Iowa Highways Compared to Panama Canal Feat
Iowa faces a massive highway program with 109000 miles of public roads ten times larger than rail lines in the state. Chief Engineer White likens the effort to the Panama Canal cost and scope, noting 1981 Iowa road spending near 438.9 million and 29.1 million the prior year.
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Iowa
Panama Canal
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy
Milwaukee
Burlington
Towa
White
State Highway ‘Commission
United States
New York
South Carolina
Jacksonvile
New Orleans
el Paso
Yuma
Arizona
Seattle
Billings
Montana
Des Moines
Chicago
Cleveland
Advertisen Iowa Roada
Colonel Gosthals
Methodist Church Titonka Announces Sunday Services
The Titonka Methodist Church lists Sunday School at 10:00 AM and morning worship at 11:00 AM with a 2:06 PM Dean Church and an 8:00 PM Evening Praise Service. Next Sunday is Children’s Day with a children focused service and Baptismal rites. An afternoon program and a children’s program at 8:00 PM are planned. Union Sunday School picnic on the 23rd at Ferdie Schram home. Reverend R. T Chipperfield secured as speaker. June 23 all day family picnic planned.
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Titonka
Dean
Titonka Church
Ald
Titanica
Long
New Meat Market Opens Saturday in Garner
Radebush and Nugent of Garner opened a meat market in the Badje building on the east side formerly Nate Walsh’s. They operated seven years in Garner at another location and will finish installing fixtures while taking deliveries to farm homes. They plan to butcher on site and buy hogs and cattle. the senior partner has a family and will relocate when a residence is found. the junior partner is unmarried.
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Radebush & Nugent
Garner
Nate Walsh
Farma
Lemons Grown Indoors Outdoors in Algona Garden
A photo of two unusually large lemons on a tree owned by J H Halverson in Algona is described. The tree, fifteen years old from a lemon seed, stands seven to eight feet high, is kept outdoors in warmer months and indoors in colder months, with flowers and fruit year round. The larger fruit measures fourteen and a half inches in circumference. the smaller twelve and three fourths inches. It showcases fertile Iowa soil.
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J.H. Halverson
Algona
Iowa
Engineer White Maps County Road Work Pace
In Winnebago county Iowa Engineer White notes he could cover the entire road program in a day were the whole state confined to one county. He says a month is needed to review the primary system in a much larger area and that the present routine requires him to work from the office and rely on engineer reports to guide field work.
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Bouuinesr White
Iowa
Winnebago
Engineer White
Highway Commission
Canal Zone
White
Clifton
Dea Molnea Register
Titonka Men Win High Honors at State Clay Bird Shoot
Titonka clubs led by Elmer Peterson and team members Elmer Petersen Dave Schultz and J F Fisher achieved top marks at Ft Dodge state clay bird competition. Schultz posted 96 of 100, Fisher 95, with Fisher winning state championship and earning a Grand American Handicap spot in Dayton Ohio.
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Titonka
FT. Dodge
Elmer Peterson
Ernest Peterson
Reed Nauman
Geo. McCutcheon
Earl Hanson
H. J. Denton
Dave Schultz
J. F. Fisher
Elmer Petersen
Ottumwa
Yale
Truax
Mc Cutcheon
Titanka
Fisher
Schultz
Dave
John
Dayton
Ohio
National Team Pulling Contest planned at Iowa State Fair
Iowa State Fair officials with the Horse Association of America announce a national team pulling contest this summer from August 26 to September 4. Heavy draft teams from the United States and an invited Canadian champion compete for $5000 in prizes, with a new pulling course prepared for large crowds. Entry blanks are available from Secretary A. R. Corey in Des Moines.
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America
Gew
Canada
Iowa State Fair
The
Horse Association of America
Iowa State College
United States
Iowa
A. R., Corey
Des Moines
Nelson Brothers Sell Car of Fat Cattle at Swanson Sale
Nelson Brothers west of town sold a car load of fat cattle to J. W. Swanson on Saturday. The twenty head averaged nearly 1400 pounds each, six short horns and fourteen polled Angus. The brothers raised the polled Angus from the short horns and took pride in their herd. Many visited the stock yards to view the shipment before it went to Chicago.
