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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1931
Page
2
A vintage ad touts Red Tops fence posts as permanent, easy to use with five great inventions. It promises lasting satisfaction backed by years of service in the fence line and urges buyers to use Red Tops to build stronger fences quickly.
The Montour school district voted unanimously to enroll Sac and Fox Reservation Indian children above third grade starting next fall under a U.S. government agreement. The district will receive 1500 dollars yearly for sixteen pupils, with health, clothing, and transportation funded by the government and a government nurse provided. Health requirements ensure only fully healthy children join the Montour school.
Dr J H Friend of Grinnell and his son Dr Hayward Friend of Oelwein plan a journey to Fort Benton Montana to locate the grave of Dr Friend's father who with his brother in Poweshiek county went to Olphir mining camp near St Benton during the gold rush era. They were killed in an Indian massacre in 1865 when about 300 Indians were believed to be present and ten miners died. The father is to be marked with a monument if the grave is found.
Frank Pierson, formerly of Charles City, vanished 25 years ago while traveling with a stock load from St Paul to Omaha. He later appeared in an Oakland hospital and died there after naming relatives. His widow and daughter Edith, both widows, live in St Paul. Insurance was paid after seven years with no other trace. Pollution Expert Views Iowa Water. W C Purdy, a Cincinnati specialist in stream pollution, studies Iowa waters for two weeks at no cost to the state, under new federal loaned-expert provisions.
Central College of Pella Iowa reports a successful year with all obligations met and treasury funds intact. President Rev John Wesselink notes ongoing needs but emphasizes no embarrassment in meeting both ends meet while continuing to pay full faculty salaries. A new building has boosted campus efficiency.
A state highway commission inventor proposes a machine using a double cylinder pump to lift sunken concrete by forcing a cement mud mix through drilled holes. Holes two inches wide are made, mixture contains cement dirt and water, raised paving is allowed to set before continuing, sides may be boarded to prevent leakage.
Clay County supervisors threaten to withhold issuing road bond funds unless local labor is employed on paving operations. They exacted a promise from two contractors to use local workers where possible, angry at outside labor brought in from other counties and one county that had rejected a bond issue.
The state board of education finance committee awarded a 35 000 ton coal contract for the year ending April 1 1932 to Scandia Coal of Des Moines at 3 09 per ton for crash ed mine run and screenings F O B campus based on engineers reports and a stated saving of 9200 compared with other coals.
The sole county high school, serving Panora since Guthrie Center era, will be discontinued after this school year. A general assembly act repealing county high school provisions ended its operations and the county supervisors offer the former courthouse building to Panora for use as a high school.
Rev. Henry O. Pratt, a Cedar Rapids pastor and former congressman from Iowa’s old Fourth District, died at 93. Born during Martin Van Buren’s presidency, he served in the Civil War, practiced law in Charles City, and entered politics during Ulysses S. Grant’s era. He spent years in the Upper Iowa Conference and served as chaplain at the Soldiers Home in Marshalltown, retiring as Pastor Emeritus at St. Paul’s Methodist Church.
Miss Agnes Samuelson, state superintendent, said the national advisory committee on illiteracy advised her that Iowa’s illiteracy rate is now 8 percent, up from 1.1 percent in 1920. The total illiterates over 10 number 15,879, with 8,177 native white illiterates, 5,932 foreign born white literates, 777 Negro illiterates, and 993 other colored illiterates.
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