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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1929
Page
10
Local items note people visiting, moving, and family happenings in Rock Valley and nearby towns. Dorothy Kock finishes a 1900 piece quilt. Numerous social, church, and school activities are listed, including ad notices, auctions, bake sales, and a fire scare at a store. Funeral and birthday tributes appear amid community updates.
A fragmented listing of items for sale and services from a small town paper includes horses and ponies for sale, incubators and pumps, farming supplies, chicks and hatching services, dogs and hogs, land and loans, and various notices. Names like Sebert Kooman, Central Auto Co, Sioux Produce Co, Richard Dykstra, Ed Schmidt, Cecil Ab Smith, Gerritson, Will Rozeboom, Van Der Maelen, Greer Bros, H. H. Pember, D. J. Scanlan & Son appear with locations in Rock Valley and Sheldon Iowa, plus contact phone references and loan offerings.
Doon notes report Mrs M Turpstra and daughter and Miss Gertrude Vander Plaats visiting Rock Rapids. Frances McDowell and Teresa Schultz from Sioux City spent Sunday here. Frances Mann and Dorothy Rodman shopped in Rock Rapids. Mrs Nora Curtis of Sioux City visits in the Ted Rogers home. Mike Nagel dies after a long illness. Viola Ross’s birthday party attended by friends. Will Steinbruk of Rock Rapids visited over the weekend. Jake Brinkhous stayed at John Brinkhous’s in Sibley Town. Mr and Mrs Bunch moved furniture to Winnebago Neb to make their future home. Floyd Bunch visits briefly. John Laachmann and Miss Doris Bunch go to Winnebago Neb to visit Doris’s parents. Rowe Trower of Sioux City visited relatives here.
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