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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
7
Wartime guidance urges homemakers to plan canning freezing drying and brining to stock stores for 1944. With government orders shifting half of vegetable packs and nearly three fourths of fruit packs to military lend lease and civilians, households must preserve food now to avoid waste and ensure supplies through fall winter and possible shortages.
The article outlines a household meal plan with breakfast lunch and dinner ideas. It notes the War Food Administration release of dried apples and currants for civilians and emphasizes preserving 100 quarts of fruits and vegetables per person through canning freezing drying brining pits and caves. It advises planning plantings for companion cropping and successive plantings to conserve garden products.
Pocahontas County Board approves drainage district 154 and a 1944 appropriation for Farm Bureau. Claims against county funds listed include salaries, mileage, supplies, and various local charges. Meeting held February 15 1944 in Pocahontas Iowa with commissioners Johnson Jensen and Young present.
County extension home economist Mrs. Helen S. Sage says War Production Board aims to provide materials for pressure cookers to meet canning needs without rationing. Emphasis on following manufacturer directions and thorough cleanliness for both old and new models amid 1944 design improvements.
Warm days require opening the slot vent and removing some poultry house windows to vent heat efficiently. Soybeans and Sudan grass together yield good forage and help solve weed erosion. Lamb gains on good pasture rival grain-fed results, and Bangs disease vaccination is useful before puberty. Prebaiting controls rat suspicion before poison. Canner maintenance stresses gasket care and periodic gauge checks via extension offices or manufacturers.
A county wide one day school for superintendents and teachers of children will be held at the Methodist church in Pocahontas on March 17. Mrs Fred Hudson leads the event sponsored by the Pocahontas county Council of Christian Education. Sessions begin at 2 00 p m and 7 30 p m. Youth leaders are urged to attend.
Marvin Burkhart a Hawkeye businessman says he sold what he believed to be a gallon of waste fat for a pound. He later learned the oysters he wished to sell had been sold to the collector of waste fat by mistake. Oysters normally fetch tic a pint or six dollars a gallon.
The 40th double wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jossie of Coggan and Mr. and Mrs. Wallis Burnside of Central City was celebrated February 17. About 70 relatives attended at the Burnside home. Mrs. Jossie and Mrs. Burnside are twin sisters. Each couple received a purse of money from guests.
Dr Harold F Watson head of Simpson College English department bought 100 letters from a New York firm. The collection includes letters and signatures of Lord Byron Edward Duke of Kent Henry Howard Robert Walpole and Lord Hood. Byron’s poem to Mrs George Lamb appears in what seems to be Byron’s own handwriting.
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