Cell Phone Not Needed at Iowa State Fair Husband Calling Contest

Posted 5:40 pm, August 15, 2014, by Roger Riley

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DES MOINES, Iowa- Husband-calling goes back to the days when Iowa was mostly an agricultural state. Fast forward to 2014, you would think this old art of summoning a spouse would not be needed -- not so. Leslie Eichelberger of Muscatine won the husband-calling by showing why modern technology can often fail when she is trying to contact her husband Daryl out on the farm.