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Nelson Brothers
J. W. Swanson
Chicago
Obituary of Henry Sonnenberg Pioneer Farmer of German Township
Henry Sonnenberg born July 1 1864 in Dittmer Germany emigrated to Grundy County Iowa with his parents at age four. He farmed in Ringsted and German Township and served as township clerk assessor and school director. He died after a long pneumonia illness with heart failure. funeral held at his home and church with 185 cars in the procession. He leaves a wife five children two sisters a brother and many relatives and friends.
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Henry Sonnenberg
Dittmer
East Friesland
Germany
America
Grundy County
Maggie Saathoff
Ringsted
Emmet County
Sonnenberg
German Township
Henry Meyer
German Valley
L. G. Smith
Titanics
Warner Beenken
Buffalo Center
Gertrude Eadie
Chris
Ben Sonnenberg
Holl and
Iowa
Reinié
Herman Ostendorff
Parkersburg
Schoen
Schoenlein
Titonka
Tople
Lutheran Ladies Aid Picnic Near Town
The Lutheran Ladies Aid and Sunday School plan a picnic in Mr Willis grove west of town Thursday. Sunday School children filled a large audience for Children Day. Mission collection totaled 33 dollars. Rev Schoenlein led English sermon at Henry Sonnenberg funeral. German service at 11:00. Confirmation class sessions set for Wednesday 9:00 and Friday 10:00. Marriage announced Miss Margarette Kirkpatrick and Mr Edward Swanson wed May 30 1926. They honeymoon in the east and reside at Westchester Apartments Des Moines area.
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Lutheran Ladies Aid
Willis’ Grove
Missiona
Schoenlein
Henry Sonnenberg
Margarette Kirkpatrick
W. P. Kirkpatrick
Martinsdale
Iowa
Edward Swanson
Des Moines
Marie Bright
Clyde Dowls
The
Southern Safety Company
Mr. Swanson
Marks Hat Company
Life Insurance and the Farm Youth
A farmer should consider the investment value of endowment life policies for his sons. A 20 year endowment, often about 40 a year per thousand in mutual companies, yields a 1000 payout at age 35 if premiums are kept. The article notes most men buy larger policies between ages 30 and 40.
Farmers are gamblers in crop outcomes and risk
Dante M. Pierca argues farming remains a gamble due to weather disease and unforeseen events. He says reductions in production limits come mainly from better marketing and organization rather than acreage controls, noting farm groups have not yet mastered the scale of the problem.
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Dante M, Pierca
Buffalo Busy Bees 4-H Club Elects Officers at Meeting
The girls met at Mrs. Lee C. Wolfe's home Wednesday at two for the Buffalo Busy Bees club. Officers named: President Louise Callies Vice President Mercedes Sartor Secretary Florence Reynolda Reporter Myrtle Anna. Next meeting at Myrtle Ama's home on Tuesday June 16.
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Lee C. Wolfe
Louise. Callies
Mercedes Sartor
Florence Reynolda
Myrtle Anna
Buffalo Busy Bees
Plana
Myrtle Ama
Maribeth Squires
Wilda Helfer
Jeanette, Swalve
Florence Reynolds
Alice Sartor
Louise Kramer
Margarite Budiong
Ella Deickman
Mercedes Sartar
Viola Hefner
Louize Callies
Anna Nobite
Blanche Buffington
Mia
Elizabeth Shenck
West Union Sees Teacher Mixa McAlroy Move In
Alice McAlroy, a Monona Public School 2nd Primary instructor for three years, resigns to join West Union Iowa as a 2nd Primary teacher at its normal training school. She is visiting Beloit Wisconsin relatives. Monona loses, West Union gains.
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Mixa Alice McAlroy
Monona
Iowa
West Union
Beloit
Winconsin
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Owa
Methodist Church
Radebush ‘and Nugent OF
Geo. McCutcheo
Lutheran Church
Kirkpatrick
Swanson
Life Insurance
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