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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1929
Page
3
On Wednesday Thursday and Friday the local TRE Mo hosts Air talks about the Navy and Army. A Navy football game is shown with admission for adults thirty five cents and children one cent. Saturday features Ranger police day in Alsa with Mickey McGuire on stage. Adult tickets cost twenty three cents.
The Rose Valley Bee reports construction of a western extension of Highway No 3 from Madison through several counties. The Missouri river crossing at Nebr town is awarded with bids. the Iowa Highway Commission let a contract for a record grade of over 10 miles, involving moving about a million cubic yards of earth.
Rock Valley Iowa November 6 1929 Town Council notes a new bridge building corporation has secured a franchise and will construct a bridge across the Mississippi at once aiming for completion by October next. Earlier efforts to fund bridges at McGregor and Lansing stalled. ferry service will be supplemented as work proceeds.
Notice to property owners listed in Schaller's Addition and Tripp Avenue divisions to pay sidewalk assessment charges to the Town Treasurer before December 1 or have amounts certified to the County Board. Entries include various lots and squares with assessed figures and the City Treasurer signature.
Raland Sherburne at Lone Tree Iowa claims a new variety of black walnuts. The nuts can be opened by tapping shells with a hammer, causing the meats to come out without breaking. The tree is about six inches in diameter.
Over eight months each year since 1 es, more than 2,008 route annes added to Towa bus lines and motor bus business SL percent growth. For the 1 months of last year the tax reached $108,211 based on 553 in 19 au to 086 im i on.
Spectators along the Chi Northwestern Railway viewed the first locomotive on the line. The 103 foot 4 inch long engine weighs 23 000 pounds and mounts on a flat car. It has sixteen wheels, a tender for 18 000 gallons of water and twenty tons of coal. The boiler bore a diameter of 100 inches and the grate area measured 100 square feet.
Former Bedford Citizen recalls local roots through letters from Col Sam Park of Biar Framer and Col Pant the American Veep council to France. A $1000 check intends to buy new books for Bedford Public Library, reflecting community effort from former residents.
Statement by superintendent W. B. Devine reports the Marshalltown Soldiers Home Hospital census includes men and women. Of the total, 6 are officers and 43 are enlisted men, with 48 additional personnel noted in the Marshalltown facility.
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