Few Such Artisans Left Horseshoeing His Trade
Dick Morris of South English is one of the area’s last practicing farriers, using a portable electric forge at the Washington County fairgrounds to shoe horses for clients. He learned from Paul Hackett, began at 16, and has faced hazards like being kicked or stepped on. Besides shoing, he works as a rodeo judge, Hereford farmer, and enjoys trail riding with family. He’s an International Rodeo Association member with rodeo contracts May to September, weeks spent camping with wife Jean and children Ricky, Barbara, and Jane as the Harris family shares a love of horses.
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Dick Harris
South English Shoes
Washington County Fair
Harris
Missouri
Ilinois
Dick Morris
Washington County
Paul Hackett
Jean
Ricky
Barbara
Jane
Arbogast Promoted to Specialist Four in Korea
Daniel J. Arbogast twenty two and married to Alice lives Route 2 Brigh ton Iowa promoted to specialist four on July 20 in Korea where he serves as an intelligence operations specialist with the 4th U S Army Missile Command. He entered the Army in May 1965, trained at Fort Leonard Wood, arrived overseas last October, attended Wayland High School and worked for River Products Co Iowa City before enlisting. His parents Mr and Mrs James L Arbogast live Route 2 Box 73 Wayland.
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U.S. Army
Korea
Daniel J. Arbogast
Alice
Route 2
Brighon
Towa
4Th
U.S. Army Missile Command
Arbogast
Army
Fort Leonard Wood
Wayland High School
River Products Co
Iowa City
James L. Arbogast
Box
Wayland
Washington County Fair hosts crowd at horse show results
Near capacity crowd at Fair A Washington County fairgrounds Thursday night attended the annual horse show ending the Washington County Fair. Open divisions list winners from Open Pony to Five Gaited with riders and owners including Terry Wright Kathy Mayerhofer Sue Rathjen Conn ie DeWolfe and Edith Glenn among others across disciplines such as Clover Leaf Pony Roadster and Stock Horse.
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Washington County Fair
Lahona
Terry
Wright
Iowa
Pistol Pete
Kathy Mayerho
Sue Rathjen
Marengo
Prince
Connie DeWolfe
Keota
Goldie
Terry Hollingsworth
Ottumwa
Sth
Ricky Lasche
Dubuque
Sherburne Re-Elected Co-Op Director for 30 Years
Frank Sherburne of Lone Tree was unanimously re-elected to a 30 year term as director of Eastern Town Light and Power Cooperative at the 1966 District Four meeting held Wednesday night in Lone Tree. A key organizer for Johnson county rural electric service in the 1930s, he has long served as a director of the East.
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Frank Sherburne
Lone Tree
Eastern Town Light and Power Cooperative
Sherburne
Johnson County
East
Mid-Prairie board hires teachers and staff
Mid-Prairie Community School District approved contracts for three teachers in a July special session. Paul W. Miller will teach fifth grade at Wellman Elementary, Rosemarie Chance becomes Junior High Guidance Counselor and coach, and Barbara Deets is hired as Junior High English for 1966-67. Bus drivers Wayne Robinson and Earl Griggs also contracted. A full-time elementary instrumental instructor was approved to serve Junior High and two elementary schools. Preliminary approval given to the 1966-67 budget of 1,129,445 dollars, up from last year due to district enlargement of about 75 square miles and enrollment growth. an extra 587 students expected. Major expenditures include 621,245 for instructional costs, 113,325 for operations and maintenance, 70,955 for pupil transportation, 43,450 for capital outlay, and 79,495 from the schoolhouse fund for bond principal and interest. Assessed valuation projected at 17,500,000, with a levy of 50.93 mills versus 53.146 now, a 2.216 mill tax decrease. The Lone Tree district meeting drew 217 attendees as General Manager F. E. Fair outlined district improvements and upcoming projects, noting the Salisbury substation near Salisbury bridge to aid western Muscatine and southwestern Cedar counties, plus two miles of new three-phase line north from Lone Tree and planned extensions. Grand door prize went to Charles Hotz of Lone Tree. other winners listed. In Chicopee, Mass., a band member who is blind received notable applause for perseverance during football season, highlighting William Wesloski Jr.’s recognition.
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Mid - Prairie Community School District
Ern Iowa Cooperative
Lone Tree
F. E. Fair
Ainsworth
Charles Hotz
Merritt Yeggy
Edgar Schwartzendruber
Riverside
Leroy Kasper
Keneth Musser
Iowa City
Donald Swailes
Gerald Wade
Kalona
John Kirkpatrick
Donald Kasper
Laurence Salemink
Nichols
Forest Maxwell
Conesville
Mearl Enfield
Wellman
Wayne Burr
Frank Sherburne
Shafter Walker
Doris Forbes
John Ret Behn
Virgil Vetter
George Meyers
West Liberty
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Tom Kunel
The
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CCC
Washington Asc County Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
United States Department of Agriculture
Butler
Washington
15Th St
2Nd Ave
CDSC
ASCS
W. Jefferson
Funai Lins
USC County Committee
Hank Ketcham
Gary Bader
Tim Price
Fairfield
Ron Reichart
Bob Meinke
Davenport
Towa Sth
Bobby Hammes
Edith Glenn
Marian Watters
Waterloo
Harnesist
Rus Davis
Cedar Rapids, la
Bill Burton
West Branch
Ricky Reichart
Steve Pedersen
Ladd
Tip
Price
Coal Valley
IWA
Kathy Mayerhofer
Durant
Les Pearson
Story City
Osage
Eddie
Mary Plemone
Indiano A
Paula King
Wesley Knippel
Cedar Rapids
Big Ben
Bus Yoder
Thornburg
Stan the Man
Bernadine Mings
Roseville
Bouncing Betty
Donna McKinzie
Louisville
Kentucky
Cindy Dawson
Jim Hootman
John Lasche
Ace
Pinky Lee
Harold Rauch
Town
Mr. Bimbo
Dallas Mayferhofer
Morrie Tinnis
Lloyd Augustine
Gib Hollingsworth
L. Augustine
Hank Brenneman
Peru
Linda Ann Smith
Des Moines
Karen Watters
Jim King Dawson
Sue Heap
Bill Glenn
Osage Eddie
Vickie Kinsey
Indianola
Cindy Carney
Des Moine, A
van Woert
Marion, Ta
Tennessee Waixer
Dwight Heltibridle
Grundy Center
F. W. Schoebelen
John Neighbour
Chariton
Robert Carney
A. B. Scharff
Don Shaffer
Wesley Knipple
R. B. Porter
Stronghurst
Diamond Norfleet
Topper
Cleo Pedersen
Easy Pine
Fred Peeters
Buck
Lester Flanders
Eddyville
Jan Evans
Evening Journal
Mid-Prairie Board
Wayne Robinson
Earl Griggs
Chicopee
Mass
William Wesloski Jr
James A. Redlinger
R. R
G. Michael Koehler
Charles Cleo Trier
Sharon Stumpf
Charles Kennedy
South
Louis J. Kehoe
Livingston, Day, Meeker & Bates
Robert Day
Everett Meeker
Robert Bates
West Main St
John C. Owen
West Washington
South Side Square
Stewart & Shearer
Attorneys At Law
Richard A Stewart
Paul V. Shearer
West Main
M L
Tweeton
Marion
P. L. Etter
Osteopathic Physician Journal
John W. Lemmon
D. D
South Iowa
Christian Tabernacle
L. B. Eicher
Dentist New Professional Building
West Second Street
Encyclopedia Britannica
Floyd Croe
Owen Roth
Jim Soukup
Dick Weeks
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