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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1930
Page
4
Today’s markets report prices from local dealers at eight o’clock including oats butter poultry and eggs with delivered price notes for springs heavy hens light hens and hens. The record notes dealers will not buy abnormally thin or diseased birds or poor crops.
Fred Huntrods, born 1865 in England, died December 29 1929 in Long Beach California at age 64. The service in McCallsburg featured Rev W O Benthin and Rev H N Bakke with a quartet and piano, church flowers arranged by Mrs E O Dillin and Mrs A G Graves, and pallbearers listed among local residents. He left a wife and 9 children with ties to Illinois Nevada Collins Story City and Zearing.
A long list shows sale dates and auctioneers from Jan 10 to Feb 21 for various towns including Ellsworth Colo Radcliffe Roland Ames McCallsburg Nevada and Kamrar. The Garden City News reports social visits, family notices and New Year gatherings with names such as Maggie Hegland Verna Bennett O. T. Olson Lola May and several Osmundson family members.
WEDDING reports a groom from Forest City and a bride daughter of Mr and Mrs QO W Olson in McCallsburg with a wedding dinner at the bride’s home. Various visits, travel, and health notes follow, including farewells, births, quiet illnesses, rescinded resignations, church events, and a Gleaners class meeting with officers elected and a fund-raising quilt planned.
Mrs J Osmundson and guests visit Ward Tjelmel and family. Joseph Erickson of Kanawha visits Randall Hatteberg and others. Randall Gearhart and Jim Hatteberg tour Eldora for business. Many relatives from Rolands, Iowa Falls, Des Moines and nearby towns visit or host gatherings. New Year messages invite items by phone or mail to the Record.
The Bergen church reports 41 guests and 784 communion guests for the year. It lists 265 baptisms, 30 confirmations, 6 marriages, 12 funerals, 904 pastoral calls with 624 to sick and aged, and a total mission and benevolence income of 4 269 65. Funeral for Mrs Thor Ericson at Story City.
Miss Marie Hovland died at her Des Moines home at 47. Born in Erne Norway September 12 1882 she came to Roland in 1902 then moved to Des Moines. Funeral services were held in Des Moines and Salem Church with Rev H Rasmus son and Rev Olaf Helen in charge burial in Roland cemetery. She is survived by her father and siblings in Norway and the United States. Distance attendees included Belle Hovland Rusvig and others from Des Moines Kelley Maxwell Radcliffe Garden City and Elmore Minn.
Congregation and friends contributed 67128.07 toward the new church. Total year expenditures for 1929 missions charities local expenses and the new church reach 76781.92. Psalm 126:8 praise ends the update and memorials list members who died in 1929 including Thompson Hegland Rose Wester Sampson Ose Pickett Tweet Hanson Anderson Olson Teig and others.
J D Martin of Richmond Virginia received 200 dollars for an old copper cent. The Numismatic Company of Fort Worth Texas offers a 4 cent postage paid folder to readers learning how to spot valuable coins and stamps, urging timely requests.
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