Rock Valley Businessmen Plan May 24 Sioux City Event
Local boosters met at the Legion Club to coordinate a Rock Valley day on Thursday May 24 with Sioux City jobbers and manufacturers. Prizes, entertainment by Mose Reed’s band, and special discounts will attract farmers and townspeople to shop, listen to the band, and enjoy prizes for top cash purchases, hog sales, building material buys, cream quality, and auto purchases. The event includes a road project push with L P Courshon seeking support to route highways through or near Rock Valley.
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Booster Committee
Rock Valley
Legion Club
Sioux City
Mose Reed
L. P. Courshon
Pike East
Doon
Rock’ Rapids
Laverne
Minn
Chicago
Funeral draw huge crowd in Sioux Center for six California crash victims
Rock Valley residents attend a Monday funeral in Sioux Center for six Sioux County natives killed near Selma California when struck by a Southern Pacific train. Attendees came from across the state and beyond, with 4 000 to 5 000 paying their respects.
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Rock Valley
Sioux Center
Sioux County
California
G. van Otter
de Motts
James A. Ogg
Orange City
John de Motts
Edward de Motts
Orange Grove
Calif
Conrad Jongewarrd
Merced
Southern Pacific
Selma
New York
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Dr. Oge
Iowa
Jongewaard
Alumni Banquet Set for May 22 at Warren Hotel
Rock Valley high school alumni banquet scheduled for May 22 1923 at 7 00 PM in the Warren Hotel. Alumni urged to attend and beat last year's turnout. Tickets on sale at the post office and at the First National Bank.
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Rock Valley High School
Warren Hotel
First National Bank
Card of Thanks from Mrs BE F Tripp and Family
We express gratitude to friends and neighbors for the help and sympathy shown during our recent bereavement. Mrs BE F Tripp and children appreciate your kindness.
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BE. F. Tripp
At the Orpheum Weekly Film Schedule
Saturday show features Wm. Russell in Man's Size and Lloyd in a comedy. Sunday presents De Mille's Super Special Saturday Night the biggest picture of the year. Admission 10 and 30 cents. Monday and Tuesday Life's Greatest Question plus two reels of comedy. Next Wednesday The Beauty Shop Cosmo-Prod and two reels of comedy. All shows start Saturday May 20. All children free with parents.
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Russell
Lloyd
Sun
de Mille
School Notes on Exams, Meets, and Commencement Plans
State Normal Training Examinations held at the high school midweek. Miss Rielly led seventh and eighth graders on a penitentiary visit to Sioux Falls. Hawarden meet results show Rock Valley second in half mile relay and top placements for Sinning, Roorda, Huizenga, and others. Commencement speaker Dr. Kirby of Iowa State University. baccalaureate address moved by Rev. Colenbrander’s bereavement. Senior annuals selling fast.
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Miss. Rielly
Sioux Alls
Hawarden
John Sinning
Wilfred Relander
Herman van Hldik
Ray Roorda
Ray
Franklin Huizenga
Rock Valley
Kirby
Iowa State
Haverkamp
Sioux Center
First Reformed Church
Colenbrander
Ross
Orange City
Scott
Ireton
B. Schoeneman
Strong
Willis
Treton
O. Scott
G. Meeter
L. Meeter
Vande -Meer
Hospers
F. Schoeneman
Huizenga
Wassenaar
Maurice
Knowlton
Derbruin
Hipers
F. Scott
Sinning
Mulenberg
Lutzen
Hull
de Pree
G. Meester
L. Meester
Roorda Rock Valley
Mauving
Rock Valley Stores Extend Hours to Wednesday Nights
Rock Valley stores will stay open Wednesday evenings during the busy summer in addition to Saturday nights starting this week. Shoppers are urged to plan visits for Wednesday nights.
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Rock Valley
Senior Class Play Delights at Local Opera House
The senior class play drew a full house Friday and again Saturday, with strong audience praise. Special music by the orchestra, a solo by Miss Luella Smith, and a dialogue between acts enhanced the performance.
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Luella Smith
Hetwen
Car Stolen From Hawarden Home Belonging to Ruth Brunskill
Ruth Brunskill of Hawarden reports her Ford Coupe stolen from the home Saturday night into early Sunday. Police have no trace of the vehicle and there is insurance coverage noted, estimated at 600 percent.
