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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1897
Page
7
Local items note quiet election, theater ads, and social visits. Citizens read about Chrysanthemum Show dates November 11 and 12 and Olympia Concert Co. coming performances. Community notices include readings, church events, wagon rides, and a Modern Woodmen entertainment with Horace Huron on November 11, 1897.
Wedding held Wednesday at the bride’s mother home with about seventy five guests. Rev McLaughlin performed the ceremony and Mrs Vitzthum offered the faultless ceremony. The couple will reside with Mr Wright’s home in Dakota after a week in Sioux City. Best wishes from the community.
XS KHOI FARM NOTES recounts early Sioux City and St Paul crossings to Sheldon on July 8 1872 and a western O'Brien and eastern Sioux reunion amid cold weather. It notes the county’s first court held by Judge A W Trubbard in June 186? and the silent grand jury of December 1871. The piece praises Perkins history book, invites local readers to view a copy, and previews farm news on hog cholera forecasts hay needs cattle feeding and fish car shipments to Des Moines Clear Lake and Okoboji.
D A W Perkins of Sheldon has published a 500 page O'Brien County history with 200 pictures. The volume details early settlers starting with Hannibal Waterman in 1856, county organization in 1860, and calamities like grasshopper plagues and cyclones. It notes the move of the county seat to Primghar in 1873 and Sheldon’s emergence in 1872 with the first railroad.
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