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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1934
Page
5
Sioux County farm notes announce a hog cholera vaccination school in Bail Township Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday February 6 and 7. Dr W E Simonsen will lead the school, with a $3 vaccination permit fee refundable if the examinee fails to pass. Send name and address with the fee to the County Agent in Orange City.
The school opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 4 p.m. daily. The concise timetable sets standard daytime hours for classes, administration, and student activities.
Iowa farmers may gain more than cash from the corn hog program specialists say it also helps control pests by rotating crops to legume varieties like clover or alfalfa. Extension experts outline weed control methods, including mowing and plowing, to battle Canada thistle and quack grass while expanding legume acreage. Thirty years a fireman captain J B Stasny retires after 31 years of service with Cedar Rapids Fire Department noting big changes in firefighting methods.
E Q Lockwood of Kent Iowa recently paid the county seat to place three historic items in a safety deposit box. A hand woven shawl once owned by Mrs Abraham Lincoln is documented as the wife of the Emancipator. Also included is a Bible printed in 1791 linking Lockwood’s family back to 1776. A new Back to Farm movement proposes 1600 three to five acre farms for miners and families to subsist between mine jobs.
A Guthrie Center man reported a missing wallet containing $3,000 in cash after an hour in his office. He searched frantically, then found the wallet and money safe on the running board of a car parked on a busy street. The luck claimed by the luck goddess.
A Payette County tale recalls gypsies duping a man into a $10,000 belt scam promising doubled money. After three days the belt was empty and the culprits pursued. Law has prevailed with two men serving penitentiary terms and efforts to bring back a female suspect for trial.
William Butler entered the Red Oak county treasurer’s office and offered 1400 pennies for a 1934 auto license fee of 14 dollars. Treasurer Floyd M Pratt accepted without recounting, warning of shortage risk. Butler later learned he had saved 1500 pennies and 100 were deducted to begin his 1935 license.
Ed Wynn, popular radio comedian, interrupted a Madrid Iowa Lions Club gathering when a siren from an adjoining apartment blared during R K Bliss of Iowa State College giving a talk. Firemen rushed out then returned embarrassed as the broadcast continued from a nearby radio.
Corn loan applications totaling 334716.30 were filed in the past week. Names include Jockim Kruser Anne Carter Wilkinson John F Rielly Henry P Langstraat Barney Siemensma Wim Doeken and Wm Van Dyke among others consistent with agricultural finance notices. Also notes a sheriff sale notice for real estate in Sioux County Iowa with the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company as plaintiff and dates set for February 24, 1934.
Nearly a century ago Patrick Uriell settled near Garnavillo in Clayton County Iowa and built a cabin from walnut found at the site. The cabin earned the nickname log cabin mansion as Uriell’s family kept a few chickens there. Now Uriell’s grandson J Uriell preserves the birds in a real style as walnut gains prestige and the cabin falls into disuse.
Johnny Reed of Grinnell Iowa entered the cribbage Hall of Fame after a perfect hand in a recent game. John Garswood notes Reed nearly collapsed when the hearts run produced a 100 percent hand, marking a rare feat not seen in years.
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