Kalona Families Head to Holland for Mennonite Relief
Kalona residents Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Ropp and Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Brenneman departed Sept. 12 for New York and then Holland to visit their two sons aiding Mennonite relief work. Other local notes cover school enrollment, recent sales, car purchases, and residents visiting kin across the Midwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Guengerich
Kalona
Solomon Ropp
Ephriam Brenneman
New York
Holland
Herman Ropp
Virgil Brenneman
D. D. Davis
Sarah
Washington
J. R. Swartzendruber
S. W. Ford
Inglewood
Calif
Cash prize total announced for all classes this year
The event will award $100,090 in cash prizes across all classes with a closing entry date set for November 1.
Meat per capita consumption in the United States
U S meat intake is 153 pounds per person including 71 beef 10 veal 6 lamb and 66 pork. New Zealand leads with 321 pounds followed by Argentina at 300 and Australia at 205 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New Zealand
Argentina
Australia
Local social notes recount visits and events in small Iowa towns
The column lists multiple guests and family visits across towns like Waterloo Mediapolis and Webster City. It notes travel from Coalville Utah and Kohola Hawaii, school openings, pre wedding events, fairs and patrols, with mentions of local families and farm visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Bigelow
Coalville
Utah
John Bigelow
A. A. Jackson
Mediapolis
J. R. Swartzendruber
Ray Tyle
Harry Dawson
Stuart, Minn
L. E. Southwick
Harry Grant
Jim Graut
Lloyd Bayer
Wooley Visit Rhodebeck Family in Young America
Mr and Mrs Jim Wooley of Ottumwa spent Friday with the Claude Rhodebeck family and attended the festival. Claude Rhodebeck attended a Shrine meeting in Peoria. Frank Pringle fell from a horse and is recovering while Lloyd Simons recuperates from an appendectomy and can attend school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darlene
Lois Humston
Marjorie Benson
Clarence Dodson
Fairview
Ill
Wm. Bell
Exposition Committee
White Horse Patrol
Donnie Joe Miller
Lloyd Humston
Lloyd Huston
Jim Wooley
Ottumwa
Claude Rhodebeck
Leo Beauchamp
Glen
Peoria
Iil
Leland Pringle
Judy
Krause
Springville
Frank Pringle
Cloyee Pringle
Rock Island
Burl Pringle
What
Lloyd Simons
Stewart
Richard Ohden
Doyle
Director named to supervise six Iowa mental hospitals
Dr. Charles C. Graves Jr a Marlboro New Jersey native and University of Iowa graduate will become director of Iowa six mental institutions effective October 15 according to P F Hopkins chairman of the state board of control. Graves currently serves as clinical director and is to take over management of the six facilities in Des Moines and surrounding area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Charles C. Graves, Jr
Marlboro
N. J
University of Iowa
Iowa
P. F. Hopkins
State Board of Control
Graves
Clarinda
Cherokee
Independence
Mount Pleasant
Glenwood
Woodward
General Assembly
Board of Control
Episcopal Theology School
Cambridge
Mass
Medical College
Virginia
Iowa Farm Hands See Wage Rise on Strong Detasseling Demand
Ames reports Iowa farm workers earned an average of 7.00 dollars per day without board in August, up 50 cents from July, driven by strong seasonal labor demand especially in detasseling. Office placements reached 20,176 with most hires being youths. out-of-state requests for 2,700 workers noted this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa
John R. Fitzsimmons
Fitzsimmons
Farm Labor Office
Keswick Girl Buoys Entries for 1947 Livestock Show
Phyllis Bonnater a 15 year old Keswick Iowa 4 H member plans entries for the international Live Stock exposition to be held Nov 29 to Dec 6 1947 at Chicago She won last year with a 1260 pound Hereford steer later sold for 450 a pound This year she will show an Aberdeen Angus and a Hereford in the junior livestock feeding contest involving 4 H and vocational agriculture youths and their steers lambs and hogs Show officials note a total further details awaited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Phyllis Bonnater
Keswick
Iowa
Phyllis
Community and farm sales listed for September and October
Weekly Friday sale at Whittaker sale barn and Wednesday livestock sales at Midway Sales Company in Columbus Junction Iowa. September 25 Trier’s Annual Dairy sale at Keota. September 27 closing out sale of household goods 606 South Marion starts 1 30. O BE Campbell. September 29 closing out sale of farm crop livestock machinery 6 miles NW of Brighton first house south of McKain bridge starts 11 00 C L Brown. October 2 purebred Duroc fall Boar and Gilt sale midway between Washington and Riverside Knotek Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittaker
Midway Sales Company
Columbus
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cookie
Ropps and
Brennemans
East Kalona
Chester Miller
Monroe Yoder
John J. Yoder
Phillips Service Station
Robert Snyder
Okla
George Gingerich
Snyder
Lafayette
Ind
Purdue University
Wm. Fry
Boulter
Colo
Ned Fry
Wichita
Kan
J. L. Fry
Cedarville
Gail Fry
Buckeye
Ariz
Ainsworth
Ralph Miller
Delmar Schlabaugh
Iowa Oil Jobberys Association
L. R. Feldman
Roscoe Feldman
William Kauffman
Bayport
Mich
John Gingerich
Herman Smucker
E. H. Reif
Colorado
PTT
P.A.G
Pfister
Walden Farm
Keota, Iowa
Ross Davisson
Welman
Lewis C. Ropp
W. O. Thomann
Riverside
Edward H. Beranek
Doyle Palmer
Wellman
George E. Shalla
Charley KL. Harvey
Keota
Otto Novy
Grant Hamston
Wastington
J. W. Sommer
Crawfordsville
R. Conrad
Brighton
Eugene Baker
Libertyville
Washington County
Washigton
Henry County
S. W
Swedesburg
Madison Street
Rayburn Land CO
East Side Square
Blondie
Chic Young
Dagwood
Upstairs In Journal
Knox Ville
Allen Atkinson
Baby
Grant Humston
Emma Humston
Young America
Misa Lorene Booth
Wm Bell
Black Hills
Wyoming
Rocky Mt. National Park
Darlene Humston
Seth Roth
Wayland
T. H. Luckenbill
Lester Luckenbill
E. E. Neal
Prof
Neal
Springfield
Eula Cherry
Kenilworth
George Masson
Anna O'’Loughlin
Dr. Kuramoto
Webster City
Hamilton County
Will Marie, Jr
Iowa City
Carol Ann Wolfe
Eldon
Nicola
Feed & Grain
West Chester
Lowa
Adlerika
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Journal
Knotek Bros
Superior Bottled Gas Service
John Bligk
PowerAhe
Glo Paints
Ford
Riverside Drive
McAllister
McAllister Seed Farms
Mt. Union
Walter Nicholson
South Second Ave
Call
Limestone
Willis Richards
Ward A. Edwards
Marion
Brown
Brown Finance Co
Court House
W. Masse
Armstrong
Gorham
4Th Ave
Barden Insulation Service
Call C. E. Clark
South Ave
W.L
Col
George Transfer
Washington Dairy
Handy Square
Delfery
Washington Concrete Co
12Th St
Pioneer
Reister
Creamery
Hatchery
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