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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1930
Page
5
Walter E. Beall of West Union reports A J Koehler of Smithland township lost his political museum in a blaze. He had eighteen years of campaign portraits mounted on one interior wall of his log house when he used a torch to burn cobwebs and accidentally set the pictures alight.
Miss Bess Goody Koontz of Iowa City earns renomination as assistant commissioner of education in the interior department, marking one of the highest posts held by a woman. A native of Foulton in Allamakee County, she has a long career in teaching and higher education across Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and at the University of Pittsburgh before her federal appointment.
Four members of the Sioux county livestock clubs attended the state convention at Ames early this week. Attendees from Sioux county were Alfred Meyers and Vernon Green of Boden, Alvin Miller of Rock Valley, and John Brunsting of Hawarden.
A summer management and poultry culling school is scheduled for June 23 at 1:30 PM at the Houry Benit farm in Washington Township. The event, postponed from June 6 due to bad roads, will demonstrate culling hens and sunner management with rain shelters despite weather concerns.
Farmers urged to attend a weed control meeting at the Joe Schuur farm on the county line north of Granville on Wednesday June 25 at 1 30 PM. Demonstrations will show chemical weed control methods.
A Jersey cow ran onto a railway bridge at the McKown farm near Ida Grove delaying the Corn King limited between Chicago and Sioux City by about thirty minutes. Train crew proposed tying the cow to the engine pilot but the owner objected. Ida Grove garage sent hoisting gear to remove the animal and the train resumed after a brief delay.
W I Dewel of Algona reports efforts underway to raise funds to mark the grave of William Galton, town marshal of Bancroft, Kossuth County, who was killed during a 1896 bank robbery in Portland. The bandit, pursued from Estherville, died after a deputy’s shot and a final self-inflicted suicide. His mother received a purse from state banks after the tragedy.
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