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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1923
Page
2
Winfield Scott Mayne, Iowa Wesleyan alumnus and Council Bluffs lawyer, dies at age 80. He was the first graduate of an Iowa college Mount Pleasant in 1856 and later served as a bankruptcy referee and mathematics instructor. The piece notes fur shipment laws and Iowa fur income, mentioning dyed pelts and the source of many furs.
A New York egg expert advised Des Moines butter eggs and poultry dealers to place eggs with the large ends up when filling cases. He argued customers form a better impression of the product when they see the plump end rather than the peaked end.
The Oskaloosa canning company contracts sweet corn for 1923 at $9.00 per ton including husks and all, up from prewar levels around $5. The cannery offers a higher price than last season while canned corn to consumers sells at a lower price than in recent years.
H. H. Paup of Harlan Shelby county recently died and left a will designating $1,000 to the Harlan Library association to establish the Paup Christmas fund to be invested and the income used yearly to buy candy nuts and fruits for the children of Harlan without regard to nationality religion or politics. He also left $700 to each of the ten churches in the city.
A terse radio message from Louisville to Cedar Falls prompts a chase as a missing Des Moines man heads toward his Kentucky home. Cedar Falls listeners recognize the Los Angeles based concert announcer as Mrs J He Van Dyke, wife of a Cedar Falls physician, amid further radio queries from Atlanta about Fred Kimball.
Prominent G A R men in Iowa back Cedar Falls physician W W Gist for department commander at the state meeting in Fort Dodge in June. Gist has a long war record from enlisting at 15 in the 26th Ohio through Sherman’s Atlanta campaign and Thomas’s Franklin and Nashville operations. His service included action near Hood’s army and border duty to urge French withdrawal from Mexico. A veteran, he has long been part of the department, serving as chaplain and chaplain in chief. His son Captain Julian Gist is in the military, stationed at Honolulu.
Since the March storm, shovelers funded by primary road funds have worked to open the 14 mile stretch from Cherokee to the Plymouth county line. Three groups handle clearing while township roads lag due to insufficient levy funds to cover dragging and removal costs.
The McIntosh bill tightens liquor law penalties by marking a first conviction as a baseline and declaring subsequent offenses as a persistent violator. A second offense carries a fine of 500 to 1000 dollars, or six months to one year in jail, or both, with a third and later offenses leading to up to three years in state prison or reformatories.
The Koach brothers near McGregor lead a Mississippi River catch of carp weighing over 20 pounds each. Nets up to 600 feet long were used to pull through openings in the ice, gathering a massive haul from the frozen river.
In Fayette county timberlands wolves destroyed livestock during a hard winter. L D Hitch lost 14 Angora goats and a single sheep east of West Union. Wm Miller of Elgin owns hounds that pursued a wolf north, and a days later the same hound was found in Minnesota 60 miles from home wearing Miller's Fayette county license tag, exhausted from the chase.
Iowa well growers who consigned their clip last spring to the farm bureau marketing agency under W. G. Warner as sales manager have word from National Wool Warehouse and Storage Co. that 3 8 blood staple wool sold for 51.3 cents and 1 4 blood staple wool for 49.3 cents. Grades are medium wool from Shropshire Hampshire crosses. Fine wools are 52 to 53 cents, with prospects for higher prices, a marked advance over two years ago.
In Benton county residents near Key stone work to raise 250 dollars to place ex postmaster C. W. Waldeck in a German old age home. Waldeck, once publisher of a Cedar Rapids German paper, writes that he has fallen on hard times after moving to Germany to live with a sister who has since died. he fears starvation without help from old friends.
In Pottawattamie county two rural school buildings were broken into at night and Loot taken. Sheriff W A McKee of Council Bluffs captured a Red Oak youth and an Adair youth. They were tried in Council Bluffs and convicted of breaking into a building at night. Each received a ten year sentence to the Fort Madison penitentiary by Judge Cullison.
Mrs W F Parrott of Cedar Heights near Cedar Falls owns Financial Winnifred's Prize 515917 a junior 2 year old Jersey that set a world record by yielding 14,740 pounds of milk and 665 pounds of fat in 365 days. The cow weighed 950 pounds and produced 15.5 times her weight in milk with 37.9 pounds on the final test day. The animal carried a calf 207 days of the period, beating state records up to senior 4 year olds. Previously Lass 66th 271896 held the prior world mark for 365 days at 14,573 pounds. Former state butterfat record for Jersey junior 2 year olds went to Raleighs Torona Lady owned by E M Sherman of Charles City.
E. E. Hinckley calls the annual Training Conference for Y M C A officers from across the state. The Cedar Rapids meeting runs April 6 to 8 with Coe College hosting. Speakers include A. J. Elliott Chicago Lester Howard Minneapolis Dr. Cross Grinnell R. M. Fitzgerald State University and Fred N. Hansen Des Moines.
S. C. Sonnichson, director of vocational education for Iowa, authorized by the state board to add two assistant supervisors of rehabilitation and four bookkeepers to handle books for both departments. The move aims to enlarge Iowa's program and speed processing of applications from crippled persons seeking industrial training.
A survey shows Lime creek and its tributaries, including the Shell Rock, receive large volumes of untreated sewage from Northern Sugar, Decker Packing, Plymouth, Rock Falls, Nora Springs, Rockford, Marble Rock, and Cedar Falls. The Cedar River then carries these pollutants from Austin Minnesota to Cedar Rapids, affecting Waterloo and Cedar Rapids with accumulating pollution.
Crawford county engineer H B Fishel estimates Iowa’s 1922 corn crop at 245.989 million dollars and calculates car operating costs at about 10 cents per mile. With 500,900 cars averaging 4,000 miles annually, total miles reach 2 billion, implying $200 million in costs. He warns motorists overlook depreciation, interest, storage, and incidental expenses beyond fuel and tires.
Editor Sperbeck replies to Ray Sperbeck Swea City about bidding on the district court bar docket on a yearly contract basis. The account notes 120 copies per term, delivery by Tuesday, and a March 5 price deadline, with caution about county bid practices affecting printer prices and taxpayer costs.
Ray Sperbeck of Swea City Herald writes to Earl defending local printers in Rosyth county. He argues printers will not bid on county jobs, citing ethics and rising costs. He urges the county to seek lower bids from outside and defends local pricing and integrity.
The State Historical Society of Town published Louis Bernard Schmidt’s article tracing corn output by decade in the ten leading states. Iowa first appears in 1859 seventh with 42,410,686 bushels, then rises to first in 1899 and 1919, tying with Illinois as top producers in later years and together accounting for about 28 percent of U.S. corn.
An expert notes that birds provide valuable aid in fighting insect pests even when their numbers are not high enough to exterminate them. The statement highlights birds as a natural pest control component in ecosystems and agriculture.
A 19th century note recalls the short winged grasshopper’s destruction of wheat in Utah, followed by miraculous California white gulls feeding on the pests. The birds’ aid saved the Mormon community’s staple that season, and a Salt Lake City monument honors their value.
A historical note describes wind-built dunes along the Atlantic coast reaching five to forty feet, with much larger dune fields, from 100 to 200 feet, found in Bermuda and the Bahama region. The text highlights global dune heights and variations in dune landscapes.
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