Summer Extension Schools Planned by State Teachers College
Three summer extension schools are announced under the State Teachers College in Iowa Falls for Shenandoah Centerville and Spen d beginning June 3 and running twelve weeks. State colleges have notified the state board of education about criticisms claiming encroachment on their territories. To address concerns the sites for the two summer schools were chosen distant from Jamestown.
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Iar Falls
Shenandoah
Centerville
Spenc
Sum
Uglg
Beft
Aiuial
Edit
Ion
Wols
Col' James Town
Jasper County Wins Biggest Corn Yield Title
Jasper county repeats as state champion in corn yield. Lawrené Bisom, the farmer, topped the field with a yield exceeding 1200 bushels, marking a third straight year that this county earned the honor. Colfax's E. Tennant quips about chesty pride, noting Ernest Carlson first claimed county honors in 1997 and Li Iske won in 1925 with 125 bushels.
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Jasper
Jasper County
Lawrené. Bisom
E. Tennant
Colfax
Ernest Carlson
Li ‘Iske
Iske
Bisom
Prohibition Officers Killed in Ambush and Arrests
The notes recount 155 deaths of prohibition officers amid 202 involved. About half were exonerated by local juries. many were shot first or attacked. Sixty officers faced murder or manslaughter charges with 83 acquitted in state courts, 16 by federal courts, and six sentenced to terms.
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Bmt
Offic
Suse Mnanthes Spectors
Prohibition
Jng
Pine Creek State Park Tops Iowa Park Attendance in 1929
Eldora's Pine Creek State Park drew 243,000 visitors, topping Iowa parks. Ledmes Park hosted 225,000 and Backbone 15,000, as state parks statewide reached an estimated 1.7 million attendees, aided by Pine Creek's facilities.
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Pine Creek
Eldora
Iowa
Ml“T. Button
State Board of Conservation
Ledmes
Backbone
Pine Creek Park
Notice of Final Report in Persis A Renshaw estate
District Court of Sioux County Iowa schedules March term for final report and discharge of administrator Carroll W Renshaw for Persis A Renshaw deceased. Notices recipients include heirs and assignees Persis A Renshaw estate names Farmers National Bank of Inwood Iowa and Ada Renshaw Snohomish WA. Objections must be filed by noon March 14 1930. hearing set March 24 1930 in Orange City Iowa.
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District Court OF
State OF
Iowa
Ansioux County
Persis A
Renshaw
Eustace Renshaw
Herbert Renshaw
Frank L. Renshaw
Carroll W. Renshaw
Mattie N. Leonard
Stella R. Hastings
Kinsley Renshaw
Frank H. Renshaw
Eva Floy Albertson
Clarence Seth Renshaw
Clauda A. Ren
Persis A. Renshaw
Lims County
Zor
Sioux County
Orange City
Poultry Meetings With Whitfield to Aid Baby Chick Care
Sioux County Farm Bureau invites all chick raisers to attend meetings led by W. R. Whitfield Extension Poultry Specialist. He will cover care brooding and feeding, share latest experimental results, and discuss new management and feed discoveries. March 3 Orange City 1 30 PM March 4 Hesper Post Office bid March 4 Boyden Coop Hall 1 30 PM March 4 Newkirk School 8 PM March 5 Rock Valley City Hall 9 30 AM March 5 Bull Town Hall 1 39 PM March 6 Maurice School 9 30 AM March 6 Sioux Center American Legion Hall 1 30 PM March 7 Treton Stewart Bldg 9 30 AM March 7 Hawarden City Hall 1 30 PM
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W. R. Whitfield
Mhitfield
Whitfield
Orange City
Hespers
Boyden
Coop. Hall
Newkirk
School
Rock Valley
City Hall
Bull
Town Hall
A. AL
Maurice
Sioux Center
American Legion Hall
A. M. Treton
Stewart
Hawarden
Hawarden Market Corn Contest At Local Show
The Hawarden Food and Farm Product Show on March 7 and 8 offers prizes for the best offe half bushel of commercial corn. A representative sample from a 500 bushel lot will be tested for moisture and judged from a market perspective. The event aims to include hundreds of farmers who produce market corn and expects many entries.
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Hawarden
Financial statement of Independent School District Rock Valley Iowa
The February 22 1930 financial report shows General Fund balance 14947.63 with receipts from district state and other sources totaling 38894.47 and expenditures including teachers fuel transportation and library books. The School House Fund for 1929 totals 3475.50 with 3203.44 from district tax and bond and interest payments. Levies recommended for next year are 20000.00 for General Fund and 5000.00 for School House Fund. A L Halstead, Secretary.
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Independent School
Scee
A. L. Halstead
Iowa Horses Shipped by Express for Canton Sale
Twenty nine head of choice Adams county draft horses were shipped from Corning by express to Canton Ohio to be sold to farmers. The specially built Burlington express car carried three sections and was hauled by No. 2 fast Chicago passenger train. W G Beler arranged the shipment, noting a roan team weighing over 3900 pounds paid 485 for it. This marks the fifth consecutive year Mr Egler has visited this section to procure horses for eastern sale. Express charge on the car exceeded 450.
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Iowa
Express
A. L
Beler
Red Oak Women Study in Edinburgh and News Notes
Red Oak residents Miss Jo Wilder and Miss Fulton study at the University of Edinburgh. Wilder writes about Vogue habits, feather quilts, and class size. Other items describe Chicago sports, telegraph-typing printers, and 40 wpm tape recording on government safety measures for mail and passenger planes.
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Red Oak
Edinburgh
Aiiss Jo Wilder
Miss Fulton
University of Edinburgh
Afiss Wilder
Frank Bell
Wes
Chicago
Sterling
Moline
Towa City
Des Moines
Qwatha
Kansas City
Board of Trade
Communicating with Airplane Pilots
W G Ray of Grinnell reports the Grinnell airport now has a telephone printer system. Operators can send weather and field condition messages to airplanes equipped to receive them, enhancing radiotelephone communication with pilots.
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W. G. Ray
Grinnell
Strange Scarlet Tanagar Spends Winter in Iowa Town
In Cresco Howard County near the Minnesota line L P Barth notes a rare scarlet tanagar spending winter in the area. Rev H M Normann and family feed the bird after cold spells attracting it to their yard, where it appears briefly each day before fading away.
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Cresco
Howard County
Minnesota Line
L. P. Barth
Rev. H.M. Normann
Mr. Normann
Iit
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Robb Ross
Light House
Sige
Philco
Sparton
Spartan
Rearns Radio Shop
W. OC. T. U. Notes
John
Hattie Ver Wey
C. A. Wallbot
Sioux County Farm Bureau News of Interest
Total
A. F. Schemmer
Vander Well & Sons
Thei
Greiner
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