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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1930
Page
11
Sioux Center edged Rock Valley 7-5 in a hard fought Junior Legion baseball game. Bergsma hit a home run and a double for Rock Valley while Joe Achatz starred at second base, throwing out baserunners and contributing strong defense.
A playful skating race is staged on the 40 mile paved highway between Waverly and Waterloo. The event highlights new amusement possibilities while hinting at potential traffic hazards from increased roller skating on the road.
Des Moines merchants toured the northern wholesale district while southern areas were visited earlier. Sioux City interests toured its tributary region. Omabe business crossed into Iowa visiting towns for supplies with bands and various entertainments and souvenirs for women and children.
Dr H A Pierce of Storm Lake notes about fifty pelicans have appeared on Storm Lake and played on the waters. Two birds were found dead on the west shore as Warren Dan Fuller investigates, since firing on the state game preserve is illegal even with no pelican season.
The Framers Lumber Company of Rock Valley held its annual meeting Monday afternoon to review the year’s business, electing officers Fred Kook as President Fred Miller as Vice President Fred A Bander as Treasurer E C Suter as Secretary and directors Thos Cullinan A d Fritts Johm Tank Ted De Jong and Edward Miller P Fitzgerald died Tuesday evening after six weeks illness. Funeral will be Friday morning at St Marys church. Further account next week.
The Des Moines city jail held 7638 prisoners in May with 43 women. Of them 256 were investigated then released, 242 jailed for intoxication, and 178 transients sought a night’s lodging. This count excludes Polk county jail inmates.
Former Rock Valley resident Wm. R. Roggman died May 10 at his Long Beach California home. He grew up here, farmed locally, later ran a real estate business, and owned farms. He leaves a wife. Funeral and burial were held in Long Beach.
A Des Moines traveler extols western passenger service after touring the east. He cites the Chicago and Northwestern Columbine as the finest train, running from Chienso to Denver with silver gold and blue cars named for Colorado flowers and trees, embodying state mining and sky themes.
Charles A. Hacke of Lone Tree notes how a pond built a quarter century ago by Dayton Riggs north of the railroad provided year round ice for residents. The ice pond now lies fallow, repurposed as a corn field as electric refrigeration and chemical ice advance replace traditional methods.
East Omaha, once stranded by a river course, voted 171 to 124 to incorporate as Carter Lake, Iowa. The new town includes Carter Lake Click, with several hundred residents who live near Omaha.
Rock Valley has won half its kittenball games to date. They beat Hull in a hard fought match and defeated Doon on the local school grounds. Doon then won a ragged rematch last Friday to even the score.
Once arc lamps hung at street intersections drawing swarms of insects all night. The flickering lights lacked steady brilliance and over the years have vanished from city streets. Incandescent lighting now provides the uniform glow.
Urimes Iowa area official H Bru lauds Towa state as producing the finest tomatoes for canning with milder flavor and high quality. Grimes soil noted poor for sweet pumpkins, pumpkins now grown in Polla Iowa branch cannery with Grimes gannery branches at Altooma and Rock well City. The firm ships sweet corn worldwide. Local residents and travelers share news of travel, car sales, and family visits across Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio.
W. H. Albert, state fish and game warden, arranged 20,000 pheasant eggs in one week to southern Iowa. Thousands more were sent earlier to farmers who hatched them under hens. Once the birds can care for themselves they will be released to help populate southern counties as in the north.
The government seized high quality farms when securing Camp Dodge for a wartime cantonment creating 2100 acres. Land is rented to two brothers at a nominal rate with little soil improvement and buildings decaying. The Iowa National Guard occupies the tract's south wall with solid improvements.
Estimated gross income for Iown farmers in 1920 fell short of peak potential despite gains in four grain and livestock sectors. Figures by John P Himmel of the Agricultural Economics Department note higher prices in 1938 but lower overall income than the year’s top market levels. Brookhart lecture plans report a 19 week Chautauqua engagement while he travels in prohibition campaign areas.
Three thousand people attended the formal opening of a 724 foot viaduct over the Boyer river and rail lines at Logan. Built by the Town Highway Commission with railway support and state funds, it is the longest and most imposing structure in Iowa, rising 59 feet above the river.
John Sheetz recovered his father Waltham watch, a 21 jewel timepiece, found by chance by Jack Sheetz while planting corn in September 1908. The watch had been missing for years and underwent a cleaning and spring replacement to run like new.
People in the northeastern Iowa counties greet a federal park bill introduced by Congressman Tangent that has passed the House. The measure, initially covering Jackson, Delaware, Clayton and Allamakee, was amended to add Davis, Lucas, Grant, Crawford, Vernon, La Crosse, Trempealeau, Buffalo, Pepin and Pierce counties in Wisconsin and Houston, Winona, Wabasha and Goodhue counties in Minnesota.
The Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners reports a record year with about 3,000 miles of fuel lines authorized, nearly double the prior year. An additional 700 miles of higher voltage intercity lines were approved, totaling 3,749.50 miles against 2,561.75 last year, with costs running into millions.
The Maizewood Factory in Dubuque launches cornstalk storage to sustain operations until next harvest. Grundy County ships the most stalks, Tama County next with 30 cars. John Deere Company develops new equipment for stalk building, to be ready in the fall, with demonstrations planned at county fairs.
Sioux County auctioneer to sell 400 acres known as the Hubert Remmerd Estate on Tuesday June 24 at 1 30 PM. Property lies miles south and 1% miles east of Ravk Valley with two improved set of improvements. Contact referee for details and terms. Sale will be on premises with no hy bidding. Hull Iowa lawyers listed for the sale.
The Rock Valley weed notice states that under Chapter 246 the Saux County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution at their April meeting requiring owners or persons in control of real estate to destroy noxious weeds on the property and adjoining highways. By order of the Board of Supervisors. Fred Miller Weed Commissioner Rock Valley Iowa.
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