The Mount Pleasant News from Mount Pleasant, Iowa • 43

WASBLOO TODAY C0WUE8 WATERLOO IOWA The News for Northeast Iowa Farmers TODAY JUIfX 1MH Farm Bureau New Weed Appears in Tama Fields WAVERLY 4-H 'GIRLS Or A ZI ELECT NEW OFFICERS Girls Camping Courier Special Sennet) Waverty The annual Girls Management of Flocks Aid to Egg Production Price Trend Is Unfavorable to Iowa Farmers lova Rural Mailmen Honored for "Service With a Smile" Ames la (UJ0 An Iowa State college extension poultry-man said yesterday farmers cooperating with the college program MONDAY Artificial Breeders board meeting Farm Bureau office 8:00 a Poyner Township 4-H tour 9:00 a Orange 4-H picnic Doris Engel 1:00 Black Hawk County Rural chorus YWCA 180 Black Hawk County Farm Bureau board meeting Farm Bureau office 7:45 pi Iowa City rural mail carriers are the object of special tribute in the newly published issue of monthly magazine published by the State Historical Society of Iowa beginnings of rural free delivery in 1898 ushered in a new ora far the Iowa William Petersen superintendent of the society says in tracing the backgrounds of RFD The magazine in addition to review contains three sec tions by Mary Ludwig who writes concerning Iowa's rural mail carriers: have taken great pride in their ability to get the mail through Since that first day in 1896 when the three rural free delivery pioneers started from Honing Sun the rural mail carrier always aware of his motto Service with 4-H Rally day was Wednesday in the high school auditorium with over 200 girls leaders visitors and mothers present Elaine Chapin was elected president for the coming year and Donna Kratehmer was named vice president Other officers selected and later installed were Ardith Seehase secretary Maxine Thieman treasurer Joann Haefner historian and Gladys Meier reporter The afternoon program opened with group singing led by Mabel Ormston The girls heard short talks by Julia FalUnson assistant 4-H state leader Leon Kleiss boys 4-H county president Robert Chapin Rural Youth president Mrs Don Zipse comity family living chairman and Don EL Anderson county extension (Courier Special terrier) Toledo la A comparatively new weed is causing considerable alarm among termers in Tama county The weed known as yellow rocket or winter cress has a yellow blossom and is similar to mustard and is prevalent ia alfalfa small grains and pasture fields this year According to John Reid Tama county weed commissioner this weed is reproduced by seed and can be controlled by mowing prior to seed formation and the 24-D weed killers also give good control It will probably not be hard to control in rotated fields but may create some problems in permanent pasture land or land that ia not used in regular rotation Reid for recording egg production are setting excellent examples of the results of management improvements Whitfield said improved management housing and feeding had brought egg production per birds in 1948 to 207 eggs a year He said that is 20 more eggs per bird per year than in 1947 and a 60 per cent increase over the 1930 average Fifty-three Iowa flock owners are participating in the program TUESDAY Hudson 4-H tour Hudson school 880 a Union 4-H tour Sam Cuvelier's 880 Des The price trend continues to be unfavorable Iowa farmers the government yesterday The index of prices received by Iowa farmers dropped 5 more points during the 30-day period ended May 15 This index now is 288 per cent of the 1909-14 level as compared with 324 per cent a year ago At the same time the Iowa crop and livestock reporting service said the ratio of farm prices received to prices paid now stands at 99 compared to 123 a year ago drop In grains and feeds held feeding ratios at strong levels for poultrymen and dairymen" the report said the hog-corn ratio was lower as a result of the lower price of hogs prevailing In mid-day" The current hog-corn ratio is 158 as compared to 158 on Apr 15 This Is still a favorable ratio however and contrasts markedly with the 88 ratio which existed year ago WEDNESDAY Black Hawk County 4-H Girls' Rally Day East High school auditorium 980 a is ill the rural carrier will bring medicine if hungry or if a needle and thread are needed the carrier will respond to a reasonably urgent request Nobody