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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1924
Page
2
A Des Moines inventor G C Toulouse proposes metal posts on each side of a track with red toppers to reflect headlights. Drivers must thread between posts, slowing down and giving sight lines to check tracks. Posts are removable and hinged to avoid damage. The plan claims cheaper installation and safer crossings.
The fortieth general assembly backs establishing the greatest medical plant in the world on the west side campus near the new children’s and psychopathic hospitals and West Lawn, with a nurses’ home planned nearby. Community leaders urge funding for a Black Hawk grave monument in Davis county and Miss Glee Hastings returns from Greece with Greece’s Gold Cross for Near East Relief work. Iowa National Guard units will undergo machine gun training under Capt. David P. Livingstone at five towns ahead of the annual encampment, four days per town.
The Estherville Lutheran Church led by Pastor Selmer Berge offers Norwegian services by Rev S Strand and English services by Student A Edwards at 8 p.m. A prayer meeting is held Thursday at 8 p.m. at Mrs KE Erickson's home. July 10 indicates a scheduled meeting of Ladies Aid or similar group including L Jacobson and B M Nelson.
Dr P M Glasde of St Olaf College and Prof Karl Hanson of Tama Iowa will give popular lectures to the general public Thursday and Friday afternoons and evenings July 10 and 11. All are invited.
A joint Emmet and Ellsworth township Farm Bureau session is set for July 8 in Huntington hall with J. H. Bardsley and R. B. Crone on the program. July is the time to cull poultry and demonstrations at a two day poultry school will be held plus county-wide demonstrations by the County Agent. Dyas of Ames will inspect Emmet county grain on July 7 to certify varieties, focusing on Iogren oats in principal fields.
Dorothy and Iva Sidles entertained the Busy Bee Girls Garment Club of Ellsworth Township in June with a notable program and refreshments afterward. Upcoming gatherings include July 1 at Buena and Irene Harvega and July 11 at Center Township with W J Breakenridge speaking on Farm Bureau Accomplishments and Program. High Lake Farm Bureau met with community singing led by Esther Olson and a Dr Crone address, planning July 2 at Spring Grove schoolhouse with a program committee named.
Jack Creek Maite youths at the Paulson School House presented singing dialogue recitations and a short sketch in a concise program organized on short notice. Mr Cone president of the Farm Bureau discussed organization and urged another talk at the Farm Bureau Rally at Center School House on July 25. Ice cream and cake were planned for the rally.
Orange rust is harming small fruit plants in Iowa. Disease appears as small orange spots on leaves, overwinters in cane canes, and strikes new foliage in spring, as D R Porter of the extension service at Iowa State College notes based on daily received specimens.
Since spraying will not cure the infected plant, the only measure left is to dig out the bush and burn it. It is wise for all growers of small fruits to spray healthy bushes as a preventive. The Bordeaux mixture should be applied at two week intervals until the danger of infection passes. Sprouts from former infected spots should be dug up and burned.
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