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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1899
Page
3
Town log includes subscriber checks, hospitalities, homestead moves, church remodeling plans and a Japanese student speech. Local residents Gartland Bauman Carter, Van Nort, Vitzthum, and others are mentioned with travels, sales, and farming shifts. Rev Patrick Day event planned for Daniel themes.
Tuesday evening Miss Nellie Barry died at her home after collapsing while reading a newspaper. She was in good health prior to the fatal event. Her brother Joe Barry and John Higgins carried the body to Streator Illinois for interment. The community mourns the loss as friends extend sympathy.
The Good Templar Lodge held its third meeting at Purden's Hall with several new charter members. Plans include weekly Saturday gatherings, a Juvenile Society for 5 to 12 year olds, and lectures by Capt. Datton on temperance. The LO.G.T. platform urges total abstinence, no licenses, prohibition by law, and active public education.
A fragment reports a white animal roughly 300 pounds seen near Rock Valley about a mile and a half from a location described as the box office. Call or leave word at the Box office if you know its whereabouts.
A nostalgic message extols Rocky Mountain er as sunshine for the soul and wine for the heart, suggesting it cheers the future and blots out the past. The ad-like line invites readers to ask their druggist.
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