Amateur Contest Entry Blanks Now Available
Entry blanks for the amateur contest at the Carroll County 4 H Round up and Farm Bureau picnic in Old Mill Park Savanna August 25 26 are available at local stores and the Farm Bureau office Mt. Carroll. The program lists sheep swine poultry rabbits garden products judging band concert picnics games softball contests music and a pet parade with trophies and prizes for farming families.
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Old Mill Park
Savanna
Carroll County
Farm Bureau
Carroll County Farm Bureau
Dials Pump and Supply
Chadwick
Goldthorpe's General
Milledgeville
Clover Farm
Thomson
W. G. Byers and Son Implement
Shannon
Johnson's Druga
Carroll Service Company
Lanark
Mt. Carroll
Coates Orchestra
Clinton
Stephenson County Fair Opens With Exhibits and Entertainment
The Stephenson County Fair showcases $300,000 in furnishings and equipment from 70 local exhibitors in the commercial exhibit building and outdoor areas. President Clarence Scheider invites readers to visit as the fair marks its second year in its new permanent home. Burton and Kaye bring New York ballroom flair on August 26, delivering a comic dance routine that ends in a slapstick mishap. For sale: garden tractors $127 and a New McLean complete cultivator by Universal Manufacturing Co. in Indianapolis.
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Stephenson County
Clarence Scheider
Stephenson County Fairboard
The
Fair Association
Illinois
New York
Burton
Kaye
Aus
Stephenson County Fair
Universal Manufacturing Co
West Tenth
Indianapolis
Ind
River Flows High in Mississippi Amid Peak Runoff
River levels on the Mississippi remained exceptionally high for this time of year over the past seven days as floodwaters from upstream runoff kept the waterway at elevated levels.
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Mississippi River
Milk Production For June Tops That Of 1952
Illinois farms produced 512 million pounds of milk in June 1953, slightly below May and above last June by 4 percent. Daily per cow milk was 21.3 pounds on July 1, second only to 23.0 in 1951. Pasture conditions declined. moisture shortage eased by late June. Creamery butter May output up 21 percent year over year. American cheese up 30 percent. ice cream down 10 percent from last year.
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Savanna
Farm Bureau
Mt. Carroll
Lena
Illinois
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P. m. Wls Entertainment
Alexander Lumber CO
Leon E. Ost
Mgr.—Savanna
Main St
Savanna, Ill
Member
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Tell
Ill
Claude Briggs
Prop
Tels
MT. Carroll Farm Supply
Mt. Carroll, Illinois
Stakemiller’s
Stakemiller’s Shoe Store
Acker Chevrolet
Chevrolet
Allis Chalmers
Tela
Rhodes Bros
MT. Carroll, Ill
Guage
Henry Drummorm
God
Plato
Honore de Balzac
McCormick
Matt Woessner
Moltmann & Smith
Ford Sales
Calv
Gus A. Brumer Jr
Jeweler
South Second Street
Iowa
Western Union
Stuedebaker
J. W. Wagner
Indian Head Garage
Pet Parade
Malcom Alexander
Harold Stralow
Amos Burkholder
Dickeyville
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