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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1908
Page
5
Governor Cummins will address residents of Sioux County with two talks planned in Craner and Friarp venues. The events include Friday afternoon and Friday evening sessions in Mar and Mar 8 at 8 PM, with invitations extended to all.
A heavy frost wrecked fruit buds last night with late apples least affected. Ice formed thickly while strawberries may escape. Society Program lists Serial Story Cornelia Muilanburg Recitation Clara Poppen and Budget C Meyer. Music Ruth De Kruif and Debate on armaments versus irrigation with J G Van Wyk and Genevieve Beyer speaking.
Bow ers son of George I Bowers of Orange City has been promoted to city editor of the Sioux City News with the May 1 start. He began at The Journal and worked for the Sioux City News and the Des Moines Register and Leader before serving as city editor in Sioux City Duluth Star.
Report notes salmonlike fish struggling to ascend the West Branch near Great Northern where rock barriers at the dam trap fish. Locals claim conning fishermen stack rocks to block and trap Pickerel in piles, with hundreds caught weighing one to eight pounds according to P. N. Vos.
The note mentions d H De Vries and Join Dykstra in Kansas on business, Kuyper couple and Mrs Wormhoudt traveling to Des Moines in Kuyper's new Jackson automobile, Nettle De Gooyer resigning from Van der Val’s store, and plans for a brick two story building east of G and Tomassen's for storage and cement block manufacture. Manager Harris of the Waterloo Pella and S W Ry returns from New York amid investor interest in a new road. local progress noted with optimism.
W A Sharpe refutes myths about Fiia country praising Allen county farming potential. He notes fertile black land, few swales, oil and gas leases paying high rates, and recommends Payne Investment Co for land purchases. Sehoep represents Sioux county.
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