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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1928
Page
2
After months of effort farmers around Elgin in Fayette county form a rural fire protection association. A four tank chemical engine on a ton and a half truck will serve farms within eight miles, possibly the first rural equipment of its kind in the state. Members pay fifty cents yearly. several Elgin businessmen purchase memberships to support the project.
An all town schools exposition will highlight the largest showing of school work in the state at the 1923 Town State Fair. Premiums total 1247.50 with state championships across rural, consolidated, town and city school classes. Exhibits include school superintendents and teachers work and displays from about 45 colleges. Agnes Samuelson will supervise the exposition.
Dr EA Winship of Boston publisher and educator spoke to Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls students saying he had found the...
Dr Winship, age 33, argues that automobiles and paved highways link urban and rural life, shifting teaching from prohibition to thinking. He says mobility expands family welfare and exposes the young to varied ways of life, boosting observation and knowledge through contact with others.
Charles de Lyon, a seventh district congressional hopeful, backs an aeronautic plan to run a north south airmail corridor between St. Paul and St. Louis with Des Moines as a mid point. He urges Des Moines be a junction on the east west route for mail transfers and promotes standardized landing fields for cities.
Northeastern town chain offers scenic beauty and historic interior. A park donated by the Munn estate features the famed Pike Hill rising opposite the Wisconsin river mouth where Joliet and Marquette entered the Mississippi. Zebulon Pike named the hill. a deep canyon and varied colored sand cliffs lie to the north. The land includes forested hills, ravines, bottom land with oak, and a notable group of 101 Indian mounds of archaeological interest.
A Fayette County Iowa debate over prairie chickens draws in Walter Beall West Union and farmer reports. Mike Leathy recalls a flock on the Leathy farm four miles out Brainard road until about two years ago then vanished but Grimes says the flock moved one door west to the Grimes homestead. Teacher Winifred Flanagan reports pupils say prairie chickens are not uncommon in Union Township and nearby areas.
Wool growers in the Ghindy Genter AY area report record prices for this season. Wilson, a longtime buyer in the state, is paying 45 cents per pound, the highest in peacetime except during war. He notes paying as low as eight cents in the past. The average fleece yields range from sight to ten pounds. For painting and decorating or paper hanging see Peter Spruyt.
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