Many Jobs Open Under Farm Act
The Civil Service Commission announced examinations for emergency agricultural assistants in Iowa and 38 states to aid farmers under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Graduates or farm-reared applicants aged 24 to 54 may apply, with several routes for experience and education, including two years of relevant work and college or agricultural college credentials. A senator called the exam rigged, favoring county agents or agricultural teachers.
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Washington
Iowa
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Civil Service
Civil Service Commission
New England
Delaware
Nevada
New Jersey
Reco Agricultural College
Agricultural College
Mt Pleasant Golfers Defeat Wapello In Neighborly Tilt
Mt Pleasant golfers beat Wapello on the local greens with a total of 64 strokes. Norman Schroeder of Wapello led with 71, while Arthur Miller of Mt Pleasant posted 77 for his team.
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Wapello
Mteasant Golf Club
Norman Schroeder
Arthur Miller
Pleasant
Union Temperance
Wapello Township
O. L. Wilson
A. R. Morledge
E. S. Simpson
Morning Sun
Jesse Huddle
Vernon Wiederrecht
J. H. Chittum
A. J. Williamson
Warren Wiederrecht
Charles Reutinger
Harry Grimm
Social Roundup at Cedar River Retreats and Homes
Moscow residents Mr and Mrs Clarence Lindt and families joined Mr and Mrs Richard Hartung and Mr and Mrs Walter Christensen at the Christensen cottage on the Cedar river. Local gatherings included dinners at the Martin Jensen home and visits to the Lester Keller and James Smith households. Grant Heartst, stricken with pleural pneumonia, showed improvement after a sudden Saturday illness.
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Moscow
Clarence Lindt
Richard Hartung
Walter Christensen
Marjorie
Muscatine
Christensen
Cedar River
Mable Jensen
Lois
Twyla
Edward
Robert
Elmer Jesiger
Jean
Richard Schmidt
Davenport
Alvin Roberts
Martin Jensen
Andrew Teischmiller
Nannie Butler
Thomas Killion
Lester Keller
Harold Grinder
James Smith
A. Maurer
West Liberty
George Healy
Grant Heartst
Schedules for Iowa Baby Beef Tour and Corn Festival
Tipton Carl Oldson announces the annual Four-H Baby Beef club tour in Cedar county starting at 9 a.m. in West Branch on Wednesday. The event features feeding and judging instructions by Okisen and includes a July festival of the New Corn with folk dances and a queen’s ceremony on June 30 in Tipton. A county rally morning program includes a music memory contest and officers’ election. Red Oak Township Farm Bureau hosts a Friday meeting with Cedar County guests, featuring J. N. Wiese and Alvin Stonerook talks, an orchestra, pantomime The Bee Hive, and a trombone solo.
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Tipton
Carl Oldson
Iowa Beef Producers’ Association
Cedar County
West Branch
Okisen
Howard Safley
Red Oak
Fairfield Township
Howard Lafley
J. N. Wiese
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Alvin Stonerook
Fairfield Township Far Bureau
Henry Busching
Red Oak Township
Iowa Farmers Face Bankruptcy Surge in 1932
The Washington Bureau reports that one in 474 Iowa farmers filed for bankruptcy in 1932, far above the national rate of one in a thousand. Iowa ranks third in farm bankruptcies with 456 cases as the USDA notes the farm as home and business fuels farmers resolve to endure the depression.
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Journal Washington Bureau
Washington
Iowa
United States Department of Agriculture
Lights Go Dark as Buffalo Flies Swarm Downtown
Annual warm weather nuisance buffalo flies swarmed downtown lights Monday night causing boulevard lighting to go dark around 10 p m. The pests cluster around illumination and have formed piles in some areas, larger swarms than earlier in the season.
Farm bankruptcies decline amid 1931 to 1932 comparison
The report shows 4 849 farm bankruptcies in 1932 compared with 4 023 in 1931, indicating a year over year shift in agricultural financial distress. The data contrasts the two years to highlight economic pressures facing farmers during the period.
Children Day Observed At Methodist Church
Conesville program hosted by local children with singing by Mrs. G M Buser and Mrs Ferral Hardman and instrumental number by Paul Johnson and J H Gipple. Temperance talk given by Rev H C Druse. Bible school pupils to perform next Sunday. Eighty seven children enrolled Friday. Visitors from Iowa City and Muscatine called on local families.
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Conesville
Methodist Church
G. M. Buser
Ferral Hardman
Paul Johnson
J. H. Gipple
H. C. Druse
Bible School
George Foor
Walter Foor
Jack
Roger
Gay
Iowa City
Nell Foor
Guy Hoots
Ferrel
Muscatine
Vis
Iowa Delegation Trekking Home
Washington Iowa members of congress disperse for home with plans to visit Chicago Den of Progress on the way back. Several favor July returns or early summer stays as they wrap up duties and arrange posts and patronage.
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Washington
Iowa
Congress
Chicago
L. J. Dickinson
Algona
Des Moines
Guy M. Gillette
Mark
Don Parel
Fred C. Gilchrist
Laurens
Bernhard M. Jacobsen
Clinton
C. L. Callender
Indianapolis
Lloyd Thurston
Osceola
Otha D. Wearin
Hastings
Albert C. Willford
Waterloo
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Ruby A. Black
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YALE
Harvard
Thames River
New London
Conn
Crimson
Mt. Pleasant
Fairview Church
S. J. Deihl
Giffin
Simpson
Allem
Marshall Township Farm Bureau
Donald Cannell
Oakland
Angie Bates
Weaver Briggs
D. E. Barrick
Ottumwa
Phillip Coolidge
Arthur Coolidge
Little Cedar Creek
Highland Center
Coolidge
Nature
Lux
Lux Toilet Soap
Wilhelmina Wegmer
Chattanooga
Tenn
Luz Toliet
Joan Marsh
Producers Association
Ali
Roosevelt
Luther
Martin Luther
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Missouri Synod
White House
John W. Boehne, Jr
Indiana
H. Erck
Lincoln
Neb
J. Frederick Wendel
H. M. Hennig
Washington, D. C
John W. Boehne
E. C. Snyder
Murphy
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