Britt man buys basket of strawberries for 20 cents
Ed Peterson of Britt Iowa buys a basket of strawberries for 20 cents as part of a small local shopping note.
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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1928
Page
2
Ed Peterson of Britt Iowa buys a basket of strawberries for 20 cents as part of a small local shopping note.
A garbled note from Morris at Statts City Missouri hints at a box used for picking and crating. Mr Peterson provided information and Morris replied he found only 70 from the fruit box, selling items, while questions remain who received the remaining 130 of Mr Peterson's hat proceeds.
Public auction of house field furniture and other articles on Saturday September 1 1928. See bills for particulars. D. W. Lasr, owner.
The Quinlan Behoal House, District No 5 in Rock Township, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on Wednesday August 29 at 6 30 PM. Seey Joun LH Kleen, Seey.
Neighbors and relatives visit Doon Iowa and surrounding areas. Arthur Kippley dies at Hull hospital after serious injuries ten days earlier. Families from Luverne Doon and Sioux City spend weekends with kin. Various residents and travelers from Sioux Falls Sioux City and Dubuque are noted visiting or returning home.
Dr H B Solomon, neuratogist and psychiatrist, discusses alcoholic mental disease in Hygeia for July, noting about 10 percent of mental illness cases tie to alcohol. Delirium tremens is common, with chronic alcoholism and alcoholic hallucinosis also reported. He argues prohibition reduced cases briefly, but levels returned to preprohibition rates within years, leaving prevention of about 10 percent of severe mental disorders still theoretical.
Notice is hereby given that on August 11 1928 the District Court of Sioux County Iowa appointed Frank Bannan as Administrator of the estate of Jor Wathawa deceased. All debts must be paid to the administrator and all claims presented to the court for allowance. Attorney F T McGill is involved. A Mis Ploreive Munn of Doon is visiting her aunt Mrs B Frembgen.
An auction of all household goods will be held at the owner's home near the Public Schools on Saturday August 25 at 2 00 PM. H Splear Auctioneer conducts with First Nat Bank as clerk. Mrs Mulvey is the owner.
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