appreciates the rural carrier more than the farmer' (Courier Special MtrulctJ Toledo la Tama county 4-H girls are camping a week at the Meeker camp at Pine Lake near Eldora There will be 25 girls and leaders who will represent clubs in Tama county Marshall and Grundy county girls are also attending the camp Highlights of the fmpfag program win be out-door cookery crafts including leather and copper work sports of an kinds and camp fire ceremonies Delegates to the camp from Tama county are: Marion Skala and Marjorie Collins of the Toledo-Go-Gctters Velma Petersen and Dorothy Zirat of the Victory Bs Dorothy Duhachek and Dorothy Svoboda of the Victory Belles Barbara Johnson and Donna Lavender of the Highland Farmerettes Dorothy Mussig Mariam Hansen and Barbara FaUgetter of the Gladbrook Loyal Lassies Donna Burrows and Mary Higgmy of the Geneseo Hustlers Crystal Wilson and Dixie Cherry of the Traer Trusty TVoopers Marion Philp Darlene Greiner and Mary Lou Brubaker of the Arnquist Pioneers and two members of the Chelsea Challengers Betty Skala county historian will attend and Mrs Thomae leader of the Gladbrook Loyal LUMBER YARD AT CHARLES CITY IS BEING LIQUIDATED Waller Johnson pitched 113 shutouts in hU 11 yean as a Washington Senator hurler OSAGE MAN AGAIN CO-OP VICE PRESIDENT THURSDAY Bennington 4-H tour 8:30 a Barclay Township Farm Bureau meeting Peter Jacob 880 pi FRIDAY East Waterloo Township 4-H tour No 4 school 880 a Cedar Falls Township 4-H tour 6:00 Lester Township Farm Bureau meeting Newman Mortensen 8:30 SATURDAY Washington Township 4-H tour Sickles' 9:00 a 27th Special Dairy Sale at Waverly Iowa BROWN SWISS SHOW Decorah la (Special) the Brown Swiss canton show at the fair grounds last week there were 36 exhibits from seven northeast Iowa counties Ewald Brandt of Postville showed the senior grand champion bull and Louis Slpert of Decorah showed the senior grand champion cow Brandt was also awarded first prizes for mill calf three-year-old bull and junior grand Champion bull In the female division Elpert was awarded firsts for aged cow and senior grand champion while Brandt received a first fOr a four-year-old cow TAMA 4-H CAMP Toledo la (SpedaU-Plans are completed for the Tama county boys' annual 4-H camp which will be held this weekend at Pine lake (Courier Special tmcij Osage Ia-Albert Olson president of the Co-op Electric comprising Mitchell Worth Floyd Chickasaw and part of Cerro Gordo counties reports that 31 persons chartered a bus leaving St Ans-gar Wednesday and attended the meeting of the Dairy land cooperative LaCrosse Wis Guest speaker was Claude WiCkard Washington REA representative All officers were reelected Thursday including Clarence Biedermann Osage vice president and present director a has become an integral part of every Iowa life1 la tracing the backgrounds of BID Petersen notes that the first delivery of mail In Iowa apparently occurred In the fall of 1838 when George Ord Karrick brought the mail weekly from mmo to Dubuque On Apr 19 1838 Antoine If Claire was commissioned as first at Davenport In 1838 a steamboat mail line was inaugurated between St Louis awl Dubuque and 28 such boats plied the Mississippi along eastern border that year In 1855 a postoffice was established at Sioux City and in 1861 the post office following outbreak of the Civil war-changed the point of departure for the overland mail from St Joseph to Council Bluffs During those days the mail between Council Bluffs and Sioux City was carried by stagecoach As the years passed five railroads had readied the Missouri by 1870 and many Iowa towns began getting their mail by train And in November of 1896 Iowa became one of 10 states chosen for a government test of the idea of rural free delivery Morning Sun was chosen and Albert Roberts Bert McKinley fCMiwr Special Struct) Charles City la The Charles City yard of the Pacific Lumber Co is being sold out Ed Fetzer manager announced Thursday Present plans according to Fetzer call for the complete liquidation of the stock here by Aug: The local outlet of the building supply and lumber firm nas been in operation three years Ihe company operates three other yards at Ft Lauderdale Delray Bead and Lake Worth Fla The action is being taken Fetzer said to settle the estate of the late Burns a