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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1929
Page
4
Today’s Markets reports eight o’clock quotes for corn oats butter eggs poultry and Springer price levels with notes on delivery and common constraints. Local dealers will not buy poultry that is thin diseased or heavily cropped.
Miss Margaret Jacobson and Mr. Bert Bergland wed in a single ring ceremony at Bethany Lutheran with Rev. H N Bakke. The couple, joined by family and friends, planned a Chicago trip after a dinner reception at the bride’s home south of Roland.
The note reveals a marriage on September 26 kept secret. Mrs. Frank Nail and daughter Jean visited Iowa Falls Saturday. Irene Larson visited Des Moines. Farmers report good corn yields. Several locals traveled and guests visited, including Alice Guthrie RN returning to Waterloo and the Bergland wedding gifts after their Sunday marriage.
Dr. Roy W. Smith and wife visited Dr. and Mrs. IF S. Smith in Nevada on Saturday. The Smiths, now en route to Bellingham, previously lived near Boston and were active in organizing an ambulance company in Roland during the war. Dr. Donald Smith, his brother, reports his wife is seriously ill in Pocatello Idaho after an appendicitis operation.
The Bergen church pipe organ, in use since 1886, was sold to a Lutheran congregation in Blackduck Minnesota. Rev Edward Livingston supervised packing and shipping. Jens S Egeland hauled it with Reuben Hill as relief driver. They traveled over 1000 miles round trip and returned Sunday afternoon.
The Ritland family near Garden City endures a string of calamities including infantile paralysis death of 13 year old Ethel Ritland after a brief illness and a deathly stroke crippling injury to Joseph Ritland 26 from a corn picker accident. Funeral services were held at the Ritland home with burial at Zion churchyard. The father remains seriously ill but showing slight improvement.
Former Roland resident Rev T A Mason now in Garretson South Dakota received a Sunday November 10 surprise from his congregation. A Norwegian service was planned but parishioners took charge and welcomed the pastor and family to a full church. After music and speeches a luncheon followed and Mason opened a package containing 717.50 donated by members of the parish.
The event honored Rev Mason on his fiftieth birthday, observed on a Sunday due to corn harvest. Attending were neighbor pastor Rev A J Evenson and family from Sherman South Dakota, with Evenson a former resident of Ro land.
Noel J Logan former resident now at University of Omaha directs a 1000 voice chorus in Handel’s Messiah at Omaha City Auditorium on December 16. He will hear all nine units in a joint rehearsal Sunday at 2:80 p m with singers from Tabor Missouri Valley Glenwood Council Bluffs Plattsmouth Fremont and Tekemah joining.
The Omaha unit plans several rehearsals before the full presentation. Nationally known soloists Reinald Werrenrath, Mme Else Arendt, Miss Lillian Knowles, and Edwin Kemp will appear. Prof Logan promotes the Messiah as Omaha's most ambitious similar event following last spring's Elijah success at Technical High School.
The notice lists county plate designations and issue timing. It notes December 2 as the plate issuance date since December 1 falls on Sunday and provides the next year’s county numbers from 1 Adair through 56 for the state's counties.
A dense roster lists Iowa counties with corresponding numerical ranges. The compilation includes names such as Lee Linn Louisa Lucas Lyon Madison Mahaska Marion Marshall Mills Mitchell Monona Monroe Montgomery Muscatine O Brien Osceola Page Palo Alto Plymouth Pocahontas Polk Pottawattamie Poweshiek Ringold Sac Scott Shelby Sioux Story Tama Taylor Union Van Buren Wapello Warren Washington Wayne Webster Winnebago Winneshiek Woodbury Worth Wright.
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