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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1933
Page
5
Bremer county farm bureau board decided on a broad 4-H club program culminating in a two day fair at the Bremer county fair grounds in August. The plan includes a countywide talent show and a prominent speaker, with loud speaker equipment and at least three hundred 4-H members expected to exhibit.
Warren township farm bureau opens its exchange program with the comedy Sauce for the Goslings performed at the Ormston home. Cast includes Richard Taylor Lyle Ormston Margaret Taylor Dorothy Ormston and others. County agent discusses national farm legislation and Roosevelt policy while planning a Bremer county 4-H fair and a film program closes the meeting.
High school students at Tripoli with instructor C Vern Dunahoo map 4-H club work for Bremer county. Dairy calf, market pig, purebred gilt, colt and beef clubs discussed with rules. Dunahoo presided as Edward Bennett James Bennett Milton Bunger Lester Boeckman Fred Crinklaw and others showed interest.
The Jackson juniors met last Saturday at Margaret and Evelyn Myers home with five members plus the leader. Mrs L C Myers demonstrated baking whole wheat bread. They studied Negro spirituals in music memory work and sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot Deep River Nobody knows the Trouble I See. A birthday cake honored Golda Willey. The next meeting was set for Ruth Mc Caffree's home on April 22.
Professor J C Cunningham of Iowa State College will visit Bremer county on Monday April 10 at 1 30 p m in the Community building at Waverly. He will aid unemployed relief clubs and others in planning land use to grow vegetables for summer and next winter, with practical gardening guidance.
Bremer county training schools the week of April 10 14 will cover uses of wool in bedding with a wool bat craft guided by Miss Frances V Pew Ames extension specialist. The lesson notes wool bat making and scouring directions including wool selection and water treatment details for attendees.
Instruction on making soap and washing wool outlines soaking temperatures and rinsing steps with soft water and drying methods. A series of weekly meetings for women across townships in Waverly and nearby areas lists venues and host families from Monday to Friday.
Iowa State College extension specialist C. W. McDonald urges careful wool handling at shearing to boost market value. Advice covers clean shearing boards, removing tags and dirt, rolling with flesh side out, single string tying, and using paper twine to keep fleeces loftily bound. Store dry after sacking to prevent dirt and chaff.
The piece catalogs wartime expenses and social strain as indicators of how the nation pays for conflict. It cites inflationary depression, bank closures, farmer hardship, gambling, and idle labor, labeling the country as the richest with little productive war business.
A Bremer county review recalls ten years of farm bureau work affecting many residents. Key events include the Washington bicentennial celebration in Waverly 1932 with 17,000 to 25,000 attendees, the 1927 Illinois Central picnic with Governor Hammill, and numerous picnics across Sumner Frederika Plainfield Readlyn Janesville Denver Sumner Tripoli. Soil and alfalfa projects reached thousands of samples, 40,000 to 50,000 tons of limestone applied, and 4,000 to 5,000 acres of alfalfa grown countywide. Home projects and 4-H club work engaged over a thousand youths from about five hundred families. Hog house demonstrations drew 500 farmers, while dairy industry tours drew visitors from multiple counties. The organization ended 1932 debt-free, with wide cooperation from farmers, bankers, and newspapers, and a push toward coordinated marketing and dairy programs.
Roy Menzel Bremer is ill with jaundice. Will and Mrs. Riechmann and family and Henry Riechmann visited Waterloo Thursday. John Heine spent Thursday with sister Mrs. Leo Stenzel in Waverly. Herbert Kaiser and son Harold visited Herbert's parents in Waverly Sunday. Will and Mrs. Eick ill with influenza at sister Mrs. Fred Geffert’s home. Henry Eick visited in Harry Heine’s home Friday. Friends honored Mr. Kappmeyer’s birthday at his home Sunday. H G Turner visited daughter Virginia in Chicago over the weekend.
Henry Matthiesen and wife welcome a baby boy born Saturday at their home. Lucinda Lemka of Waverly and Lilly Reding of Nashua visited grandparents John Martens and wife over Sunday. Bertha Pries teaches Gillet school northeast of town. Market prices from 25 years ago listed. Thursday evening at 7:30 a marriage occurred between Wm Fink and Ida Kuhrt at the John C Fink home with about a hundred relatives. Mrs. Herman Warner held an auction sale last Saturday and plans to move to Waterloo with her husband. Jacob Berg returned from Fargo after visiting son Walter. Alma Eveland and Jay Frye spent Sunday at Alma’s home near Bremer.
Highlights include Ralph Drewis swallowing a toy spoon, Mr and Mrs Koch planning a Waverly move, Herman A Bockhaus Jr drowned near Juan de Fuca, Keoughs celebrating their 38th anniversary, Mrs Bull undergoing surgery for appendicitis, Will Henning recovering from mumps, and a mule incident injuring Keller’s son.
Five years ago on April 4 1928 a fire of unknown origin wiped out a large barn at the Herman Reding farm four miles northeast of Tripoli. The barn and about 80 head of livestock were totally destroyed in the blaze, causing an estimated loss of 6000 dollars.
Mrs. J W Dilley wife of Civil War veteran of Leroy township is seriously ill at home after a paralytic stroke earlier in the week. J C Kuhrt has operated there for three years. Frank Haase of Mason City visited H C Koch Moehling and Frank Koch residences. Lorraine Brueggeman from Fond du Lac Wis visited Margaret Nevermann. Perry Crittenden returns to billiard parlor after two weeks with mumps. Chas Holmes family visited Waucoma at Henry Skeries home.
A street vendor in the Travelers' Beacon era extols a famous flexible comb, claiming it will endure bending, hammer blows, and twisting. He demonstrates its claimed resilience to curious listeners, inviting sales through exaggerated rhetoric.
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