Soil Stewardship Week underscores national water and soil care
Soil Stewardship Week opens nationwide with ecumenical church services. Theme history covers water, soil, and resource stewardship since 1956. Iowa leads in conservation districts with 100 of 2,000. county leaders Harold Gamon, Larry Shalla, and Guy Stacy cited. Rising farm costs and meat prices, cattle and hog market notes, and May 15 nomination deadlines for Iowa Master Pork and Lamb Producers highlighted.
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America
National Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Iowa
Hawkeye
4 H Activities At Franklin Cubs And Jackson Boys Clubs
The Franklin Cubs 4 H Club met at West Chester Methodist Church with 20 members two leaders and two guests. Roll call asked for a beef product besides meat. Ralph Hole spoke on favorite rabbit breed and Tom Dawson explained how 4 H Council works. Demonstrations included Spit Shine by Fritz Engel and Tender Parts of the Beef by Randy Goeke. The Jackson Boys 4 H Club met with Matt Sojka two leaders and two guests. Roll call asked for favorite meat for grilling or barbecuing. Tom Berdo spoke on Wanted Tender Meat Cut Only and Dan Wheelan on Be a Fire Watcher. Tom Wheelan demoed Handy Barbecue Equipment and David Duensing did Can and Foil Cookery. A club tour planned for June 12. Refreshments were served by the hostess.
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Franklin Cubs
4-H
West Chester Methodist Church
Ralph Hole
Tom Dawson
4-H Council
Fritz Engel
Randy Goeke
Jackson Boys 4-H Club
Matt Sojka
Tom Berdo
Dan Wheelan
Tom Wheelan
David Duensing
Local Medical Professionals listings and contacts
Edmund D. Morrison Jr James E. Lloyd practice at 211 West Washington St with phone 653-5431 Dr M L Tweeton at 108 North Marion with phone 653-2351. Maplewood Manor Nursing Home invites inquiries from out of town with no waiting list at Keota 636-3400. Dr P L Etter osteopathic physician lists Journal Blog phone 653-3303. Closed Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.
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M. L. Tweeton
North Marion
Maplewood Manor
Keota
P. L. Etter
Osteopathic
Sheep clinic set for 4-H members
4 H sheep project members and parents are invited to a Sheep Improvement Clinic on Wednesday May 21 at the Ram Testing Station near Ely. Rich Johnson Extension 4 H leader requests RSVP by May 19. Jack Worley will explain station operations and goals. Tom Wickersham and Andy Boston along with Worley will present a live animal demonstration on profitable wethers rams and ewes. Lamb carcass slides and a carcass estimation session follow with lambs slaughtered for data. The event occurs one quarter mile east of Ely fourteen miles north of Iowa City at the testing station.
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Chicago
USDA
St. Louis
Iowa Master Pork Producers
Iowa
Washington
Iowa Swine Producers Association
State House
Des Moines
Emmett Stevermer
Iowa State University
Ames
Tom Wickersham
ISA
Dewey Jontz
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Ram
Ely
Rich Johnson
Jack Worley
Andy Boston
Mr. Worley
Iowa City
Presbytery Meets in Southeast Iowa With Local Attendees
Bethel residents Maurice Alvine Donald Zwicki and Rev Milan Thompson attend the Presbytery of Southeast Iowa morning session at Marion Ave Church in Washington. The event’s theme is Called to the Saints Together as locals report on church activities and community visits amid spring planting and rain delays.
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Bethel
Iowa
First Presbyterian Church
Washington
W. H. Kettlitz
Keokuk
General Assembly
Des Moines
May
Marion Ave
Maurice Alvine
Donald Zwicki
Milan Thompsons
Erwin Wulf
Dean Sandburg
May Gideon
Charley Kolesick
Trav
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Jackson Boys
Livingston, Day, Kehoe, Meeker
BATES
Robert Day
Louis J. Kehoe
Everett Meeker
Robert Bates
South Ave
John C. Owen
West Washington
South Side Square
Stewart & Shearer
Attorneys At Law
Richard A. Stewart
Paul V. Shearer
West Main
Production Credit Association
North Iowa
Melvin Schneider
AIG
Peese
Lea
Insurance Plan Savings & Loan Ass’n
The
State Theater
By Ruth Gideon
Kolosick
Plecker Farm
Ray Niffeneggers
Lena Schmitts
John Hughes
Harold Wilson
George Horn
Carl Havel
Bill Stout
P. S
Narrow
Washington Lumber Company
Bob Stevenson
Washington, Iowa
Sioux City
American Hospital Association
National Association of Blue Shield Plans
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