Rock Valley Bee from Rock Valley, Iowa • Page 4

ROCK VALLEY REE THE ROCK VALLEY BEE A. L. HALSTEAD, Publisher. Ed McNally and Elmer Frederick of Emmetsburg; Iowa, while driving along a country road near there the other, day beheld an unusual. sight.

Along the road walked a middle aged farmer, gayly playing a banjo. Strolling along beside him, peaceful and contented, came his: large herd of cattle. The two men paused and watched the farmer stroll down the road, with the lively strains of music drifting back to them, and the cattle marching contentedly behind until they were out of sight. The sight made the Pied Piper of Hamlin seem a little less implausible. If You JULY 4th Come toROCK RAPIDS A Real Entertainment for Only HORSE RACING BASEBALL FREE ACTS BAND CONCERTS CONCESSIONS DANCING FIREWORKS Children Under 12 Free Parking Producing a High Quality Product There are many steps to be taken in the process of delivering to the consumer a product of high quality, and every.

one interested should bend every effort to make that product so tasty and fine that each helping will call for more. The source of supply coming as it does from the dairy farm, where clean barns, clean cows, clean milkers and utensils and proper and prompt cooling play so important a part, that to mention this feature first is only right and proper. After clean, well-flavored cream is delivered to the creamery it is up to the operator to do his stuff to. further safeguard the purity and quality of the product proper pasteurization and cooling and by taking every precaution in the many steps of butter making. Good butter can be manufactured through co-operation between producer and manufacturer and we assure you we will do our best to maintain the purity and flavor of the product delivered at the door of this plant.

1 Rock Valley Creamery Co. Rock Valley, lowa the Value CIGARETTES PACKAGE DAY'S COST OF ELECTRICITY 10e (Countrywide Average) CHOCOLATE SUNDAE 15c DAY'S COST OF ELECTRICITY (Countrywide Average) TWO PACKS OF GUM 10c DAY'S COST OF ELECTRICITY (Countrywide Average), our oleotrical dollar always buys a an unequalled bargain for just a few day you have the continuous vice of economi in your home. IOWA PUBLIC, SERVICE CO. Thinking Out Loud We are told that summer officially arrived June 21. We believe it, for we have been having summer weather, or at least, summer heat, ever since, but watch things grow.

We thought we had some summer weather during the month of May when the mercury soared to the 100 mark, but according to the calendar that was only spriing. We made a little jaunt back to the old stomping grounds in eastern Iowa over the week-end. And say, folks are fortunate here, as compared with conditions back there. It rained here, it just showered back there, and the pastures there in many places are as bare as. the paved highways.

One only needs to go about two hundred miles east to begin to notice the difference. Farmers were herding their catto along the roads all the way, and we did not know just when we would singsh into them, if they should decide that the other side of the road looked greener. Corn is very uneven further east, some fields looked wonderful and we wondered how the corn could live when the ground was so dry. In adjoining fields, the corn was just coming up, and in the same fields it showed various stages of growth. Oats are nil back there.

We folks out here should consider ourselves especially favored. Well, to get back home, our newly organized commercial club looks like a pretty husky infant. To date i it is composed of 107 members, all ready to take their coats off and work whenever the occasion demands. The list of members is published in this issue. Sam thinks John Dillinger's head is worth about $10,000.

But John thinks that is too cheap, so he is keeping out of sight. Anyway, Uncle Sam is offering rewards to the above amount for the capture of this criminal No. 1. A. reward of $2,500 each for the rest of his gang is also offered, total $50,000 in rewards for the entire gang.

Looks like someone ought to be able to make some easy money. We're going to let "George do it." Transient Injured When he Steps Off Of R.R. Trestle A transient, who was riding the rods of a Great Northern freight train into Doon, at 1 o'clock, last week Wednesday morning, took a big step in life that came nour landing him into eternity, when he stepped off the railroad trestle, one-half mile north of Doon, and fell to the ground twenty feet below. Moaning and groaning of the accident victim attracted railroad men, who promptly reported the accident to Harvey Larson agent. Mr.

Larson got in touch with Marshal Harm Kolthoff and Gerrit Van Engen who bought the injured man to the office of Dr. F. T. De Witt, for treatment. He' was later taken to the hospital, at Rock Rapids.

The man complained of being sore and tender 'all over his body, as the result of his fall. Injuries sustained to his ankles were apparently the worst. When the train stopped on the rail road trestle, north of Doon, the man apparently figured he had reached his destination. He stepped from the train to the trestle and then from the restle into space, landing on the, ground 20 feet below. He was the third person known to have made such a mis-step in the past few years.

