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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1930
Page
3
The Rock Valley Bee reports that Private John J. Gross of Fairfield received a Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism on September 12, 1918, near Finley France. He single handedly captured a machine gun nest and five gunners that had stalled his company’s advance.
Iowa readers learn that the Illinois Central system over the past decade scrapped 600 locomotives 400 passenger cars and 54000 freight cars and added 500 new locomotives 650 new passenger cars and 49000 new freight cars at a total expenditure of 155000000, aimed at greater capacity and efficiency.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION. A prominent farmer found a one gallon bootleg alcohol can while discing a field along a highway. Authorities may have planted it, hoping a rich crop of cans. The story notes weather shifts, with a snowy morning and sunny noon, and reflects local chatter about morning greetings and traffic on the boulevard. Local truck delivery bragging rights feature Tom Ver Wey and Roelofs & Van der Bok with new Essex and Whippet models.
A Lewiston Journal note recalls Maine lumber camps where meals come before the cook shouts. No courses, real grub fills tin cups and enamel ware. Men eat until full, then scrub dishes in large dishpans, avoiding greenshorn signals.
The case of Lowa versus Red Ball Transportation Co. of Mason City and L B Pantages of Ames over a ton wage tax on buses has been settled by the state executive council with supreme court action securing judgments. Red Ball paid the state 524,498.98 and Pantages 3,493. A compromise reduced penalties, and a surety company that stood on the bonds paid the judgments.
A Le Mars firm hires L W Page county agent Grundy to oversee corn stalk baling for a pig project using second hand Ford motors on balers. Ground is frozen to break stalks, windrows formed, loading platform removed, two men feed stalks, wire bales set upright in the field.
A Montreal Star tale recalls Lord Eskgrove, famed for ornate delivery on the bench. The 2 Scots judge’s long rhetoric, including a fatal tailor’s murder verdict and a dinner-time lament, warned against undue ornament in judicial speech.
A simple and effective remedy for ground ivy uses a single spraying with sodium chlorate. Mix 1 to 7 ounces per gallon of water to cover 100 square feet, using a pressure sprayer. Sprinkling cans waste material, needing about 2 times more solution. Apply any time during summer or fall, noting the spray discolors foliage briefly.
The origin of the poet laureate of England is obscure. Early use of aureate meant eminent in a literary sense. Medieval kings had household poets who received pensions but no official appointment. Ben Jonson was seen as first laureate though not formally titled. Dryden became the first to hold the title by patent in 1670, after which the post became regular.
An orderly questions Private Brown about his gear during a kit inspection. Brown confirms items including three ghirta, two pairs of boots, and two pairs of socks, with one item reportedly missing or misplaced. The scene ends with a tense exchange as the box location is sought.
In the first chamber of the great Salisbury cathedral tower lies a rusty mechanism that may be England’s earliest turret clock dating to 1886, predating the Wells clock by six years and now in the Science Museum at South Kensington. The Salisbury clock features a hand wheel for winding the going part, and restoring it would be simple and inexpensive to make it run again.
A mother boasts that Betty learns politeness. At dinner Betty resists pudding, answering with a stammered refusal. The exchange highlights a child's shy, cautious response during mealtime.
For sale and want ads include house rental, a vacuum sweeper, seed corn barley oats and cattle. Multiple names and locations appear such as Warren Hotel Carmel Rock Valley Tebanon Alvord and Inwood Iowa with prices from 2.00 per bushel to 17.00 for a vacuum sweeper and mentions of plowing tractors hens brooders and farm equipment.
A jumble of sale notices and found item. Earry Ohio potatoes, shoe repair shop nearby, seed corn from Schemmer’s Hardware, Brown Leghorn hatchings at $2.50 per dozen, Rhode Island Red hatching eggs, a found blanket at Bee Office, tire fitting service from Griener Bros, brooder house for sale, 1929 seed corn tests, Buff Leghorn hatching eggs listed by R Cleveringa.
Mrs J Vis of Steen Mint a former resident died last Monday funeral services were at Steen with interment in Sioux Center Clover Clover Club gave a successful program at Center schoolhouse West Branch plans a second show in Welcome Township District No 3 on March 25 Rev and Mrs R Vander Pal of Dansforth TI visit Sioux Center Bowden due to ill mother Amy Te Paske a J C Ames Ia student visiting parents A Vander Stoep and M Borgman family visits Holl Anisman child ill with pneumonia Wandscheer buys from Veencamp home prep underway James De Pree to finish schooling in Chicago Born to G De Ruyter and Mrs Chas Westra a baby boy March 23 infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Chas Westra seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia in Le Mars hospital improving
An advertisement touts a reliable John Deere farm engine that delivers continuous power with minimal attention. It claims quick payback through labor savings on pumps jacks separators feed grinders wood saws and household chores with fuel and oil management.
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