Jane Skinner’s misadventures with fire poles and turnstiles
A lighthearted anecdote recalls Jane Skinner of Iowa and her travel mishaps. The narrative covers a hotel fire drill, a clumsy escape that injured a bystander, wild metro stories in Washington, and a Gary Indiana scare with a seersucker Beau Brummel.
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Jane Skinner
Iowa
Jane
San Diego
Hershey
Crown Center
Kansas City
Grand Rapids
Mich
Norbert
Gary
Indiana
Pat
Washington
Metro
Beau Brummel
Beau E Brummel
Lorain County corn and soybean winners named in 1981
Winners and yields announced at the Lorain County Soil and Water Conservation District meeting. Conventional corn first Buck's Stock Farm Wakeman 154.32 bushels per acre. no-till corn first Robert & Alan Pitts Wellington 150.37. conventional soybeans Brill View Farms Wellington 56.70. no-till soybeans Farm Wakeman 49.95. 28 entries across 11 no-till corn, 7 conventional corn, 4 no-till soybeans, 6 conventional soybeans. total 667 acres.
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Lorain County Soil and Water Conservation District
Buck’s Stock Farm
Wakeman
Robert & Alan Pitts
Wellington
Jay Fow
Elyria
Brill-View Farms Inc
James Knapp
Buck's Stock Farm
John Bailey
Columbia Station
Lorain County Club
Corn & Soybean Club
Lorain County
Cooperative Extension Service
Lowell St
Lorain County Fairgrounds
Tax changes help farmers gains for Ohio agriculture
David Q. Miller president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation said at the 63rd OFBF annual meeting in Columbus that tax changes have benefited farmers. He cited estate tax revisions aiding farm successors and school funding moves without extra farmer burden, plus national changes in estate and gift taxes and farm business tax credits to support family farms.
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Ohio
State Farm Bureau Federation
David Q. Miller
OFBF
Columbus
Miller
Durkee's Christmas Open House and Gift Selections
Durkee's General Store on Main Street Grafton offers a festive Christmas display with wooden trains dolls and Amish fruit cakes available by special order. Owner David Bescan invites shoppers to an old fashioned Christmas celebration December 11 from 7 to 10:30 p.m. featuring wassail Santa and Ebenezer Scrooge. The Apple Basket next door specializes in counted cross stitch and friendly service. Store hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon–Sat, 1–5 p.m. Sun. extended hours to 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays the week before Christmas. Phone 926-3488.
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Durkee
Santa
Ebeneezer Scrooge
Grafton
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Mitch Miller
Pat Leimbach
Lorain County Agricultural Society
Fair Board
Pair Board
Jerry Long
Durkee’s
David Bescan
Dover
Don Hawthorne
John Young
Elan
Jim Schearer
Balden
Turkeys
Kipton
Kipton, Ohio
White Farm Equipment Company
Fedele
Elyria Industrial Equipment Corner Rt
E. of
White Farm Equipment
Butterfield Road
Oak Brow
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