Births and visits fill Woden area notes
Relatives in Woden area report the birth of Nancy Lee Wagner at Edgewood Maryland to Sgt Clifton Wagner and Mrs Wagner formerly Marelia Saathoff. The column lists many casual visits, dinners, and social events across nearby towns including Marshalltown Mason City Algona and Britt with multiple families mentioned in this community news roundup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Lee
Clifton Wagner
Edgewood
Maryland
Wagner
Mareelia Saathoff
Fred Saathoff
Washington, D. C
Ethel Whiteneck
Marshalltown
John L Boye
Harriet Jakeman
Henry Bode
W. A. Dean
Traer
Fort Smith
Aric
Dean
Chas. Marr
Lydia Grunewald
Momer Escherich
Mason City
Mary Rudisill Haster
Wm. Wood
Ted Hinders
Jeannette
St. Paul
Jeanette
Birthday celebration for Dar lene Rudisill at home
A group of friends marked Dar lene Rudisill’s 12th birthday with a home gathering last Saturday. The note also lists many local visits and family events, including health updates on Bertha Pommer’s brother Henry Schutter, who remains critical after a heart attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Edwards
Henry Schutter
Darlene Rudisill
Bertha Pommer
Buffalo Center
Dorothy
Linda Giesking
Mason City
Ernest Giesking
Joan Rittenhouse
Giesking
John Hendrickson
Amess
Henry Scott
Seneca
Ted Hinders
Jeanette
St. Paul
Pommer
Algona
CORNFIELD FIDDLE AND FARM LIFE NOTES
A collection of vignettes from rural life in Blue Earth and surroundings. The piece reflects on spring flooding, a Japanese journalist quote on Communism, humorous local anecdotes about Nomellini and a boy smothered by a strawstack, sugar cane memories, cornstalk fiddles, a mailman chase by a dog, and a reader letter about housing for young families.
Poisoned bait to control pocket gophers advised by Iowa State College
Iowa State College entomologist Harold Gunderson urges using poisoned bait to rid gophers. Place powdered strychnine on strips of parsnips carrots or potatoes in runways when the ground is moist in April. Check mounds after harrowing and monitor new mounds within hours. Send for FS-207 from the Bulletin Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Gunderson
Iowa State College
Gunderson
Bulletin
Siamese Twin Pig Born Dead at Varina Farm
A freak pie named creature was born last week on the Edward Sauter farm at Varina. The malformed pig had one head and two fully formed bodies and was dead at birth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Sauter
Varina
Kossuth County Exceeds Crop Donations Goal
Kossuth County surpassed its C R O P goal in 1948 by 9 percent, totaling 13 199 60 dollars as Albert W. Farmer Iowa CROP director noted. The county led by E C McMahon of Algona supported Catholic Protestant and Lutheran relief efforts aiding orphans and the needy in Europe and Asia through church channels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kossuth County
Christian Rural Overseas Program
Albert W. Farmer
Des Moines
Iowa
North Marion
North Lee
Osceola
Bremer
Perpia
Winnebago
E. C. McMahon
Algona
Europe
Asia
Towa
Farmer
Thes Kossuth County
Navy MARS Maintains Perfect Load Factor for Pacific Airlift
Over the past six months the Navy MARS program sustained a 100 percent load factor delivering airlift for cargo and passenger support across the Pacific region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Mars
Pacific
Eagle Grove Man, 93, Becomes Iowa's Oldest Licensed Driver
W. E. Warnes of Eagle Grove passed his driver’s license examination last week and is believed to be the oldest licensed driver in Iowa at age 93.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Warnes
Eagle Grove
Iowa
Mr. Warnes
Early pig care plans cut setbacks from castration
Iowa State College extension specialist E I Quaife recommends timing strategies for castration weaning and vaccination to ease growing pains in pigs. Plan one suggests castration at 10 days to 2 weeks, wean at 5 to 10 weeks, vaccinate at 12 weeks. plan two has castration early, vaccination by 7 weeks, and weaning at 10 weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. I. Quaife
Iowa State College
Quaife
Young Inventor Gains Patent for Small Tractor
A 17 year old inventor, Joseph Osterhaus, receives a patent for a compact tractor he designed. The device aims to simplify farming tasks and improve efficiency for small plots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Osterhaus
Twenty seven new cars and trucks licensed in Kossuth county
Twenty seven new vehicles were licensed in Kossuth county last week with two trucks and the rest passenger cars. The new owners include Frazer Chas Bashara Led yard Hudson J P Bisenius Whittemore Henry Lappe Bancroft Mercury Robert Bunkofske Lakota Chevrolet Robert M Fleming Whittemore Walter Henderson Fenton Raymond Kohlhaas Irvington Mrs Zelma Larson Wesley E G Lee Algona R L Medin Whittemore Donald Wood Algona pickup Andrew E Elbert Whittemore DeSoto Ed Fitzgerald Swea City Plymouth Arden J Hovey Lone Rock Studebaker Carl K Johnson Lakota M P Neitz Fenton William Vogel Burt Lawrence G Wiley Algona Ford Kent Motor Co Algona T E Rooney Whittemore Kenneth Sarcher Burt BE Yeeman Algona International Henry Mayland Titonia Chrysler McCullough Funeral Home Algona Kaiser David H Pink Buffalo Center Oldsmobile E H Pittman Algona Nash Gaylord C Shumway Algona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kossuth County
Frazer
Chas. Bashara
Ledyard
Hudson
J. P. Bisenius
Whittemore
Henry Lappe
Bancroft
Mercury
Robert Bunkofske
Lof Lakota
Chevrolet
Robert M. Fleming
Walter A. Henderson
Fenton
Raymond Kohlhaas
Irvington
Zelma Larson
Wesley
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Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
George Schmidt
Famly
Schmidt
Lena Thieben
Anno Thieben
Ackley
Jake Thieben
Reav
Ener Peterson
John E. Boye
Woden Legion Hall
University of Illinois
Ted Binders
Woden, Iowa
Mr. Farmer
Welp
Isebrand
Adeline Quist
Imko Huisinga
Sylvia Jean
Forest City
J. Hoff
Woden
Polk City
May Goslin
Hoff
John Rudisill
Albert Weishaar
Chalmer Chestnut
Wayne ‘Naser
Lake ‘Mills
Alvin Hanna
Wilbur Godfredson
Lake Mills
Forest, City
Albert and
Susan Elsefe
Blue Earth
Mina
Japan
Minneapolis Tribune
Nomellini
Gopher
Daily Press
Susan
Turkey
Spain
Midwest
Chicago
Animal World
Bolton
England
Memphis
Tennessee
Ison
Taffy
Albert
Kossuth
C.R.O.P
Devries
Tetoneka
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