Local Briefs Note Family, Visit, and Illness Updates
Mrs. D DeSmet is improving. A son Dick was born to Abs J Van Holland on March 10. Bernard Ver Hoeft and family visited Sam Ver Hoef in Sioux Center. Ed Schmidt attended T N Torkelson's funeral in Hudson MD. Gerrit Vanden Berg and Johanna Vanden Berg spent weekend with friends in Pease. Henry De Boer is ill with pneumonia. Otta Cover attended Torkelson funeral in Hudson. Joe Benson and Otta Cover visited Nellie Hazlitt in Bronx Falls. Roy Kaskiz of Mitchell traveled to Rock Valley to visit Trebon home.
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Mr. and
Abs. J. van Holland
Mrs
Bernard Ver Hoeft
Sioux Center
Sam Ver Hoef
Gerrit Vanden Berg
Hull
Johanna Vanden Berg
Pease, In
Henry de Boer
Joe Benson
Hawarden
Otta Cover
Nellie Hazlitt
Bronx Falls
Roy Kaskiz
Mitchell, ¢. D
Rock Valley
Trebon
Smits Visiting in Michigan and Wisconsin
Smits party traveled to Lansing and other Michigan locations and to Wisconsin last Friday afternoon to visit relatives and friends. Miss Margaret Smits drove to Michigan and Wisconsin. returning home Sunday. Miss Anna Eppink and Miss Hester Wells accompanied Miss Smits. Miss Wells visited Preston, Iowa, over the weekend.
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Mir
Lansing
Michigan
Waupun
Wisconsin
Margaret Smits
Anna Eppink
Hester Wells
Suiits
Wells
Preston
Iowa
Rock Valley Public School Board Meeting Held Monday
A Rock Valley public school board held a meeting Monday with discussions likely covering district matters and potential actions affecting students and staff amid ongoing budget considerations.
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Rock Valley Public School
Spring Arrives as Major Rail Delay Ties to Bridge Work
On a fine spring day, the community notes a late Mibtawkee Lions train eight hours behind schedule due to bridge repairs. Reporter A. R. Eggleston investigates the delay, while local projects push ahead: a new school building, paving from Rock Valley to Route 75, culvert material arriving, and a grandstand at the ball park funded by WPA and PWA programs.
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Lions
A. R. Eggleston
Ww 0
Eggle
Stan
Bee
Rock Valley
No. 75
Ball Park
Rock Valley School Board Returns Five Directors to Office
The Rock Valley news notes that five old directors, including John Haupt and Gerrit Harmelink, were sworn in for another year with Haupt chosen president and starting his nineteenth year as school director. The piece reflects on voter turnout, local road funding, and wartime world events influencing local life.
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John Haupt
Gerrit Harmelink
Haupt
Bernard M Baruch Keens A Cony Always Handy
An editor’s note promotes The Reader’s Digest as a standard reading magazine. Bernard Baruch commends its accessibility and usefulness to ordinary readers. The piece invites requests for sample copies via Dept. 3 in Pleasantville New Jersey.
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Bernard M. Baruch
Dept. 3
Reader's Digest
Pleasantville, N. J
Plato Townships News Highlights and Tragic Fire
Gotlob Gayer was taken to Le Mars hospital Sunday morning for asthma treatments. Fire destroyed the hog house four individual houses and a straw pile on the Edwin Miller farm last Thursday evening with the barn seven sows and thirty eight pigs burned. The fire is thought to have started from a broader stove. John Tank received a telegram from Gladbrook Iowa stating his sister had died. Funeral details followed as relatives traveled from multiple towns to Gladbrook. Sunday dinner at Fred Dierks home honored Mr and Mrs Dierk birthdays.
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Plato Townships
Gayer
Les Mars
Edwin Miller
John Tank
Gladbrook
Iowa
Tank
Fred Gayer
Carl Tank
Esther Dierks
Herman Dierks
Albert. Klein
Inwood
Hans Moeller
Harvey Prigksot
Fred Dierks
Mr. and
Mes. Dierk
Special paperhanging price sale for Bernard and John Grossenburg
For sale: good brood Sos. and 20 cents per double roll. Bernard and John Grossenburg advertise paperhanging specials. Splear contact via phone 1605.
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Bernard
John Grossenburg
Splear
Sioux County Seed Treating Centers Announced
Sioux County farmers will access seed cleaning and treating at community centers after a state extension conference. Rock Valley Farmers Elevator Co. installs equipment. others plan similar services to control smut and other diseases while removing unwanted seeds.
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Sioux
Howe State College Extension Servilihars County
K. V Wagner
Iowa State College
Rock Valley
Farmers Elevator Co
Netessa
County
Bard
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D. DeSmet
Ed Schmidt
T. N. Torkelson
Hudson, M. D
Hudson
Smits
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Market Report
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Wenemaa State Bank
Rock Valley, Iowa
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Vander Well & Sons
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Warm Springs
California
Roosevelt
White House
Washington
Schoo
Rock Rapids
Root Valley
Orange City
Iame
Sheldon
Wathhouse
Senate
Highway Commission
Europe
Adolph Hitler
Britain
France
Canada
Cassion
Ageres
Solini
Waterloo
Joan
Sioux County Farm Bureau
Sioux County
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Growers Meeting
McDonsou Huswen
Saogwatist
Ames
Pense, Ex
Doom’s
Gerrit Doorn
Iowa Businss
Reddy Kil
Y Iowa Public Service Co
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