Rock Valley Bee Highlights Flagler Mineral Water Town Decline
A. L. Halstrad notes Nature gave Flagler Marion county two gifts coal and mineral water. The coal is gone and the mining town dwindles from 750 at century start to 25 now. The 700 foot 35 year old well still yields water rich in minerals though dwindling. Carleton Schroeder Postville grad plans his first fall train ride, having traveled all life by car, a sign of modern youth.
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Flagler
Marion County
Iowa
Carleton’ Schroeder
Postville
Schroeder
State University of Iowa
Madern
Town land values rise at Carl Graening auction near Waverly
At the Carl Graening farm near Waverly a 50 acre tract sold for 155 an acre, the year’s high NE Town bid. Cattle brought 50 to 70 per head, a sow with ten pigs 70 dollars, shoats 20.25 each, horses eight and nine years old 90 to 140 dollars, crops and other figures noted.
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Carl Graening
Waverly
Ghaeniys Ws
Graening
Jblock
Ancient Timepiece Keeps Time Across Centuries
Sam Boies of Emmetsburg owns a 270 year old watch that still runs. Made by D. D. Neveren in London in 1665, it has passed down through the Boies family and is about twice the normal size with a key wind. Hans Haugen, Emmetsburg jeweler, plans nine wind indicators, a new hand, and a crystal, and believes the watch will stay accurate.
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Sam Boies
Emmetsburg
Town
D. D. Neveren
London
Boies
Hans Haugen
Rock Valley Townsend meeting delayed. Chicago event set for Aug 27
The Rock Valley Townsend meeting date was postponed about a week due to the National Convention in Chicago. A mass meeting at the Coliseum in Chicago is planned Sunday afternoon August 27 with Dr Townsend and other national speakers, broadcast on the NBC network via Des Moines or Omaha. An Edgar D. Brown letter to Rock Valley citizens praises Congressman McGraorty and Townsend as incorruptible, urges organizing a Townsend club, notes 525 Belleflower members and 1000 expected in Long Beach by January 1, 1936.
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Rock Valley
Townsend
Chicago
California
Washington
Wall Street
Hindenberg Park
Youn
Belleflower
Long Beach
Buston Department Store
Learns by watching Lenis Clemens helps set own arm
Lenis Clemens, a boy from Dumont county, learns by imitation. After twice breaking his arm he observed a physician set it. Recently he fell and broke it again and set it himself. The doctor later praised his work, saying he could not have done it better himself.
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Lenis Clemens
Dumont
Butler
County
Farmer Fights Fox in Self Defense Near Alta Town
Everett Willentt, a farmer near Alta Town, was finishing work when his dog alerted him to a large fox in a field. The fox attacked him, and when Willentt swung a short club in defense, the animal leaped at his face. The blow broke the fox’s neck and the fox died.
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Everett Willentt
Alta Town
Willeutt
Everett
Willentt
Methodist Church Notes Calls Finance Institute Attendance
Pastor L A Hunsley reports Sunday school, worship at 11, and a sermon on A Definition of Religion. Finance committee urged to attend Primghar event next Monday 9 to 6. District fall conference includes laymen finance program. First Family Night Service planned for November 3 at 8. First Quarterly Conference set for November 11 at the church.
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L. A. Hunsley
Finance Committee
Primghar
Sheldon
Seamans
Plato Township News Items
Mx and Mrs Fred Johnson were Sunday dinner guests in the Charles P Moeller home. Mr and Mrs Fred Dierks and family visited the Alert Klein home near Inwood for Myrna’s birthday. Mr and Mrs Edward Degen and daughter Mildred and Tex Johnson were Sunday visitors in the E A Hand home. A and Mrs Herman Dierks and daughter visited the Fred Gayer home. Mrs Dierks is not well and resting at the Gayer home for a few days.
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Fred Johnson
Chas. P
Musical Burglar Strikes Clinton at Night
A guitar playing burglar prowled Clinton and nearby Town in a single night. He entered homes, stole trousers from bedsides, while whistling tunes. Women woke briefly but the burglar finished his work and escaped, possibly aided by a car helper, singing as he went.
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Clinton
Marrying Parson Seeks Record With 75 Weddings This Year
Decorah Methodist pastor Rev Oswald Sandbach says he has officiated at 75 weddings this year and challenges any other minister in the state to surpass the tally. The claim highlights his prolific marriage record among clergy.
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Oswald Sandbach
Decorah
Town
Sandbach
Unwelcome Quest Ends With Canary Recovered in Snake
Mr and Mrs Gaet Young of Turin Town found their missing canary inside a large billsnake they killed after the cage door was found open. The find occurred behind the piano where the snake had been hidden among shrubbery. The incident ended with the canary's recovery.
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Gaet Young
Turin
Dream Comes True at MeKinley Lake
Howard Allen of Creston Iowa, a high school pupil, lost his voice in summer. He dreamed he could swim and his voice returned after an icy plunge in Me Kinley lake. He surfaced gasping yet able to speak clearly and has spoken normally since. He now believes in dreams.
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Howard Allen
Creston
Iowa
Kinley Lake
Indian mound yields ancient skeletons on Batner farm near Nashan
Henry Batner's farm near Nashan Town revealed an Indian mound opened recently. Inside lay crumbling skeletons of a race believed to have inhabited Iowa before white settlers. No Indian artifacts were found, a finding of potential interest to researchers studying precolonial peoples.
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Henry Batner
Nashan Town
Iowa
Invents Farm Device Patent For Convertible Hay Wagon Box
Harey E Wikert of Graeitinger Towia has been granted a patent for a convertible wagon box that turns into a hayrack in seconds. The rectangular box uses vertical slats fixed at the bottom and hooked to a surrounding rail. Investors Robert Elsenslast and Glen P Shay er plan to market the invention.
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Harey E. Wikert
Graeitinger
Towa
Robert Elsenslast
Glen P. Shayer
Wikert
Too Long a Trip South America by Bicycle
Wendell Wilson and Clifford Allen of Traer Iowa began an intended bike journey to Rio de Janeiro Brazil but halted in Missouri reconsidering the distance. Allen stayed with an uncle while Wilson turned back by Tracy. They still plan to attempt the trip later using faster travel, likely a motorcycle.
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South America
Wendell Wilson
Clifford Allen
Traer
Towa
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Missouri
Allén
Wilson
Ped
Tracy
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