A spokesman for the trade group called Fur Commission U.S.A. reports someone illegally entered a mink farm in southwest Iowa near Woodbine Monday night. Spokesman Challis Hobbs says a farmer, his son and grandson raise more than 1,000 mink and found the perimeter fence torn down. “That’s what they woke up to, and they woke […]
Christmas has been a state holiday in Iowa for 163 years
The Iowa Legislature declared Christmas as an official state holiday in 1862 — eight years before Congress declared Christmas a federal