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Ruth Brunskill
Hawarden
Parage
Iowa Manpower Drives Fort Des Moines Camp Enrollment
Campaigns target Iowa quota for civilian military training at Fort Des Moines Angnat 1 to 80th with 1500 Nebraska and Missouri youths including St. Louis. Government covers transport clothing and board. Boys 17 to 24 must vaccinate for typhoid and smallpox and undergo month long training with sport recreation and outings. Des Moines scouts buy 125 acres 30 miles NW for a future camp with lodges and summer cottages at 40 dollars per acre aiming to raise 15000 dollars.
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Iowa
Fort Des Moines
Nebraska
Missouri
St. Louis
Ach Reemit
Boy Scout Movement
Des Moines
Nine Field Artillery Mobilizes For Overland March
Three hundred members of the Ninth Field Artillery led by Major William Shepherd leave Fort Des Moines for Fort Riley Kansas in an overland march with Batteries A and B com bat trains and service train and 300 horses and 125 vehicles. They expect to finish around June 1 and return by July 15 to drain the Citizens Military Training camp opening August 1. Stopping points will host exhibition drills and featured movements with food provided for horses and men. The march offers southwestern Town residents a chance to witness a live military movement in action.
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Ninth Field Artilery
William Shepherd
Fort Des Moines
Fort Riley
Kansas
Citizens Military
Heroic deeds echo in shrouded city memories
Amelia Ransom of Sioux City saved a child from a runaway team as a girl. A later visitor, claiming to be the saved child, gave her a $1,000 check and urged aid if needed. Similar stories name Mrs. Mary Pardue of Town City who rescued Mrs. Beranek’s three year old in Cedar Rapids and was slightly hurt.
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Sioux City
Amelia Ransom
Ransom
James Kellar
Seattele
Towa City
Mary Pardue
Town City
Anna Beranek
Cedar Rapids
Pardue
Beranek
Forger of War Risk Checks Arrested in Reinbeck
Don J. Bingham, accused of forging war risk insurance checks, was arrested by Deputy Marshal M Ta Healy in Reinbeck. Sought since July 1 1921, the fugitive reportedly fled to California before leaving nude Mrs Par a present of a high class automobile. Earlier efforts near Webster City failed by minutes. A decoy letter aided the Reinbeck post office trap.
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California
Don J. Bingham
Secret Service
Reinbeck
U.S
M. Ta. Healy
Binghamt
Lewis Wagernseller
Wegenseller
Tewis
Webster City
Reinbeek
Polk County Sues Bloomfield Coal for 250000
The Polk County board of supervisors files suit against Bloomfield Coal and Mining Co for 250000 claiming mining beneath county poor farm buildings between Des Moines and Ankney caused settling cracking foundations and damage to the county hospital. Officials say entrances were sealed after removal and engineers cannot determine the full extent of underground workings.
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Board of Supervisors
Polk County
Bloomfield Coal and Mining Co
Des Moines
Ankney
Roelofs Vander Bek's Sells Blackberries and Sand
Short local notices list blackberries at 1.00 per pint, sand prices 50 cents bank sand and 50 cents wash sand, a Mull Academy vs Rock Valley game Friday at 6 30 pm, book notes on Edmund Harrison death, Library Circle meeting at Mrs Suter’s with valuable year end recap and plans for Iowa Alaska studies.
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Roelofs & Vander Bek's
Anil
Mull Academy
Princeville
Waois
Rdmond Harrison
Buckles
Iowa
Alaska
Roelots & Vander Bok’s
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ST. Mary’s School
A. Lindgren
D. Dixon
Loraine Balzer
Madame Charteris
Enid Bellamy
Rosie Winterberry
Johnnie Bell Randolph
Katherine Hawke
Caroline Hawke
Judy Johnson
Little ‘Tots
Trene Splear
Mildred Linkenheist
Margaret Akin
Mary Tuynman
Catherine Keegan
Catherine Flynn Idow
Trene Tuynman
Henry Rath
Madame
Charteris
Polk
Keler Bela
Lucile McKeegan
Rock Valley Orchestra
First National Bank of
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