio Club
H. Livingstone
J. D. MacAllister
Labrador
W. P. Lord
Grenfell
J. W. Dodds
Galena, Il
F. E. Allen
Christian Endeavor Conference
Dubuque
David de Best
David, Jr
Betty MacAllister
Margaret Demaree
Adrian Loomis
Helen Wheeless
James Littlefield
Carmen Ryan
Dorothea Bixby
Betty
Howard Reeder
Will Dennison
Ladies’ Aid
Manly Bryan
Bert Freee
Blanche Matthieasen
Moncello
Rosalia Cummings
Alfred Johnson
Center Junction
Ladies' Aid Society
The
Presbyterian Church
Sarah McConnell
Minnie Mackintosh
Kill Kare Club
Hopkinton Friends
Raymond Grant
Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church
Minneapolis
Duluth
Charles Nelson Pace
Buck Creek
F. A. Irish
Sabula
Doran Beitz
Virginia Ann
Iowa City
Brown
C. G. Sawyer
MclIlrath
Scotch Grove community notices and church social
In Scotch Grove Mrs. George Moats hosted Georgia Moats tenth birthday with guests Mabel Otten Ida Louise Brokens Pauline Otten and Ruth Clark. Local groups report extension talks Presbyterian Aid society meetings and a Women's Community club party with a morning of programs and an evening concert featuring local talent.
Local families attend Dairy Cattle Congress and world’s fair events
Mr and Mrs Carl Stahlberg and daughter Carline with Mr and Mrs Otto Rittmer attended the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo last week. John Stahlberg Jr and Celena went to Waterloo Sunday for the congress closing. Harry Kuhns and family traveled to Chicago for days at the world's fair, returning home. R D Sanford and Ben Otten families with Dorothy left for Chicago to visit the fair. L A Himebaugh and Miss Ber Ad Kuehl drove to Elkader Bunny. John Stahlberg and guests with Ray Bruenning visited Langworthy Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Stahlberg
Carline
Otto Rittmer
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
John Stahlberg, Jr
Celena
Dairy Congress
Harry Kuhns
Chicago
R. D. Sanford
Ben Otten
Dorothy
L. A. Himebaugh
Ber Ad Kuehl
Elkader Bunny
Fire damages corn cob pile at John Egger farm
Firefighters and neighbors fought a blaze in a large corn cob pile stored in a woodhouse attached to the Egger dwelling. Flames shot from a damaged side as the truck arrived and soon extinguished, with only minor structural damage and several boards torn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Community
John Egger
Fari
Alva Stadtmueller
U. Schilt
A. A. Kromminga
Fred
Dairy Congress
Waterloo
Harvey Heiken
Lyle Hosford
Louis Heiken
Monticello
Carl Mardorf
Bowen’s Prairie
G. Mardorf
Sand Springs
Anamosa
Jones County
Bu Teaau
Luther E. Rogers
Central City
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Presbyterian Church
George Rickels
Henry Johnson
Clarence
Billings
Montana
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Road work underway on Jones county road O in Monticello
The Cass Transportation Co sale is planned for this Saturday in Monticello. Jones county road O from Prairieburg road at Husman's corner north to road A will be widened and graded and gravelling will be completed. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Hosford of Monticello visited the Hosford farm. Roy Mellor and Paul Black traveled to Waterloo to attend the Dairy Congress. Thomas Reilly and John Smith of Coggan were in Castle Grove for business on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass Transportation Company
Monticello
Jones County Road
Prairieburg
Husman's Corner
Kenneth Hosford
Wonticello
Hosford Farm
Roy Mellor
Paul Black
Waterloo
Dairy Congress
Thomas Reilly
John Smith
Coggan
Castle Grove
Onslow Ladies Guild Meets at Local Church
Onslow The Ladies' Guild will meet at the church Wednesday of this week. Numerous local residents attended events including a D A R luncheon in Anamosa and a district Sunday school convention in Monticello. Six weeks of tests will be given in the school this week as students prepare.
