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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1928
Page
2
The Iowa Radio Listeners League announces a state poll to gauge opinion on direct selling of goods by radio. A questionnaire is being broadcast with 450 positions to be circulated. voters respond yes or no and send petitions through the Des Moines headquarters. Petitions circulate in 15 states.
Des Moines creamery plants produced 7,892,953 pounds of creamery butter in 1927, up 329,050 pounds from 1926. Expenditures for cream paid to dairy men totaled 2,973,715 dollars within the region, plus 1,294,097 pounds paid for milk bought directly from producers.
An announcement states that 7 art is a candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket, subject to approval by Republican voters of Iowa's Eleventh District at the next primary. The candidate is Gerret Elay of Orange City Iowa.
In 1927 there were 462 marriages at the Little Brown Church in the Vale Bradford Chickasaw Iowa, 31 more than the prior year. June saw 87 weddings with couples from many states. The church charges $5 per ceremony plus payment to the officiant, while visitors flock yearly to the shrine famed for the song Church in the Wildwood.
Reuben Marks, an affluent hat manufacturer from Des Moines, died recently and left a will urging states to create matrimonial bureaus. He earmarked 1000 for the first state to establish one and urged the allocation of 25000 yearly within five years to sustain the agency, criticizing states like Iowa for favoring animal husbandry over marriage promotion.
From Emil Ludwig's Genius and Character, the note details Leonardo da Vinci as essayist and tester who pursues subtleties over frescoes, and Michelangelo painting vast walls with imagination. Leonardo alternates intense focus with sudden absences, even as a cloister seeks a Madonna from him.
A beauty specialist urges daily eye drills as essential as brushing teeth. Start with a cheerful look, then move eyes up and down slowly, then right and left, five times rising to ten. Finish with an eye bath using boric acid solution or weak tea for a refreshing tonic.
Prof E T Williams observes central police power rests in Peking but local peace is kept by village elders. He notes villagers shield offenders when regulation, such as opium bans, faces opposition. The elder’s role appears largely ceremonial in practice.
The tale compares Rip Van Winkle to Epimenides who slept fifty years in a Crete cave and awakened with knowledge gained. A German legend inspired Washington Irving's work, centering on Peter Klaus the goatherd from Sittendorf with Kyffhauser setting.
A New Jersey coast village garden showcases old ship figure heads set among greenery. Among them a Norse goddess in gold blue red Neptune with trident and a swarthy singer prince, reflecting the owner once captained ships to distant ports.
An American Magazine piece describes self described statemenists and fomenters of invention who call a tiger pad a tufted device. the text includes violent imagery as it references murder visions and the Dachirian niche.
Rev and Mrs A G Bretthauer and family visited August Schlumbohm Tuesday evening. Marian Theodore and Kathryn Theo dore and Henry Feekes visited Wm Ver Malm Friday. Mrs Joe Lynch and children spent the weekend with relatives in Maurice Tow. Several residents took Sth grade exams in Rock Valley. Dierks family visited Degan home. Moore family and Nebben in Doon met new granddaughter. August Sehrumbohm family visited Winterfeld home. Bretthauer family visited Aisler home. Cub women of Sioux Center hosted Legion Hall gathering with an afternoon of pleasant social time.
Ireton items note Miller Ring Vander Schoff and Mrs Roger Grau attended Farm and Home week in a city. Sioux County sent five delegates including three from Center township. Floyd Taylor and wife visited Sioux City. Mitchell shipped hogs to Sioux City market. Bartlett brothers had hogs there midweek. Mrs Ben Kooi hospitalised in Le Mars. Weaver Karr visited daughter Winnifred at Mammouth J M A. and Mrs T Konebel brought daughter Trennie home from Orange City. Wood Brothers and Staben of Sioux City called on farmers and stock Frais.
On Friday February 3 the Doon seniors hosted the juniors at a Hard Time party in the Bonnie Doon Hotel dining room decorated in coral and green. The 500 game provided entertainment and George Engleking received a pleasant surprise at a Thursday evening gathering by local ladies.
A king note from wanlergus describes measures by the Potas county supervisors to limit aid. It states that only specific staples including rice beans corn coffee potatoes salt and soap will be provided to the poor at county expense.
At the Iowa Health Club annual meeting in Des Moines a Savery Hotel dinner reflected the group’s tenants. Vegetable turkey nut bread crumb celery and bacon filled the main dish. Potatoes with skins, fusilage salad, and almond coffee capped the meal. A program followed stressing proper food and habits.
Moray McMurray of Webster City Iowa shipped nine turkeys to Osaka Japan aboard the Tokio express with costs totaling 128.76 including 10 for ship feed and 3.50 for drowning insurance plus 12 for life insurance. The voyage required corn and oats fed twice daily and fresh water in separate vans. McMurray has previously shipped ducks to Japan and other birds to the Hawaiian Islands Ireland and North America.
In Cresco Iowa Howard county residents found ground covered with dead birds many clustered near the high water tower under a bright electric light. Affected birds resembled sparrows but were larger with vivid plumage while ducks and geese were seen flying overhead in mid January suggesting an unusual winter event.
Valley Poultry Yards lists 1928 prices for baby chicks per 100 and poultry equipment. Leghorn Rhode Island Reds Barred Rocks Wyandottes White Rocks Wyandottes and S L Wyandottes priced, with custom hatching and brooders offered. Safe delivery guaranteed. De Jong and Vant Hul, Rock Valley, Iowa.
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