One of the other men died as a result of his fall, and the other man was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. -Doon Press. Finds Old Indian Hammer George Callenius, member of the board of supervisors in O'Brien county, recently discovered an Indian stone hammer head while roaming about a field. The stone head is absolutely perfect in every way, with not evn a chippd place on it. It appears very old and Supervisor Callenius considers it quite a find.

It has been placed on display for a few days. Marriage 'Business' Coming Back Maybe the deperssion really is over. Anyway, something has happener. to spur Cupid's activities in Sac county. Sac county has already issued twice as many marriage licenses this year as it did during the entire year of 1933.

Only 21 marriage ducats were purchased. in Sac county all during 1933. But from Jan. 1 until June 17,. 1.934, with the.

year not yet half gone, 42 couples had purchased their permits to take up the strife. And they say when marI riages increase it is, a sign of prosperity. FIRE MYSTERY AT INWOOD IS SOLVED Inwood Herald: -Charged with. arson, Fred Beckman, 23, was arrested Sunday night, shortly after firemen had succeeded in extinguishing blaze, at 10:40 o'clock, that night, in a cob house at the rear of the Herald Printing Co. Beckman, the incendiary, confessed to setting five fires that occurred within- the past sixteen days, when he was questioned Tuesday morning F.

J. Carlson, deptuy state fire marshal, and Sheriff J. J. McGuire, the county jail, where he is now under arrest. Stanley Moen, a special guard duty, discovered Beckman coming from the cob house at the rear of the printing plant, where the fire originated.

Beckman was taken into custody by H. A. Henrickson, concilman, the Standard Oil Station, near printing Beckman did not resist his escort to the city jail, but denied all accusations pertaining to the fire. At a hearing Sunday night in council chambers, Beckman signed confession to the effect that he had started the fire, when Stanley Moen furnished circumstantial evidence, but denied his guilt of starting four other fires. Set Bond at $3,000 At 9 o'clock Monday morning, threatened to destroy He the Did town.

Tells How It Beckman was brought before Mayor B. H. Moen, O. J. Reimers, county attorney, and J.

J. McGuire, sheriff, for another hearing, when his bond. was set at $3,000, and he was bound over to. the grand jury. To.

date he has not been able to furnish the bonds for his release, fom jail. Stanley Moen, son of Mayor B. H. Moen, signed information for Beckman's arrest. In his confession to officials at Rock Rapids, Beckman told how he had climbed a ladder into a hay loft at the Jess Ver Wey farm place and thrown a cigarette butt into the hay, resulting in the desruction, by fire, of a set of farm buildings, Saturday night, June 2.

His next offense was Sunday, June 3, at the Quaker Oats Co. storage elevator, where he started a fire under the building with oil soaked waste from the wheels of a box car on the Milwaukee tracks, he has. confessed, according to Mr. Carlson, The elevator was completely destroyed and the Canton fire depart: ment was called both. Saturday and Sunday nights to battle flames that The third fire in the series occurred at the old furniture store building, where Beckman stated he had thrown a match into an old feather bed just inside the lean-to garage door.

The damage there was very slight that night, Thursday, June 8. Each fire occurred about the same hour in the evening and the fourth blaze Beckman plead guilty to was started at the stockyards, Thursday, June 14, where kerosene cobs, and paper were found among kinding that had been used in starting the fire in an abandoned feed box. Working upon the advice of Mr. Carlson, deputy fire marshal, Mayor H. Moen was advised by the town council to keep special police on they look-out for a Frank Renshaw, Paul Boehuke, John Simonsma, and Stanley Moen went on duty Friday night to police alleys in the business district from 10 p.m., until 4 a.m.

They also kept watch Saturday and Sunday nights. Spotters Keep Watch The men hid themselves from the public gaze, so as to observe any night prowlers, in an effort to get the 'goods' on the incendiary who had caused so many fire scares. Staley Moen was stationed, near the printing office, where he- identified "Freddie" Beckman by flashlight, as the person he saw go to and from the place shortly before he discovered the blaze. After several sharp blasts on his whistle, Stanley soloed a foot race the telephone office, where he turned in a fire alarm that brought guards and firemen to the scene in record time. The extent of fire damage estimated at $50, by local building contractors.

The capture of Beckman has relieved a tense feeling of fear among down town and residential property owners. His arrest is thought have pretty well cleaned up the danger, and no. further trouble is expected from fires of an incendiary nature Mr. Carlson stated Tuesday that inyestigation of suspicious fires, at George, Rock Rapids and Doon, Iowa, were still in progress and recent development of his findings not for publication at this time. Two of the oldest democratic vot- ers' in Iowa are claimed by Garner, Iowa.

