Stott Couple Purchase 80 Acre Missouri Farm
Mr and Mrs Wyatt Stott purchased an 80 acre farm in Missouri to establish their home. Mervin Bristow was seen picking corn for Graham Bros. Lewis Larsen, Robert and Heiko Boekelman, Donald and Jay Graham, Richard Fox and Warren Godden spent Sunday afternoon at Levant Moore's.
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Wyatt Stott
Missouri
Mervin Bristow
Graham Bros
Lewis Larsen
Robert
Heiko Boekelman
Donald
Jay Graham
Richard Fox
Warren Godden
Levant Moore
Portland News Briefs Highlight Social Visits and Club Meeting
Portland residents share weekend gatherings with Mr and Mrs Will Ringsdorf and Mr and Mrs Paul Hertzke. The Portland Progress Club plans a Thursday meeting October 21 with Mrs George Koestler Jr. Birthday dinner honors several relatives including Mrs Sperring and Mrs Bristow. Families visit from Lone Rock Rockwell City Algona Thompson and Thompson area.
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Mer
Levant Moore
Mervin Bristow
Bonnie
C. L. Sperring
Chas
Bernard Phelps
Leo Fox
Lone Rock
Dwight Graham
Jake Godden
A Warren
Graham Bros
Carrie Graham
Algona
L. Sperring
Thompson
Doan News Woman's Club Meeting and Local Visits
The Doan News reports a Woman's Club meeting at the Hott home with a program including a book review and discussions on Current Fighting Front and a Reader's Digest article. It also lists Sunday visits and hospital notes, with multiple local residents visiting, hosting, or traveling, including families from Swea City Wesley and Burt.
Community Notes From Lakota And Nearby Visits
Mrs George Schroeder and daughter in law Mrs Melvin Schroeder visited in Kansas City where Melvin is on furlough from a Kansas camp. Lutheran Ladies Aid held a chicken supper raising 116 dollars. Jerry Heetland’s three youngest siblings visited at Fort Dodge hospital. Mrs Heetland may return home midweek. Mr and Mrs Cecil Black traveled to Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota. daughter Lois stays with Wade Ball family. Mrs Black may have surgery this week. Presbyterian Ladies Aid to meet Thursday at Mrs Russell Winter’s home with hostesses Mrs Wade Ball and Mrs Wm Kienitz. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Guy Hart and Mrs Elizabeth Williams of Bancroft, at Wade Ball’s home. Mrs Della Hastings and daughter from Minnesota visited Arthur and Audrey Hastings. Mrs Henry Guderian and Mrs Leland Thayes and baby visited Emma and Louise Thayes in Algona. Beverly Fox, Hanlontown teacher, spent weekend with Mr and Mrs Guy Beemer. Bancroft locals Mrs Guy Hart, Mrs Ditsworth, and Mrs John Bernhard visited S P Powers and Wade Ball homes. S P Powers visited Elmore. Wade Ball hosted N A Pingle and wife in Ledyard. Mrs Ralph Clark, recently ill, improving at home.
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George Schroeder
Melvin Schroeder
Kansas City
Melvin
Kansas
Lutheran Ladies Aid
Jerry Heetland
Heetland
Fort Dodge
Cecil Black
Mayo Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Wade Ball
Della Hastings
Minnesota
Arthur
Audrey Hastings
Henry Guderian
Leland Thayes
Baby
Algona
Emma
Louise Thayes
Beverly Fox
Hanlontown
Guy Beemer
Guy Hart
Ditsworth
John Bernhard
Bancroft
S. P. Powers
P. Powers
Elmore
N. A. Pingle
Ledyard
Ralph Clark
Golden Delicious Branch Displayed In Anamosa Farm Show
Golden Delicious Forest Fulwider of Anamosa showcased a 30 inch branch from a Golden Delicious apple tree with 29 apples on his farm display, presenting a notable fruit exhibit at the local viewing event.
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Golden Delicious Forest
Anamosa
Lighting to Boost Egg Production in Hens
Iowa State College poultry expert W Whitfield notes artificial lighting can raise egg output during fall and winter, though total yearly production won’t rise with lights alone. Use all night lights, 25 watt bulbs per 200 sq ft, 6 feet above floor, with roosts, waterers, and feeders directly beneath.
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Whitfield
Extension Poultry Specialiat
Iowa State College
Watch Contour Results In Corn Bean Harvest
Iowa farmers tour contour cropping fields with neighbors to learn methods and benefits. Lester E. Clapp of Iowa State College extension notes many farmers lack a complete view of contouring. Contouring and soil conservation will be emphasized in the 1844 AAA program. more farmers are expected to adopt these practices with group work and guidance from SCS technicians and county extension staff.
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Iowa
Lester E. Clapp
Iowa State College Extension
AAA
Clapp
Soil Conservation Service
War era guidance on potato use and storage
Consumers urged to store and use potatoes fully to ease food shortages. Advice emphasizes leaving skins on, paring thin if needed, saving cooking water, and preparing simple dishes like baked potatoes, boiled potatoes in jackets, potato soup, and leftovers such as hash browns and shepherd’s pie.
Timber market urges selective culling of wood lots
Forester G B MacDonald of the Town Timber Production War Project urges farmers to assess their wood lots. He says harvest over mature timber for sawlogs while making culled wood into fuel and fence posts. Young trees should be preserved for peacetime building the future we fight for.
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G. B. MacDonald
MacDonald
Machinery News Presses 1944 Farm Equipment Output Plans
Washington authority reports doubled 1944 farm machinery quotas to ease labor by encouraging farmers in Kossuth County. Plans call for manufacturing 80 percent of 140 output with more availability than late 1943 allocations. No restrictions on repair parts, allowing farmers to secure necessary components.
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Imachinery
Washington, D. C
Kossuth
A. L. Brown
Combine and
Iowa Advances Soybean Processing Capacity This Winter
News reports promise 14 new soybean extractor plants in Iowa, elevating in state processing to about half of the crop. If on schedule, the plants will keep more high protein soybean meal in Iowa for feeders, reversing last year when 75 percent of soybeans were shipped out and meal tended to leave the state.
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Iowa
Garwin principal notes father’s 90th birthday sermon
Lucille Simmons, now Garwin school principal, reports that her father, former Waverly Baptist pastor, celebrated his 90th birthday by preaching a sermon he had used 35 years earlier.
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Lucille Simmons
Garwin
Waverly Baptist Church
Good Trip Mies Sara 1 Hall of near Chi Sago Visited Montezuma
Sara Mies, traveling by bicycle from near Chicago to Montezuma, completed a 43614 mile trip in 10 days. She visited friends along the way, covering 40 miles on one day and reaching speeds up to 30 miles per hour while riding downhill.
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Mies Sara 1
Hall of
Near
Chi Sago
Montezuma
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