Iowa crop values fall to 1921 levels in 1930 report
Des Moines AP Charlies D Reed director of the Iowa weather and crop bureau says Iowa crop value for 1930 based on Dec 1 prices is 427.307 million dollars, down 143.79 million or 25 percent from 1929. Corn accounts for most loss with 92 million drop, oats 15 million and tame hay 14 million.
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Des Moines
Charlies D. Reed
Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau
Iowa
Reed
Nebraska
Pleasant Prairie News Notes and Events
The Pleasant Prairie Booster club will sponsor a dance at Pleasant Prairie hall Friday night as the third in a winter series. The donations committee includes Mr and Mrs Frank Stecher Jr Mr and Mrs Albert Stecher and Erwin Allbee. Services were held at Pleasant Prairie Presbyterian church Sunday with Rev Lyle H Gillham in charge and will continue Sundays all winter with Sunday school on Sunday mornings. A closing out sale near Blue Grass drew many locals, and Mr E G Pitt and family joined Mr and Mrs Gus Broders for supper. Dorothy Thoeming, ill with pneumonia, is recovering. Local roads remain rough and nearly impassable due to lack of gravel.
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Pleasant Prairie
Pleasant Prairie Hall
Gees
Frank Stecher
Albert Stecher
Erwin Allbee
Pleasant Prairie Presbyterian Church
Lyle H. Gillham
Nichols News Roundup From Nichols Iowa
Mrs. Nichols hosted an all day quilting bee and chicken dinner with guests including Mesdames Brown Metheny Stephens Shannon Hummell Brown Stafford. Frank Hummel and John Kirkpatrick visited Muscatine. Blue Grass and Muscatine residents visited Nichols. Sherman Fox sale yielded 60 to 6154 cents and $67 lunch proceeds. Nichols 479 elected officers Friday at Masonic hall. Scout food sale planned in Kirchner window. Declamatory contest attendees included Mrs Kirkpatrick and Ardelie Fox. Mable Kirkpatrick visiting Lone Tree relative Elizabeth Kirkpatrick.
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Muscatine
John Stephens
Newcorn
Sherman Fox
J. H. Hinttony
Poole Brothers
Nichols
Masonic Hall
G. A. Kaiser
Lone Tree
Boy Scouts
Kirchner’s
Anna Kirkpatrick
Ardelie
Charles Fox
West Liberty
Mable Kirkpatrick
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick
Employment of Child Labor in Iowa Lowest in Fifteen Years
Des Moines AP report shows Iowa child labor permits total 1,493 for the last two years, down nearly 100 from the prior biennium, with World War era highs far above current figures. Labor commissioner Hoyer cites economic conditions and adult efficiency standards as factors, notes 14,840 industrial accidents in the period including 98 fatalities.
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Des Moines
Iowa
H. V. Hoyer
Labor Bureau
Hoyer
Bureau
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