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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1930
Page
2
Miss Myrtle Skogerboe and Martin Cheatland united in marriage on Saturday December 21, planning to settle on a farm northeast of McCallsburg after March 1. The couple will reside five miles northeast of McCallsburg.
The Story County Board of Supervisors now controls all roads except primary routes, adding eight patrolmen each covering two townships. Irwin Grindeman oversees Howard and Lafayette. C. C. Helvig and Martin Hauskin manage trunk roads in county sectors. The board explains 1929 road and bridge levies do not reflect a raised tax.
The article outlines 1938 road levies for construction and maintenance in Story County, detailing mandatory and optional mills, how funds are distributed between cities and the county, and how 1980 construction funds will fund local roads. It compares new levies to 1928 and 1929 levels, notes increases for town and farm properties, and explains how the county must build main roads into towns. It also reports small county sports results with McCallsburg teams beating St. Anthony.
Clifford Imsland's Burg HI-Lines reports illness keeps Donald Jorgenson home while Dwight Baumgardner remains absent. Twelve visitors attended first grade last week as the class begins a health project contest. Third grade finished a January border of Daffodils for their room. Noel Tolley returns after holiday in Tinois. sixth grade begins new activities.
Roland Rockets reports several absent pupils in grades one through high school. Miss Jacobson ill. Solyst substitutes. Christmas seal awards go to Second grade Boy and Rabbit, Fourth grade Holland Flower Girl, Seventh grade The Blue Boy. Semester ends with review, exams Thurs and Fri. New traveling books incoming. Doll Dress contest winners named. Two new high school students join, Martha White and Theresa Novak. Alumni game result 29 32 in favor of faculty. Cole's teams to play Friday. two more games this month. January 16 lectures by Jas T Nichols on Around the World in Sixty Minutes and Experiences in and Around the Holy City with a free will offering. World traveler Nichols to speak to high school students and patrons.
The Salem church reports 1929 financials and membership data. Budgets included 9574.64 for congregation and organizations, plus 1065.00 to Old Peoples Home. Missions totals reached 2454.82. furnace fund 758.82 with multiple gifts. New members 41. losses 19. net gain 22. Pastoral duties include many baptisms, confirmations, marriages, funerals, and extensive church activities across English and Norwegian services.
The Rev. Mr. Nichols, longtime editor and author with travels around Palestine, Egypt and Germany, speaks at College Avenue Church of Christ in Des Moines on Wednesday evening January 16 at 7:30. He once held an official World War Peace Conference pass and has written for magazines reaching up to five million in a month.
A Salem congregation report lists circuit and diocesan meetings attended across Minnesota and Iowa, sermons delivered in Lincoln congregation, funerals and confirmation class meetings, and committee activities. Two letters of call from Sioux City and Duluth were returned. the church grants the pastor a one month vacation.
H E Evenson of Roland is named administrator of the Julia Christian estate in Story County. Creditors must file claims with the Clerk of the District Court in Nevada Iowa, and those indebted should pay promptly. Attorney H E Hadley appears for the case dated December 30 1929.
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