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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
1
Special notice informs reporter readers of March 1 1920 rate changes due to high paper ink and postage costs. Old price 1.50 will hold for a month. new rates 1.75 in advance and 2.00 with single wrap mailing. List of prepaid readers and local notes follow.
G Vande Gaarde on the former Henry Van Nyhuis farm at the town edge will conduct a closing out sale on Tuesday February 24 selling all personal property to the highest bidder as he retires from farming. Watch the Reporter columns next week for details.
Mise Jean Noordhoff describes postwar Japan in a letter to her parents. Prices for foodstuffs have doubled, the poor struggle to obtain sufficient provisions, and influenza and tuberculosis are rising. Upper classes face material shortages with no near relief, the Sioux County Herald reports.
The Gorzeman family left Wednesday evening for Washington where they plan to establish a new home after Mr. Gorzeman purchased a house there. They will also visit California this winter. The King Smit family have moved to the former Gorzeman farm, purchased by Mr. Smit last fall.
Collector Louis Murphy announces an income tax help tour with free guidance in Orange City from February 18 to 28 and Rock Valley from February 12 to 18. Taxpayers should bring complete records for 1919 and use official forms. The visits are part of a statewide schedule reaching county seats and other towns.
Otto Stange son of Mrs Marie Stange Hull and Lorene Thayer daughter of Mr W I E Thayer Lockhart Oklahoma were married at the groom’s mother home last Wednesday at about 3 pm Only close relatives attended. The couple left for Omaha that day to begin a week of visiting. Stange plans a farm home south of Boyden and will take possession in a few weeks. Thayer has taught in rural schools the past season and is well known locally. The Reporter offers congratulations.
The Herman Meyn closing out sale held January 28 drew a large crowd and strong bids. Cattle sold up to 325 dollars and averaged about 250. horses averaged 180. a Shetland pony brought 148 to Herman Schuett. Henry Rhode bought the top cow. Meyn plans move to Sheldon and Henry Kroeze leases Meyn farm at 22 dollars per acre.
Card thanks friends for help during illness and death of husband and father Mrs O Van Grouw and family. Matlock and Grant township census taker delay. Rev Ralston of Dunkard church is away in Virginia. LeMars resident Daniel Weiland died at Franklin Street home after long illness and diabetes.
Mrs. E H Rudloff daughter of Mr and Mrs Matt McCabe Sr and resident of Manson Iowa died after a brief pneumonia attack. Funeral held Saturday at Hull with interment in Hull cemetery. The Reporter extends sympathy to the bereaved husband and relatives. The third Boyden Lecture Course at Town Mall featured the Montague Players to a full house with operatic numbers and a Japan scene. Next event on February 11 features Brooks Fletcher the dramatic orator.
On January 20 1920 the District Court of Sioux County Iowa appointed Johanna Maria Van Houte executrix of the Jacob Van Houte estate. All debts should be paid to the executrix and all claims presented to the court for allowance. Dated January 22 1920. Anthony TePaske attorney for estate.
The article extols Brooks Fletcher as the greatest American dramatic orator of today. It describes his lecture as a thunderbolt of eloquence blending reason, humor, and facts, promising laughter, tears, and dramatic intensity that grips audiences.
For sale a granary 8 by 24 by 10 in good condition. Joe Steven bought the W. J. Peters property for $4,000 with possession March 1. Vander Stouwe family to move to Carl Tott house south of Milwaukee tracks. A. D. Kruse reports buying ten pure bred Duroc Jersey brood sows from Lee Long herd at Luverne Minnesota. Fred Hassman attended the Kamminga Holstein sale at Sheldon. average $325 per head, total sale $22,000. top cow at Kemminga sale was $1,000.
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