Ainsworth High News Letter Builds Local Paper
KE R Butterworth started the Ainsworth News Letter 11 years ago. The mimeographed paper includes town news, editorials, and ads, serving all 200 students and local residents. This year 12 seniors graduate, with a senior alumni edition planned for May 9 featuring class activities and letters.
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Ainsworth
Ainsworth High School
KE. R. Butterworth
Geneva Jolly Aller
Donna Rabenold
John Koehler, Jr
Koehler
Helen Pearson
Mildred
Glee Club
Early Ainsworth Sagas and Rails of a Free Ride Fiasco
Ainsworth residents recall the 1850s free round trip scheme tied to Rock Island’s Washington Davenport branch. Crowded Washington filled the train. Ainsworth riders were left waiting, sparking communal humor and minor fuel for mischief. The town, now a thriving community with a 60-student high school and a 4,000 population, built a water system, weathered two great fires, and maintains a volunteer fire department and a 200-subscriber telephone service.
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Doris Canott
Mildred Pressly
Connie Stephens
Lois Fitzgerald
Daryl “Grit” Pearson
Martha McGinnis
Edith Jolly
Br. R. Butterworth
Ainsworth High School
Ainsworth
Washington
Davenport
Rock Island
United Presbyterian Church
D. H. Ainsworth
Lillian Simpson
Vera
long-Mingis Telephone Company
Central Electric and Telephone Company
Sioux City
Flaxseed Production Doubles in 1940 Boosting U.S. Supply
United States flaxseed production doubled from 1939 to 1940, reducing the import volume needed from other nations as farmers expanded acreage and yields.
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United States
Soil Building Pays Farmers Seeding 37 073 Acres in Tea Dover
County AAA reports Washington county farmers receiving soil building payments for 37 073.41 acres in Lodi during the period. Fourteen practices listed include seeding permanent grasses reseeding pasture building dams planting for rest trees and waterways with various acreages and pounds of materials to improve soil conservation.
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Teadover
County Aaa
Washington County
Lodi
Beekeeping Course Scheduled in May at State College
A short course for Iowa beekeepers will be offered at Iowa State College in Ames on May 15 and 16. Chief speaker will be L. K. E. Lloyd, provincial apiarist at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, who will lecture on package bees. Other speakers include G. H. Gale editor of the American Bee Journal, John G. Jessup of Council Bluffs, and F. B. Paddock, state apiarist at Ames, with talks on honey production, disease control, and new beekeeping developments.
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Iowa
Iowa State College
Ames
L. K E. Lloyd
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg
Canada
G. H. Gale
American Bee Journal
John G. Jessup
Council Bluffs
F. B
New Iowa Sweet Corn Proves Superior Hybrid
Ioana a golden sweet corn developed by E S Haber at the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station in Ames consistently outyielding Golden Bantam by 60 to 80 percent in tests. The hybrid released three years ago is resistant to smut and bacterial wilt and matures 7 to 10 days later, earning an American Seed Trade Association medal for performance and adaptability.
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Ioana
E. S. Haber
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Ames
American Seed Trade Association
Free mattress programs spread across North Carolina
A survey by Ruth Current state home agent at North Carolina State College shows free mattress programs for low income farm families now operating in 1 472 North Carolina communities.
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Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina
Ruth Current
North Carolina State College
Farm Program Use of Liming and Fertilizer in 1939
Farmers in the 1939 AAA program used nearly 5.8 million tons of liming material and about 0.64 million tons of superphosphate to improve hay and pasture lands, reflecting substantial soil improving efforts under federal policy.
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AAA
Ex Showman Trains Cast For Voolvil
Ex showman Lee Norris of Ainsworth recounts his 20 plus years in show business from baking ice cream cones at a carnival to managing a local medicine show in Riverside and later leading a minstrel style production in Ainsworth. He lists affiliations with American Circus Hagenbeck and Wallace Keith Vaudeville Shrine Circus and notes radio and cinema have hurt live shows.
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Ainsworth
Lee Norris
Mr. Norris
Riverside
Carnival
Norris
American Circus Company
Hagenbeck and Wallace Circus
Keith Time Vaudeville
Shrine Circus
Toby Tyler
Astoria's Turbulent Early Court and Slaughter County Origins
In the Iowa Territory era, the area around Astoria in Oregon Township formed Slaughter county with little law or population. Early deeds describe a courthouse improvised under a tree, a 1837 settler Goble and family, a Pottsville post office, and a Masonic lodge fundraiser as Washington County was established.
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Ainsworth
Iowa
Wisconsin
Washington County
Louisa
Henry
Slaughter
Hill
Randolf
Hughes
Astoria
Oregon Township
Slaughter County
John C. Ellis
David Goble
Oli
Sweet
Oregon
Iaste
Simps Goble
Cou
Potts
Pottsville Po
Washinete
Washington
J. L. L. Terry
Geble
Walker
Kansas
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Daryl Pearson
Grit
Eldon Conry
Hazel Hunt
Estalene Bradford
Mary Lee Richards
John Walker
Ruth Powers
Sam Canott
Mr. Butterworth
Erma Pressly Kilpatrick
Clarion
Maryreth Pressly
Cook County Hospital
Chicago
High School ‘Newsletter’ Publishers
State College
New Iowa
H.d.brown
Phanbing
Allis-Chalmers
Goodrich
Diamond Tank Wagon Service
Hazelett Brothers
D-X Service
Voolvil
Gamasing
LES Tire
Community Standard Service
Phono
Hunt
Meat & Locker
Birdseye
Columbus Junction
Astoria Court
Masonic Order
Shamrock
Luella Schnoebelen
Imine
Standard Oil Service
E.j.evans
Pittsburgh
Sands’ Store
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