The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-23
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Henry Engelking, popcorn King
Of Hardin county, will plant forty
acres Of popcorn this year.
Arrangements have been made tc
have a riding academy at Clear Lake
this summer.
President Coolidge has named Ross
r. Mowry to be United States dis
trict attorney for the southern dis
trict Of Iowa.
The recently projected Corn Grow
ers Association movement is growing
by leaps and bounds over central and
northern Iowa.
The movement to make a public
amusement park out Of the city park
in Osceola is rapidly nearing a sue
| cessful conclusion.
With the state primary election al
most here virtually all candidates are
in the midst of their campaign work
all over the state.
Nearly $1,000 has been raised by
donation at Bloomfield from the con
struction of a home for the Bloom
field post of the American Legion.
Iowa fruit has not been damaged
by the cold weather Of the last week,
r. S. Herrick, secretary of the Iowa
State Horticultural society, announces
Under an ordinance passed by the
Preston city council dancing and all
forms of public sports, including base
ball games on Memorial day, are pro-
hibited.
More than $4,000 was raised at a
recent meeting at Guthrie Center for
the Methodist church to pay OF in
debtedness. The church Is now un-
incumbered.
An average of 300 pounds Of but
terfat annually is the goal Of the
Hardin County Cow Testing associa'
ton for next year. The Iowa average
is 140 pounds.
Walter Rude, Mason City maintain
ance engineer, declared In a speech
that a gasoline tax would assure bet.
ter roads, and thus a saving In tires
and gasoline.
Mason City will be the host to more
than 1900 bankers June 16 to Is.
The thirty-eighth annual convention
of the Iowa Bankers association will
take place then.
The Iowa Board of Education has
authorized the establishment Of six
extension summer schools of the Iowa
State Teachers college for summer
quarters commencing June 4.
Members of the state board Of con-
seryation are making an inquiry into
the advisability of purchasing Zolli-
Golfers lake in Dubuque county and
converting it into a state park.
The announcement has Just been
made that Ex-Governor Frank o.
Lowder, of Illinois, will be the speak
er at the annual Memorial Day exer.
cises in Iowa Falls, the last OF the
month.
The special election for passing up
on the proposed $1,5O0,OO0 bond issue
for Polk county road Improvement,
will not be delayed until the Novem.
Der election, but will be held June 2,
the board OF supervisors decided.
Mrs. Rose Mcintosh, whose forty-two
acres Of Clear lake shore land was
appraised at $4,000 for a state park
by a sheritfs jury, has filed an ap-
peal in the district court, in which
she contends the land Is worth $685.
400.
With road improvement an import
ant question in Iowa there is much
interest in the changes which the re
cent legislature made in the Iowa
highway laws. These changes are
no win force, having taken effect on
publication.
More than $4,000, 900 have been ex-
pended on Iowa primary roads since
the first law was enacted in 1917,
1t was shown in the 10th annual re-
port of the State Highway Commits
sion for the period ending Dec. 1.
1923.
Grind the alfalfa hay and sell 1t
in the sack by the hundred just as
the dealer doles out bran and shorts,
is the idea that J. F. Henderson &
Son of Harrison county willendeav.
or to put into actual practice by an
other alfalfa season.
The 60th anniversary of the Temple
Commandery In Des Moines will be
celebrated June 10th with pomp and
ceremony All of the knights TEN
plars in Iowa have been invited to
attend. The Grand Lodge of Masons
of Iowa which will be in session at
the time.
A million peonis9 are hoped for at
the annual show of the American
Peony society. to be held at the Coli
scum in Des Moines, June II, Is, and
Is. All persons may enter exhibits,
but those entitled to receive premi-
ums must be members of the society.
Iowa is the first state to have ever
recorded all the deaths and births In
the state without error as shown by
final check under the registration
plan approved by the federal census
bureau, II is announced by the state
vital statistics bureau Of the board
Of health.
A happer policewoman! This is
the advertisement which city fathers
Of Davenport are considering broad
casting In local newspapers as a re-
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