Farmers Prepare for Bumper Crop With Modern Equipment
Farmers OU plan to raise a bumper crop by using the latest machinery. The piece urges avoiding outdated implements and emphasizes investing in up to date equipment to maximize yield per acre.
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1920
Page
3
Farmers OU plan to raise a bumper crop by using the latest machinery. The piece urges avoiding outdated implements and emphasizes investing in up to date equipment to maximize yield per acre.
Numerous residents, including Mrs. Virginia Wight and Mrs. Hilbert, recoveries and visits are reported. A. T. Rogers travels to Chicago with other townsfolk making business trips while the community advances drain work and tax payments.
Burdick and Joseph Fraley bought a Holstein cow at the John Jaworski sale. Mrs. C. H. Miller returned from Chicago. Mrs. Dora Brown visited Chesterton. Sam Pawelczak conducted business in Chesterton. Joseph Stachoviak and Grace returned from South Bend and Detroit. Mrs. Frank Anderson visited Chesterton. John Goodwin and family moved to the Earl farm near Michigan City.
Local ad notes Philip Smith at Pinhook carries groceries poultry feeds and fertilizer. It advertises highest market prices for butter and eggs and urges orders for binder twine and fertilizer from the Farmers' Co operative Co.
John G. Bauer arrives to take charge of the Farmers Cooperative Co. local operations with W. T. Trost assisting at Co burg. The Bauers will reside in the A. J. Shank property, coming from Valparaiso where Bauer directed the Nickle Plate Ry elevator and previously worked for Illinois Steel Co. Most of his career has been in Porter county. The Indicator hopes his tenure will be satisfactory.
A boy named Donald Ricksecker, once from the area and now living in Chicago, wandered from the north switch amid heavy snow. He told tales of imagined beasts from Crumpacker woods after hearing descriptions from Willis Brown. He bought a Wabash ticket, built a camp, faced cold and failed fires, then walked back to town and was reunited with his parents.
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