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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1930
Page
6
A reflective piece mentioning a shift in spending and values. The speaker notes limiting purchases such as newspapers and bananas, and reflects on December as a time for personal meaning. They express hope and health through Christmas Seals and gifts that bring joy to others.
Land and gravel delivered under the direction of John Vander Poel. Prep team members show effort in the project as work proceeds.
Sioux County Farm Bureau members met Friday afternoon at the Farm Bureau office with twenty five attendees. They discussed a music training school to be led by Mass Paunie Buchanan on December 4 and the December 18 annual meeting. Mrs. J. BR. Karr presided and reviewed township chairmen’s reports showing strong year over year gains. At 2:30 the group adjourned to the Hawkeye Hotel to join the Orange City Women's Club Rural Guest Day program.
Miss Buchanan resumes music appreciation training at the county school. She will coordinate with Farm Bureau leaders on family music, songs for boys, chorus direction, and review last year’s musical moment with foreign mothers.
A large number of farmers plan to attend a farm accounting school in Orange City on December 10 led by extension specialist J C Galloway. The session aims to help farmers begin using the universal account blanks and provide instruction for year round record keeping with individual help. An end of year meeting will close the books.
Mr. Galloway interprets the results and invites interest in maintaining proper records. Anyone who wants to learn and keep accurate books is urged to attend the meeting.
Officials plan the largest annual meeting in years with President P. E. Ver convening committees at 9 A.M. on December 15 to prepare recommendations for the general session. At last Friday’s county committee meeting the home project ladies finalized plans for a covered dish luncheon to be served at 1:60 p.m.
A closing out sale is planned for Tuesday December 2 1930 at 1 pm featuring an entire herd of registered Holstein cows and heifers aged 2 to 3 years some fresh and others to freshen The sale takes place on a farm five miles east and three miles south of Rock Fairey E Gritters Sr Quaer B J Meytink Auction Town State Bank Hull clerk This item notes a farm activity shift with Hart Parr tractors powering a long shipment of tractors destined for Texas farms.
Nervous, cross with her husband, a woman recalls nearly driving him away until Vinol restored harmony. The ad touts Vinol with iron calcium and cod liver peptone as a tonic for nervous fatigue, better sleep, and increased appetite, endorsed by a dr specialist and chemist.
Local listings promote farm livestock including purebred Holstein and Spotted Poland China boars and Duroc Jerseys from multiple sellers. Also offers for shoes repair at Peters New Place, auto body work at Central Tire and Battery Station, and loans via D. J. Scanlan & Son. Includes pony for sale and second hand furniture and harness stock.
Rural teachers receive Des Moines Register special edition with a full resume of the Iowa State Teachers meeting and a page on the State Spelling contest. Reports cover Halva Consolidated declamatory judges Al Mann and Tye, West Branch district No. 11 dedication praised as best rural school, Newkirk Consolidated contest judged by Deputy Supt Maye, and Reading township purchases new pictures. Community notes praise county’s elite rural schools and urge continued leadership and effort.
Osage in Mitchell County features a newly formed Large Rifle Club organized out of the seminary region. Chas J Twomey says it is among more than 2,000 rifle outfits nationwide. Lewis Ha berkorn coaches under chartered guidance. John C Bartlett receives the inscribed charter. The Osage group joins civilian rifle clubs with junior affiliates, while broader groups like industrial plants and Legion posts foster senior rifle aims. Iowa City reports 63 students enrolled in a state rifle course sponsored by women’s physical education.
Mrs M Owen reports a startling scene as stomach gas overwhelmed her at night and a husband’s fright leads to a dramatic claim about Alderika. The ad promotes Alderika as a total bowel cleaner claiming to relieve gas in ten minutes and remove old waste from both upper and lower bowels.
Henry A Walace of Des Moines reports on the Collins Farms Company Cedar Rapids owning about 25 000 acres with twenty combines across scattered counties Foreclosures account for about 13 percent of land while most was purchased outright The typical rotation is corn oats wheat and sweet clover with no live stock The farm uses tractors to cultivate four rows at once up to ten acres in a day Harvest is by two row pickers capable of 1 000 bushels daily with windrowers and pickup attachments
Principal Albert Trabert of Knoxville high school runs a silver fox farm on the town’s outskirts. He bought Rocky Mountain strain foxes from a Denver area ranch in 1928 and later moved stock to his farm near Knoxville. Within two years his herd reached twenty three animals across two pens. He aims to expand rapidly and is a member of the American Farm and Fur Breeding Association. Silver fox fur is prized for its genuine silver hair band and distinct beauty, tracing origins to Prince Edward Island.
A historic ad announces H. M. Shavynan and F. H. Sheley Seeley experts from Chicago and Philadelphia traveling to the Arlington Hotel for a one day session on rupture treatment. They promise non surgical methods with demonstrations and fittings available, claiming verification by federal and state courts.
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