Straw Hats Sell Well This Season
Straw Hat vendors advertise a large stock at reasonable prices with emphasis on meeting customer needs and prompting quick purchases.
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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1918
Page
17
Straw Hat vendors advertise a large stock at reasonable prices with emphasis on meeting customer needs and prompting quick purchases.
Roeloff Vander Bek bargains on children's dresses at The Fair Store. Hollenbeck of Slayton Minnesota visits father Z D Hollenbeck. Mrs Leffert of Canton South Dakota returns home after visiting Mrs I E Eldredge. Reginald Norris returns for summer from Town City where he attended the State University. J H Gerla arrives from Alton for a Rock Valley visit. Sioux County may furnish 33 men for the next draft. local board has not sent names. Florence Crowley returns from Clinton Iowa after attending a Confederated Catholic Alumni convention. Mr and Mrs Joseph Roberts learn of Mrs J H Blatherwick's death in Los Angeles. sister of Mrs Roberts. Blatherwick family lived here years ago. Frank Cocroft and family and W W Crocroft travel to Windom Minnesota. Don Cocroft on furlough from army camp in Indiana to Alexandria Minnesota. W W Crocroft stays in Windom. others return home Monday.
An anonymous reader from Richmond, Kentucky, F. Be Tress, declares Chamberlain's Tablets a wonder and claims nothing else beat them for digestion and constipation. H. H. Pember endorses trying the remedy when troubled with indigestion.
Concrete permanence urged as customers are invited to inspect cement blocks in stock including designs silo and supply tank blocks at Rock Valley Cement Block and Tile Co Axe Gaalswyk, manager.
A long-read of community notes includes promotions sales and personal updates. Entries cover Miss Leona Benson starting summer school in Sioux City, Dr. Huizenga in Chicago for a medical meeting, Mrs. A J Muste visiting from New York, and local donations to Red Cross. Also listed are new Ford trucks purchases deliveries forecasts and a range of shop ads and social notices.
Due to high Red Cross demand on trained nurses, the Civilian Relief Committee of the Sioux County Chapter offers a free three month preliminary instruction course for women aged twenty to thirty five with a high school education. After completion, entrants must continue training at University Hospital. Write to the Registrar, Iowa City, or contact Dr A ELE Lespinasse in Orange City for details.
A Peru Indiana reader reports two daughters with whooping cough were eased by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The letter credits the product with delivering quick relief and a charm in treatment. The account cites H. H. Pember as another user.
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