Grade News and Activities From Local School
Thursday assembly featured Carrell Watts opening the second grade store with apples, candy, and popcorn balls. Junior high notes cover science field trip, art and music activities, operetta support, nurse visits for scarlet fever checks, and a busy week of classroom projects and May baskets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwethland
Carrell Watts
Catherine
McIntire
Mary Guess
Lester Bishop
Junior Boles
Christibel Bregotti
Eugene Cornwell
Vera DeVaul
Joe Ferden
Junior Fisher
Mary Fuller
Byron Hunt
Richard Johnson
Harry Murray
Eugene Sennett
Paul Sinek
Billy Snook
Sally Webb
John Wiegman
Raggedy Ann
Rural Women End Year With County Home Project Exhibits
Cummins and Dover townships earned excellent marks from Miss Irma Garner Iowa State college extension service judge of the animal county home project at the April 30 Pocahontas achievement day. Other rankings named Good Des Moines Garfield Swan Lake with Powhatan Marshall Grant Lake and Bellville also exhibiting. The event highlighted educational value school lunch demonstrations and leadership training with 15 local leaders scoring 100 and 98 women receiving home project information from training schools led by Mrs Ruth Seaton Hicks. Mrs Raymond Sayre of Ackworth spoke urging national organizational effort in agriculture. A pantomime and folk games illustrated homemaking progress and a ring of friendship closed the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cummins
Dover
Irma Garner
Iowa State College Extension Service
Animal County Home Project
Pocahontas
Good
Des Moines
Garfield
Swan Lake
Powhatan
Marshall
Grant
Lake
Bellville
A. A. Brinkman
County Home Project
Farm Bureau
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
State Farm Bureau Federation
County Farm Bureau
Hk. J. Schmuecker
H. D. Brinkman
Garfield Township
J. C
Louise Ives
Henry Olerich
Ruth Rubel
Marshall Township
Ruth S. Hicks
Pocahontas County
Bids Opened on Pocahontas Electric Plant Project
Eleven bids from seven diesel engine firms were opened April 27 in Muscatine for a large generating plant south of Pocahontas. The cooperative plans a 750 hp first unit and two 1000 hp units, with room for two more 1000 hp units later, housing in a reinforced concrete building 85 by 100 feet on the Frank Miller farm near Pocahontas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Young & Stanley
Muscatine
Central Electric Federated Cooperative
J. A. Underberg
Livermoore
J. V. Poduska
Frank Miller
Cemetery Corner
Plan for county grasshopper poison campaign under way
County agent Schmuecker announces a 16 member county committee to lead a state launched grasshopper control drive in Pocahontas County. Plans target poisoning on hatching grounds with 90 to 95 percent kill rates, weather delaying hatchings into mid May, and potential federal aid to distribute poison bran to farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Schmuecked
Schmuecker
Ida Grove
Dyas Recommends Soy Beans as Cash Crop
Over 60 farmers attended a Pocahontas meeting Monday evening April 26 where E S Dyas of the extension service urged northwest Iowa growers to adopt soy beans as a cash crop. He cited a sharp drop in oat demand and emphasized profitability and soil benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. S. Dyas
The
Extension Service
Northwest
Iowa
Pocahontas
Local notices from Emmetsburg area spring gatherings
Community events fill May with meetings and visits across Emmetsburg and Rolfe. Bankers from CG. FB Miller attend a meeting. Mable Buchanan gets a two week away shower. Pleasant Ridge club meets north of town. Night Hawks plan a May 14 gathering. many neighbors host visitors and travel to Spencer Fort Dodge Sioux City and Pocahontas for events, anniversaries and social posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Bankers’ Group
Emetsburg
Oneta Horsman
Buchanan
P. J. Riches
Rolfe
Marion Baker
Nila May
Harley Fitch
Orlan Knowles
Council
Bluffs
Marvin’ S Rouse
Pleasant Ridge
M. E. Aid Society
Mable Buchanan
Fred Kauffman
Fort Dodge
T. R. Jones
Elmer Thomsen
Des . Moines
Ed Christensen
W. H. Buchanan
Mable
Ruth
Fred Forsythe
Glen
Spencer
M. O. Thompson
Des Moines
Sioux City
N. J. Meurer
Sterling
Meurer
Holden
Humboldt
Night Hawks
Guy Kerns
Louis Wilson
Gee
Feaney and Son
Feaney
Irwin
Forest City
Charles Sharp
Lowell
Allan Simonson
Lawrence Christensen
W. C. Nieman
Havelock
Evelyn Nieman
S. J. Christensen
Nels Peterson
