06 Mar 1907
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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1907
Page
1
Wheat price given as sixty cents per bushel while corn and oats show 31 and 26 cents respectively. Barley and potatoes listed with unspecified notes. Butter and eggs priced with cents per pound, cattle valued around 2.50 to 4.05.
Town and County notes show Mrs. W Van Rooke improving. Sheriff Schhasp visited Alton. various residents paid March taxes and visited relatives in Orange City and surrounding towns. Several customers and business callers appear, including Doering, Pete Schaap, Van Dellen, Fuller, Westra, Kinzer, Dykstra, Ver Schoor, Luymes, and Van Gelder, with moves and family updates across Hull, Orange City, Sheldon, Boyden, and Sibley.
Orange City and area residents exchange visits and updates with Alton Sheldon and Maurice. Local births, marriages, trips to Sioux Center Sioux Center and Sheldon, and several relatives traveling for family occasions are noted along with illness and funerals. The piece highlights town society, weddings, licenses, and upcoming events in a period tone.
Henry Rossell was arrested in Des Moines on charges of swindling in Texas land sales, with Dominic De Spelder as agent. forgery schemes alleged through deed substitutions. Rossell out on bail, Orange City buyers implicated but not yet charged.
CG Vogelaar and spouse marked their twenty fifth wedding anniversary on Sunday. On Wednesday the fortieth anniversary of Mr and Mrs H J Van der Waa occurred along with the forty first anniversary of Mr and Mrs H Slikkerveer. Jake Schalekamp remarried twelve years ago on the same day. he is the daughter of the Slikkerveer family. On Wednesday afternoon John Vos of Sioux Center and Mrs G Lockhorst of Maurice were united in marriage by Justice Slitkerveer.
Sunday services reported at First Reformed with Rev Stapelkamp in morning and Rev Heemstra in the afternoon. Volga South Dakota notes Rev Van Dellen preached there while local elders led here. Ladies Aid and Ladies Mission societies held meetings and elections at Mrs Wo Hoapers' home.
At an enthusiastic meeting promoters decide to incorporate with $25,000 capital and to build at least fifty machines in the season. The company will open April 13 with at least five percent of capital paid in. M Rhynsburger chairs. W W Schultz secretary. Four men subscribed $1,000 each. a committee will solicit more. A literary society program features singing, recitation, an oration on Carnegie funds for disabled professors, and a debate on denominational identity in colleges seeking Carnegie funds. Eight line cockerels offered for sale at $1 each. Mrs L Dv.
The Warntjies store at Maurice Way was broken into and about $200 worth of goods taken. Suspects were found in a Dick Raisch barn near Alton after being identified and questioned by deputies and Sheriff Schaap. One suspect carried a large revolver. both were jailed after identification.
The list records Gerrit Van der Meide aged three who died Monday at 9 am near Pella from grippe with funeral at home and interment at North cemetery. It notes A J Kuyper considering moving back to Vella and Mrs H Hospers illness prompting another call to Orange City. Also Nickolas L P Earp, pioneer in Pella, died ten days ago at the Soldiers Home in Los Angeles at age 84. Earp helped organize troops in Marion County and led a company with A Bosquet and Dr B F Keables. The item mentions old legends of the Earp gang and later reform. An ad invites subscription to Dairy Register and Leader, Des Moines, Iowa.
Barred rack cockerels offered for breeding and egg settings with limited supply. Small number available, may fill orders for settings of eggs or one hundred lots. Buyer contact through JouN Borriuxk.
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