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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1898
Page
23
Hall Happenings notes visitors and residents with church services churchgoers and social events. A steady flow of names from Rock Valley Perkins Spencer and Sanborn appears with dances socials and sales. Local trades and farm moves include new stock spring goods a creamery manager on tour and a farm sale. Revival meetings announced for next week.
Community notes report a teachers meeting at Perkins Pointsls school and plans for moving to Yan county, plus local residents visiting, farm sales, and a large Poland China boar sale set for March 6 1898 with no weather delays.
Dwight Ilinard and Ella Miosrd were absent on successive days due to illness. Supt. Brown and Miss Nettie Richardson visited the school. Several scholars miss classes from severe colds. The organ moved from Miss Kelly’s room to the high room. A birthday surprise pleased Miss Ren shaw’s pupils. Last Friday had exercises in honor of Lincoln's birthday. Parents visited. coughing worsened after recess. Names of staff and families appear in attendance notes.
Real estate transfers list multiple parcels with names such as Squier Stewart Longshore Owens Knowllou Kok and others, showing tract references and values around hundreds to thousands. Village transfers include Haines, Hoeven, Sedgwick, Squier, Hoeven, and others with various map numbers and locations across Orange City Rock Valley and surrounding towns. Also includes subscription notice offering magazines and newspapers at special low rates for readers.
A column argues for universal suffrage regardless of sex, condemns sex based voting bans as arbitrary, and asserts women deserve equal voice alongside men. It critiques class and hair color as irrelevant, calling for intelligent, pure, inclusive electoral rules. Also notes store sales and goods at local shops.
The item lists grains including wheat corn oats barley rye and flax with cattle hogs chickens and eggs alongside butter. It notes farm loan availability at 6 percent through State Bank with large loans and mentions winter goods sale at cost on six months time for note buyers at 8 percent at Foppe's. G W Rensow
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