Acquitted at the Movies and Family Film Show
A brief cinema column notes a talky drama titled Acquitted along with Our Gang Comedy and Aesop’s Fables in sound. The program targets both adults and children with a mixed bill.
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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1929
Page
3
A brief cinema column notes a talky drama titled Acquitted along with Our Gang Comedy and Aesop’s Fables in sound. The program targets both adults and children with a mixed bill.
Saturday one day only feature William Haines in A Man's Man a two reel comedy and newsreel adults 23 cents children 10 cents plus a report on a large fruit orchard sale near Logan Harrison county with 210000 trees and seven year old trees yielding three to eight bushels amid rich Missouri river bottoms aiding grape and orchard farming across Conneil Bluffs Mills and Frems counties
Frederic Kahlstorf aged 73 died on his Hancock county farm from rat bite complications. He caught the rat in a steel trap and the animal bit into his hand as the chain was lifted. Rat fever followed, leading to his death.
M. W. Fitz, president of Farners Savings Bank at Manson Iowa, began as a village school teacher in 1879 and has led the bank since. He recalls a frame building long noted as a landmark where WLC Moody served as justice and judge, and where U.S. Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver first hung his law shingle in Iowa.
Doon notes report visitors from Sioux City and Rock Rapids a Friday party with roller skating at the Town Rink and refreshments at the Binure home. Doon boys lost to Little Rock 20 to 5. Frank Thompson of Whitefish Montana visited his brother Lou Thompson. Local shoppers and callers are listed with several Rock Rapids and Sioux City engagements.
Rock Valley Iowa council met December 1929 approving the November 6 minutes and paying bills to Dick Van Ekik JamON J A Weimer Rock Valley Cement Block Rock Valley Bee Ed Knorr Pioneer Bray Line XN W Telephone Co Mase Acme Dray Line Ya Pub Ser Co Rock Valley Pub Ser Co Fleetroliers Dispexal Pumming Emmet Scanlan Frank A Large Bogaard Peter De Jong and others. Treasurer’s report accepted and lawn truck purchase for 1930 refused.
Resolution by Rock Valley Iowa council approves transferring delinquent sidewalk assessments on Tripp Avenue Schaller's addition to County Auditor for collection by the County Treasurer. Names owners with sidewalk charges listed include Leek Mustrai Huizenga Rynders Van't Hul Schemmer Van, with amounts from 30 to 60 dollars. Motion adopted December 4 1929.
A six year old, Jimmy Sylvester, of Town Falls, died after being exposed to skunk gas from a trap he set near home. He had tried to free a skunk and endured convulsions before dying about 13 hours later. The incident followed his attempt to trap wildlife near his residence.
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