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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1941
Page
7
Local notes record visits across Sion City and nearby towns. Many residents such as Mr. and Mrs. W Miller, the Da visson and Wegner households, and relatives from Hawarden and Sioux Center are mentioned visiting kin. A shoulder injury at AVeruesday, medical visits, anniversaries, and social events fill the week.
Doon School progresses toward opening in autumn with a poured con crete core and innovative features. The $70,000 project includes a large heating plant in Slots City, an efficient steam system, new radiation covers, reinforced concrete doors and ceilings, grand auditoria and gym, with completion anticipated around early June.
Fragmentary text describes construction near a high school building and classes anticipated to start in a new structure. Mentions a playground and doors opening on the first day of school next fall, with uncertain names and locations due to garbled OCR.
The article recalls 19th century Warren landmarks including the Meek and Warren buildings. Dr J Schroeder’s office, Morall Bros home, and Beliesfield memory of 1880s life are noted. It mentions Tinch’s mill, a road, and the old hotel later run by Joseph Hol Jenbcek before repainting faded away.
The Bee notes the former Rock Valley School house stood where Mrs. Dischler’s home sits now. A Jatz maker recalls the north part of her house once housed the town school. This spring will mark the sixth anniversary of the Finch juill being swept away by flood waters.
C W McDowall of Tuva State College says self feeding fattening lambs can speed gains and improve finish, though at higher cost per gain. He notes best results come from mixing ground grain with alfalfa or alfalfa molasses and feeding in separate compartments with moderate hay.
The guide suggests starting with 1 pound of ground corn to 34 pounds of ground alfalfa in week one, then gradually increasing corn to reach 1 to 2 by month end. The peak grain-to-hay ratio proposed is 4 to 2 as the sealing period ends.
W G Murray states insurance companies hold 1 724 008 acres of farm land in Tow s amounting to about 190 million dollars and an average of 70 per acre Most of these corporate farms came via foreclosure due to over appraisal The speaker urges regulators to prevent repeat foreclosures by correcting appraisal errors and notes concentration in northern and southwestern counties with oversight near Fort Worth and surrounding towns.
The article notes that more than 10 percent of farm land lies with two dominant companies, Sturray and another firm, controlling about 1.1 million of 1.724 million acres. Federal farm credit agencies own under one-eighth of the near two million acres available for corporate sale, dominating holdings in the South and West. In 13 counties, the Farm Credit Administration has 5,000 acres for sale, with moldings of the FOA split among the Federal Land Bank of Omaha, the Federal Land Mortgage Companies, and six related banks.
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