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Woodbury county expects to harvest 2 million pounds of honey this season despite drought as bees prosper on sweet clover. Bloomfield converts a former Normal school into an apartment house with notable alumni including Carroll Clarke and J. B. Weaver. Mincer Orchard near Hamburg yields 4090 bushels of peaches. apples plentiful in the region. Skott county to ship 500 ears of onions. Fayette county claims the best all-around produce. Canners report the largest sweet corn pack in state history. Iowa tops the nation in this industry. David By Haws is named recorder for Mahaska county as a new president of the county recorders association. A biographical note tells of a man who, despite a bicycle accident, finished college and built a career in law and politics, now serving his third term as county recorder. Since statehood, only three native-born governors have served, prompting a planned monument to honor Carroll, Harding, and Kendall to be dedicated in October under H R Harlan.