Rock Valley Farm Bureau Home Project Meetings Reported
Sioux township members of the farm bureau home project worked at Mrs. Elf s home for a general business meeting followed by lunch. They met again with Mrs. O Coyer to make chair seats from corn husk rope and other materials under H D A direction. Rock township telephone project training was hosted at the F A Henningfeld home with Iris Macantber H D A present. Doon township Ly on county ladies held an all day meeting at Mrs John McKeegan s home with a lunch. fourth training school on Clothing for Teens and Adults.
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Sioux
Farm Bureau Home Project
Atrs. Elf
O. Coyer
Rock Township
F. A. Henningfeld
Iris Macantber
Doon
Lyon County
John McKeegan
Moving Time Brings Hopeful Moves in Rock Valley
A busy week in Rock Valley sees many residents moving to new homes and settling into social duties. Roads are largely passable, trucks abundant, and this spring promises better moving conditions than the horse and buggy era. Seeds are advertised, with lower prices than last spring, signaling a proactive start to planting season.
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Rock Valley
Lest of March
Spring Growth and WPA Ball Park Plans in Rock Valley
A town hall meeting discusses accepting WPA help to build a new amphitheatre at the ball park with labor and materials funded by the agency. Officials report favorable outlook, with committees to pursue investigations as Secretary Hopkins supports the President. Taxes rise modestly. homestead exemptions ease some burdens. State lawmakers take spring break amid road funding debate, while Iowa sees a shift in land ownership due to drought.
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Rock Valley
Town Hall
WPA
Ball Park
Iowa
Towa
Tugurance Companies
Murray
Warns Boys About Flying Kites Near Wires
Walter Ayes, district manager of the Iowa Public Service Company, asks Rock Valley residents to warn children about kite safety near electric and telephone lines. He cautions against using risky string materials and to stay in open fields, avoid pole climbing, and call the company if a kite tangles in wires. He emphasizes parental cooperation and safe, clean fun for spring kite flying.
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Walter Ayes
Iowa Public Sewice Company
Rock Valley Bee
Iowa Public Service Company
Linemien
Childhren
Reader's Digest Promotes Compact Info for Busy Readers
Cornelia Otis Skinner extols The Reader's Digest as a time saving guide that distills articles into compact pieces. Editors preselect cuts to let readers absorb three or four items en route to a party, with a free sample offer via Pleasantville, WS.
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Cornelia Otis
Skinner
Times
Dept
Reader's Digest
Pleasantville
AAA Question Box on corn and soil depleting allotments
Question and answer summary from a 1930s AAA guidance listing how corn and soil depleting allotments are set. It states the base is the 1936-37 farm history under the soil management goal, scaled to county allotments, and outlines four exceptions for changing procedures. It confirms uniformity across Iowa and notes signatories needed and signup timing impacts on payments. It also addresses parity payments for new producers joining in 1939 if they meet 1939 allotments.
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Iowa
Corm
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A. L. Halstead
Farm Bureau
Market Report
Farmers’ Lunfber Co
Alvord
Member
Federal Deposit Ins
Rock Valley, Iowa
Ince Corpo
TION
Veli& Sons Ley
Lowa
J. C. Wiggerman
Mareh
Arivel
Harry Hopkins
Congress
Des Moines
Srorld
Senate
Corporation Holdings OF
Reste
G. Murray
Drouth
Ithern
Iur
Statistical Service of the Laws
United States Departments of Agriculture Co-Operating
Leslie Mt Carl
Comipe
Schgo
R Valley
Onggonday
DeRuyters
Annivers
Jay
Christian Endeavor
Kathryn Sehoume
Ter Schouten
Ueburg
Steck
Teva
Doorn’ S
Gerrit Doorn
Prop
Reddy
Kilowatt
Lowz Public Service Co
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