Orleans Hotel Is Sold To Weatherys On Spirit Lake
The Orleans Hotel on Spirit Lake, long run by the Burnside family for 30 years, sold to Mr and Mrs F E Weatherly of Mason City and Clear Lake. Karl Burnside assisted at the closing, with transfer completed last Wednesday. The new owners will open the hotel and cafe on Saturday May 13 for fishing season. The sale includes the New Orleans Hotel dance pavilion cafe and oil station. Mrs Burnside retains her nearby home and summer cottage and will continue to summer there. The Burnside family history notes multiple prior hotels on the site dating back to 1883, with several fires and rebuilds shaping the current 20 room hotel. Changes planned include remodeling the dance pavilion and redecorating the cafe under the pavilion for a big orchestra.
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Orleans Hotel
Spirit Lake
Burnside
F. E. Weatherly
Mason City
Clear Lake
Karl Burnside
Kansas City
Mabel A. Burnside
New Orleans
Orleans
Action Photography Tips and 1939 Market Outlook
The article offers tricks to capture fast-moving subjects with any camera by shooting when objects approach or recede, keeping the subject centered, and snapping during brief pauses, plus notes on corn loan effects, butter and poultry markets, and egg production in 1939 with likely price trends.
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John van Guilder
Orleans cafe changes hands with expansion plans
The Orleans cafe new owners outline future growth including a dining room under the pavilion to serve convention groups. They list four grown children helping run the cafe pavilion hotel and service station. Laverne Miss Wilma Marvin and Marjorie return to Spirit Lake schools as juniors. Franklin age two is a son. Mr Weatherly remains with Iowa Hardware Mutual Insurance Co. and plans to continue in Northwest Iowa.
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Laverne
Miss Wilma
Marvin
Marjorie
Spirit Lake
Franklin
Weatherly
Iowa Hardware Mutual Insurance Co
Iowa Territory
Iowa farm price index slips in April amid war uncertainty
Iowa farm price index falls three points to 93 as of April 15, lowest since 1934 aside from last year’s Aug and Oct. Prices for hogs eggs lambs and butter drop while grain rises. cattle sheep and chickens steady. Buying power slides to 78 percent of the 1910-14 level mid-April with foreign demand outlook dim.
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Towa
Ames
Iowa
Iowa State
United States
Europe
England
Seattle
Calyx Spray Guidance for Apple and Plum Crops
Extension horticulturist S W Edgecombe urges timely calyx spray to control apple seab cooling moths and green fruit worms. Recommend 4 quarts liquid lime sulfur or 3 pounds dry lime sulfur with 3 pounds hydrated lime and 1.5 pounds lead arsenate per 50 gallons water. apply when 95 percent petals have fallen before calyx closes. Plums need 2 quarts liquid lime sulfur or 1.5 pounds dry lime sulfur with 3 pounds hydrated lime and 1.5 pounds lead arsenate per 50 gallons. three pounds wettable sulfur may replace lime sulfur. This treatment also targets brown rot and plum curculio, which were widespread in Iowa last year.
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S. W. Edgecombe
Edgecombe
Iowa
Spraying Regimen for Fruits to Prevent Brown Rot
Instructions describe spraying peaches with arsenate zinc sulfate and wettalle sulfur in water to combat brown rot and con Feulio. Cherries may use the same mixture and spraying schedule as peaches, with timing linked to husk fall.
Route 410000 motorists through Iowa this season
Conoco Travel Bureau estimates about 410000 motorists will be routed through Iowa this year with total expenditures around 40.9 million dollars. Thompson cites 19200000 in retail store spending, 8400000 in restaurants, 5200000 on lodging, 5200000 on gasoline and auto repairs, 3200000 on amusements, and 72400 on souvenirs and refreshments along the highways. He bases figures on 1938 routing and current traveler data, noting tourism is driven by scenery and recreation facilities. Mrs. RO. Rowland and Perene Manbeck visited Dr. and Mrs. Thos. Mann in Story City.
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Conoco Travel Bureau
Denver
Ovsr
Joe H. Thompson
Thompson
Ezcomw
Poe
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Co. E. Person
W. T. Schildenecht
DE. L. F. Hoffman Veterinarian
D-X
East Central Avenue
R. D. Thompson Chiropractor
Gaarde Bullamg
T. C. Mann
Ortheopathic
Sanborn
Citesnapshot
RO. Rowland
Perene Manbeck
Tingley
Mra. Thos. Mann
Mann
Mra
Taylor Sunday
Phil DeLong
Story City
Early Fortune
Waconia
Sudan
Atlas Sorgo
Hegaria
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