Many Jobs Open Under Farm Act
Washington reports multiple job openings under the farm act for emergency agricultural assistants. Requirements include college graduation, or equivalent farm experience, age 24 to 54, and civil service exam responses. Veterans exempt from age limits. positions focus on securing farmer cooperation and agricultural adjustment program aims.
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Washington — College
Iowa
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
New England
Delaware
Nevada
New Jersey
Mt Pleasant Golfers Triumph Over Wapello Side
Mt Pleasant golf club beat Wapello 64 strokes in a neighborly Sunday match on local greens. Wapello's Norman Schroeder was low with 71 over 18 holes. Arthur Miller led Mt Pleasant with 77.
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Wapello
Mt. Pleasant
Local residents spend Sunday at cottages and homes
Many families from Muscatine Davenport and West Liberty gathered at various homes along the Cedar River and Jensen residence for a three course dinner. Grant Heartst, stricken with pleural pneumonia Saturday night, shows improvement.
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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 and
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 Annual Baby Beef Tour and Festival of the New Corn
Tipton-Carl Oldson announces the annual Four-H Baby Beef club tour in Cedar county on Wednesday June 23 starting at 9 am at West Branch. Okisen will instruct on feeding fitting and judging. The county rally in Tipton Friday June 30 features The Festival of the New Corn with folk dances and queen’s ceremony. A music memory contest officers election at 10 am then a picnic. Red Oak Township Farm Bureau hosts with over 100 members present. J N Wiese Cedar County Farm Bureau president and Alvin Stonerook Fairfield Township Farm Bureau president give talks. A pantomime The Bee Hive and a sliding trombone duet entertain.
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Tipton
Carl Oldson
Iowa Beef Producers’ Association
Cedar County
West Branch
Okisen
Township Bureau
Howard Safley
Red Oak
Farm Bureau
Fairfield Township
J. N. Wiese
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Alvin Stonerook
Fairfield Township Far Bureau
Henry Busching
Red Oak Township
Iowa Farmers Turn to Bankruptcy Amid Depression
Washington report notes one farmer in 474 in Iowa filed for bankruptcy in 1932, compared with one in a thousand nationwide. Iowa ranks third in farm bankruptcies with 456 cases as the Agriculture Department links the farm as home and business to farmers’ resolve to endure the downturn.
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Journal Washington Bureau
Washington
Iowa
United States Department of Agriculture
Lights Go Dark As Buffalo Flies Invade City
On Monday night Buffalo or fish flies appeared in abundance with warm weather, causing downtown boulevard lights to go out around 10 p m. The winged insects swarm around lights and can pile up in places. They have appeared earlier this year in smaller swarms. The note also clarifies the Tartarian lamb is a plant and describes the Chinese fern with a fleece like a sheep.
Farm Bankruptcies Compare With Prior Year Totals
The report notes 4,849 farm bankruptcies in 1932 versus 4,023 in 1931, highlighting a rise. It contrasts the year’s agricultural insolvencies with the previous year’s figures, indicating ongoing economic strain for farmers.
Children Day Observed at Conesville Methodist Church
The Conesville Methodist Church held a children day program Sunday evening with the church filled. Mrs G M Buser and Mrs Ferral Hardman sang a duet. Paul Johnson and J H Gipple performed. Rev H C Druse spoke on temperance. Eighty seven children enrolled Friday. Visitors included Mr and Mrs George Foor and family from Iowa City and Mr and Mrs Guy Hants and son Ferrel Dean from Muscatine.
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Conesville
Methodist Church
G. M. Buser
Ferral Hardman
Paul Johnson
J. H. Gipple
H. C. Druse
Iowa Delegation Takes Varying Paths Homeward
Iowa members of Congress are dispersing for home after sessions. Dickinsons and Murphy plan extended stays, Dowell and Gillette families drive home, Gilchrist aims for a July 1 return then to Chicago, Jacobsen visits Indianapolis before home, Biermann, Eichers plan a week more, Thurston to Osceola, Wearin to stay a week or two, Willford undecided, while Democrats remain in Washington to secure patronage before returning.
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Washington
Iowa
Congress
Century of Progress
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
Journal Washington Correspondent
the Civil Service Commission
Agricultural College
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
Fairview Church
S. J. Deihl
Giffin
Simpson
Allem
Marshall Township Farm Bureau
Donald Cannell
Oakland
Angie Bates
Weaver Briggs
D. F. Barrick
Ottumwa
Phillip Coolidge
Arthur Coolidge
Little Cedar Creek
Highland Center
Young Coolidge
YALE
Harvard
Thames River
New London
Conn
Crimson
Producers Association
Lux
Lux Toilet
Joan Marsh
Wilhelmina Wagner
Chattanooga
Tenn
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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