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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1932
Page
3
A nostalgic kitchen note describes easy to prepare breakfast dishes including honeyballs with raspberries and jelly muffins. It gives a creamy scrambled eggs with mushrooms recipe using a butter flour milk white sauce, mushrooms, and six eggs served to five to six people, and suggests a scenic breakfast window view.
Bremer county 4-H girls led by Golda Willey and Elaine Fuller arrived at the State Fair grounds on Sunday August 28 with Mrs L C Myers and Margaret Myers. They toured Des Moines venues including Yourker window displays and the Des Moines Register Tribune building, attended a garden party at E N Hopkins home, and viewed a 3 act play and a World on Parade performances. Health examinations, a style show, and daily 4-H assemblies complemented demonstrations on making and canning sauer kraut.
An old styled ad proclaims health at age 62 with Dr Caldwell's syrup pepsin. It touts stimulating the liver and bowels to relieve sluggishness headaches biliousness and constipation. Children are urged to take small doses to improve appetite and bowel health.
Cloth and grain sack outfits highlighted a clothing exhibit. Bremer County girls packed belongings Thursday evening, content with the county clubs’ cooperation in raising funds for the trip and hoping for more similar journeys in the future.
In Bremer county farmers attend the Farm Bureau film Judy Comes Home at the Waverly Orphans' Home, praised as highly suitable for children. C. R. Besh near Denver harvested five tons of alfalfa from seven acres, as Bremer county farmers discuss third cutting timing, soybean hay use, soil lime tests, and inoculation, with corn ahead of normal.
J P Grawe a Civil War veteran and newspaper editor notes he never harvested mature seed corn in August on his Bremer county farm. W C Hoffman of Jackson township adds sixty tons of limestone to lime all cultivated land on his 240 acre farm and plans seventy acres of alfalfa next year. Dr W A Rohlf, once billed as Farmer Bill, now known as Alfalfa Bill, owns the county’s largest alfalfa farm and records the crop’s value for dairy feed and land quality.
The Bremer county board met August 18 1932 to finalize the 1933 budget. Tax rates were approved for several funds including general 42000, poor 20600, state insane 2000, county insane 10300, soldiers relief 4800, bovine TB 13700, emergency 13700, and road funds 13700 to 40000 plus maintenance 3450. The chair and county auditor were instructed to certify and file the estimates. A grading date on trunk road M was set for September 6, 1932 at 1 30 p m with adjournment to 9 a m September 6 1932.
The 1932 dairy cattle congress runs October 3 to 9 in Waterloo with state judging and demonstrations. National 4-H dairy cattle contests will draw visitors from Maryland and beyond. Approximately $2,000 in cash prizes will be awarded on October 8 for top club heifers across Ayrshire Brown Swiss Guernsey Holstein and Jersey.
The Iowa state fair featured a $20,000 bullet proof Cadillac once owned by Al Capone. The armored car drew thousands as glass, armor plating, and a machine gun in a hidden bag were showcased. Spectators paid 25 cents to view it, with many paying again to see it at other fairs.
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