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Newspaper
Mt Pleasant News
Location
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1947
Page
7
One hundred girls at Western Union college in LeMars were forced from their dormitory when a room fire broke out early today. It was the campus's first blaze in years. No injuries reported as students salvaged clothes and personal belongings.
Heavy rainfall has reduced Henry County corn acres by hundreds as fields along rivers flood and saturated soil kills plants. A shift to soybeans is likely, with many fields not plantable or productive. Soybeans may still yield well if planted by June 20, though later plantings are possible. Much corn has already emerged and some has been cultivated once.
Dr Homer H Flags a 63 year old member of the Iowa State College staff for 27 years died after a heart attack yesterday afternoon in Ames.
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