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*•1•••-: n*iy.*.V-NSACRED HEART CATHOLICFather Ronald Axen is the present pastor of the church, coming to Walker in 1972 toMichael Kirk, William Kirk, Nick Michael, Henry Donnelly, L.Spaight, J. J. Michael, Danreplace Father John Gallagher Bradley Jacob Wachaj and who was transferred to Jesup, Mike Dulhaunty. In alI thereIowa.The original subscription list for the church was dated March5, 1885. In 1887 Rev. Father O’Dowd of Independence came to Walker to talk over the matter ofwere eighty-five contributors.About forty of these were non-Catholic Walkerite wellwishers.Father O’Dowd served the localchurch for four years, sometimes. . . „ . walking the entire distance fromerecting achurch in town. Peter Indepe*dence to ^ missionDonnelly headed the list of the church in Wa)ker on the rajlroad founders of the parish. Others tracfcs were the following: Thomas F.Donnelly, Nicholas Miller, John In 1890 the Sacred Heart (Jangle) Michael, John B. Church was made an independent Michael, Nick Leaven, John parish. The parish residence was Wintringer, John A. Leaven, built in 1894. Over the years the John Leaven, Thomas Pen- church has been enlarged and dergast, V. Leaven, Frank remodeled.Brown, Cornelius Milbach, N. J.In 1948 the first unit of theZabokrtsky P. H Burke, Jerry Parjsh Ha„ was buj]Daily, Joe Payell, N. J. Jekel, buUdjng ^ leted 1951.Henry Grant, James Heddinger, J. W. Gaasch, John Wachal,. In 1955 the hall was enlarged.NUMAC, INC.Hand its beginning in 1960 with the purchase of the present site from G I Feeds operated by Gerald Hauge.R. O Neumeyer with two ot hissons Neil and Gail (Butch)operated the mill with three employees, Raymond Dvorak,Ron Bebensee, and Leonard Voss the first year. The sole business at that time was the manufacturing of Livestock Feeds.In 1961 the first grain bin was built to handle corn for milling. Through the years additional bind were built and dryers added. NuMac, Inc. now purchases and ships grains from the farm along with milling grain.jIn the spring of 1963 a bulk and bag fertilizer plant was constructed, with storage for 1200 tons of bulk fertilizer and 500 ton of bag fertilizer. Later facilities for liquid nitrogen were added and a complete line of farm chemicals are now handled.The main line of Manufacturing of livestock feeds is through a franchise agreementwith Triple Moines,bIowa.Feeds, DesNuMacmanufactures and distributed Triple “F” Feeds for eastern Iowa, Wise., 111., Ind., and points in Texas, Arizona, and Penn. NuMac also manufactures for five other companies plus custommanufacturing with a capacity ofover 500 tons per month.In 1969 an Instra Pro Extruder was added to process beans. In 1972 the machine was converted to manufacture Golden Pro, a ruminant protien source.At the present NuMac employes 19 people with Don Nuemeyer joining the firm in1969.' •lt; i • ( • ■• i • itt * tCongratulations Walkeryour Centennial Year
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Linn County Shopper
Walker, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 20, 1935
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