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Newspaper

Rolfe Arrow

Location

Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1916

Page

6

Winners Named in Beef Show Contest at Ames

The article details a prize program for young beef feeders across thirty counties with winners from Iowa counties named. Alfreda Johns and Minnie Rohmer are among the girls noted as county winners. Prizes include a round trip to Chicago and trips to the International Stock Show, with sessions at Ames and guidance from E. C. Bishop of Iowa State College.

N Harrison Beef Producers’ ‘Association Merwin Bishop Atlantic Cass County Wis Pwrdqa Fket Chicago Beef ‘Producers’ Association Chicago’ Commission The Union, Stock Yards & Tranait Co Alexander, Ward & Conover Clay ‘Robinson & ‘Co Walter & Dunbar, Livestock Exchange, Bark J. M. Doud & Co Town Beef Producers’ Association Ames W E. C. Bishop Agricultural Extension Department Iowa State College

Fragmented humor and snippets from a social page

A jumble of witticisms and asides on hair cuts kissing neighbors and lost items. The text includes references to Helen Rowland and Christmas shopping while noting rising prices and plentiful money for the wealthy. It reads like a column of detached quips and social snippets with no single news event.

Helen Rowland Helen

Dr King's New Discovery Promoted As Cold Remedy

The ad touts Dr King s New Discovery as a relief for cold symptoms including a clogged nose sore throat and tight chest. It claims the antiseptic balsams soothe irritated membranes loosen phlegm and help clear the head with a lingering cough checked by persistent treatment. The ad notes forty seven years of use and a 50 cent price at druggists.

Progressive Club Elects Officers at Annual Meeting

The Farmers Progressive Club gathered Friday evening at Mrs. Otto Alberts’s home for a yearly election of officers. Howard Wheeler was named President, Mrs. John Howe Vice President, Mrs. Carl Behren gen Secretary and Treasurer, Grace Alberts Organist. A two course luncheon followed the business session.

Farmers Progressive Club Otto Alberts Howard Wheeler John Howe Secy Treas Carl Behrengen Grace Alberts

Should Future Generations Pay for Public Bonds

An argument for issuing long term bonds to fund permanent public improvements. Proponents claim future generations benefit through railroads and roads that lower costs and improve prosperity, making debt worthwhile for present and posterity alike.

Union

Laurens Boy Wins Iowa Boys Acre Corn Contest

Chas Halder fourteen of Laurens is named champion corn grower in Pocahontas county for the Great Iowa Boys Acre Corn Growing Contest. He produced 84.2 bushels on one acre costing 18.31 dollars, with seed testing, multiple cultivations, two tons of manure, and four cultivation passes. Over 2,000 boys from 42 counties entered. county winners earned free trips to the Chicago International Stock Show funded by Laurens bankers W. J. and B. J. Allen.

Ames Chas, Halder Laurens Pocahontas County Iowa Agricultural Extension Department of Iowa State College Charley Reagan First National Bank W. J. and B. J. Allen iChartey

Iowa boy wins Iowa best baby beef contest

Clement Rowe, 13, of Glenwood Mills County, is named state champion in Iowa’s baby beef feeding contest. He earned 95.8 points for gain, cost, and report with his Shorthorn heifer calf W weight 349 pounds last November, final gain 780 pounds in 349 days at $7.16 per hundredweight. Rowe did all feeding work, missing some school to care for the calf. The prize is a $100 Washington trip or a trophy from Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.

Clement Rowe Glenwood Mills County Iowa Beef Producers'' Association Agricultural Extension Department Iowa State College Ames Rowe Washington Union Stock Yards & Transit Co Chicago Iowa Clement

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