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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1935
Page
2
The Farm Bureau denounces what it calls local propaganda aimed at undermining farmers support for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. It cites a student speaker and a traveling salesman as examples of misinformation.
Four H calves tested by Dr H E Aston pass the county test with no reactors. The calves were tub lin tested under the supervision of local officials from the Bureau of Animal Industry and the U S Department of Agriculture. The result signals strong health through this community effort.
A farm note stresses not to push four to go on finish feed for club calf shows. Rex Extension Animal Bandman advises sparing hay when calves are on short roughage and corn. He warns against overfeeding roughage and undersupplying protein with linseed meal or soy.
Dr F W Eastwood Rev 8 Williams Rev W W H ker Rev 8 F Wenger pastors attend Iowa City territory meeting. Rev Parker at Bethel and Cotter on dinner program. Col Mum house leased in Iowa City for redecorating before possession in September. Mrs Phil Crail returns to Columbus Junction from Newport Ill. Miss Fulton recovering from major operation. Wheat looks good but field conditions too wet to plow and harvest.
More than a million 1935 corn hog contracts are being prepared with about 186 million dollars in rental and benefit payments. State totals show 1,032,500 contracts in some stage of completion as of June 10, with the Corn Belt housing over three-quarters of participating farmers.
Harlan Bennett of Oak field Wisconsin visits sister Mrs H M Kelley for an extended stay. Ray Simpson family return to Maquoketa after Fourth with Albert Simpson’s parents in Washington. Ruth Wilson Simpson visits her in laws and George Fetters joins from nearby. Dale Holland of San Francisco plans a short stay with wife Jeanne and Janet here with Real and Holland relatives.
Dr John D Black Harvard economist outlines decentralizing the Agricultural Adjustment program and creating regional quotas based on soil maintenance and good farming practices. He argues for regional wheat cotton and other crop allocations to maximize national welfare and lower beef and pork costs. Pasture improvement tours set for Mt Pleasant July 11.
Local guardian Mrs George Dowell confirmed by long distance call that Campfive girls at Ledges state park Boone are safe after the storm and flood. Guardian notes the camp sits on high ground. George Canott of Ainsworth brought in a quart of Cumberland black raspberries, about 1000 quarts available.
Fifteen ladies gathered Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Frank Safourek's Riverside home for needlework and visiting. Mrs. Safourek, helped by Mrs. Maxine O Loughlin, served refreshments to the group.
D F Macon notes alfalfa three feet high on the Wag enknecht farm. Rye and volunteer wheat near Rubio reach about six feet, with buckwheat joining last year’s fail crop. C E Morgan, father of Mrs Maynard Kallaus of Washington, reports buckwheat and wheat coming up after drought.
At the business meeting slips were drawn for the date on which the members are to entertain the club during the year. Mrs. John Knittel will be hostess at the next meeting of the club on Thursday July 18. Several Cedar Rapids visitors were noted and local residents traveled for visits and work assignments with relatives and friends in town and nearby.
Mrs. C R Goodwin and Mrs. J H Kelley return from Old Monroe Missouri where they visited Mr and Mrs Frank Farris as the Farris home on the Mississippi faced rising water. They saw papaws and pecans grown there and note 10 bushels of pecans last year with 10 to 12 expected this year.
Mrs W S Kyle left July 3 for a visit at Aurora NL with sister Mrs Myrtle Miller. Another sister Mrs Lyda Dane of Indianola visited here and accompanied Mrs Kyle to Chicago. They plan to bring her back probably Sunday. Mr and Mrs Ray Walsh of Chicago came for the Fourth and a few days with Mr and Mrs Martin Whittaker, staying until Sunday.
The camel supports its weight on an elastic cushion under two elongated toes each with a nail like hoof. The foot does not rest on the hooves themselves but on the padded sole.
In San Mateo California a court case shows the historic Buri Buri rancho once covering the San Francisco peninsula shrinking to a single acre in Spanish California days.
A lion leaves a large circular pad mark with four or five small claw marks along one side.
A brief notice reports a missing box of candy between MecCleery Calendar Factory and a chocolate shop marked Nardy and Sodini in California. The incident outlines a loss location and parties involved.
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