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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1929
Page
5
Dispatches from Washington state announce immediate bids for enlarging the Government Hospital at Knoxville to add nearly 150 beds. The project has $300,000 allocated, with flexibility as needed, and has been urged for years by veterans' organizations in Iowa.
The state plans a new air route with eight steel signal towers from Marengo to Des Moines and additional towers at Colfax Kellogg Grinnell Brooklyn Victor Homestead Oxford and Tiffin. Towers, averaging 75 feet, will have two lighting courses and a 3,000,000 candlepower beacon.
The Diamond Jubilee Iowa State Fair will stage a Mammoth Pageant of Transportation daily before the grandstand. Iowa-wide search for antique vehicles aims to show the evolution from Tama Indians travois to prairie schooners and wagons to early autos and modern steam powered cars, with period costumes and drivers.
Weather notes from the Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau explain green-tinted clouds arise from sunlight reflecting off green fields during clear gaps between storms. Dense overcast or direct sun can alter perceived color to black, blue, or silver, while spring storms erase the field green.
The Decorah Produce Co. employs 26 people handling eggs with plans to add 60 to 75 poultry season work. Daily tasks include grading and candling, shipping 400 cases per car, and operating refrigerator cars. In 1928 the firm shipped 66 egg cars and 51 poultry cars, with expectations of about 109 egg cars and 75 poultry cars in 1929.
North eastern Iowa farmers thresh last year’s oats as West Union reports Phil Johansen threshing five stacks totaling 1,140 bushels. Part grain sold for 45 cents a bushel. straw given to fair association. Also notes Drake University Band tour of Europe in 1930 with a party from Iowa and the Midwest signed with White Star Line for a six week voyage. Des Moines to England via Belgium Halland Germany Switzerland through France. 590 passages reserved for the party.
Over 900 farmers have attended 41 demonstrations and extension schools in Sioux County since March. Meetings covered weed control, corn disease, rodent control, poultry management, and landscape topics. Nearly 306 farmers adopted rodent control tips and over 20 obtained sodium chlorate for Canada thistles and bindweed. Next week’s schedule lists weed control demonstrations on July 9 10 from various farm sites and invites farmers to bring plant specimens for identification.
Farm Bureau has secured Ralph Held for a Dairy Calf Club meeting on Wednesday July 24. Held will teach the boys the best methods for fitting and showing their calves.
The Farm Bureau office received a postcard from two boys to the National Camp at Wash DC. They hail from Sioux county and send greetings to the 4 H boys. Names noted include Paul Sauerby and Pat Van Were ington.
R Whitfield of the Extension Service will visit July 12 to lead poultry club work in Sioux County. He plans special instruction on poultry judging and hopes to form judging teams. Members will be notified of exact time and place by letter.
About 72 residents in and around Kanaranzi township Minnesota became ill with food poisoning after eating chicken salad at a ladies aid society luncheon at the Ernest Staack home last week. Ten are reported seriously ill in Rock Rapids Review.
Notice is hereby given that on June 25 1929 the District Court of Sioux County Iowa appointed Mas Mable Grassen traux Administratrix of the estate deceased late of the county. All persons indebted must pay and those with claims must present them legally authenticated to the court for allowance. Dated June 25 1925 burg Adminis Okn G Reiniger Attorney.
To whom it may concern you are notified to appear at the courthouse in Orange City Iowa on July 22 1928 at 10 am to attend probate of an instrument claimed as the last will of Geutt Van Holland Tate of Sioux County deceased There you must show cause if any why said will should not be admitted to probate Clerk of the District Court c A Worth or attorney
Mrs Bertha Bare plans to leave Winterset August 1 to teach in Shanghai at the Shay American school. She will sail August 8 aboard the Empress of Asia from Vancouver. The school year begins September 12.
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