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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1920
Page
1
Army worm outbreaks reported in Sioux County with infestations across oats and corn fields. County Agent advises plowing deep furrows as a barrier and using bran mash poison mix to destroy worms, plus kerosene spraying or rolling on field margins. A barn dance near Ashton draws over 800 attendees and plans another event.
Sioux County reports 1920 taxes on the 1919 levy total $796 480 01 placing the county among top state tax payers despite no large city. The Eleventh Congressional district, including Sioux, pays the largest tax volume in the state. Statewide taxes due total $80 495 235 15. A Farmers State Bank is incorporated at Calumet with $25 000 capital. Ida county claims autos per capita record with one car per 368 residents. The Farmers Co-Operative Company at Rock Rapids bought the Stockdale Maack elevator and coal sheds for $5 000.
Land market summary for Sloux County reports 2248 total sales covering 271 947 acres from January 1907 to July 1920. Average sale price 158 per acre. May 1 1920 estimated true value per acre 300. 1919 full value per acre 95 40. 1919 to 1920 ratio 31 80. Sheridan township shows 126 transfers over 14 387 acres. average sale 155 36 per acre and July 1920 estimated true value per acre 300.
Mr and Mrs Chas Bergman enjoyed a Lake Okoboji weekend outing. Mr Harry Wilter and Miss Josephine Lindecker of Chicago visited the Warthen home. A gunfight atop a Milwaukee freight train near Hawarden injured one man and wounded another. both claim to be robbery victims. A Northwestern freight car at Ireton was looted of 23 sacks flour and tea chests. Methodist camp meeting at West Okoboji runs July 30 to August 8 with Rev Titus Lowe and Evangelist Henry W Romley. A bulldog owned by Vic Ancaux attacked Ruth Ancaux, 20, and was killed after the father intervened. Friends report Frank Walters moved to San Francisco for treatment after hospital stay in Arizona.
Mr John Rensink and Henry Van Nyhuis toured South Dakota last weekend praising Aberdeen crops. A land for sale inquiry seeks a right price from farm owners. A Lake Okoboji visitor scene includes Mr and Mrs J W McCrum and Paul T McCrum families and Herman Luymes and Joe Stientjes families returning from a few days outing.
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