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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1941
Page
2
Professional directory listing for Dr J Schroeder a dentist located in Rock Valley with phone number 183. The compact entry identifies a single practitioner in the local dental services sector.
The Rock Valley Bee notes E. Bowers as publisher and places the paper as second class mail at Notkey Iowa under the act of 1870. The annual subscription is listed at $2.00 per year.
A jumble of late 19th or early 20th century classified blurbs offers livestock for sale farm machinery shoes paint jobs and employment notes. Items include rock valley Iowa shoe shop and D. J. Schnlan & Bon Rock Valley ads plus livestock listings and work offerings. The text shows varied prices and contact hints like phone numbers and locales such as Rock Valley Iowa and Hock Valley.
Rock Valley Public School notes record first grade pupils like Tan Kesske and Bernice Jona Benson with others listed as achieving A grades. Fifth and sixth graders describe Friday projects including pen holders and garden markers, spelling year results, and map exercises. Junior high reports note debates in English and geography, with posters and wallpaper designs.
The High School Notes report a Springtide concert featuring diverse solos and ensembles led by Tuynman with accompanists Nelly and Lorraine, to be held March 28 in the high school auditorium. Seventy seven students enter preliminaries April 4 to 6, and a county music festival is planned for March 21. The event includes a three-course dinner for education officials and staff, with colorfully decorated tables in Holland colors.
An OCR fragment lists transfers and notices involving several individuals and couples. Items reference deeds, property parcels by township ranges, and monetary amounts from various parties including Albert Miller, Hazel Parker, Marie Scholten, George De Kraay, Mortier, Bent Vanier Veen, Equitable Life Insurance, Oscar Henrich, and Olga Henrich. The text resembles a ledger of mortgages, property deeds, and trust notices with dates and values.
A field of rough deed details lists multiple transfers in Iowa including Jensen Avers and partners, Kunkel entities, Kwikel, and various spouses. Amounts range from 91 to 27000 dollars with dates spanning 1943 to 1945, noting parcels in townships such as NWY N14 84 RWH 32 and SW 23-97-44. Several names recur, including Moeser, Jansma, Provost, Gloysteen, De Velder, Pick, and De Haam, with references to state filings and referees.
Fragmentary OCR shows names such as Delia Thonahoe extrx and Al Julia G Vandipekel, with multiple parcel or tract references like NW NW and NEY 32-90-45. Amounts listed include 14 000 and 19 753.49, suggesting transfers or settlements in a consolidated property notices page.
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