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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1966
Page
8
Classified ad fragment lists Chester white boars for sale by Ray Rens, located one half mile east of Orange City. Additional text references drug sale and general ad boilerplate from want ads.
Ronald Henderson was fined 100 dollars and costs for disturbing the peace by fighting. He appeared before Mayor Adrian Oldenkamp on Monday night.
Earl De Bey son of Mr and Mrs Tony De Bey received a Best in Chapter award last Saturday March 10 at a Sioux City dinner sponsored by the Sioux City Livestock Market. The honor cites his achievements in the Junior Livestock Feeder Project including 235 day steer feeding with 1.81 lb day gain and 9.6 cents per pound cost, yielding a net profit of 1212.53. He was accompanied by teachers Hérlon Vander Schaaf and Victor Schaeffer of Rock Wally Community School where he studies.
Funeral services for Ruby E. Gourley 61 of Harley were held at St Marys Catholic Church with burial in St Marys Cemetery. She was born Oct 1, 1904 in Sioux County and lived near Hudson and Cherokee before moving to Harley. Survivors include brother Charles of Hudson and seven sisters. A separate note covers Northwestern College Choral Readers tour led by Dr Theora England from March 17 to 27 spanning churches and schools in Iowa Illinois Michigan and beyond.
The Commercial club will meet Monday at Town hall to consider starting a Welcome Wagon for newcomers. A committee would visit new residents with town facts while local businesses offer coupons and tokens. Also on the agenda is a possible Farm-Home show, previously held in early June, with John Vande Kirk leading discussions for future reports.
Pvt. Hermida G. Brower departed last Friday for Fort Sill Oklahoma after a two week leave with his parents. He recently finished eight weeks of boat training at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri.
The Rock Valley Betterment Council met on Tuesday March 8 at the Hany Buma home with five members present. Eleanor Simonsen reported a balance of 34.51 dollars. They noted a Spencer meeting about a new post office building for Rock Valley and asked the Commercial club to cooperate in promoting the Paint-up Clean-up campaign this spring. Few steps were made toward razing or remodeling empty boarded up houses. this will be discussed again. They invite suggestions to improve the town.
Funeral services for Mrs Frank Middle 61 were held at 2 00 p m at Potter Funeral Home with Frank Tyson assisting Burial was in Valley View Cemetery She died Wednesday at Sioux Center Hospital after a brief illness She was born February 19 1905 in Sioux County She married Frank Middle November 20 1922 at Rock Valley The couple farmed near Alvord before retiring to Rock Valley five years ago Survivors include her widow two daughters Clarene of Rock Valley and Mrs Frank Armstrong of Dune Iowa two sons Clarence of Ames and Sinsley of Rock Valley three brothers Fred Sam Vogelzang of Rock Valley Theodore Raceler IA three sisters Mrs George Olson of Orange City Iowa Reka Faber Canton SD Janet Wallace of Rock Valley and five grandchildren
Dennis Hamann, son of Mr Karl Hamann and Mrs Hamann, placed second in the Young America Speaks contest at Sioux Center city hall on Tuesday March 8. He received a $10 prize check for his effort.
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