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Iowa News Roundup From Farmlands to Fires and Feats
Iowa items show a spread of incidents and achievements. Herman Schildt of Walnut faces a federal grand jury for draft registration refusal. Arlington suffered major fire losses of about 10000. A 570-pound hog fetched 95.76 dollars for walker farmer Jake Arnold. A Japanese radish weighs five pounds, grown by John Edens of Davenport. The Decorah Red Cross sent 400 pounds to Chicago, totaling nearly 2000 pounds from Winneshiek county. Fort Dodge addressed food cards. Gladbrook women organized a patriotic unit.
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Herman Schildt
Walnut
Federal Grand Jury
Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society of
The
United Evangelical Church
LeMars
C. M. Brooks
McGregor
Mississippi
Arlington
Fayette County
Virgil Shaffer
Charles Shaffer
Goldfield
Iowa
Missouri
Unionville
Red Cross
Chicago
Winneshiek County
Camp Dodge
Gladbrook
Gladbrook and
Spring Creek
Woman’s Committee
National Defense Council
Arnold
Guernsey Consolidated
Woodbury
Madison
Mahaska
Cedar
Delaware
Humboldt County
Will de Smidt
Humboldt
Centérvine
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Calmar
Percens
Stephen B. Hanks
Abraham Lincoln
Albany
Ill
Clinton
Nebraska
Council Bluffs
American Water Works Association
Charles F. Curtiss
Iowa State College
United States Food
Herbert Hoover
Curtiss
Webster County
Carroll County
J. F. Snyder
Glidden
Decorah
Tabor College
Harlea
Tabor
Albert Gramkow
Logan
FE. J. Landry
E. J. Landry, Jr
Salix, Jr
Missouri Valley
Sioux City
Christ Efstahon
Claytém County
Greece
America
American Cement Machine Company
Keokuk
Stone and Wemnater
Paris
Fred Folz
Dubuque
Peter Hillig
Army Young Men’s Christian Association
Des Moines
Grinnell College
Weat