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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1923
Page
9
Fire alarm sounded at 2:00 am Wednesday at De Bruin Meat Market next to the telephone office. Fire likely started by someone with sawdust on the floor soaked with gasoline. Over 800 pounds of cured meat and lard burned. building repair needed. insurance coverage noted. A car headed east was seen soon before the alarm.
Mary Kathryn McSweeney and Mathew J Beckman wed at Immaculate Conception Church in Cherokee. The ceremony featured Nuptial Mass, organist Mary Flynn, and a four course breakfast. After a Chicago honeymoon they plan to reside in Cherokee after July 15.
Local notes cover travels of residents to Fairfield Denver and Chicago, a Parson's college student return, upcoming sermons by Rev. Terpstra and Rev. Bard, theater plans for The Third Alarm at the Orpheum, a Rock Valley baseball match between East and West sides, a house fire at a Kemp residence, and business notices from the Rock Valley Shipping Association and garages declaring cash basis, 8 percent terms.
An eastbound Northwestern passenger train collided with an Alton Orange City bus at a crossing near Alton Saturday, seriously injuring three people. Bus driver H Bolland of Orange City and passengers Mamie Scholten of Inwood and Mrs John Sas of Orange City were hospitalized and reported as doing as well as could be expected.
Hawarden Independent notes that attorney Olin G Reiniger Jr has closed his Hawarden office and left Tuesday for Auburn Alabama to join his family. Mrs Reiniger’s father is in feeble health, prompting the move. Reiniger plans to possibly remain in the south, with no definite future plans announced.
Mrs. John Miller and family return from Florida while Elmer Fritts finishes a four year course at State College Ames. Robert Corwin comes home from Ames after study. Provision Meat Market to open Sundays 9 to 11. Prices at Roelofs Vander Bek store include 10 and 15 cent yardage, 78 and 98 cent tissue. Otello Concert Four from Grundy Center Iowa performed at Christian Reformed Church with full house. Relatives visit Wisconsin towns. Fobes grows large potatoes.
John Bailey runs the Swift and Co. cold storage room in Des Moines with year round below zero temps and heavy fur gear. Pete Mariano toils at Hawkeye Cement near a blazing furnace where heat so extreme thermometers fail. Each man claims his job is the best around the works.
Town residents will gain 1 401 915 16 dollars as their portion of the federal highway appropriation for 1923 matching 1922 figures says C R Jones auditor of the state highway commission The state motor license revenue will total 6 464 632 69 dollars about the same as last year The national highway program is supervised by Thomas McDonald a former Iowa boy raised in Montezuma Poweshiek County
A letter from Garfield Township relatives details the Idaho Falls tragedy in which Joe Kruse Jr his wife Cora Winterfeld Kruse and Blanche Peterson drowned while crossing the Swan Valley Ford on Snake River. The wagon horses were swept into a deep hole as the river rose after snowmelt. efforts to recover the bodies and belongings continued for weeks with the community aiding the search.
Committees appointed by the American Legion organize entertainment and arrangements for a big Fourth of July celebration in Rock Valley. They expect to finalize the program in a few days and plan a booster trip through surrounding territory. Further plans are due next week.
Workmen freed a broken drill point stuck 385 feet down in quicksand at Sioux Center after nearly two months. The derrick damaged by the incident was repaired and hydraulic juke used to extract the tool by May 28.
Stockholders of Mariners Lumber Co. of Rock Valley met in the opera house Monday and elected B M Doherty John McKeegan and others to the board. The board organized naming Doherty president McKeegan vice president Klein secretary and Fritts treasurer. The annual report praised the year and indicated a dividend will be declared. Resolutions commended FH M Corwin for eighteen years service and he declined re election.
The Farmers Lumber Co board of directors of Rock Valley Towi expresses gratitude to Mr. Corwin for his faithful service as president and member of the board for the past eighteen years and commends his welfare to the company.
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