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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1930
Page
7
Farmers in Boyden complain they cannot buy oleomargarine, but local merchants say farmers, by buying oleomargarine, lowered butter prices and forced shops to stop selling the product. The article urges blaming the farmers, not merchants.
Notice to qualified electors of the Independent School District of Boyden Iowa Sioux County that the annual election will be held at the Town Hall Boyden on the second Monday in March 1930 from 12 PM to 7 PM. A Treasurer term two years to succeed S G Vanden Brink and a Director term three years to succeed R Smit will be elected. Nominations must be filed by noon February 28 1930 with the board secretary Nic Rouwenhorst Secretary.
A brief humorous exchange shows Fred struggling with a joke about his plans to cut expenses. The line hints at financial restraint without detailing specifics.
Jones asks about low spirits. Brown cites high living costs and bills for materials. They discuss home upkeep and recommend glycerine from Boyden Hardware to prevent freezing, noting it will positively do so.
Mr Henry Pressler the Milwaukee railroad agent shares shipment figures for Boyden including inbound 128 and outbound 527 carloads. Barley 12 oats 18 corn 69 hogs 383 cattle 35 butter 53 and household goods. Herman Winter moves goods from Olivet Minnesota to the Stange farm near Boyden recently purchased. Welcome to this community.
Ungrammatical phrases describe a botched street pun about prison time for driving slowly. An odd sale notice claims alcol and radiator parts at Greater Tire Shop. Jumbled names and numbers hint at a classified blurb for sale by John Qsen tink.
Eleven persons were sentenced to death by the Russian Soviet government. Two workmen were executed for stealing chemicals from a factory and six traders for buying the chemicals, while three more were punished for leading a demonstration against authorities enforcing grain collection. The czar would kill hundreds for less.
Sheldon Mail reports the Boyden Reporter Progress Edition of twenty pages and five columns. It notes strong local backing from merchants and farmers, highlights Boyden creamery success, and cites a Fairmont co operative creamery annual business of about $70 000 in 1929. The buttermilk dryer shows a profit of 2198 50 on dried buttermilk with expenses of 1004 88.
Clyde Cochran a 36 year old farmer near Woodville Nebraska borrowed a neighbor’s stray dog. The gun he held discharged accidentally killing him almost instantly. Authorities investigation is pending.
Calvin Petticord of Washta nearly died after applying a so called snake oil liniment to a sore throat. A hurriedly summoned physician said his heart muscles were paralyzed and artificial respiration was needed. The liniment was bought at a medicine show that recently performed there.
The Osceola county taxpayers are compelled to pay $15,000 more for state purposes than last year. The note questions who is responsible for the large rise in state expenses.
Frank Barnes, a mail carrier from Ellsworth Rid 1 Minnesota, fell ill and nearly suffocated by carbon monoxide from his Snowbird caterpillar auto exhaust. Dyman Hetrick found him around 6 p m and rushed him home then to a hospital where he recovered quickly. His substitute used the same vehicle the next day as it is the only car able to run the route at that time.
A University of Nebraska survey finds 20 percent of students own and drive automobiles, suggesting a demand for farm relief.
Edward P. Fisher of Detroit buys 1909 acres in Macomb county Michigan for 500000 dollars to create a hunting and fishing retreat. He plans to build a hunting lodge on the property.
Ed Schwartzkopf of Ashton admitted driving a car while intoxicated and received a one year sentence at Anamosa. He is nearing completion of a thirty day term in the county jail at Sibley.
J. W. Wilson of Canton South Dakota was instantly killed when a freight train struck his car on a grade crossing near Harrisburg. The crew warned with several whistles as the car approached. He had been married only a few months. The body was taken to his former home in Hiawatha Kansas.
Oscar Grant a 43 year old clerk in the municipal water works department of New Castle Indiana stole thirteen thousand eight hundred twenty one dollars from city funds. He was sentenced to two to twenty one years in the state prison and began serving his term after the New Year.
Sol Rishor, stated as a Rapid City resident and cripple using a wheelchair, passed a $25 check at Marion and was captured at Bonesteel. He was returned to Parker and sentenced by Judge Fleeger to five months in the Sioux Falls penitentiary for issuing the bad check drawn on the First National Bank of Pierre.
Rev. G. H. Swalve of Elizabeth Illinois has accepted the call to lead the Presbyterian church in Little Rock, pending approval by the presbytery.
A two story corn crib and granary on the D. J. Logan farm near Spencer burned, likely started by a heater in a hog waterer. The building held 3,000 bushels of corn and 400 bushels of oats with little insurance. A Fyr Fyter extinguisher was suggested. Order one from the Tri-
Richard Packer, a young farmer near LeMars, was killed when his gun discharged after snagging on a wire fence beside the Great Northern railroad right of way. He left a widow and three children, the youngest two months old. his mother, 80, and no other relatives in the Netherlands are mentioned.
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