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1946/80 years ago
Women will exhibit at State Fair
Hamilton County women are going to the state fair this year with an exhibit tucked under their arms.
The women have prepared an exhibit on re-upholstering furniture, a follow-up of their years work in the extension family living program. Mrs. Byron Frakes is chairman of the special committee which has been planning the show. Other members are Mrs. Merrill Pierce, Mrs. Ray Baird and Mrs. William Yungclas.
Other Hamilton County fair exhibits will include the 4-H boys exhibit on the control of mastitis, with Laurence Ricke, Russell Hill and Clifford Hanson in charge and the 4-H girls demonstration on dish washing by the county champion team from Cass township, Lauretta Boston and Dorothy Dick.
The 4-H boys will have sheep and colts in the regular 4-H classes, but no baby beeves or hogs and a judging team composed of Russell and Phillip Hill, Richard Miller and Leonard Westwick with Laurence Ricke as alternate. Leonard Westwick will also be in the sheep shearing contest.
1961/65 years ago
17,000 crowd at fairgrounds for final night
With a near-capacity crowd of 17,000 jamming the fairgrounds for the final evening. Hamilton County's 1961 fair attendance exceeded last year’s total attendance, fair board officials said this morning.
Sunday night's huge crowd was added to a good crowd of 7500 which attended the Saturday afternoon and evening events to bring the 1961 total of an estimated 45,500.
4-H girls named for advanced competition
Members of two demonstration teams won the right to advance to the state fair competition during the county fair 4-H demonstration events. They are Linda Kay Hanson and Joan Hendrickson of Jewell, members of the Ellsworth Early Risers, who will demonstrate "Come play with Us," a recreation topic and Sherri Lawson and Helen DeWitt of the Jewell Gems who will present a clothing demonstration "SOS for SIS (setting in sleeves)."
Donna and Diane Hillyer of the Independence Friendly Farmerettes will present their demonstration "Easy Care for Wash and Wear" at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo.
1986/40 years ago
Back to nature via conservation
Want to know one of Mother Nature's beauty secrets?
It's the work of the Hamilton County Conservation Board.
Since Brian Holt took over as conservation director in 1973, Hamilton County's parks have not only been kept up, they've been improved.
"In the past 13 years, we've seen the Little Wall Lake campground expanded and seration of Little Wall Lake to prevent winterkill," Holt said. "At Briggs Woods, we've seen a prairie established; campground and beach area improvements; construction of a landtrap and infrastructure improvements, such as an irrigation system at the golf course.
2001/25 years ago
WC council hear concerns over large hog confinements
The intensifying issue of Hamilton County's concentration of large hog confinement operations made its way to the Webster City city council chambers Monday night, as several rural residents came to voice their concerns about the impact rural hog operations may have on the city and county's future.
Councilmen listened for about an hour, sometimes offering concerns of their own, but in the words of Councilman John Hostetler, said they were "hog-tied" about doing anything over the plan by New Fashioned Pork, Jackson, Minn., to place five new hog confinement operations east of Webster City in Independence and Liberty townships.
Even within the city's two-mile zoning limit, agriculture is exempt from normal zoning restrictions according to Rep. Russ Teig, who also took part in Monday's meeting and offered his own research on hog confinements and the present Iowa Code. A proposed site in Section 4 of Independence Township would fall within the two mile limit. However, the city only had zoning jurisdiction for agricultural enterprises within the actual corporate limits of the city.
Mayor Phil Voge, who met with land owners Wayne and Tony Blue for about two hours last week, said it's now his understanding that the Section 4 site is not "set in cement" and could be moved farther to the east in Section 3. The Blues are working with New Fashioned Pork in the proposal and plan to use manure generated from the sites to reduce crop input costs.
2006/20 years ago
Bones sent to archaeologist
Webster City Parks and Recreation Director Kent Harfst is preparing and packaging up the skull and mandible that has been on display at the depot for many years.
Harfst received an email from the Burials program director, Shirley Schermer from the office of the State Archaelogist, requesting the bones be sent in for identification and for the requirements held by museum and organization that received federal funding to relinquish human remains. Harfst has requested that whatever information the state finds out about the remains be forwarded to the city, like ethnicity, age, sex and possible cause of death, as the skull currently has an arrowhead embedded in it.