Farmers should begin putting their corn in silos

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, Sept. 11, 1924

A. Torguson, one of our Civil War veterans, we believe has raised some of the finest apples in Pope County this year. Mr. Torguson brought some Dutchess apples to the Tribune, which for beauty and size could not be improved upon. Thanks, Mr. Torguson, for the many you left.

Mrs. N.R. Olson delightfully entertained about thirty guests at the Glenwood Summer hotel on Wednesday of this week. A delicious three-course dinner was served. Among the guests were several Alexandria friends of Mrs. Olson. Bridge and whist were played. Mrs. Spalding won first prize in bridge, which was a bulb bowl, and Mrs. Urness of Alexandria won a clean plate. Mrs. Walking won a motto as first prize in whist. In the thimble bee contest, Mrs. Harry Stevens of Alexandria won the prize, a fern bowl. A happy afternoon was spent enjoying the hospitality and entertainment of Mrs. Olson.

A picnic of the progressive forces will be held in the city park on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. The speakers will be United States Senator Shipstead; Mrs. Stageberg, farmer-labor candidate for secretary of state, and Alderman Gene Hanskom of the seventh ward, Minneapolis. The meeting has been arranged for on a Sunday in order to give the country people a chance to attend who would not have time otherwise. The meeting will be of such a nature that it will be strictly in keeping with the Sabbath. Senator Shipstead has just returned from a speaking tour in the West and will have an interesting message for his audience. Shipstead needs no introduction to the people of this county, as his ability as a speaker is known by all.

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, Sept. 11, 1924

At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Fremad Association, held Monday, August 18, George Aal was elected president to fill the unexpired term of Casper T. Wollan, deceased. C.I. Wollan was elected vice president and director. N.W. Webber, Secretary.

The Fourth Annual Tournament of the West Central Minnesota Tennis Association was held at Morris on August 31 and Sept. 1. It was the most successful tournament that has been pulled off so far and brought out several new stars. Elbow Lake sent down a dark horse who won everything until he was eliminated in the semi-finals by Joe Chambers of Morris. His name is Wallace Eide and with a little practice in faster company, he will be heard from next year. The big surprise in the doubles play was the work of Clifford Johnson and Desmond Callaghan of Glenwood. Both of these young boys put up a brand of tennis that not only surprised, but defeated some of the old players.

Farmers in Minnesota should begin now putting their corn in silos in order to get the work done before freezing, Andrew Boss, director of the university farm experiment station, said today. “They should not wait longer for warm weather to ripen the crop, but put the corn in soft and avoid losses from freezing,” he said. “Where the silo will not hold all, the corn should be cut and shocked and dry cured.”

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, Sept. 12, 1924

Week-day religious instruction will be offered again in our public school. Beginning next Wednesday, this work will be given once every week from 3 to 4 o’clock. The writer is in full sympathy with this work as he believes that character building and character development must have Christianity as a foundation. We therefore urge all of the school patrons to encourage their children to take this course that is of such vital importance to them. However, should there be some pupils who decide not to take the course in religion, then they will be required to take some other work during the hour set aside for religious instruction.

Early Tuesday morning there was a light frost in this vicinity, especially in the low places. The ground was entirely white in the morning. However, it does not seem to have done any serious damage to the corn.

On Tuesday Henry McColley, of Eagle Bend, who was doing some breaking with a tractor on a farm near Staples, saw a large blow snake. The snake was about eight feet long, gray in color, with a stripe along its back. It had a wide flat head and neck. The snake got into the furrow Henry was plowing and the wheels of the tractor passed over it, killing it. Henry says that about ten minutes afterwards he began to get sick and was sick all day. He thinks the snake blew some poison and that he breathed it. He says he has heard of a number of other snakes of this species in that territory. —Long Prairie Leader.