Real estate deals hinge on Cedar Falls summer moves
In Cedar Falls Miss Julian and Mrs Iris Branagan buy the Guthrie home at 1924 Olive and the Hobart Brown residence at 804 Olive. Earl Farr of Dubuque purchases the Harriett ONeill home at 2117 Tremont. Possession set for Sept 1. Cedar Falls News notes fishing feats by Karl Nolte and wind damage in Dubuque. School board plans year end actions and athletic director replacement. Funeral for Mrs Madora Hammond held. Rev Dirgelman and family set for travel and church service changes.
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Courier
Cedar Falls
Julian, Kirkwood
Iris Branagan
State Teachers College
Art Department
Andrew 8. Guthrie
Olive Street
Hobart Brown
Earl Farr
Dubuque
Hawks
Harriett O'Neill
Tremont Street
Buchanan County Sells $300000 Bonds on July 16
Buchanan County will sell $300,000 in primary road bonds on Tuesday July 16 to fund paving on highway No. 11 south of Independence. Bond issue remains from a prior $1,000,000 program with about $200,000 still available after paving is finished.
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Buchanan County
Couriar
Dorothy Raffauf
Buchanan
No Parking Signs Planned Near John Deere Plant
City plans to install 87 no parking signs along Fulls Avenue near the John Deere plant. Signs measure 17 by 11 inches and will guide thousands of workers, restricting parking from 6:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. and noon to 1:30 p.m.
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John Deere
Charles Mackay
Kilgen organ ready for Carnegie Hall transport
Kilgen Organ company in St Louis reports the Andrew Carnegie Memorial organ for Carnegie Hall New York will require twelve freight cars to move its more than seventy five ranks of pipes. Installation to begin soon with full completion expected by September 7.
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St. Louis
Mossume
ONSI
Kilgen Organ Company
Carnegie Hall
New York
Andrew Carnegie
Reverend Fred Hoher to Speak at Hanna's Grove Fourth of July
The Rev Fred Hoher PF Fisher pastor of Mount Anbyurn Methodist Episcopal Church will be the orator for the eighth annual Fourth of July picnic at Hanna's Grove a mile west of the Cedar Falls road. The event sponsored by a United Spanish War Veterans group offers a day of patriotic programs fife and drum music contests and a free lemonade and coffee stand for attendees. A W C L M metal bus will shuttle from Memorial Hall at 10 30 a m and return at 4 30 p m.
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Fred PF. Pisher
Mount Anbyurn
Memorial Hall
Hi Yackey Talks to Vigilantes of Buchanan County
About 60 Buchanan county bankers and vigilantes attended a banquet in Independence. W W Bilasier introduced H R Willey who spoke as sheriff. Hi Yackey, state agent, praised the county for strong law enforcement and noted a local bank robbery case at Fort Madison.
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Courier Special Services Independence
Buchanan County
Gedney Horn
W. W. Bilasier
Jesup
Buchanan County Bankers’ Association
H. R. Willey
Hi Yackey
Yackey
Buchanan
Fort Madison
Buchanan Colonty
Whey
Masonville Boy Loses Leg In Mowing Accident
Donald Thomas eight son of Mr and Mrs Alex Thomas was injured when a mower ran over him as he stopped to pick flowers. He lost his left leg midway between knee and ankle at Manchester hospital after the machine dragged him from a wagon attached behind it.
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Masonville
Donald Thomas
Alex Thomas
Thomas
Donald
Manchester Hospital
Strief critiques political meddling at Iowa board of control
Des Moines June 29 J H Strief chairman and member of Iowa state boards of control resigns. H Michael Ottumwa named successor after commending the board and condemning outsiders using the department for political purposes. Strief warns intrusion could ruin state institutions and taxpayers. He says the department is a state business not a political football and notes the board's records and state institutions remain sound as of next biennium. Strief expresses intent to return to state service in about ten years.
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Des Moines
J. H. Etrief
State Boards of Control
H. Michael
Ottumwa
John Hammill
Board of Control
Board of Control Department
Stiles
Sirlef
Oklahoma
Tiinois
A. B. Funk
Claude R. Porter
B. F. Carroll
Iowa Board of Control Law
Iowa
Palticians
Stilef
Strief
John
Births and Real Estate Transfers Across Waterloo Area
Birth notices list Isaiah Li Patten Harold Gene Mary Grace Dent Mae Robert Matthias with parents in Waterloo and nearby towns, including May 23 to June 17 dates. Real estate transfers cover numerous parcels in Waterloo, West Waterloo, and Cedar Heights with many named buyers and lots described in Block and Addition records.