former Charles City resident and to consolidate the operations of the company Mr Burns left Charles City to go to Florida about 1925 tnd died in May 1947 Properties owned by the company here will be leased Fetzer said although he declined to give particulars in Ctaen Sanitary Salas Bam Located on Highway 218 NW edge of Waverly Known es "The Dairy Spot ef Iowa" near Eldora Approximately 80 Lassies "Mrs Vein Dau Schmidt I18 arL expccted to county chairman and Miss Mil- Th Pram will include dred Hanus assistant leader of demonstrations on highway safety FARM LOANS the Victory Belles will also be in attendance Tuesday June 7th Commencing at 12:30 Iowa's Largest Sale of Quality Dairy Cattlo FARM MEETING Ames la The summer Long 4 Interest Ne No Renewals 4-H RALLY by a highway patrolman the importance and identification of vari ous wild life animals by a conservation officer nature studies practical first aid and the usual softball and other sports Vera Dau Schmidt and Howard Lyon will be in charge of the camp 011 Grundy Center fa -(Special) Managers will be at Iowa Grundy County 4-H girls friends 225 HEAD 225 Get Your LAND BANK LOAN through your NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION State college June 6-9L The association is made up of a group of farm managers engaged in management for individual frum This session will center around swine production and storage tor the 1949 corn crop and prospective members will hold their annual rally day Monday at the Grundy Center high school The theme for the day will be friendship so all should come with the idea iff fun frolic and fellow ship Important events on the program are: Annual business meeting honoring our leaders foods on nutrition for friendship report of 4-H camp installation of officers and folk games 4-H TOUR SUNDAY SL Ansgar Ia The St Ansgar Sailors 4-H club will conduct a tour on Sunday at 880 a at the Ernest KofOot farm culminating with a picnic dinner at noon in the Nitardy woods BL NELSON Sec? -Tress Cedar Falls Iowa Bos 16 Phone 268 TOP DAIRY HERD Decorah la (Special) The May production of the Schwartz-hoff-Gerxnann-Symonds Holstein herd led the Winneshiek DHIA by an average of nearly two pounds of butterlaL Ray Burke the association tester reports the average was 1318 pounds of milk and 448 pounds of butterfat The ree-cords of nine other high producing herds were Chester McIntosh Decorah 1131 and 425 Louis El-pert Bluff ton 1162 and 40 2 Selness and Son Mabel Minn 812 and 398 Marsh Castalia 1154 and 391 Ted Fiekert Castalia 1046 and 372 Greg Boden-steiner Castalia 986 and 362 Edna Bollman Frankville 1181 and 388 Erlin Lomen Decorah 1-026 and 366 MITCHELL DAIRY TOUR St Ansgar (Special)-Ervin Deiderich has been selected as tour director and program chairman for the dairy tour of Mitchell county on Thursday June 23 Present plans call for the visiting of five outstanding dairy farms and three dairy processing plants A 15 to 20 minute stop will be made at each plant while special improvement is explained Cows LISTINGS INCLUDE: 65 Large-Type Holstein close springers 35 Choice Holstein Cows and Heifers fresh with calves at aide 40 Holstein Heifers close springers 20 Guernsey Cows close springers 10 Guernsey Cows and Heifers flesh with calves at side 15 Guernsey Heifers close springers Balance of listing will be a few each of choice Brown Swiss and William Blair began horseback delivery of mail over three routes avenging 34 miles each Mary Ludwig writes that the new idea took hold at once and soon Iowa farmers were writing letters requesting rural service in their area" HEADS BREMER 4-H CLUBS Janesville la Elaine Chapin Janesville was elected Bremer county 4-H president at the rally day Wednesday in Waverty high school Her mother Mrs Baton Chapin was initiated as honorary member tor outstanding serv-iioe as a leader and committee woman Clear Quill Dog Foods Packed to 5-lb 25-lb and 109-lb Bags Jersey Ayrshire and Shorthorn All springing or fresh with calves at side RAIN BENEFITS CROPS St Ansgar la (Special) Crops in this section of the state were benefited Wednesday morning by a heavy rain FARM BUREAU PICNIC Eldora (Special) Eldora township Farm Bureau annual picnic will be held at the Eldora city park today at noon Committee includes Earl Putnam Lew