Neighbors Tour Farming Gear and Family News
The note highlights excitement over a small tractor and a new washing machine, plus visits to neighbors the Shallas. It recounts cattle trips to Chicago with Duane Shalla guiding his son Larry, walnut furniture projects, barber-trade training updates, and a Lake Odessa boat outing with a notable six pound bass catch.
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Ducne Shalla
Larry
Duane
Chicago
LeRoy
Robert Havel
Lake Odessa
Martin Kron
Weeks Tractor Draws Crowd on Garden Tractor
From The Heights we read of the man of house testing a small garden tractor with a one and a half horsepower motor. A makeshift trailer supports the operator as it draws a load, drawing curious visits from neighbors eager to hear about its possibilities for the three acre plot.
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Dewey Weeks
the Heights
Mother Nature
Willie
Santa
Just a Farm named on a Crawfordsville barn inspires locals
Crawfordsville April 29. A rural column notes a barn bearing the sign Just a Farm. Readers share weekend fishing for catfish and a push to plant before rain. Mr and Mrs Fred Riggs of Rock Island visited Chester Spangler and Al Raymond homes. Georgia Williams and Wayne attended Walt Whitman’s band in Davenport. a senior class play The Campbells drew a large crowd.
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J. A. Raymond
Crawfordsville
Green Acres
Pleasant View
Lone Pine
Raymonds
Fred Riggs
Rock Island
Chester Spangler
Jess Raymond
Chanel
al Raymond
Georgia Williams
Wayne
Davenport
Walt Whiteman
The
Campbells
Hogs Cattle Sheep Grain Figures From Chicago Market
Chicago May 1 livestock and grain market recap shows hogs 8 500 head with prices down 75 cents to 1.25, cattle 6 000 with steers at 25 26.25, vealers to 24, sheep 5 000 with lambs 22 23.5 and woolskins 21 22, grain futures mixed with wheat May around 264 262 and corn July around 167, oats May about 89. Produce unsettled hens and fryers priced, cash grain sales report nominally higher for corn and oats.
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Chicago
USDA
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Monarch
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Gamble
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U. S
Eclipse Lumber Company
Nicola & Harmon
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Coronado
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Ethan In
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Kiple & DePrenger Furniture Co
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Earl Griggs
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Robert Yeggy
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M Hott
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Fenn Paint and Paper Service
Lawrence F. McNeal
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Long & Hotle
White Rock Chicks
Ramseyer’s Hatchery
Ted Crone
East
Russell Skinner
O. K
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Stewart & Crone
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Lankage
Morrell and
Wilson
Farmer's
Green Top and
Acme
Farmer's Store
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Wwe
Roy Kallous
Clem Shalla
Dale Dawe
Letitlia Te Bockhorst
Phronia Shalla
Emma Bopp
Kate Shalla
Paul Kern
Irv Gallagher
Duane Shalla
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Wort
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Roy Havel
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Gary Neal
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Cedar Rapids
Ed Prebyl
Don Satorek
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Chicago Cash Grain
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Whittaker
Midway Sales Company
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C.O.C
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