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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1911
Page
11
A compendium of farm tips covering horses, hogs, sheep, and cows including handling milk and separators, housing, feeding, and breeding. Emphasizes sanitation, pasture management, winter care, and prudent use of hay, grain, and supplements for better returns.
Iowa State College at Ames offers a two week short course January 1 to 13 covering practical feeding breeding and management of cattle and hogs. Prof Kennedy leads the program built on decades of college experience to help farmers fatten stock during winter.
Des Moines reports three dairy trains will be run across Iowa by the state dairy and food department and the State Dairy association. The first train will travel Illinois Central lines and run the last two weeks of January. Later, daily specials will be sent over Rock Island and Northwestern lines.
The Farmers Co operative Creamery opened its new Gowrie plant this week. Thirty five customers visited on opening day and 500 pounds of butter were churned from first day cream. Professors from Ames attended the inspection.
Money nearly all raised at the consecration service in Marshalltown for the new Bethany United Brethren church. Bishop W M Weekley of Kansas City led the financial drive and more than $2,000 was gathered, leaving a shortfall of about $800 to complete the fund.
Avoca reports that seven deer died from injuries and fright during crate loading for shipment to parks. Five killed. about thirty deer captured on Thanksgiving Day may be released again as Game Warden Lincoln struggles to find a shipping solution.
Pythian lodge members under special dispensation conducted a revival in Oskaloosa. The raid yielded over two hundred applications from business and professional people, boosting membership to beyond five hundred.
Donald Handley, bound over to the grand jury on writing threatening black hand letters to farmer Frank Richie, pleaded guilty and was fined 500 dollars, the payment completed. He is sixteen years old.
The Iowa supreme court will review Miss Alma Lemke’s breach of promise case against Herman Franzenberg who had appealed a $4250 verdict. The ruling concerns the erstwhile lover’s breach and the appeal process.
Fred Hazen was awarded a verdict for 4500 dollars against O W Miller after the defendant failed to appear in court. Hazen sued Miller for alienation of his wife's affections in Vinton.
Judge Clark in the district court sentences Robert Gable to not more than thirty years in the Anamosa reformatory for assault with attempt to commit murder. The ruling comes after Gable’s actions in Mason City.
Michael Allen sued DuPont Powder company in district court claiming damages for losing an eye while employed. A jury awarded him $1,500. The case centers on employer liability for work injury.
Louis Bilanchi, a 4 miner, leaped into the 200 foot open shaft at Sunshine mine after debt collection actions worsened his distress. He died instantly, leaving a wife and one child. The tragedy follows bills placed with a collection agency, highlighting financial pressures.
J H Andrick long time editor of the McGregor Times died at his New Hampton home at age 78 after many years in Iowa journalism and more recent work for a Chicago firm.
A. C. Brice of Centerville, then consul to Matanzas, Cuba, claims he was warned two nights before the Maine disaster that the ship would blow up from the outside. He says he told President McKinley but kept silent until now. Centerville suffers major fire losses hitting multiple businesses and structures with totals ranging from thousands to fifteen thousand dollars.
Muscatine factory opens with fifty employees returning to work pending arbitration of differences. Management says it acted, not in league with rivals, and only closed when the lockout began. This marks the first factory to resume during the extended strike.
Sheriff Campbell said Thomas B. Oskinson a Muscatine officer killer has confessed. Campbell visited the jail with the boy's mother and stated a written confession was made by the lad.
Judge Hodson of Winneshiek County rules that farmers cooperative associations that force members to sell hogs hay and other products under threat of fines are illegal monopolies in restraint of trade. The decision draws statewide interest and affects farm cooperative practices.
Detailed To Inspection in Iowa City assigns Captain Robert Mc Cleave inspector instructor of the national guard to oversee the Fifty third, Fifty fourth and Fifty fifth regiments. Inspections are planned for the first four months of next year.
Marshalltown report notes steady land values as Eibs brothers paid 152.50 per acre for a 120 acre Laurel area farm sold by Ira Rainer. Iowa City interurban promoters claim funds to build the Keota link next year, contingent on English investment.
Davenport report states the German American alliance of Scott county denounced Governor Carroll by resolution for appointing Iowa delegates to the national meeting of the Anti Tax Salo on league at Washington.
The town held farewell functions for Rev and Mrs F Gateliu,s as they prepare to depart Wednesday for missionary work in Koge Japan.
James Burns and John Williams are under arrest in Omaha on charges of robbing the Derby bank near here of 4000 dollars and are contesting requisition for return for trial.
The longest drainage ditch in Iowa, Woodbine’s Boyer Valley project, is finished and water is running. Hundreds of acres of swamp land will be reclaimed and made productive.
The dead body of Andrew Biancho a miner was found with a bullet wound in the head. Suspicions of foul play surround the death. He leaves a wife and seven children.
Corydon hosted the fifth annual Corydon poultry exposition with James E. Greenwald of Milwaukee serving as the professional poultry judge and delivering the awards.
Ottumwa seven year old Alta Flohret daughter of farmer Robert Flohret was fatally gored by a cow while playing in a barn near West Point. The incident highlights dangers to children around livestock on rural farms.
Southwestern Iowa Horticultural society sessions in Woodbine draw strong attendance as Iowa fruit men present forceful information. In Corning a young man Harvey Hook, 21, died by his own hand and his father travels from Rockville Missouri to retrieve a note found in the deceased’s pocket that may explain the act.
A sobbing mistress mourns a lost dog named Fido and asks if an advertisement was placed in the newspaper. A friend apologizes, noting the dog is illiterate and cannot read, adding a poignant, humorous tone to the exchange from Woman's Home Companion.
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