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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1923
Page
6
Classified help wanted notices for various positions including bakers clerks waitresses cooks and salespeople with locations in Waterloo Iowa and associated employers like Campbell Baking Co Searidge Sales Co and Waterloo Courier also rental and real estate listings mixed in with used car and auction notices in a dense early 20th century page format
An editor note from the Brewing Courier in Waterloo Iowa invites readers to comment on farmers plans. The communication address is provided for responses and feedback to the editor Fain of the department and publication.
Anamosa Iowa report notes Black Hawk County Holstein Breeders' association showing at the fair with four firsts four seconds and two thirds across 10 classes. Animals from Larson Shows and O L Hamer and others are listed with several top placements in aged two year and yearling categories. The herd will next show at Marion next week with T E Stanton assisting.
Black Hawk County records show Mrs. O Gaffin Cedar Falls top in Wyandottes with 49 hens producing 55.2 percent and Mrs E H Snavely Waterloo leading Leghorns with 392 eggs at 50.6 percent amid broader dairy and livestock auction notes, local obits and community notices.
New Hartford column lists residents visiting relatives, motor trips to Canada and Minnesota, and family milestones. Several families, including Englebretsons, Marquis, Wadell, and Cortners, take trips. births and home visits highlighted amid weathered farm life and threshing season.
Gedur Falls Aug 10 George Call who has run a threshing machine in the area for 26 years pulled his outfit under cover for the season. He worked five days this year with yields from 35 to 60 bushels per acre and an average of 46. The best yield occurred at W. J. Clark's place west of Teachers College, where George Crosby farmed. Crosby, a mute, came from Tama county and rotates crops. In 1922 he plowed sod and grew corn with good results, this spring oats were planted with promising yields.
Marble Rock residents recall a Black Hills trip ending with return home. Miss Hazel Manchester hired to teach seventh and eighth grades. The funeral for Donald Fullman, drowned on Saturday, was held at home with Rev. Carl Smith presiding. Community members welcomed Mrs. Smith and shared ice cream and cake at the parsonage. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Arhart. Shipped stock totaled eleven cars to Chicago. get-together club hosted at Oscar Jewell’s. couples observed a wedding between Gall Heft and Lee Lamb at the MBS parsonage. Memorial services for the late president planned in the opera house with J. A. McMillan as speaker. Linden notes include visits to Webster City and a class sociable at the church. Minor Standard Bearers meeting postponed.
Mrs. Fred Hersey of Grundy County in Beaver town reports a top flock in Iowa for June. Her 155 birds laid 3,540 eggs, about 761 percent production per hen, while Iowa’s poultry record flocks numbered over 70,000 hens with $23,272.56 receipts and $15,502.44 balance, reflecting profitable yet culled operations as farmers focus on quality and culling.
In Fredericksville Reinbeck Aug 10 Carl R Backens faced a loss when extreme heat killed 26 pigs in a pasture near his farm. An airplane and observers noted the hot day while threshers prepared machinery. Delos Triplett and others corresponded to the farm scene as the pig herd perished. Harry Upham was named postmaster at St Josephs hospital area. Rex and Mrs Joseph Warton planned a vacation at Clear Lake.
Iowa farmers invited to Ames for a week long crop tour at the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station open house August 10 to 16. The event replaces a single day open house to avoid weather conflicts and will showcase soybean variety tests with 138 kinds and other new legume experiments.
Entries for the Delaware County Fair in Manchester Indiana will close two weeks from today. The exposition opens August 28 for four days with livestock grain and other products on display. A novelty feature debuts the first day while Mississippi Valley league teams Waterloo and Cedar Rapids meet in Cedar Rapids, replacing former automobile races.
Invitation received by B S Estes manager of the Iowa exposition to attend the Midwest excursion of the World Dairy Congress next month. Ireland will be represented by Prof. Drew of National University Dublin and A P Wilson chief inspector of dairying for Ireland.
A fragmented passage notes the sturgeon fish of the West Ine diet and a claim about Victoria in Africa as the world’s second largest freshwater lake that is nearly circular. The text blends odd claims with geographic references and lacks clear news events.
The largest sunflower in Waterloo grows as a single plant about 15 feet tall with a bloom roughly one foot in diameter. It sprang up without planting or special care in the yard of R C Akin at 712 Eleventh Street West, towering over other sunflowers with enormous leaves.
Receipts for hogs total 146 000 with 10 cent declines from yesterday for active feeders and best hogs. Steers top at 11 85 while mature and veal prices show slight softness. Sheep receipts around 4 000 with fat lambs strong and butchers paying 12 50 to 12 70, sheep scarce and steady.
Miss Amber Davis and Joe Pentony wed at the bride’s Manchester home Tuesday afternoon officiated by Rev. W W Carlton. They will travel to La Grange where Mr Pentony is employed. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs N E Davis, has been deputy county auditor. he is son of former Sheriff J 3 Pentony and served as deputy sheriff and in the world war. A Sunday school camp for boys near Delhi August 15 18 is being organized by T J Platt for ages up to 13 with Delaware County Sunday School association backing. Illinois Central railroad plans to pave the street behind its station this summer, per city clerk Ralph Milroy.
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