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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1941
Page
6
A garbled page of classifieds and community notices lists want ads for car bodies copper pipes and lighting, business names and phone numbers, local social reports, a veterinary contact, water well drilling alerts, and residents traveling to events. Names include Moeller, Ruth Miler, Tony Ran, and others with scattered locations like Sioux Center Rock Valley Hull and German Valley.
A Wednesday evening picnic at the Woolridge home honored Ike guests with twenty three attendees. The write up notes various local visits and family movements including Mrs J.D. Pirthy and others traveling from Afton to Des Moines and on to Weir home in New York.
A family circle including Mr and Mrs George Vander Rampaid Mr and Mrs August De Ruyter and others discuss a possible two week trip. Hootukker Gilert Vander Top of Alvord and his wife may join a Grand Rapids visit with Mrs Peter A tax and George Vander Top residents. Leia and Miss Veniter Top join the travel group while Hoefakker hesitates.
The 1916 wedding of Miss Mildred Nandy from Rock Valley and Mr. George Cainyrell was held at Rock Rapids, with ceremony on the east and west sides.
Fragmentary items describe community affairs including Odd Fellows lodge activities and a fire at a new hamlet site. The report mentions rainfall deficits, crop conditions, and livestock prospects in the northeast counties, with limited readable details on individuals or dates.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a 1901 incident involving a church figure Father Phelan and a riot connected to a mission or church event. Details are unclear due to damage and garbled text.
Forty five years ago in 1896 a girl employed at the Warria hotel found an item and returned it to its owner. The chapter members gathered at the Lowe of Miss ST. Dwight to organize for another year. W Hazard and wife chaperoned a crowd of youths camping in the Rock with four large tents enjoying a fine time.
Incomplete OCR notes place Gage Terwilliger in Chicago and mention a gang near an impir bridge west of town. It records a WR O and GAR union picnic with Helon Hull Treton and Castott posts on the Rock. Henoy Schemmer installed a new foumbafinw under his residence.
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