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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1921
Page
11
Published weekly notes advise farmers on poultry lice control and efficient dairy processing. It promotes drying chickens to prevent lice and recommends separators for cream, claiming savings for farmers with three or more cows.
Memorial Day observances were crowded but interrupted by a sudden storm causing attendees to seek shelter. The morning programs in the city park featured Attorney F J Kennedy of Estherville delivering a patriotic address until rain forced the parade to be postponed to the afternoon. A marching band led a cemetery visit, with Khaki and blue veterans, and local singers Misses Mable Olson Fern and Gladys Peterson performed America. Funeral and obituary notices follow for Delilah Jane Nutt, age 61, including family details and burial.
Dunnell lost the Memorial Day baseball game to Jackson by 12 to 3 as three Dunnell pitchers failed to stop the attack. The match was praised as fine sport and a revenge is planned in three weeks at the return game. School picnic at District No. 58 drew over seventy five attendees with foot and potato races and a nail pounding contest. Poppies sold by the American Legion yielded strong receipts. German services set for Sunday with English Sunday school afterward. A baby cyclone uprooted a tree by John Mathwig and toppled Fred Silcox’s hog house. Jackson brothers from Jefferson visited. Frank and Bree Anderson returned from California. Mye Anderson improving, Miss Channel and Miss Nelson returning home to Wimdon, Minnesota. Nelson to teach elsewhere next year and Channer to private school.
The Dunnell school class of 1921 graduated Friday evening at Applequist Hall before a large audience. Attorney McCune of Fairmont delivered the address, and the program included invocations, salutatories, a valedictory by Marie Jensen, class history, and diplomas presented by Supt. Jordan Dunnell. Several graduates named Almon Austin, Marie Jensen, Clarence Banke, Godford Swanson, Rueben Deering, Adelia Mathwig, Phillip Bredberg, and Harold Hubert.
Extension experts at Iowa State College advise a gas method to kill rats by directing exhaust into burrows then using bait with barium carbonate or strychnine. They recommend ferrets and dogs to drive and kill rats, discourage reentry with concrete foundations and screens, and warn rats multiply rapidly. Also notes on using old car oil to control mites in poultry houses and a fluoride dip for hens.
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