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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1928
Page
9
All business places in Rock Valley will close for Thanksgiving, November 29, except drug stores may stay open part of the day to fill prescriptions. Elevators, city scale, lumber yards, implement stores, and general stores will close. The day is a long standing Thanksgiving holiday proclaimed by Governor Hammill.
Dodge and Pontiac car prices fell sharply last week with the Dodge Victory Six down $200 and the Standard Six down $140 while Pontiacs lost $150 causing a surge of new car sales in the area. Chevrolet plans a statement next week.
Pastor Lyman T.F. Focht invites parishioners to attend the Lord's Supper at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. Evening topics will continue on the faith theme, with services welcoming all.
County Treasurer A Balkema announces that 1929 license plates and 1920 five year application cards go on sale December 1 1928 with payments due by January 1 1929. Penalties apply for unpaid licenses and transfers require original signatures from owners or authorized agents with written power. The Nightingales perform Thanksgiving eve at Kesslers Dance Pavilion on Wednesday November 28.
E. Tennant of Colfax reports that the Close-to-Nature company is sending canvas orders for the Asiatic Petroleum Co. to Balik Papen Bali in the Dutch East Indies. The voyage covers about 12 000 miles. Oil firms have long used Closed To-Nature houses in South America and Mexico.
John and George Steinberg spent Thanksgiving in Lennox with brother Irak Steinberg. G A Dunham returned from Shell Lake Wisconsin with plans to start a dairy farm and move Dec 10. Locals recount Farmers Insurance Convention in Des Moines with Hans Moeller and John Kehn. Multiple families report illnesses visits and ministry assignments across South Dakota Minnesota Iowa and Kansas including Rev Lackey and Fawn Thayer in Boyden.
The Beaver Valley Milling company of Des Moines recently shipped a car of this season's corn to Romania. The corn will travel by rail to Baltimore and then by boat to its destination with rain from other parts of the state.
Dr and Mrs Joh Mulder of Cavalier North Dakota arrived by train Saturday and are visiting Rock Valley relatives. Dr Mulder is a former Rock Valley boy and will be well remembered in the town.
First graders study Indian and Pilgrim life while fifth and sixth grade artists create geometric patterns. Fourth graders draw turkeys and fruit for Thanksgiving. Seventh and eighth graders complete Africa booklets. Senior Typing class earns three primary certificates Ella Gacke Harold Miller Peter Brandsma with top 41 wpm. Damrosch radio broadcasts for Appreciation of Music. Orchestra members listed. Alton plays Rock Valley with cross superintendent sons on teams.
Friday basketball trip to Tawood featured both first and second teams. The second string thriller showcased dash and brilliancy as Rock Valley posted the only field goal from a Dykstra to Hein Kosters throw.
Local notices list Woolhidge announcing The Scarlet Lady at the Orpheum on November 27 28 29. Frank Griener made a business call in Sioux Falls Monday. Gertrude Vanden Berg left for New Holland. Mrs H Moiffet and family visited Hudson. Frozen fruits and baskets for Thanksgiving orders and a Martha Circle sale at the Christian Reformed church are noted.
Belmond men R A Rankin and Lawrence Geal ow raised over 7 000 bushels of Irish Cobbler and Rural New Yorker potatoes on twenty acres. A soil sample analyzed by Prof CL Witch recommended 600 pounds of fertilizer per acre. using 400 pounds produced 330 to 400 bushels per acre versus about 200 bushels per acre unfertilized. Six carloads sold to Des Moines firms.
Reform Church notes list morning Holland service at 9 30 with Rev R D Douwstra. 1 30 Holland service on Jacob at Bethel. 3 10 Sabbath School on The Prayers of Paul. 7 45 Young Peoples Society led by Mr N Zwaan. Bible quote from Matthew 7 19 20 anchors the message.
Corn husking has dominated farm work for a month as fields yield abundant ears on 80 acre plots. Strangers help gather the crop with hand labor, machines scarce. Elevators handle large truckloads as prices hold at 68 to 70 cents per bushel.
Dr. FH Pammel head of Botany at Town State College warns that California Fern also sold as Greater Pern is actually poison hemlock. He urges immediate cessation of propagation as it could become a dangerous weed, harming stock and people. The plant is a biennial in the carrot family with whitish root and white flowers in August and September.
Cedar county Iowa birthplace of Herbert Hoover gains global attention as a photo of the childhood home circulates. Sixteen thousand visitors from all U S states and sixteen countries have visited the little house since his nomination in June.
A Monroe community in Jasper county has grown into a major cattle feeding center. In early October 80 feeders were shipped in and at peak times the Ralph Tendershot farm housed 8000 head with Herotrds. Le Grand Bros received 14 carloads delivering about 450 head. VanRoekel farm held 200 head and Arthur Schunen had 140 head received.
Farmers report a stranger promoting the Meredith price stabilization plan asking for a $2.50 campaign fee to back a petition of endorsement. The promoter claimed three million bushels of Argentine corn were milled at Cedar Rapids plant, a claim denied by Penick & Ford, Cedar Rapids owners.
Sioux County W C T U report highlights Mrs Te Paske’s science temperance display at the State Convention. A three tier cake with essays, blue ribbons, a bottle of ink and pen stood beside a framed ballot box message. A six foot ship crafted by a ten year old boy carried the slogan Build Friendship ships not War Ships. Kathryn McMahon presented the International Relations exhibit.
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