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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1930
Page
6
The Rock Valley Bee notes the upcoming state fair will feature farm boys and girls showing club work results. It explains 4 H stands for Head Heart Hand Health and traces the group to Farm Bureau efforts to engage youth in demonstrative exhibits and club activities.
State horticulture estimates apple output falls short of normal, but Apple Groves Orchard near Mitchellville, led by Robert Clark, is expected to produce a full crop. Projected total harvest around 14 000 baskets. In Buena Vista county, Scandinavian Cemetery association files articles of incorporation to maintain a cemetery in Nokomis township with six trustees and nationality based eligibility.
W. G. Ray of Grinnell reports a silver navy plane flew blind over Grinnell Sunday at 3:25 PM. The pilot, sealed in an enclosed cockpit, navigated entirely by radio from Chicago to Des Moines. The craft landed in Des Moines 20 minutes later after fighting a strong head wind, cruising at about 150 miles per hour.
Henry A. Wallace urges farmers to welcome pipelines for gas and oil, noting they add taxable value to counties cities and school districts. A Kansas resident cites the tax distribution by mileage through pipelines, boosting local revenue and potentially lowering property tax rates for other property.
Tickets on sale August 19 to 29 for the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Ask Local Agent, The Milwaukee Road, for further particulars. Adv. 3030.
Health office notice prompts council to order fresh water tests directly from the city well, clean and paint the tank interior, and inspect nearby open closets not tied to the sewer. Previous tests were unsatisfactory and new samples are to be collected per instructions.
In 1855 Tilman G Harmon conceived a mill tunnel on his Lincoln township river farm. He and his three sons dug the 200 foot tunnel beneath Devil's Backbone using only shovels picks and wheelbarrows. Work spanned busy farming seasons and finished in 1858 delivering a pioneering water powered mill race.
Inay Iowa the heat spurred neighbors to aid the ailing farmer W J Hyda confined by illness. Fifty two teams pulled cultivators and plowed 210 acres in a day, adding 149 more acres by forenoon. Later 45 acres of oats were cut and shocked. Nearby McCausland Frank Stevens and ten hind ers plus forty workers seized his rain clan field and shocked it. Women provided a generous dinner, marking the community act.
An American visitor to Scotland quips that many buildings exist similar to a discussed structure, while local figures chat on truth, mercy, and accessibility of funeral services. Silly exchanges mix with fiction titles and author bylines in a playful, fragmentary page.
Randolph Beall and companions toured Kansas and Colorado to view harvest methods and grain storage, noting fields cut with headers and sheaves stacked, with one farm housing over a dozen steel bins and a Tribune elevator sighting of 175,000 bushels. A. B. Van Es recalls a brutal late July heatwave ending in frost on July 14, icing corn and peat fields across the region.
Walter H. Beall of West Union cites two credible West Union residents, A. J. Gurney and L. S. Cooley, who report observing freezing effects on corn and beans in Crookstone, Minnesota, last Sunday night.
John Geis of Victor Iowa used a telephone to reach his mother Mrs Anton Geis in Niederlahnstein Germany on Mother's Day. The call, heard by a crowd at the local post office staff due to limited telephones in the old country, marked a 20 year gap. Geis also spoke with his sister Mrs Jacob Nietzl in Niederlahnstein. Both sides expressed thrill and gratitude after the first America to Germany call, noting the transatlantic distance of thousands of miles via undersea cable.
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