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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1930
Page
2
McGregor judge N 1 Hichendorf filed a damage suit against an electric company over a high tension line blamed for causing tic stif fic in his home. To avoid trial and jury risk the company rebuilt the line south of the city at a cost of 7000 dollars, averting a major lawsuit.
Messrs and Mrs Ed Brinkhone of Gothenburg Nebraska visit the Ancon Brinkhous home this week. Mulla Lewis returns from Sibley hospital after an operation. Cutting Committee of the Congregational meets at Mrs August Kahl's home. Haven on sick list. Mr and Mrs Nex Till back home in Ma a after a family visit. Hiney Stueyen family guest of A Klow Arend Host Jest. Tim sday Iowa City trip planned for University of Iowa. Mr and Mrs Klook visited friends here Sunday. Ke iy at Tiscood in Dunn Saturday. Mr and Mrs fhiesel McDowell and sons in Sibley Friday night. Bild Jel returns home from Walthill. Travel plans to Tuit California. Winter spent in Minneapolis with niece. ELH Shipman and Ur De Haan left Tuesday for Iowa City Robert stays for enrollment at State University. Town women and clerk called to Orange City for a meeting. He that built on Sripp Ave a year ago before Judge Traloy awaits decision. Mes and Mrs a and others visiting here plan Duluth trip and winter in Mississippi.
Mart Connell faced a dispute over a grain sale involving 12 498 bushels of corn. About 10 000 bushels were contracted at 75 a bushel. remaining corn was unsettled. The full delivery netted the owner nearly 10 069 dollars.
A jumble of local notes reports life in Orange City and surrounding areas. It covers a prohibition case with a parent who kept home brew, traffic crashes near Rock Valley and Sheldon, a rough season stretch in sports with Chicago and New York teams, and jurors freed in Orange City amid modest courthouse activity.
The news item notes a new law requiring vehicles meeting or overtaking a school bus to stop at least five feet away when pupils are boarding or alighting. Violations are a misdemeanor, with punishment including jail or a fine up to one hundred dollars.
An interview with editor Miclane Nichols reveals exact provisioning for the Ui cer circus visiting Estherville. The report lists tons of hay and straw, oats, bran, molasses, feed, and alfalfa hay for elephants, plus coal, wood, and other items for the show’s animals and tents.
A June to August visit brought twenty five agricultural economists from England Scotland Wales Germany Poland and Sweden to Tawa. They toured the corn belt observing farms and farm machinery and stayed across July into early August.
In Havissey county on the Missomi river bottoms the former resort area along Honey Lake was converted this season into cropland. FP Tl Me Cahe of Logan reports Bonnes planted sixty two acres of the lake bed to wheat. Upon threshing Allen C. Jones projected a total yield of about 2,080 bushels, roughly 35 bushels per acre.
A public auction will be held near Rock Valley and Doon after the 1 eelork hatch on Tuesday Soph. 24. The sale lists livestock including 303 head, 28 head thoroughbred hogs, 76 ewes, 450 White Leghorn hens, 100 acres of corn, 600 bushels of oats, 500 bushels of barley, 12 tons of alfalfa hay, 6 tons of slough hay, and 29 bushels of beans. Also 129 Chevrolet coach, farm machinery, and household goods. Harmetink Bros. Owners. First National Bank of Byton, Clerk.
A fragmented theater of local banter and items described as new magazines and tobacco stands. The chatter centers on a quirky vendor, household hints, and a colorful procession of misheard phrases and names, painting a bustling, if garbled, street scene.
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