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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1936
Page
3
M L Healy 80 of Cedar Rapids Iowa renowned as a long serving peace officer. He carried no weapon yet never had a doublecrossed prisoner in fifty years guarding law and order. He retired in 1931 as the oldest US deputy marshal by age and years of service.
M. and Sperry of Renwick Iowa report their son, while recovering from mumps, played outside. He climbed a tree, became tangled in a branch, and dangled head downward for a while before freeing his foot and falling, injuring his head. He remained at home for several days.
Mrs. Levene of near Poca hontas Iowa drowned in a cistern at her home after the pump broke and ice coated the rim. She went to fetch water, lowered a pail by hand, and fell in before anyone noticed the accident.
Francis Obert, principal at Creston toway, organized sewing classes as an extracurricular for boys. Two dozen students joined, learning to care for clothing, press, mend, travel prep, darn, and operate sewing machines.
E. Foster of Prescott preserves a 1818 federal land grant issued to John Burnett a relative, for 360 acres in Illinois under a soldier grants act signed by President James Monroe dated October 13 1818.
Jack Lynch of Rock Rapids realized Christmas was near only after a quarantine sign appeared on his door for his daughter Jeneat’s light scarlet fever attack. This marked the fourth quarantine at the Lynch home during the holiday season amid prior minor illnesses.
John Prins held a closing out sale at his farm near Sanhorn and sold a fine collie to a farmer ten miles south of Granville. The dog, driven home in a trunk, later disappeared and four days later returned foot sore to the Prins farm, suggesting a long, uncertain journey.
At the Fairways of Humbold Country Club Alfred Johnson trapped the digger near the course. The culprit was a badger, whose three foot deep burrows filled with partly eaten squirrels. Foxes were blamed earlier but the badger stopped the digging.
Dr J W Sellards of Clarinda Iowa has a 35 year maternity career. This year he attended his 60th birth, a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Harvey Jannsen of Yorktown. Over 35 years he has ushered 2400 youngsters into the world.
Sub-zero weather softened to rain making icy streets. Hudson figures visit the Bee to challenge a South Dakota pisteoners tale, denying exaggeration. O'Connor rival trial in Sioux City stalls with a deadlocked jury. State doubt lingers on acquittal versus conviction.
The article notes Richard Bruno Hauptman appears ready to reveal what he knows about the Lindbergh kidnapping before January 13, implying the date could mark an unlucky turn. It emphasizes the circumstantial evidence pointing toward him and leaves the judge and jury to decide.
Farmer Butson east of Hampton Town reports his Holstein cow born a bull calf then a week later a heifer. After weaning the calf she began milking heavily, delivering about 50 pounds daily. He wonders if the two calves are twins while both cow and calves remain healthy.
In Fonda Iowa the District No. 9 rural school misses a Herson entry for the first time since 1872. Samuel T. Herson and his wife started their son Harry at the school 63 years ago, and for 63 years a Herson pupil answered roll call each year.
Ralph D. Battey, a Waldorf College student from Alabama, funds his education by buying paper shell peanuts in 100-pound lots and selling them to students and faculty. The campus motto proclaims this unique venture as Battey with the nuts.
Santa Claus, visiting Webster City, Iowa, suffers travel setbacks as three of his reindeer die en route after leaving four animals behind, leaving only one surviving elder. He vows a new team by Christmas Eve to resume the northern journey.
In Fred Shaw’s office sits an aged lariat believed to be 42 feet long of Mexican origin. The dusty relic has rested there for decades, with its exact age undetermined, described as wider and heavier than typical lassos.
Police in Vumaqne Iowa confronted Charles Robinson a 20 year old Negro transient after picking him up for vagrancy He disrobed at the city jail revealing multiple layers including a sheeplined coat wool jacket seven shirts and two pairs of overalls The remark Its sho nul col in dis country was his explanation of the attire.
Jurors spent twelve hours reaching a verdict in a Sac county chicken theft case though the trial lasted six hours. Judge R. L. McCord interpreted theft as any movement of the birds even slight. Anton Sattwan, caught with the chickens not moved, was found guilty after seven more hours.
A brief entry notes Br. O. J. Schrosdee ne Tra with a phone listing at 153 Rock Valley, Tow. indicating contact details for the member.
Lewis H. Brown of Johns Manville spoke to the American Bankers Association in New Orleans urging tax cuts. He warned that government costs have risen to one third of national income since 1924 and called for strengthened public opinion to reduce government expenditure.
Dr. R W Brown of the United States Geological Survey reports fossil cones from the Cretaceous era, including sequoia cones, found near the Can nophall river North Dakota and in driftwood deposits near Washington D C. The specimens suggest a vast ancient conifer forest spanning much of the continent with sequoias once widespread but now confined to western California. The finding traces forest decline through geological epochs as climate and ice ages reshaped North America and left only western pockets of giant trees enduring for over 100 million years.
The Biological Survey announces two new migratory waterfowl preserves in Louisiana. The Lacassine project covers 22,300 acres in Cameron and Jefferson Davis parishes, and another 137,000 acres in Cameron parish. Government buys the land for 638000 dollars to be diked against salt water to protect fresh water plants for feeding birds.
Gloucester residents can visit North Shore Veterinary Hospital which mirrors a modern human hospital with a sun porch for cats an electric sun ray lamp for sore bodies open air runs for dogs a raised operating table a fully equipped operating room private wards and rooms plus individual record cards for each dog to track care.
The Lamb School district lists an odd assortment of family names including Bucks Wolfes Cranes Lambs and Bulla highlighting local surname variety in Argentine Michigan.
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