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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1931
Page
4
The advertisement urges buyers to switch to Red Tops fence posts for all types of fencing. It claims five inventions make posts permanent and easy to use, guarantees satisfaction, and promises long service in the fence line. It encourages driving Red Tops into rotting wood posts to quickly improve fences.
Sioux County Farm Bureau notes newly paved highways with graded, seeded shoulders and rye catch crop now turning golden. Rally Day at Orange City schoolhouse drew 115 Girls Club members and leaders. Music Memory Contest won by West Branch Two Girls' Club with high scores. second Sheridan Towahi. Sioux Two third. Dinner, business meeting led by Wilmina Gel rich. new officers elected. Lions Township 4 H Club presented stunt program after meeting.
A. L. Gauthier of Corning notes that work has begun on guard fences beside Highway No 34 in Adams county. The county had planned to remove fences after paving but chose to rebuild the existing fences. Some fences were torn out and posts sold, requiring new material, while drivers in the fast era demand more than fences to keep them on the road.
CMSIP and Pry timetable lists passenger and freight trains with numbers and departure times. Westward and eastward runs show specific trains for Black Hills Sioux Falls Mitchell Milwaukee Chicago and Mason City with daily operation noted and sleeping car reservations encouraged by agent C. W. Jacobs.
Elevator officials and farmers will attend a one day grain grading school on wheels at Haward July 7. The event features a demonstration grain grading car at the Milwaukee depot opened 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Demonstrations will include actual grading practice and exhibits of grain grades with talks by Bureau of Grain Standards staff and Extension specialists on marketing and quality factors.
A survey by county boards shows wide variation in inmate feeding costs. Appanoose County reports $1.68 per week per inmate, while Davis County spends $6.91 weekly. Adjacent counties range from $2.53 to $3.59. Polk County with Des Moines enrollment totals about $5.00 weekly per inmate. Appanoose, Centerville as county seat, holds the record.
County supervisors report $27,000,090 spent last year on rebuilding secondary roads, $1,000,000 more than the State Highway Commission invested in primary roads. The Continental Construction 24-inch gas pipeline from the Texas Panhandle to Chicago via Iowa is to be completed July 15. In eastern Iowa less than 20 miles of main line remain, with Oklahoma Contracting Co. Tulsa operating three gangs. River crossings at the Missouri and Mississippi are finished.
A reader notes England closed Pentonville prison as part of postwar shifts while critiquing London crime stats. He praises British policing and judiciary for non political, lifetime appointments, severe gun control, and minimal police weapon use, arguing the U.S. should emulate England's crime-fighting seriousness and independence of courts.
Mrs Systra and her daughter Ruth from Chicago arrived in Rock Valley on Saturday to visit the home of G De Bruin Sr. They were hosted at the residence and spent time with family during the visit.
Mrs. M Owen claims Alderika relieved stomach gas in ten minutes by cleaning both upper and lower bowels. Druggist H H Pember endorses the product, urging it cleans all digestive waste for real bowel cleansing.
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