Consignment sale at Midway pavilion nets varied prices
On Tuesday at the Midway sale pavilion on the RR I Smylie property Columbus Junction Iowa 35 vaccinated brood sows sold from 12.25 to 16 with unvaccinated sows 11 to 13.25 shoats 4.55 to 5.20 calves 3.50 to 8.50 milk cows 25 to 32 and work horses 25 to 47 plus a six year old mare 120. Other items included a gang plow 27.50 15 bushels of Yellow Dent corn 1 a bushel harness 12 per set and assorted goods. Next sale April 19.
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Columbus Junction
Midway Sale Pavilion
RR. I. Smylie
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
H. Lee Huston
Approve Road Work The Lou Isa County Board Action
The board of approval of Lou Isa county votes to authorize road work projects. Officials cite needed improvements and funding for resurfacing in multiple townships. Public works departments prepare schedules, with final bids to be reviewed by month’s end.
County road program outlines 1932 trunk system works
County supervisors and township reps adopt 1932 plan including 17.8 miles of road standardization and 2.5 miles gravel surfacing. Trunk system improvements cover 11.64 miles gravel surfacing and 3 miles second coat gravel with specific bridge and grade work from Morning Sun to Dan Barrack corner and Columbus City south to Wapello Winfield road. Funeral notices and society meetings follow with local residents named.
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Board of Supervisors
Morning Sun
Dan Barrack
Wapello- Winfield County
Columbus City
Wapello Winfield Road
Enke Corner
Wyman
Washington County
Oakland Township
Conesville-Lone ‘Tree County
Where Blast Killed Five Reaney
Mr and Mrs J L Mulhern of Galesburg Ill visited the first of the week with Miss Anna Mulhern and Mr and Mrs J A Mulhern Miss Muda Acheson has returned from Washington where she spent the winter with her cousin Miss Jennie Fleming The Concord township farm bureau held the April meeting Friday evening at the home of S G Blankenhorn The program was in charge of Hugh Newell and included music a talk on County Financial Affairs by Fred M Outcamp and movies in charge of Robert M Davie Louisa county agent Mrs I J Yohe and Mrs Martha Wright of Mediapolis visited this week at the John Zion home Miss Mildred Thompson has returned to Clear Lake where she teaches in the grade school after spending the last week at her home near here
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Fred M. Outcamp
Robert M. Davie
Louisa County
I. J. Yohe
Martha Wright
Mediapolis
John Zion
Cigar Band History Recalls Cuban Tobacco Heritage
Visitors to Cuba learn of the island’s tobacco bounty and how the cigar band protected fashionable ladies from staining their fingers as cigars became a symbol of style and status in earlier years.
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Cuba
Pioneer Balloonist and the Early Lift in Paris
The first authentic account of a man raised in the air comes from Paris on October 15, 1873 when Pilatre de Rozier ascended 80 feet in a balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers.
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Paris
Pilatre de Rozier
Montgolfier Brothers
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Martha Butler
Board of Approval of
Morrison
The
Nancy Rowe
Dolly Madison
United States
White House
Morrison Phillips & Hebner’s North Side Cafe
Lemmon
McDaniel
Iowa
John Adamson
Louisa Center Baptist Church
W. A. Lamp
Wapallo
Adamson
Rose Anna Rawmiller
Myron Dailey
Wapello
Viola Adamson
George Coulton
J. J. Cutcomp
Hilton Pretz
Louis Cutcomp
William
Herman Rahmiller
Concord Charity Circle
Rudolph Schilichting
Whatsoever Society
Methodist Church
G. W. Weber
J. E
Evening Journal
Oy Yi
Ae i
Liecett & Myers Tosacco Co
Mildred Thompson
Clear Lake
Here
Springfield
Mass
Mrs. Rowe
Wolf Floral CO
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