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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1932
Page
2
Wartburg Lutheran Male Chorus presents 15 sacred numbers at St John Evangelical Lutheran Church on Saturday at 7 50 pm March 26. Thirty four male voices sing under a capable director with a silver offering received.
Bremer county farm bureau members and allied groups mobilize in opposition to a proposed two and a quarter percent federal sales tax. Telegrams to Washington prompt lawmakers to oppose the tax, with farms and food products at risk of being taxed or removed from the list.
Twelve club leaders and committee members attended the second training school on canning held at Mrs. D. D. Offringa’s home. Helen Swinney from the extension service led a lesson on canning vegetables with spinach, carrots, and beets canned. A well balanced dinner was prepared under her supervision. The next session is set for April 19 at Mrs. Offringa’s home with a fruit canning lesson by Miss Swiney.
Fifty seven Bremer county farm women attended extension service training schools last week. Meetings were held at five township homes and churches with leaders from Jefferson Maxfield Sumner LeRoy Frederika Fremont Tripoli Plainfield and East Lafayette.
The article lists five meetings for the community building project in Waverly during the week of April 18. Locations include the homes of Mrs. Leonard Miller Mrs. Emil Lawton near Sumner Mrs. A D Chapin in Sumner the home of Mrs Chas Briden south of Denver and the basement of Plainfield Methodist church.
Leonard H. Racker of Waverly addressed about a hundred Polk township farm bureau members at Plainfield High School auditorium on March 17, urging parents to invest in children and promoting junior club work as a central, constructive activity for farm youth. The program featured readings, music, a one act play, a home project talk, and a preview of the July 4 picnic plans.
The March 5–14 period averaged 14.1 degrees at Des Moines, the coldest ten-day March on record. Earlier decades show 15.4 in 1884, 16.4 in 1912, and 17.9 in 1890. Northern Iowa faces feed shortages as farmers seek aid, with ground frozen 15 inches deep and streams iced over after a severe winter.
The report highlights a period of unusually warm weather spanning the end of February and the first days of March. Temperatures rise for several days, bringing milder conditions before a potential shift back to normal.
Agricultural officials in Iowa stress hog production as the key income source amid a 1922 outlook predicting improved alignment of farm product and input prices. Economists report prices for inputs easing while meat production and consumption show slight gains in 1931, with emergency crop production loan organizations now organized through banks and county agents to fund feed, seed, fuel, and fertilizer.
Production and consumption were the smallest since 1922 per the U S Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Slaughter increased last year while combined grain stocks on Iowa farms on March 1 fell 9 percent from a year earlier and 17 percent below the 10 year average. Feed grain stocks totaled 250 221 000 this year versus 252 628 000 in 1930 and 275 953 000 for the 10 year average. Corn supplies are slightly above last year but 14 percent below the 10 year average.
A church notes a weekly Bible quiz labeled How Well Do You Know Your Bible asking ten questions on Bible counts, places, and persons. It lists prior week answers including references to John 18 and 19, Luke 2, and 2 Kings 2:11, with Rev. E. F. Byers as the author and Congregational church as context.
The federal government allocates 2.5 million dollars annually to entomological research under the Protection Fund. This funding supports studies on insects, their behavior, and potential impacts on agriculture and ecosystems.
Week ending March 19, 1932 lists transfers: Louisa Albrecht to J W Miller for 500 dollars a parcel in Waverly J J Smiths addition. Carl Hoppenworth to Henry Kahle for 4000 dollars in Waverly. John C Hildebrandt to C W Hildebrandt for 1 dollar in section 11 91 14 at the German Evangelical Lutheran property.
St John s Congregation of Fremont township transfers eight acres to Fremont school district No g7 for 75 dollars per acre in section 81 02 49 with land description denoting northeast quadrant and fractional lot details.
European scientists declare minute bacteria cause many diseases including measles smallpox psittacosis the common cold and other illnesses that pass the finest medical filters.
Coyotes are known for cunning and speed, able to reach up to 35 miles per hour and sustain a two mile sprint. The description emphasizes their quickness and endurance in short chases.
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