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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1914
Page
1
This community issue presents three examples of misprinted phrases and a letter from School Superintendent Fullerx urging credit for ordinary home work in citizenship education. He argues schools must recognize home duties as educational, noting the home leadership with hog care and bread baking as vital learning, and promising a weekly credit tally and further details.
The Henry Van den Top family departed for California last week. G. J. Poelukker sold his bakery and grocery to T. Snap sper. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Newell left for their winter home in Chula Vista California. Thomas De Jong plans a move to Orange City. The Farmers Co operative continues operations.
Evelyn Bargelt a noted cartoonist and reader will headline a Monday January 19 lecture course with accompanist pianist Miss Raymond. The show blends readings and cartoons to entertain, with Bargelt praised for humor wit and tears inducing moments.
A compilation of property deeds and transfers showing multiple grantors and grantees in Perkins Hull and surrounding areas. Entries include lot and block identifiers, ownership changes, and monetary values ranging from 1500 to 7000 dollars. Names include Vugteveen De Vroeg M and De Roos J, with various co officers and attestations. Additional ad text advertises high grade gasoline from a Chicago supplier.
The council met Monday evening and heard a petition from the Fire Company seeking $5 yearly for each member and 50 cents for the first and 23 cents for subsequent hours on daily fires. The petition will be considered at the next meeting. Bills allowed included F.W. Michelson 422.06 Standard Oil 23.69 H. Kooi 8.05 De Jong & Be Vries 25.00 Klein & Co 12.38.
Sioux County farmers face rising land values but keep similar crop yields per acre. The series asks how to raise profits and suggests alfalfa as the solution, launching a contest with prizes totaling 150 dollars. The piece promotes alfalfa cultivation as the key to higher returns.
Contestants must register by March 1 1914 offering land for alfalfa sowing on at least five acres. Entry requires Northwestern State Bank Orange City affiliation as depositor or borrower. Seeded in 1914, judged around June 1 1915 for top five stands with prizes. Iowa State College may supply a judge. Even non winners can gain from sowing seed.
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