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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1949
Page
6
A long list of social calls visits and family news from Lyndon McDanel the McDanel and Callen households. Residents hosted and visited kin friends and neighbors across Ottumwa Centerville Moravia and Des Moines with trips to Des Moines for baseball and family gatherings spanning several days.
Friday sale of household goods precedes Mrs Blumenstock's move to Garderville. Osceola visitors Mr and Mrs Melvin Goeldner and Paul and Ruth, former local residents, stop by Mrs Blumenstock. Paul graduates in architectural engineering at Iowa State. Ruth a junior there. The group also notes wall coping with hardware cloth to deter rats. Max McDonough and daughter Janice return from Broken Bow Nebraska to visit relatives Homer Graham Thedford and Lawrence Graham Ellsworth, with aunt Miss Blanche Graham of Des Moines accompanying them home to Warren DuVall.
E L Quaife extension animal husbandman at Town State College advises farmers with snapped corn or those starting hogs on new corn to begin slowly. Avoid dumping large amounts of snapped corn, and self feed dry oats with the corn. Gradually increase the corn as hogs adapt to the diet.
Extension entomologist Earle Raun of Iowa State College urges farm cleanup before corn harvest to reduce rat harborage. Clean grounds, secure buildings, and rat-proof cribs with 1-inch mesh cloth. pile lumber on feet of clearance. burn or bury scrap. spread manure and cobs to reduce hiding places and concentrate rats for poisoning.
Dr S A Gladstone of Polyclinic Medical School develops a painless office based cancer test using Gelfoam rubbed over the area. In 700 plus cases the method detected cancer when biopsy failed and has earned a New York Medical Society scientific award.
Forty states the District of Columbia and Canada have filed entries for the National Dairy Cattle Congress and Allied Shows in Waterloo from October 3 to 9. Prospects for remaining eight states are favorable. Entries come from as far west as Idaho and as far east as Massachusetts.
Delaware to Georgia residents flock to the national cattle show this year. Ten block long cattle barns will house over 1,800 head and be filled to capacity as interest runs high.
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