Pocahontas
Chester Klein
Gilmore City
Arate
Rove
Paul Richter
Granville
Geo
Heathman
Richter
Gerald Foust
Ira Foust
Henry Lovig
Earl Firkins
Ottosen
Earl Young
B. B. Hubbell
Loren
Allen Hubbell
Milwaukee
Iowa
Curlew
J. E. Grove
Gaza
Ida Forney
A. J. Eppelsheimer
Millicent
Merwindler
Thos. Diggs
Naomi
Iowa City
George Roush
Charles McFadzen
Albert Twigg
Phelp
John Henderson
Dilly Harmon
Soybean Cultivation Boosts Returns with Proper Inoculation
Mr. Dyas notes soybeans offer higher cash per acre when field ground is shifted to beans. Proper seedbed prep and inoculation yield better amounts and higher protein content, based on years of careful experiments. Inoculated beans also deplete less soil fertility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyas
Notice of receivership sale in Pocahontas district court
D. W. Bates as Iowa banking superintendent seeks court authority to sell SE quarter of section 21, 93, 31 for 12800 to F. W. Hronek with 800 paid, 50 days to pay remainder. Receiver to pay 320 broker commission, assign 1987 lease, and pay 1936 taxes. Hearing set May 12, 1987 at 10 a.m. in Pocahontas court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of
Iowa
Pocahontas County
D. W. Bates
State of Iowa
State Savings Bank
Rolfe
District Court
F. W. Hronek
Shimon
Court House
Pocahontas
Farmer Killed After Struck by Car on Highway 65
Homer Langfitt 51 a farmer from near Given Iowa died Sunday night after being struck by a car driven by Harvey Lester of Indianola. He suffered a skull fracture and facial injuries and was walking on Highway 65 a mile north of Indianola. Survived by wife and five children, Langfitt had visited his brother Walter near the scene. Lester said he was blinded by approaching headlights and did not see the man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Langfitt
Given
Iowa
Harvey Lester
Indianola
Langfitt
Walter
Lester
Homer
Ernest
W. E.) Langfitt
A. M. Hofert
Walter Langfitt
A. B. Langfitt
W. E. Langfitt
Grandma Langfitt
Laberta
Thelma
LaVon
Ernest Jr
Perry
Community Store Opens Food Market By Horsman
The Community Food store opened by Jas H Horsman offers a full line of groceries fresh meats fruits vegetables and Grimsrud shoes. Official opening is Saturday with free coffee sandwiches and doughnuts and Mr Horsman plans a fine opening day backed by local recognition and an advertisement in this issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. H. Horsman
Plover Presbyterian Church Seeks Mother's Day Attendance
Sunday services led by Rev. Walter Rothwell include morning worship and Sunday school with an earlier preaching hour. A Mother’s Day service is planned for 9:30 a.m. next Sunday to encourage family attendance. The May breakfast fundraiser by Willing Workers features pancakes with butter syrup and sausage, sponsored Thursday in May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ny Willing Workers
Henderson Home Probed in Warren Heath Inquiry
Fragmentary text points to a local inquiry involving a Henderson home and Warren Heath. No additional verifiable details are readable to identify dates, parties, or specific actions.
Plover AG Church Notes Pastor McNulty Leads Service
In Plover the AG church notes mention Pastor McNulty leading morning worship at 10 a.m. and Epworth league at 7 p.m. Evening worship at 8 p.m. includes a Mother's Day sermon. On Monday May 10 Dr W G Muhleman will show Mexican motion pictures. no admission. Bible study Thursday at 3 p.m. All welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G.muhleman
Mexico
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R. HS. Arrowlet
Katherine George
Carmen Sindergard
Leta Mae Stoner
Miss Ryen
Agnes Simonson
Mildred Mason
Pikertown
Strathman
Wesley DeWolf
Amy Arey
Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Plover
H. Wever
Minneapolis
C.D. Sease
Garlock
Wallace
Aneinannnee
A.G. Heathman
Phayne
Eldo
H. O
Berieke
Aday
Ames
Elizabeth Northrop
Norma Ferguson
Ee Gerald Foust
H. C. Wiegman
L. Hughes
Arlo Ives
Omaha
T. P. Comer
Haskell Boles
George Majorowicz
E. GC. VanAlstine
Wayne ~ Hendricks
W. H. Hendricks
Lee Fisher
Venelia
Owa
Plover Presbyterian Church
Walter Rothwell
Enderson
Warren Heath
Waterloo
M. ‘Eb. Church Notes AG
McNulty
Bunday Achipol
Nadsa
Epwort Cage
Grimsaud
Oxford
Oxfords
Prop
Plover,Iowa
Fort Dodge Grocery Co
Betsy Ross Bread Co
Folger
Miller’s
KIRK
BIG Ben
Fairmont Pride
Minnesota
Grimsaud Shoes
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