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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1933
Page
3
Henry Schell, a Waverly grocer, released August to November figures showing 162 customers asked for coffee 19 for fruit 4 for potatoes 3 for soap 4 for bacon 5 for onions and 1 for eggs. Most customers were young single men out of work, with three out of four appearing respectable.
Dick Hall captain of Winterset High football team sustained a fractured skull after a man entered the hamburger shop Hall operates, ordered a sandwich and struck him on the head with a blunt object. The incident follows Hall surviving tough games with no serious injury.
A local column reflects on Thanksgiving, noting gratitude for not worse conditions, mentions pheasant dinner, and comments on the waning Buy Now campaign while joking about a Pay Now campaign to aid suffering humanity. W. C. Kooiman is described as peeved yet seemingly not genuine in mood.
A reader laments a missed name on a royal telegram list to President Roosevelt. Pheasant hunters complained of wind and dust delaying shoots. County road crews work under Civil Works, graveling streets with federal support. A Cass county Iowa tale notes an owl electrocuted after snagging a chicken.
Albert Retz owned a 40 acre tract near Manchester Iowa covered with tinderbrush. In 3 years he bought 37 goats for 116.30 to clear the land. The herd now numbers over seventy, with goats eating elm saplings while avoiding oaks, using a shed full of straw for shelter.
Public school notes recount Pilgrim studies and Thanksgiving projects. Students colored Pilgrims and wig wams, folded churches, and heard Billie Bruce Rozeboom tell a Thanksgiving story. Several lists of students with high spelling scores are recorded, noting attendance and perfect scores.
This week seven seventh grade students, Lois Roorda and Mar Rose Beaver, earned 100 percent in spelling. In the eighth grade, Leslie Davisson Dena Harmelink Elsie Kersberren Junior Kessler Angeline Van Dyke Betty Vande Stouwe and Gladvee Velz also achieved perfect scores.
In the opening basketball game last Monday night at Boyden the Rock Valley team defeated the Rock Valex 25 to 18. The Rock Valley players led from early on and maintained the advantage through the full game. Achatz and Van Zee top-scored with eight points each, as the halftime score stood 17 to 10 in Rock Valley's favor.
Sam Risk of Iowa, after returning from Syria, displays a hand made Syrian table in Sioux City. The 500000 piece piece by piece crafted table elicits wide exclamations. Risk, a sought after speaker, has spoken in Sioux City Cedar Rapids and Ames including a KSCJ radio broadcast.
A. 3. Freyer of Galva Iowa was chopping wood when his ax glanced off a clothes line. It struck his head and split the upper plate of his false teeth in two. He escaped serious injury, though friends are making light of the mishap.
On Armistice Day morning in Red Oak, boys under 12 paused a heated football game at 11 o clock, removing caps and standing at attention facing east for the minute of silence. Neighbors were impressed and the incident drew considerable comment.
Beulah Maxine Moesterdt died at the Fan Beek home Wednesday after a convulsion. Born February 1933 she passed away November 22, 1933 at 1 46 PM aged nine months. Her mother Mrs G Moesterdt died September 21 1933 after gall bladder operation. Funeral at Van Beek home Friday with relatives from Sioux Falls Ashton Fairview Onnige City Sanborn and more.
Gerrit Mosierdt Jr Mr and Mrs Dick Van Beek express gratitude to friends and neighbors for acts of kindness and help during their recent bereavement. Special thanks to De A DL Lock and Mr and Mrs Siebert Kooima for their support.
Cornstalk board from Iowa State College Ames is tested for packing crates for Cape of Good Hope fruit exports. A 1600 square foot shipment, produced in the engineering experiment stations, is sent to Africa. The board measures Y% inch thick and an English firm shows interest in SA manufacturing.
A country school near Algona Iowa kept a tame crow as a mascot. Teacher E Beaman cared for the bird which entertained children during recess and occasionally perched on the superintendent’s car before flying back to its home.
The Richard Byrd expedition will dispatch microscopic ocean plants to a New Zealand lab upon reaching Dunedin. Iowa State University professors Robert B. Wylie and George W Martin will serve as honorary expedition science staff and study aquatic plants. A second shipment will follow after the party’s stay in Little America.
To whom it may concern you are notified to appear at the Court House in Orange City Sioux County Iowa on December 20 1933 at 10 00 AM to attend probate of a purported last Will and Testament of Henry B Wesselkink deceased You must show cause why the Will should not be admitted to probate D Wiersma Clerk of the District Court Seal November 16 1933 Ica Walkoff Attorney
Alvord residents share Friday shopping trips in Rock Rapids and Sioux City, plus Sunday visits to neighbors in Inwood and Worthing. The Ideal High School basketball team lost 32 to 22 to Lester, with the second team also falling. Funeral services were held for Donald Sullivan, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sullivan, from pneumonia. Senior card party and various local gatherings filled the week. Judge Fry reportedly hunted pheasants, claiming a notable single-shot limit with multiple witnesses.
Local classified notices list multiple for sale and want items from Ashton to Inwood Iowa. Entries include stray cattle notices, radio tube checks, gift ideas, second hand car parts, rental inquiries, hides and pelts requests, cholera immune livestock sales, shoe repair services, welding and machine work offers, floor wax promos, and crystal sales with mail order options.
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