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Details of financing

Photographs of Dibble building construction, completed building, and environs.

Bondholders' suit against Trustees for default in bond payments. Correspondence, legal papers, financial statements, lists of bondholders, other papers relating to the case.

Suit brought by general contractor to recover unpaid accounts. Selected papers; most routine papers were discarded.

Correspondence, will, inventories of properties, other papers. Real Estate Register, pgs. 28-33 (RG-T Ser. 5.2)

Correspondence, farm reports, tax accessments

Government farm programs papers, tax assessment, real estate report (full description of farm and buildings, with plat, 1937), correspondence with bankers, lawyers, etc. Correspondence with the farmer reveals some fo the farm problems of the 1930s (e.g. crop failures, organization of his coop dairy, details of livestock, crops planted, prices). 3 photos of farm buildings.

Correspondence, crop reports ("he is not a good farmer", "one of the dirtiest housekeepers it has been my unfortunate lot to meet") 3 photos of farm buildings.

Arranged in reverse chronological order. Correspondence, primarily with farm manager, Arthur Pitcher, and with banks. Mentions government farm assistance programs; first trial of hybrid corn ("willing to put in ... 7 bu of corn...would like to see this corn tried out alongside seed ...saved for this year", "We have never had any experience with hybred [sic] corn, but are trying it out on half a dozen farms this year for the first time: May 6, 1937, Philps to farm manager); planting trees, Jan 19, 1937; embargo on trucks on farm roads due to mud, April 14, 1936; college's mortgage on the farm; dealing with army worms, June 25, 1932; "If the pheasant season hunting didn't get you down, will you please give us a report on the corn crop..." Nov. 25, 1935; "We have 27 farms under contract for the Corn-Hog Plan..." Phelps to Pitcher, Feb 18, 1935 1 photo Real Estate Register, p. 17 (RG-T Ser. 5.2)

Supreme Court of Iowa briefs and arguments.

Correspondence, government farm assistance programs forms, full description and plat of farm. Real Estate Register, p. 40 (RG-T Ser. 5.2)

Correspondence, mostly dealing with mortgages, finances, and land sales. Some correspondence between S. H. Crosby and the farmers, most 1915. Papers have been left in the order in which they came to the archives.

Correspondence between Phelps and Lewis Scharnberg, farmer, deals with daily activities, problems and trials of farming at the time: planting walnut ttrees as a windbreak, Dec. 3, 1936; building repairs; marketing crops; list of grains to be planted, cost of seed, roads closed because of mud, March 1936; description of an "old timer" snowstorm and reminiscences of "the old days" ("oldest child was born in the barn, done it ourselves, had no $5 to get a Doctor, second child was born in a machine shed...:" "...walked 8 miles to and from work every morning and night and got $1.50 for 10 hours work...did not have time them days to smoke cigarettes..." Feb. 11, 1936 Correspondence and legal papers related to the college mortgage on the farm. Arranged more or less in reverse chronological order, as they came to the archives.

Correspondence between Phelps and Lewis Scharnberg, farmer and manager of several college-owned farms in the area: financial hard times, difficulty of paying taxes ("talk of burning corn at the Court house" "We have got to get back to the old times, eat fried mush and milk, which my wife and I lived on many a day and can do it again if I have to: Oct. 3, 1932. Re: a farmer who netted only $51 for his entire crop "...how is a farmer going to make ends meet at our present prices, prices have got to change to make the manufactories roll or Our good Country is gone. We can live on mush and milk again if we have to" Dec. 20, 1932. "I never thought I would ever get hard up again as I was from 1891 to 1896..." Oct. 31, 1932). Correspondence discusses many details of farming in the early 1930s: seed purchases, crop yeilds and prices, shipping to market, farm repairs, petition to extend time of drainage assessment payments. Correspondence regarding college mortgage on the farm; correspondence with Dwifht McCarty, '01, Emmetsburg attorney, on legal matters. List of farms and of city properties college owned on January 1930 (last sheet in folder). Real Estate Register p. 1 (RG-T Ser. 5.2). Also pamphlet on Felt farm in 02.334/p3