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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1944
Page
3
Club leaders plan with the Fair Association to support 4-H projects in 1945. Open to boys 10 to 21, classes include Purebred beef heifer, baby beef, calf birth after March 1 1944, purebred sow and litters, market litter, dairy heifer birth July 1 1944 to April 1 1945, poultry with county hatcheries, and garden club. No colt or sheep classes in the 4-H show.
The township chairs and county women’s committee members met at the courthouse with Miss Mabel Phipps extension specialist from State College to plan the year’s program. Shortcuts in housework and making over clothing were chosen as priorities with a training school planned in October and a January open meeting on Time Savers.
Transfers include Harry Fastwood to John W Crippen and multiple owners such as Allan T Fairbanks and Corake Fairbanks to Virich and Magdalena Schilt. Parcels described by sections, acres, and bounds across NW and SE quarter sections with roads and landmarks.
The Scotch Grove township Farm Bureau met September 18 hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Irving Eilers. Officers George Kuehl Marvin Lacock and Mrs. Irving Eilers were re elected. Discussed service program livestock feed amid soft corn prospects and noted 1943 food production records. Greta and Arlene Kuhns presented an Achievement day demonstration on Making a Dart Game. Sixty people attended refreshments.
The War Production Board maintains lumber as a critical material with strict priority ratings. FHA area director Holger Holm urged homeowners to seek ratings only for extreme emergencies and outlined the process via Form WPB 2896.
A column urges parents to observe children during play to learn what they gain from activities. It cites two books, Children from Seed to Saplings by M. M. Reynolds and And Seat Him When He Sneezes by C. MacMurry, recommending reading to better understand child development and reduce parental fatigue.
The Jones County Farm Bureau lists events from Hale Farm Bureau on September 22 with Archie Wood to September 28 at Martello 4-H and Schoolhouse. Wayne Township Farm Bureau reelected officers at the September meeting, naming George H. Harms director and Mrs. Herman Helens chairwoman.
Wayne County 4-H members meet at Carl Siebels home with leaders William Martin and Willian Jansen to discuss county show improvements and project plans. County extension director Jessen assists with guidance for forming another club in the coming years.
Wm Margaretha Renken and Emma Renken grant to Lewie Ede and Viola Holzinger spouses a deed for Lot 9 Block 17 Original Town of Wyoming with joint tenancy. Grantor reserves life estate. Names include Nolan W. Frp and W. DeMoss. Amount listed as love.
Funeral services were conducted for Mrs. Mary Brownell 88 at the Methodist church in Wyoming after a long illness. Lydia Blakeney McMillan 65 wife of Rev Claude D. McMillan died of a heart attack in Primghar and was buried there. Ruth Cook Anderson 44 died at Mercy hospital Davenport with seven children surviving. The March area includes various notices of obituaries, a Legion auxiliary school, club anniversary events and local residents visiting or traveling.
The Hawkins family notes their son Jimmy dubbed a chatterbox for his talkative parents Yet at age two and a half he spoke only occasionally Until a tea outing with a sitter revealed his need for speech In time doctors cited emotional or physical causes for late talking and the family learned to watch and help him grow vocal.
The text notes that individuals may stay quiet until compelled to speak or request something. It suggests that once rewarded for speaking, people will begin talking more readily, implying a shift from silence to verbal communication as incentives appear.
Jones county farmers may cut logs grown on their farms and saw them into lumber up to 5000 board feet without a lumber certificate. The change, announced by the Jones county AAA office at Monticello, applies only to self grown lumber used on the same farm. Lumber from outside their own farm still requires a native lumber certificate.
Dairy products provide energy and nutrients from cows, but require protein minerals vitamins and ample net energy feeds. Big Gain Spring Pasture 32% Dairy Concentrate combines with your grain to support heavy milk production and herd profitability.
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