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Isaish L. Patten
Fourth East
Isaiah Li
Ross Bovis Rizner
Fooria
Harold Gene
Homer Clarence Burehour
Alien Memorials Hospital
Mary Grace
Castle HM
Ervin
FP. McGinnis
St. Francis Hospital
John Peter
Frank Fleder
Agnes Flieder
Cowins
Waterloo Oy
Rendell Christa
Lorn Ags
Highwey
T-Bill Cess Sae
Western Securities Co. Inc
Harri Non Smith
Galloway
Adeline M. Admis
Mary ‘Ann Hayes
Setz
Waterloo
Meta Terendeer
Mary Ann Hayes
Adeline
Em. Hayes
East Watering
W. OA
Wolcoth
Minnie Wolcott
Rivervhow
William H. Mitchell
Iin
Leo B
Carcig
Set
Cedar Heights
Sesssor
Margaret. McKeag
Minnie Cross
Eugene D. Ramondebux
Lincoln Joint Block Land Bank
Tinchford
Methodist Episcopal Church
New Counties to Be Taken in by Tb Program
Des Moines Iowa June 29 The new bovine tuberculosis law shifts eradication funding from county to state basis with county supplements. It timelines the transition July 4 and lists counties yet to start work while detailing past funding, tests, and accreditations across Iowa.
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T. B
Des Moines
U.A
Altho
Forty-Third General Assembly
Rains Boost Crops in Delaware and Iowa Hay
Manchester Iowa June 29 Weather has been warm and wet with one to one and a half inches of rain. Alfalfa clover and timothy hay yields are generous while red clover fields are particularly strong after snow and autumn moisture. Corn is knee high and stands are good. Oats barley and rye are heading with orchards gardens and potatoes progressing.
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Courier Special Service
Manchester
Fayette 4 H Club Holds June Meeting
A regular Fayette 4 H girls meeting was held June 22 at Anita Barr’s home. Members answered roll call and Miss Brainard, the home demonstration agent, attended. The lesson covered meal planning and dietary scoring. Phyllis Langerman demonstrated spinach canning. After a picnic lunch the group spent the afternoon preparing Rally plays.
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Courier Special Services
Fayette
Anita Barr
Miss Brainard
Phyllis
Langerman
Eighth Grade Exercises Honor 10 Graduates at Hampton
A combined community and family bureau meeting was held at Center Church West Fork township. G E Van Wert spoke as county representative, County Agent W B Hamilton and Harry Henderson participated. Diplomas were presented to 10 eighth grade graduates.
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Courier
Hampton
Center Church
West Fork Township
G. E. van Wert
W. B
Hamilton
Harry Henderson
High producing herd guides grain to sustained dairy records
On George F Walters farm south of town a 10 Holstein herd averages 49 to 56.4 pounds fat monthly, with grain fed at 15 to 18 pounds per cow daily to avoid burnout. Sires from within the herd and three daily milkings aim to maintain top production while soybeans and alfalfa feed supply protein.
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George F. Walters
Walters
Watters
Altho
Angelo Hengerveld
Altha
Thinking Farmer Aims at Training Boys for Farming
J A Linke of Washington DC, regional agricultural agent for the Federal Board, tells Iowa State College audience that the goal of vocational agriculture is to train boys for farming business rather than simply producing more crops. The conference at ISU gathers 125 teachers from Smith Hughes high schools for lectures, discussions, and planning for subject instruction. A two week school for teachers will follow with practical work in small agricultural subjects taught in Iowa high schools.
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Ames
Jume
J. A. Linke
Washington, D. C
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Iowa State College
Linke
Smith-Hughes
Iowa
Iowa Creameries Rise to 464 in 1938 With 270 Co-Ops
Two more creameries operated in Iowa in 1938 than in 1927, per the agriculture department yearbook. There are 464 creameries, 270 cooperative, 134 individually owned, and 60 centralized. Northern counties house most creameries while southern counties rely on centralized ones. Ida, Fremont, Lucas, Monroe, Ringgold, and Monona lack creameries. About four percent of butter stays with patrons, while over 82 percent leaves the state mainly to New York and Chicago markets.
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Wttte
Department of Agriculture
Winneshiex
Allamakee
Floyd
Plymouth
Cherokee
Wright
Clayton
Buchanan
Sac
Ida
Monona
Crawford
Carroll
Marshall Tama
Poweshiek
Cass
Marion
Mahaska
Keokuk, Jefferson, Monroe
Lucas, Mills, Ringgald
Decatur, Wayne, Emmet, Bremer
Des Moines
UPK
Iowa
State Department of Agriculture
New York
Chicago
Yearbank
Seed Shipments Fail to Pass Test in 1928
Des Moines June 29 4U P1 farmers growers learn that 36 seed shipments failed 1928 testing 24 red clover 6 alfalfa 2 mixtures and 1 each of white clover timothy alsike and sweet clover condemned 453 samples tested in 1928 up 10 percent from 1927.
