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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1932
Page
3
Long list of residents and relatives visiting Rock Valley for Christmas holidays. Notables include Irene Higgins returning from Wisconsin to home for holidays, Dorothy Bonthuis bridal shower, and many Iowa and Minnesota families visiting kin. Also mentions Christmas Seal Sale closing January 2 and various travels to nearby towns.
Misses Ursula and Daisy Manning wed Friday evening to spend Christmas at home. Mrs J Jacobsma visits in the home of her daughter, Mrs Joe Groeneweg. Agss Lanellia Schemmer of Rock Valley attended Miss Helen McNamara's school program. Misses Margaret and Eileen McNamara spend Christmas vacation with their mother, Mrs M McNamara. Mr and Mrs Louis Elberts and daughters Jean and Dorothy spent Christmas in the Geo Gessler home in Rock Valley. Mrs Andrew Van Kekenx spent last week in the P Lems home. Mr and Mrs E C Suter and Emil Miller were guests in the EW Suter home for Christmas dinner. Mr and Mrs E E Cover, Mr and Mrs Orve Flickner and daughter Sonnis, and Mr and Mrs Almond Cover and two sons were Christmas guests of the Otto Cover family. Miss Frances Van Geest visited Wanice with her aunt Herman Vander Well for a week.
Mx and Mrs RL Dierks and family hosted Christmas dinner guests near Haararden. Ernest Miller family spent Christmas Eve with Clifton Moore home near Alvord. John Tank learned of Hans Miller’s death in Laporte City on Christmas Day. Tank relatives traveled to Gladbrook for the funeral. Ardelle Van Fleik and pupils held a Christmas program in Dis No 9. Peare Lutheran church Sunday school staged a Christmas program Christmas Eve. Tank family gathering held in Idhn Tank home in Rock Valley with several relatives attending. Families shared Christmas dinner in Gotloh Garver home.
A mixed set of classified notices includes for sale items such as a windmill white boar and Chester white boars from different sellers, a stray roan and bay team to be notified, egg mash by Valley Produce Co. with Wm De Jong as manager, and miscellaneous services like harness oiling and welding. A dance event is listed for December 29 in Rock Rapids by Don Roth and His Collegiate Ramblers. A loan request of 1000 dollars offers 8 percent interest. Also advertised are Crazy Crystal mineral Wells crystals and related mail orders via Lock Box 539 Rock Valley Iowa.
In Alvord, families including Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gayer and kin, Chas Gayer and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dierks, Chas Moeller and family, Fred Klein and son, Roberts and Lena Baum, and Charley Moeller with Miss Louisa Gayer were visitors on Christmas Eve. Miss Esther Gayer shared Christmas Eve with friend Miss Mildred Grin.
Shoppers from Sioux Falls and other towns visited Alvord relatives during Christmas week. The Alvord girls and Inwood boys split basketball results, with Alvord narrowly losing 26 to 24 and the girls dropping 27 to 21. Local families, pastors, and shoppers from Rock Rapids and Milford joined festive activities, while H A Kroeger battled flu.
A long standing rustling pattern shifts from large bands to lone operatives in Grundy, Black Hawk, Butler, and Chickasaw counties. Authorities tracked a gang to Hammond Indiana where five men were arrested. Packing plants in Albert Lea Austin Walloo Chicago are implicated in accepting stolen cattle.
An old time advertisement invites residents to bring in hides, junk, old batteries, radiators, books, magazines, and scrap iron to Fred DeMay. It presents a practical call for disposal and reuse through a local junk business.
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