Local notes from Pella area reflect travels and community events
Lokal items detail Cornelia Wilson and Marie Lefetur shopping trips in Chicago for Wil on Jewelry, a bootnote about J. Witeor learning of two lives taken in Rotterdam, and several families visiting relatives in Monroe, Des Moines, and Chicago. It notes hospital stays, birthdays, births, and a Chicago ship visit by local men, plus property work at Central College and neighborhood incidents.
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Cornelia Wilson
Marie Lefetur
Chicaco
Wilon Jewelry
Witeor
Rotterdam
Central College
Cotton
Veenstra
Cre
Peraps
Fred Lautenbach
Verle Ver Dught
Chicago
Holland
Fred
America
Lake Michigan
Timely Items From the County Agent's Office
County agent details weed sprayer service by Weed Commissioner William Welch available to Marion County residents, with farmers supplying herbicides. Notes pasture weed clipping debates, red clover seed timing, alfalfa and clover sowing in August, and moisture effects. Discusses use of horses and tractors on 160 acre farms and a shift to smaller, efficient work horses. Announces Marion Penney Horse Breeders Association draft colt class at the county fair on August 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Welch
Marion County
Farm Bureau
Welch
A. Baine
Iowa State College
Marion Penney Horse Breeders Association
Farmers Union Picnic Date Noted in Local Notice
An annual Farmers Union picnic is announced with a questionable date reading Weanesdns Kuguat 21. The fragment suggests a summer community gathering likely organized by the union, inviting members to attend the event at a local venue.
Future Farmer Boys and Their Projects
The piece profiles Herman and Norman Vander Linden near Oskaloosa Iowa, FFA members showing Hereford calves and Shorthorn cattle. It notes Herman and Norman's high school Ag backgrounds, judging success, and plans for an August tour to visit multiple projects and meet owners, with details on calf weights, feeds, and travel schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman
Norman Vander Tandon
H.R. Vander Lineder
Oskaloosa
Towa
Norman
Kansas City
Supreme Augustus
FFA
Goodwin
FFAL
Les
Lloyd van Zante
Dockendorf
Fils High School
Mark Schakel
John Ver Meer
Willis Vande Voort
Donald van Healen
Stanley Borgman
William Huyser
Norman Vander Linden
Herman Vander Vi
Ernest Brummel
Melvin Brummel
Clarence van Zee
Gene van Zee
Phillip Henry
Southern Iowa Fair Dates Set for August 5 to 9
The 25th Annual Southern Iowa Fair opens in Oskaloosa on August 5 and runs through August 9. The program features Thrill with Jim Lynch Death Dodger, Pet and Doll Parade, Musical Revue Goin Places, and band showcases by Mahaska County schools. Farm Bureau Day on August 8 includes M and S L Day races with a $500 purse. Auto Race Day closes the fair on Friday with Gus Schrader and other top cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Jimmiy Lynch
Dodger
Oskaloosa Herald
Oskaloosa High School
Ureday Farm Bureau
St. L
Farm Bureau
Russel
Des Moines Register
Top 10 Deadliest Diseases in the United States Listed
The list ranks diseases by death toll beginning with heart disease and cancer, followed by pneumonia and influenza, brain disorders, hemorrhage, nephritis, tuberculosis, diabetes, diarrhea and other conditions, appendicitis, and syphilis. The fragment traces historic health concerns and highlights major killers in order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
World War II Channel Port Blitz Threats Rise
The dispatches describe German troop concentrations across the Channel from Dover, with air raids on ports and factories. Observers expect Hitler to strike Britain soon as two weeks remain before rough seas and rain. Britain tightens a European blockade and screens all ships, while in the Balkans Germany seeks control as Russia masss on the Romanian border. Britain aims for a two-year war, and a Havana pact unites American nations against colonial changes. Japan worsens tensions in the Far East as scrap iron and aviation fuel shipments to Japan halt. The next weeks promise global anxiety.
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Channel
Dover
Hitler
Britain
Balkans
Germany
Rumania
Russia
Haly
Great Britain
Far East
Japan
United States
America
Pacific
Start Fight On Grain Pests In Mahaska
Stored grain insects threaten increased damage in Mahaska County. Entomology expert Harold Gunderson led July 24 demonstrations, noting four main pests the grain moth, black weevil, lesser grain borer, and rice weevil. Fumigation and heavy gas sprays offer best control, cost about half a cent per bushel, with on-farm demonstrations at Van Heukeloms and Bieshaar and inspections of government steel bins in Eddyville and Fremont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Gunderson
Entomology Department
Mnade
ACA
F. F P. Everett
Sealers
Glen Phillips
Kelly Gatton
Neil Grabb
Louis van Heukelom
Richland
Wm. van Heukelom
Black Oak
John Bieshaar
Cedar Township
Eddyville
Fremont
Jellied Tomato Cream Cheese Salad Recipe
A 1940s style recipe outlines a jellied tomato cream cheese salad. Mix gelatin with water, heat tomato soup with gelatin, fold in cream cheese, mayonnaise, and lemon juice, then chill in molds. Serve with lettuce or bread and butter strips, sprinkled with pepper.
Simple Trick To Grow Cold- Resistant Trees
Extension horticulturist W. Edgecombe explains budding under a bark limb to create winter resistant fruit trees. July and August demonstrations across 40 counties will teach amateurs and pros. county agents provide dates and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Edgecombe
Iowal State College
Extension Service
Chance of Getting Own Alfalfa Seed Is Not Good
On farms with surplus alfalfa, best to store in silo rather than harvest for seed. Seed set is poor unless conditions are ideal and drought is extreme. If seed is taken, choose high dry areas and save fertile zones for hay. August feeding should occur by mid August. in central Iowa feeding after September first is unsafe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Hughes
Lows State College
Hughes
Iowa
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Virgil Boot—Finish
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Southern Iowa Fair
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U. S
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Parra
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