Community News Notes From Otumwa Area
Local column lists church devotion led by Eva Tucker with a full afternoon of needlework and crafts. Many residents attend events, visits, and dinners at homes of Hiatt, Turner, Woodward, and others. Families travel to Lake Arrowhead camp and Lake Okoboji, with other social visits noted across Ottumwa and nearby towns.
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Wesley Chapel
Eva ‘Tucker
Eva Tucker
Gehevie Doffovan
Betty’ Hateh
Jimi Pettibone
Ottushwa
Lake Arrowhead
Walingita’McConnell
Monty
KBIZ
Ottumi
Ional Ofertas Martin
Shy Séstt
Rey
Pearl Hiatt
Elizabeth 'Turner
Jit
Mra
Frank Turner
Ea Shotts
Lake Okabojl
George Tutner
Marybeth
Frank Hiatt
Martha Hiatt
Zoe Calfen
Doctovan
Frank Chambers
Ceph 'Tucker
Howard Harper
Walter Harper
George Scott
Curtis Torntin
Burdette Cox
Kenneth Blumer
Lillian
Bill Withrow
Loral Bryant
Carl Hisler
Jogle
Anni‘ Pettibone
Sune
Blakesburg
Janet
Fritz
Jayne
Hunter
Emery Hiatt
George Turner
George McDonald
Franz Harvey
Linda
Robert Green
Lois Martin
Jay. Wilson
Peter Dinan
Jerry Pettibone
Ottumway
Orville Burton
Centerville
Orville
Iva McDonald
John Wood
W. E. Moran
Don Pettibone
Gladys Harsh
Ottumwa
Jim
Betty
Ron Woodward
Harry Woodward
Isan Carter
C.C. Cullers
Des Moines
Lucille Carter
Paris
Miller By Mrs Gerald Burton
Sunday guest visits fill the community in Mrs Gerald Burton's note with Mr and Mrs Oral Peters and the Paris family among those mentioned. The column lists fellow residents calling on neighbors, weekend happenings, and farm chores including oat harvesting and visits across nearby homes.
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Oral Peters
Claude Paris
Logan Strunk
Gerald Burton
Emma Tadlock
Earl Schiltz
W. C. Miller
Marion
Norman Kelly
Patty Reagan
Bob Strunk
John Tadlock
Lee Tadlock
Norman
Kelly Ane
Lovell Regan
Wayne Paris
Jerry Burton
Glen Stephenson
Lake Wapello
Earnest Foster
Frederick Koehler
Bob
Gary Andrews
Kenny Tadlock
Ben Knight
Maybell
Rosa Knight
Tresa and Family
Newton
Boyer Ridge Hometown Social Roundup Highlights Community Visits
Mr and Mrs Clarence Stauber visited at the Dean Hoffman home Monday evening. Mrs Kester Gladfelder called in Tuesday. Mrs Olin Foster and Betty Jean visited Mrs Russell Burns on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Stauber
Dean Hoffman
Kester Gladfelder
Olin Foster
Betty Jean
Russell Burns
Charlene
Litamie
James‘ Kaster
V. C. Kaster
Roy Fisk
Floris
Forest Mericle
Orville Cowlea
Mra
May Benge
Posts Should Be Cut And Piled In Shade Says Gardiner
Ed Gardiner, former extension forester at Iowa State College, advises cutting and peeling posts this spring and storing them in shade with ample air circulation, keeping space between each item for drying and preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Gardiner
Iowa State’ College
Hiatt Family Visits Across Weekend Gatherings
Hiattsville residents Mrs Ernest Hiatt Mr Kenneth Hiatt and sons hosted Sunday dinner. Larry Hiatt visited grandparents Mr and Mrs Gus Hiatt. Several couples and families attended gatherings at U S Hiatt's Centerville park Cyril McDanel and Marion Clayworth homes. Pearl Hiatt and Mary Meadows connected with Osceola and Albia visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Hiatt
Ernest
Max McDanel
Joelsen
Centerville Park
James Culbertson
Cyril McDanel
Marion Clayworth
Jay
Ernest Hiatt
Gus Hiatt
Harold Fenton
Wheat acreage in Iowa concentrated in river counties
A historical note states that most of Iowa's wheat acreage lies in counties bordering the Missouri River. The emphasis is on geographic distribution with the Missouri border as the main concentration zone.
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Iowa
Missouri River
Keep on counting borer egg masses in corn fields
Farmers seeking to curb corn borers can justify control if 50 egg masses per 100 plants are reached, or 60 per 100 if spray timing is mid season, says Iowa State College entomologist C. C. Blickenstaff. Egg laying continues about two weeks after the peak, making high gallonage applications valuable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Blickenstaff
Iowa
State College Extension
Blickenstaff
Corn Borer Control Advice Amid Wilted Plant Condition
An expert notes that treating corn stalks with low fuel ground equipment is safer when plants are wilted in the afternoon to avoid breaking stalks. He warns that rain does little to destroy young borers already hatched as most reside at whorls and leaf axils of the corn plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blickenstaff
Unemployment Payments Reach Historic High in Iowa
The Employment Security Commission reports that payments to unemployed town workers for 1019-50 set a record, with employer contributions totaling 10.876 million dollars and benefits paid of 6.605 thousand dollars, yielding 60.7 cents paid out per dollar contributed to the fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Employment Security Commission
Lowa
Economic figures from late 19th century work pay records
The text notes a twelve month period in 1898 where workers earned low weekly wages around eight dollars, with estimates suggesting higher totals under liberal benefits and increased earnings in recent twelve month spans, reflecting Iowa workers' wages and social support.
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Dotlowtt
Towa
Wis
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