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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1964
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader is an official Tripoli Bremer County Iowa newspaper published each Wednesday. It is entered as second class mail, established 1894, with William A Buckley as publisher and Robert J Sassman as editor. Subscription rates are 3.50 per year in Iowa and 4.50 elsewhere.
Bremer County Extension calendar lists four meetings in October. The 4-H awards selection committee meets Oct 15 at 8 p m in the County Extension office Tripoli. The county 4-H fair board meets Oct 19 at 8 p m in Tripoli. An extension home economics hobby fair occurs Oct 20 at 1 p m in Tripoli Town Hall. Boys 4-H leaders meet Oct 22 at 8 p m in the Extension office Tripoli.
September 24 gathering at Horton Hall hosted by Paul and Anthony Kingery featured talks on safety brush care and kidney worm eradiation with several demonstrations including a hand made cooler and a 37 000 bushel corn crop handling plan Next meeting will be at Horton Hall with family night and potluck supper
Ten Bremer county 4-H youths showed 16 dairy cattle in the 4-H dairy club exposition at the Cattle Congress in Waterloo on Oct 3. The event drew 230 members from 38 counties and more than 425 head of cattle across four judging rings.
Ellen Sim mer and Mary Harnisch led a lesson on making a dessert pudding for girls and their mothers. The group plans a dining outing on October 12 followed by a county skating party, reported by Sandy Clausing.
Duane Carolus earned a 4-H jacket and pen as fourth in section B of the state dairy production contest at the Cattle Congress. Janet Michael and Gary Heinemann also received pens as winners in the production contest. Entries were judged on animal production, ration planning, and questionnaire answers. Over 2004-hopeful 4-H dairy members competed statewide.
Bremer county 4-H dairy judging team placed eighth among 27 at the Cattle Congress in Waterloo. Members Richard Dewey Roger Lenius Janet Michael from Waverly and Richard Schneider from Fairbank judged eight dairy cattle classes and gave oral reasons on two. Six breeds Jerseys Guernseys Milking Shorthorn Ayrshire Brown Swiss and Holsteins required broad knowledge of all dairy breeds.
A six pound puffball mushroom was removed from a location near Dr. Donald Murphy's driveway in West Union. The specimen measured 38 inches in girth. William Penn Academy, later known as the University of Pennsylvania, was chartered in 1753.
Bremer County Extension Director releases Iowa hog industry data indicating a fall fallow of farrowings by about 5 percent in the 10 major hog states, with total hogs on farms down 7 percent from a year earlier. Market expectations promise modest price gains and a steady fall to winter outlook, with interior Iowa prices around 15 to 16 dollars per hundredweight.
March quarter and spring marketings from April to June 1965 are expected to lag behind earlier year levels. Interior prices likely run 5 to 10 cents higher than 1964, with April around 15 dollars and June near 16 dollars as prices rise through spring.
Washington D C hosts the first U S telephone center Mediphone operating around the clock to aid doctors nationwide with detailed drug data on about 9 000 medicines and to help identify allergic or poisonous reactions. Shop in Tripoli.
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