The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-16
Iowa News
\\tD< Items Of Interest
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Busy Reader.

Dont start garden tnls spring
that is too big for your wife to finish.
Emmett county is making plans to
have all roads in the county graveled.
A new source of revenue has been
found by the city council Of Oskaloo-
No fire works will be tolerated in
Des Moines before the Fourth OF July.
Contracts have been let to gravel
the Lincoln highway across Carroll
county.
Leroy Vaughn OF Clarion has q
plane glider that will carry six pas,
sengers.
A cook book published by the New.
ton Women's club has netted the or
ganization $1,10O.
Contracts for additions to three
Des Moines schools II Is estimated
will amount to $225,0O0.
The forty-eighth commencement Of
the State Teachers college will be
held May 30th to June 3rd.
The administration of Cornell col
lege plans to have all co-eds' rooming
quarters under control of the institu-
ton.
June 7th was set as the opening date
for the Camp Dodge swimming pool
at the meeting Of the Playground as
sociation.
At Drake stadium the third annual
field meet of the Des Moines Boy
Scouts will be held May 18th, It IN
announced.
Sioux City is the largest hog mar
ket center in the world next to Oma-
ha and Chicago receipts at the stock
yards show.
Seeley township Is next In order
for T. B. eradication In Guthrie coun-
ty, 90 per cent OF the cattle owners
having signed the petition.
More corn will be planted this year
than last, the department Of agricult-
ure declared due to the fact the cribs
are empty nearly everywhere.
Well. Iowa is to have a new code
and most Of US will know as little Of
1t as we did Of the old one and pay
the same attention to its provisions.
Leslie NJ. Shaw, former secretary Of
the treasury, will give the commence
ment address at Teachers college
June 3. The college will have about
500 graduates.
A letter In a laundry package prov
ed expensive for a college student In
Des Moines recently. He put letter
In with his laundry which he sent
home. 1t cost him SO.
Tho Citv on,no;y - ~. NE~iuo. -.
been notified officially by the team
sters union that the scale for labor
has been raised from $3.50 to $500 a
day for an eight hour day
Increasing this years premiums to
total Of $137,962. nearly $4,000
more than last year, the management
Of the 1924 Iowa State fair has an
nounced its premium list for Aug.
20-29.
Judge Jackson, in district court,
fixed Sunday, May 31st, as the date
for the sale by the sheriff of the
property Of the Muscatine, Burling-
ton G Southern railroad, long in re-
| ceivership.
Polk county supervisors have set
June End as the date for the road bond
election which, il favorably acted on
by voters. will authorize bonds Of 81
100000 to complete the county's paw
ing program.
A condemnation OF war and indorse-
ment of the world court were en-
bodied In resolutions adopted at the
closing session Of the 109th stated
meeting Of the Des Moines preby-
terry at Colfax.
The state board OF the Iowa branch
Of the National Congress of Mothers
and Parent-Teachers associations vot-
ed against the use of public schools
for the promotion of the citizens mill
tary training camps.
DR.. Ozora s. Davis, president of the
Chicago theological seminary, widely
known as preacher and educator, Is
to deliver the baccalaureate sermon
to Iowa State colleges graduating
class Sunday, June Sth.
The West Liberty Fair association
voted $50 for girls club work this
year. or this $50 goes to defray ex-
pOhoco VI sAo mluuiuB tcdIn anu
chaperone to the state fair where the
team will represent Muscatine coun-
ty.
Exhibits of work in either nutrition,
house furnishing, household manage
ment or clothing, from 30 counties In
Iowa will be entered in the 1924 coun.
ty-wide project contest at the State
Fair to be conducted in the women's
building.
A Humboldt farmer, Daniel Van
Driest, is growing nuts profitably In
this county. He has beechnut, chest
nut, Missouri hickory, flburt, Japa-
nese walnut and several of the bet.
ter varieties of the common black
walnut. Some of these trees are 8
or IL to Is years old.
Thousands Of Iowa farmers, who
are raking and burning old corn.
stalks to make way for the corn crop
this year. are wasting valuable plant
food and organic matter and robbing
the soil OF the material 30 vital for
further crop production.