Local Marion County Notes Reach Drake University Classes
Cordova area teachers from Marion County attend Saturday classes at Drake University this spring term. The Red Rock school children plan a Valentine party, while the Double C community club votes to buy playground equipment. Community sketches include travel to Chicago and New York, hospital updates, and a flurry of family visits, weddings, and illness notes across Pella and nearby towns.
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Melba van Hemert
Blackman
White Breast School
Fifield
Vander Linden Om Liberty
van Arkel
Red Rock
Marion County
Drake University
San Bellard-Glark
Runn
Double C
Bill Karr
Neal Willemsen
First Reformed Church
Pella
Edward Hoksbergen
Sylvia Rolffs
Edwin Horman
Jennie Hoksbergen
Taintor
Willemsen
Otley
Elmer
Albert Vander Peut
Mary Ann Vander Peut
Monroe
Dick Willemsen
Frank Westra
Chester Bricker
Chicago
New York
Chester
Des Moines
Harriet Visser
C. E. McDonald
Memories of Fair Oaks and rural school days in Tracy
Sharon Karr recalls growing up around Tracy and the Fair Oaks area, walking to school through snow drifts, coasting timbers, and simple times with friends and teachers. She notes old habits, bird clubs, and a shift to modern school buses and lunches, ending with health updates and a bench accident at school.
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Tracy
Sinclair Coal Co
Waleane
Paul
Fair Oaks
Recalli
Vee Blair
Veinie Wilkins
Helen ‘Osborn
Pearl Bonifield
Knoxville
Charlene
Gladys
Ted Scheele
Bussey
Sharon Karr
Farm Bureau meeting hosts and farewell party in Harrison Township
Harrison Township Bureau met February 16 at the Fox home with a program on Reducing Farm Rating Costa and Diseases of Livestock. Hosts and hostesses were Mr. and Mrs. Fynaardt. A farewell party honored the Slagter and Brayk families who are moving. Refreshments were served. Jean Knight of Knoxville visited Mr. and Mrs. De Vries near Fremont. Frank Randell and wife left Cedar for a Florida vacation. 4 H officers training school drew 100 officers, leaders, and parents at the Farm Bureau basement, with training for parliamentary procedure duties and responsibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Township
Fox
Tunis Yonk
Leonard Fynaardt
Fynaardt
Jake
Slagter
Brayk
Famy
James van Wok
Kaske Hospital
Wm. Deef
Jean Knight
Knoxville
de Vries
Fremont
Frank Randell
Cedar
Florida
Mia
Ralph Lewis
J. Grootveld
Farm Bureau
Community Gathering Noted with Local Hosts
Patsy Taylor led a group singing session while Tom my Epps and Janice Dykst organized group recreation. Sunday supper guests at Claude Feebeck's Eddyville home included Mr and Mrs William Ashman and Mr and Mrs Robert Ashman with their daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patsy Taylor
Tommy Epps
Janice Dykst
Wm. Ashman
Robert Ashman
Claude Feebeck
Eddyville
Insect Plague Forecast for Iowa Crops in 1955
Entomologist Harold Gunderson of Iowa State College warns grasshoppers and chinch bugs may be abundant this year due to the previous hot dry growing season and autumn. He notes outbreaks hinge on spring weather and crop conditions, predicting heavy grasshoppers in southern two thirds and moderate chinch bugs in the south, with possible widespread corn borers. Early order advised for insecticides to avoid shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Gunderson
Iowa State College
Gunderson
Towa
Antarctica: Last Unexplored Frontier Amid 19th Century Claims
The article notes Antarctica as the final unexplored frontier though discovered in 1820, with no nation having yet attempted formal colonization. It emphasizes the continent's unresolved status in early exploration narratives and the absence of sustained territorial claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antarctica
Soil Bank plan questions and answers for farmers
Answers highlight why the Soil Bank program helps farmers by reducing surpluses, raising prices, and providing income safeguards. It outlines Acreage Reserve and Conservation Reserve details, voluntary participation, potential payments, tax refunds, and urgency for legislative action with Republican backing and a call to urge Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soil Bank
Eisenhower
Congress
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Aart Waardhuizen
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Gerrit van Houweling
Texas
Art
del Rio
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Cameron Hotel
Falcon Dam
Rio Grande River
Mexico
Austin
Mary Katherine Templeton
Central College
Ruth Vogal
Miss Vogal
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Wall Street
Dwight Harvey
Hugh Templeton
Jamnita Cronkhite
Joy Cronkhite
Methodist Church
Dallas
Columbia
Iowa
Ed Fisnagen
Sen Hed
Gerald Harkins
Hiawatha
Kansas
Elmer Cooper
Ray Horseman
Vernon Horseman
Don Alley
Jainita
Angie
Vanden Berg
Rochester
Minnesota
Andrew Schuttinga
Wiefgand
Berlin Ballard
Sarah Jane
Felbot
Phoenix
Morrisons
Homer
Lois Talbot
Monroe Presbyterian Church
Gertrude
Lorena van Hemert
Tunis Kooyman
Avenue W
Oskaloosa
Nabor
Fairview
Don J. van Gorp
Bankers Life Insurance
Oskaloosa News
Lizabeth Newsnhouse
Pete Misio
Ideal Pharmacy
Rosscreen
Ford
Mdtel
Westinghouse
Cn Sacob DE Haan
Great Plains
Wns
National Republican Senatorial & Congressional Committees
Washington, D.C
Barry Goldwater
Rep
Richard M. Simpson
Capitol
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