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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1936
Page
3
A group of young people gathered Monday evening at Pete Vande Velde's home to surprise Harvey Harmelink with best wishes for his coming departure and transfer to a CCC camp. The gathering went well and the cats were fine.
Four plow adjustment field days will be held in Sioux County on April 16 and 17. Extension staff project demonstrations by Byron Virtue and others cover draft reduction, uniform depth, furrow smoothness, heel clearance, share shape, and sharpening. Harry Linn of the Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders Association demonstrates multi horse teams. Farmers are invited to attend.
County Agent H B O explains soil conservation Class 2 payments for seedings on crop land from Oct 1 1933 to Sept 30 1936. Payments per acre include alfalfa 2 dollars red clover and mam moth clover 1.50 dollars alsike clover and sweet clover 1.50 dollars and Korean lespedeza 1 dollar legume mixtures 1.50 dollars and green manure seedings 1.50 dollars. Soybeans must be turned by Sept 30 1936. Liming at 2 or more tons per acre yields 2.50 dollars. Forest tree plantings pay per acre from Jan 1 1936 to Sept 30 1936. Total Class 2 payments cannot exceed one dollar per acre for all soil conserving acreage, and are in addition to Class 1 payments.
The annual 4-H Boys and Girls party will be held Saturday evening April 18 in the high school gymnasium in Sioux Center. The program includes contests singing impersonations talks and cats. All 4-H club members leaders and parents are urged to attend.
The scouts who have not passed their tenderfoot tests are Clarence Potts Walter Bernold Klay and Junior Davisson. They are all expected to pass their tenderfest by April 84.
A historical ad claims drinking water with meals benefits digestion by aiding stomach juices and digestive flow. It mentions a spoonful of Adlerike for bloating and gas and claims a dose cleanses poisons and cleans both upper and lower bowels.
Mr and Mrs F C Dierks and their children and Cecil Thomas were Thursday evening visitors in the A Van Bochoven home.
Seventh and eighth grades show an average rating of 9 in arithmetic drills over the past two weeks. Seventh graders engage in four hour drafts and money orders this week while eighth graders recently finished square foot exercises. Perfect spelling papers were written by Betty Van Eldik Arthur Achatz Simon De dong Bob McNeily George Van Beek Marimus Vander Linden Delores Reilly Margaret Doherty Everdina Van Dyke Lucille Tan i Geest and Wilma De Bruin.
In a junior class prank, girls plan a party but the boys, aiming to outfox them, arrange a surprise party for the girls that evening. Dr and Mrs Lock hosted the event, and one alert girl exposed the ruse, resulting in equal guest turnout and a future obligation for the boys to host.
Bronze pins were given to Lawrence Grau Barbara Hough Gertrude Leeuw and Hessel Roorda Clarence Vander Pol earned a silver pin Irene Doktery has a gold pin To reach gold a typist must hit fifty wpm with at most five errors for ten minutes plus letter writing and punctuation requirements The typing class now has an Honor Roll including Irene Doherry Robert Hamnelink Joan Landhuis and Clarence Vander Pal The Rock Valley High sophomores held a large party featuring card games humorous stories boxing preliminaries main bout and an undecided results plus a humorous reading by Emlin Lock and a sophomore orchestra recital directed by Er Rubinoff Neimeyer and his triangle The best act won by Emlin Lock and the booby prize went to Francis Achatz Ice cream and cookins concluded the evening
Carroll County faces costly winter repairs after a snow storm. A bridge over the Racenon River near Carroll collapsed when a large snow plow attempted to cross, plunging into the river and increasing road expenses by four thousand dollars.
Attorney F E Griffith explains the Town Send Plan as a national permanent recovery program beyond old age pensions. It aims to revive employment and living standards by circulating money, energizing industry, and matching idle wealth with productive use, highlighting abundant natural resources and idle workers.
Library list shows HEW holdings and numerous titles by Hutchinson, Beach, Oowen, Ben Amer Williams, Horn, Lindbergh, Hill, Hough, Quick, YYoung, Churchill, Bacheslor, Riley, Bower, Zane Grey, Beatrix Potter, Bailey, Jackson, Aylen, and others. Includes The Spoilers and Betty Zane along with children’s classics.
The Miller relatives in this vicinity received news that Charley Agi ley of Flandreau Died. He is a cousin of the Millers here.
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