Town notes from Maple Grove and Rubio area
Rural column recounts corn hauling costs at Homestead Farm, church and road camp scenes, crop yields, local farm life, and community visits in Maple Grove and Rubio. Mentions Dempsey-Firpo fight coverage, hospitalities at construction camps, and local shipping of cattle hogs and stock sales near Rubio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maple Grove
Jo Lushek
Ainsworth
Joe McClelland
Wellman
Joe
Evening Journal
English River
Salt Lake
Utah
Knight
Cook
Boss
Ed Ross
Galagher Bros
Jackson
Ed Gallagher
Chicago Board of Trade
Washington
Farmers Seek Dry Weather to Finish Corn Maturing
Wet conditions hinder field work as farmers in Brighton and nearby routes hope for dry days to finish filling and dry the corn crop. Mrs Jeanette Woodford Horton is pictured with a driving horse taking her to school at Richland while Lester Ingham travels with his aunt Mrs Rufus Alter to the Walcott farm in Clay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Grove
Elia Woodford
Fairfield
Wheelock
Wayne Savage
Richland
Phyllis Woodford
Parsons College
Lloyd Luers
Ruth Robinson
Clay
Wm Hoskins
Dickinson Brothers
Charlie
Bert
D. T. Gowey
Harmella
Lacy Cook
J. B. McCaleb
Bert Smith
Ed Singleton
Rubio
Fred Leppert
Rubio Telephone Co
Jeanette Woodford Horton
Lester Ingham
Rufus Alter
Walcott
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Davenport
Kenneth Donovan
Robert
A. J. Morgan
Emma Brockway Warner
Omaha
J. A. Laithly
Valley
D. W. Augustine
Brockway
Kansas
Oklahoma
J. A. Luithly
William
Wagner
F. R. Feltz
Jess Dennison
L. B. Luithly
Vivian
Webster
Morgans
Smitters
Nordykes
Earnest Norton
Jacob Rudolph
Texas
Brook‘thart
Dutch Creek
Rubio Shipping Association
William Gatten
Dyarmin Farm
Lloyd Kracaw
Virginia
Missouri
Skunk
van Gabby
Mayer
Floyd Derby
Rubio Banks
Dorothea Luithly
Eva Burnham
Congress
Iowa
State of Iowa
Orville Elder
Elder, Shannon & Co
R. E. Shannon
R. EB. Shannon
Bruce Cowden
Chas, J. Wilson
Brighton
Chicago
Usco Fabric Royal
Usco
U.S
White Way
Tucker & Kicher
T. C. Kyle Garage
Myself
Core
Glenn N. Barclay
Nancy Hall
Here
Boston
Pillsbury
Large Post Toasties
Kellogg’s
Post
Lewis Lye
Snell
Gansert’s Milk
Ade
Kiefer Pears
Swift
Swift's Premium
Empire
Barclay’ Cash Grocery S
Southwest Corner Square
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