Perkins Marvin Catlin and George Edwards Each family is to bring a basket dinner and table service there were no mailboxes provided by the farmers" She says McKinley recalls that the carrier blew his whistle as he approached the farmhouse and the kids came running out to get the One farm family finally attached an old leather boot on a post to serve as a mall bom" CIRCUS TO SHOW AT ELDORA ON JUNE 26 Your Dealer Has a Fresh Stock Ask Him for Clear Quill Today CHINCHILLAS Warranted Pedigreed Breeders JENSEN CHINCHILLA RANCH ALLIED DIST CO toe RL No 5 Waterloo Iowa 10 ML on 6 29 Looking for Material to Repair That Cent Crib? Waterloo Mills Co Manufacturers and Distributers Registered Service-Age Bulls In above mentioned Holsteins there will be 15 Registered Holsteins from two top herds records and registration with seme TO BUYER: These Special Dairy Sale are held en first Tuesday of every mouth all cattle consigned All cattle are put in stanchion and handled by experienced help and sold aa found there OPENS CHIROPRACTIC OFFICE La Porte City la (Special) Dr Eugene Arm opened an office for the practice of chiropractic on Saturday The office is located in the building formerly occupied by Dr Laueville The Laue-ville family left this week for Waterloo where he will practice in the former office of Dr Garner (Courier lycrial Strut ccJ Eldora la The A1 Kelly and Miller Brothers three-ring circus will give a matinee performance in Eldora at the fairgrounds on Sunday June 26 at 2 The show which travels in 65 semi-trailer trades will stop at the fairgrounds the 26th to feed and water its animals and will give one complete afternoon performance while en route from Waterloo to Webster City TO BUILD LUSTRON HOME Tama la (Special) Mr and Mrs Joe McNally have obtained a city building permit to erect a one-story steel and porcelain Lustron home on two lots they purchased from Mrs Jane Neuman in East Tama McNally is manager of the Beale Son grain elevator here Hydrated Lime Hog Wire Bale Ties Barn Sash Cement Com Cribs We Have It TRACTOR MOUNTED In 1IU Walter Johnaon hurled 96 con-cecuUve shutout innings lor the Senators TO CONSIGNOR: All cattle taken to must be listed in advance Unsound uddered and poor conditioned cattle are net wanted No cattle taken to until morning of sale SPRAY BOOMS Iowa's second experimental route was begun at New Providence in September 1897 Alonzo Hall was one of the carriers From these rude beginnings Palimpsest" articles relate rural mall service has grown in Iowa until there are 1440 rural routes in the state which cover 65JB8 miles and deliver mall to almost half the state's total population In the early days tomato cans cigar boxes and even sections of discarded stovepipes served as mail boxes But the chief problem tor canters was the lack of good roads and early as 1899 a roads convention" in Des Moines passed a resolution urging the legislature to recognize that well-constructed roads were vital to continuance of rural mall service rural carrier in Iowa is more than a public servant: he has become a rural institution" Mary Ludwig's article says a patron Waverly Sales Go COME IN! WATKINS COAL and LUMBER CO GILBERTVILLE GRAIN and LUMBER CO 4 TO 10 ROW BAGS BLACK BEAR Charles City la riimnvtng a hunting and fishing expedition in Canada Dr Fillenwarth had the good fortune to bag a 400 pound Mack bear The bear was brought down in the region of Nester Falls about 60 miles north of International Falls Minn Others in the party were Dr Ban ton Clyde King and Carl Eickmeyer Archie and Bill Martin who were staying at different camp were also in on the kill COL ARNOLD HEXOM WILBERT OBERHEU Mgr UP BARREL RACKS REPAIRS -AGRICULTURAL WEED-N0-M0RE-and PESTR0Y 25 DDT SEE YOUR CHEMICAL HEADQUARTERS A Complete Welding Service AT YOUR DISPOSAL Twelve timet Walter Johnaon led the American league pitcher in total GRAIN COAL LUMBER BUILDING MATERIALS CLAY DRAIN and BUILDING TILE STEEL FENCING POSTS CONCRETE BLOCKS LARRO FEEDS NORTHRUP KING I CO SEEDS DARLING RATH'S FERTILIZER KOROK and CONCRETE SILOS BUTLER STEEL BINS WESTINGHOUSE APPLIANCES CLAY BARN EQUIPMENT ENTERPRISE PAINTS A Modern Shop ond Portable Equipment SEE US FOR PRICES ON STEEL WHEEL CHANGE-OVER TO RUBBER! 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