Birthday notices and club luncheon recollections
A community column recalls a luncheon for Mrs Leonard McKinstry with pink decor and readings by Vera Paul and Fayram. It also notes Mr Evers birthday celebration with many relatives visiting from Cedar Rapids Maquoketa Marion and Seattle. Frank Barnes attended a Cedar Rapids sales meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard McKinstry
Lou Barnes
Hicks
Vera Paul
Fayram
Ina Jansen
Ernest Evers
Evers
Paul Blake
Marion
Clyde Achey
Harry Evers
Richard
Cedar Rapids
McCray
Seattle
Wash
Josephine Ahlers
Aurora
August Evers
Oelwein
Melbourne
Henry Durkup
Maquoketa
Albert Buck
Monmouth
Otto Buck
Baldwin
Frank Barnes
Dairy Cattle Event Attended by Local Families
Richland Center residents John Yossi and Henry Wismeier joined relatives at Cedar Rapids for a Dairy Cattle event hosted by the Balcar home. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. G L Buol Mr. and Mrs. Will Hoffman and Mrs. John Yaggl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Yossi
Henry Wismeier
Cedar Rapids
Balcar
G. L. Buol
Will Hoffman
John Yaggl
Community Social Notes From Cedar Rapids Area
Congress at Waterloo left Thi Mr. and Mra. Carlacheter 3 in Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bauman de Grove and Mra, Loutee Senaes ter of Monticello attended also on the same day Mrs. Bam Hoffman spent a few days with friends in Cedar Rapids 4-H club girls held their regular meeting at the home of Mrs. John Yagg last Saturday Mr. and Mrs. George B. Héin were guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Tobin son last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schnelter and daughter Ruth spent last Tuesday in Cedar Rapids Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Buol and Rev. Arnold Buol of Dubuque were visiting at the Leonard Buol home last week Mrs. John Yossi Lucille and Delores Mrs. Henry L. Wiameler Mary Ellen and Joyce and Ruth Naomi Hein spent the past weekend at Cedar Rapids with Miss Martha Balear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Moats
Georgia
Mabel Otten
Ida Louise Brokens
Pauline Otten
Ruth Clark
Monticello
Holsinger
Ames Extension
Lewis Wright
C. P. Abbott
L. J. Schlemme
Celena Stahlberg
Esther Sinclair
Presbyterian Aid Society
Everett Stickley
M. M. Sinclair
Gannon
W. S. Eby
Gerd Rickels
Irma Sanford
Center Junction
May Himebaugh
Ray Snell
Edward
Lanark
H. H. Carson
Ray Bruenning
South Dakota
Scotch Grove
Wayne
Henry Stahlberg
C. A. Sutherland
Anamosa
Miss Meadon
Jean Royden
McDonald
Presbyterian Church
Women's Community Club
Edna Bohlken
Imogene Moats
Edna Bohiken
Oral Schlemme
Opal Sinclair
Ella Clark
Hester Sinclair
Fannie Henrichs
Laura Sinclair
Jo Royden
Dear Old Dixie
Russell Hughes
Edwina Hughes
Avert Kiburz
Caroline Kiburz
Mildred Doden
Leslie Balster
Alfreda Husman
Ladies’ Guild
James Macaulay
Wm. J. Macaulay
Strawman
George Sears
Ruth
Ella Orr
Martha Easler
Roy Miller
Earlville
Marvin Hanwardson
Margaret Lozer
William Fletcher
Fletcher
Jessie McMaster
Mabel Streeper
Astruman Club
C. R. Smith
Congress
Waterloo
Carlacheter
Peter Bauman de Grove
Loutee Senaester
Bam Hoffman
Cedar Rapine
John Yagg
George B. Héin
G. F. Tobin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jones County Farm Bureau
William Sbalsiger
Richland Township Home Project
8. H. Edlison
Girls’ County Club
B. D. Heiken
Madison Township
W. F. Hintz
Lovell Township Home Project
Home Project
Claude G. Peet
Home Project Election
4-H Baby Beef Club
National Council
Arend Balster
McLaughlin
Queen of Roses
Legg
Yose
Prince Albert
Virginia Sweet
T. P. Flannery Drug CO
Diversey & Halsted
Chicago, Ilinois
Richland Center
J. G. Schoon
Life and Fire Insurance
Rhomberg's
Ohotee
Rhomberg
Quaker Burnoil
Quaker
Quaker Barnell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nticell
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