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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
6
USDA urges canning fruit and vegetables without sugar if needed while sugar supplies remain sufficient domestically. It notes higher cane and beet plantings, rising prices, and no actual shortage, though hoarding and access issues persist.
Royalty Oil Company advertises ownership of oil beneath land rather than drilling wells. It claims deeds grant oil rights to about 13 000 acres in Hartley and Moore counties Texas and expansion into Louisiana. Promises high returns with minimal risk, offering shares at 10 dollars each via Howard L Swisher & Company of Morgantown WV.
A Milo notes column records visits and gatherings. Residents share Thursday and Sunday visits at homes and with families. Local social events include thrashing planning and fishing trips.
Warning from F C Gaylord of the horticultural extension staff urges early control of potato pests. Spraying with lead arsenate or Paris Green is advised when plants are a few inches high, with repeat applications about every two weeks to protect the crop.
Mrs Ned Huff and Mrs Perry Bugh were in a car struck by John Bennett's vehicle at a Hartford City street crossing Saturday around 10 30 PM. Mrs Bugh died Sunday from chest injuries, Mrs Huff suffered ankle fractures and was taken to Grant County Hospital in Marion.
Mrs Maude Marsh directs the Long Cream Buying Station at Gallion's, overseeing milk purchase operations and cream handling duties for the facility.
Home gardeners can remove worms by picking them off cabbage cauliflower and kohl rabi plants. When numbers rise spray with arsenate of lead using six level tablespoonfuls per gallon of water plus soap, or dust with a lime mix. Use dusting devices to apply the powder to dew covered leaves.
The Purdue University Soils and Crops Department recommends late July to early August as ideal for planting alfalfa. Key practices include thorough drainage, ample limestone, manure top dressing, legume bacteria inoculation, and liming acidic soils with 2 to 4 tons per acre. Fertilize with 300–400 pounds of acid phosphate or steamed bone meal. sow about 10 pounds of high germination seed per acre.
Nelson and DePoy of the News Fagle office urge readers to bid on a 40 acre tract offered at five thousand dollars, signaling the deal as a potential shame if not claimed.
The administrator of the estate of Alice A Barnes will auction personal property at the late residence near Van Buren on August 25 1920. Included are cattle sheep hogs hens hay corn farm implements household goods and other items with cash or credit terms over five dollars a note bearing six percent. Auctioneer A E Midland and clerk Will Sanderman.
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