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Des Moines
State Department of Agriculture
High Butterfat Checks at Osage Creamery
Courier Sprival Services Osage Iowa reports the high checks issued for the period ending June 24 totaling $134.28. Recipients include J. Fish and R. Fish, Charles Lewis, Burtch Brothers, Lawrence Pint, EM Thorseau, Burton Stacy, Swalm and Bosworth, Lloyd Swrdm, and George Godfrey, with varying amounts from $82.16 to $134.28.
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Courier Sprival Services
Osage
J. and
R. Fish
Charles Lewis
Burtch Brothers
Lawrence Pint
EM Thorseau
Burton Stacy
Swalm and Bosworth
Lloyd Swrdm
Fat per Cow Dictates Margin Between Rations at Dysart Farm
At Lloyd Guernsey’s Genesee township dairy, 13 cows averaged 10.8 pounds of butterfat under silage hay and meal. switching to oats and soybeans boosted some cows to 23.8 pounds. After 1927 28 changes and adding ground corn, the herd reached 400 pounds for the year, with April and May averages around 50 pounds. Guernsey also expands soy bean acreage to 53 acres this year.
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Dysart
Lloyd Guernsey
Genesea Township
Guernsey
Fayette County 4-H Club Rally Held in West Union
Mary Dviving of Waucoma elected Fayette county 4-H clubs president at Achievement Day. Florence Sauerbry named vice president, Dore Scheffer secretary treasurer, Viola Oakes historian. Miss Josephine Arnquist spoke on the Washington DC club camp and team work was urged by Merle Shover. Eleven of twelve clubs attended. Jolly Bootser club won $10 attendance prize, Center Canning club $3 second prize. Fremont township girls club initiated.
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Courstr
West Union
Mary Drvilling
Waucoma
Fayette County
Eves of Eden Club
Florence Sauerbry
Jefferson Township
Dore Scheffer
Center Canning Club
Viola Oakes
Meny Sharts
Scntt
Josephine Arnquist
Arnquise
Washington
Merle Shover
Black Hawk County
County Parm Bureau
Jolly Bootser Club
Migria Township
Tlafonda Shafferts
Union Township Club
New
Fremont Township Girls Club
Lucky Clover
Westfield
Eyes At Eden
Merry Hearts Clubs
Center Township
John King
Tyming Township
State Silver Fox Breeders Meet At Ames June 29
Fox breeders gathering at the Veterinary quadrangle under the Veterinary division and the Inwa Fox and Fur Breeders Association. Prof. 3 H Buchanan of Ames presides. About 150 to 200 fanciers expected. Sir Charles Dalton of Summerside Canada and Dr. E A Benbrook plus Dean O H Stanne on the program.
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Ames
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Veterinary Division
Inwa Fox and Fur Breeders Association
3. H. Buchanan
Charles Dalton
Summerside
Prince Edward Island
Canada
E. A. Benbrook
Dean O. H. Stanne
College
Home Owner Sends Burglars to Camp at His Expense
Portland Maine June 29 The home of Harold T Libby local merchant seems likely to become a mecca for burglars When six youths were arraigned charged with breaking into the house Libby asked that sentences be suspended He then announced he would send the young men to a summer camp for a vacation at his expense
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Portland. Me
Harold T. Libby
Mecca
Libby
Fish Buyer Uses Radio to Speed Up Lazy Indians
Tahola Washington June 2. Salmon packer G P Halferty uses a radio to speed up Indian fishermen who previously lagged in pulling nets. Music from the radio triggers quicker action as crews haul in fish and head to the ash house, ensuring steady supply while radio tubes last.
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Fish Buyer
Tahola
Wash
Redia
Tahola Indian Reservation
Civilization
G. P. Halferty
Halferty
Texas Insects Help Reclaim Australian Prickly Pear Land
Avalde City reports insects bred in Texas to reclaim Australia’s prickly pear infested lands. The Australian government runs a station to observe and propagate the insects shipped in ventilated cases. A recent shipment of 35 cases valued at 3500 dollars aided reclaiming dense prickly pear areas resembling southwestern Texas.
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Avalde City
Texas
D.p
Australia
Austria
Britain Eyes One Color Gas Stations To Preserve Scenery
London reports government considerating a home secretary committee recommendation to repaint gas stations in a single color, ban flashing signs, reduce advertising lettering, and forbid corrugated roofing. A standard roadside sign would replace current billboards to limit visual clutter.
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London
U.P
Home Secretary
Great Britain
Lindy’s Stock Slump Among Ladies in St Louis
Reports from the east say a slump in Lindbergh souvenir sales among women follows the colonel’s marriage to Miss Anne Morrow. Despite the dip, many female admirers still visit the Lindbergh trophy collection at Jefferson Memorial, with Miss Nettle Beauregard confirming the observation.
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St. Louis
Maune
Althe
Anne Morrow
Jefferson Memorial
Nettle Beauregard
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