They are Ed Daskin, 98, and Absolem Kelly, 95. Both walked to the polls in Garner and asked for democratic ballots. They were the two oldest voters to appear at any polling place in Iowa during the June 4" primaries. Almost certainly they were the two. oldest democrats to yote on that day.

AGED SHELDON LADY CAUGHT ON BARBED WIRE FENCE Sheldon Mail--Although caught on the cruel. prongs of a barbed wire fence and forced to spend almost the entire night Monday exposed to the rain and Mrs. Zorgdrager, aged: resident! of the Holland Home, is recovering speedily from the unfortunate experience. The lady was not released from the barbed fence in a field east of Washington avenue until about 10:45 Tuesday morning. She had left the home for the Aged some time Monday and it is believed had walked to Archer and reaching Sheldon in the dark and consequently became lost.

In 'cutting across the Ruby hay field in the east part of town -she was stopped by the barbed wire fence, and in attempting to cross this, had become caught. The barbs had sunk into. the flesh back of the knee. was forced to remain there until Tuesday morning when some children 'of the neighborhood saw her from a distance. They told their mother, who, mistaking the distant form for a tramp or drunken man, warned the children to stay away.

Later, Alice Luinenberg, whose home is adjacent to the field, investigated and found the unfortunate lady, who was then taken to the De Graaf home from where. the Holland Home was. called and help was sent. Medical aid was given for the scratches suffered, and Mrs. Zordrager is now up and around again.

Mrs. Zordrage, in spite of her advancing years, is accustomed to taking long walks in the evening. A flashlight she was carrying had burned out, leaving her in the dark, and a small satchel she had with her was found later in the hayfield just east. She did not comment on her experience beyond saying that she "had guit and was able to: stand' it." Montezuma Mayor Talks to London William Sharrar, mayor of Montezuma, Iowa, was called 'out of bed to answer the telephone at 5:30 the other morning. He was surprised to hear the operator instruct him to wait until connections could be made with London, England.

connecwas not competed until 2 hours dater. Finally he heard the London operator say "Your party is and the next moment he was engaged in affable conversation with the mayor of a London newspaper. The Englishman was interested 'in the crop. situation, asked about the drouth, whether the flies in Iowa were bad and whether the dryness was causing many fires. RAINS FATAL TO SHEEP Heavy rains, accompanied by chill winds, were greeted with sighs of relief as they brought relief from the drouth in northwest Iowa.

But to nearly 600 sheep on farm near Rembrandt, Buena Vista county, they brought death. The sheep were pant of a flock of 5,000 owned by Edwin Beck of Sutherland. They had been sheared a few days before. The boiling -sun had burned their almost naked backs. Then came the chilly rains.

The rainfall totaled a- bout five inches. Hundreds of the sheep were stricken with pneumonia. The next morning the pasture was strewn with dead carcasses. At latest reports the dead sheep had reached 562. NO WONDER HE'S GLAD! Harry L.

Lund, chuirman of the corn-hog allotment committee for Pocahontas county, is glad his name is not Grabinowowski or some other equally ponderous name. For Lund, together with Evert Tussing and Gilbert Ellis, members of his commit. tee, has ahead of him the job of signing 6,270 early pay contract sheets. They happened to sign the first twelve such contracts and now they must sign all the rest in order to make everything uniform. Each contract has three pages.

Each page must have all three signatures. That amounts to nearly 19,000 signatures, in addition to the signature, of each of the farmers, OIL RUSH IN IOWA Wild scenes accompanying the oil "strikes" of the southwest were reenacted in Clarke county the other day. The was caused by a break in an eight inch gasoline pipe line near a pumping station south of Osceola, which saturated the ground with gasoline over a large area. Scores of persons remained on the spot all night to get their share of free: gas. It was found that if a hole was dug in the nearby ditch the gasoline.

seeped into it until it was full. Trucks, cars, barrels, cans, bottles and kitchen atensils were. used to cart. it away. One man was known to 'have taken 140 gallons, A party would stake out a dig his hole, and defy anyone to cross the line.

Workmen finally repaired the break. Sioux Valley Milwaukce Railway Agent's Club: The June meeting of this get-together railroad club was held at Canton Thursday evening, June 21st. attended by a dozen station agents. from the surrounding territory. Liester Long, agent at Parker, a former Rock Valley boy, pesented a paper on livestock shipments, especially the feature.

of stimulatng the grazing of livestock in transit from the western ranges which the Railroads are pushing and which has become quite an important industry in this section the past few years. Papers on cream. shipments, how to handle the new method of C.O.D. express collections and other matters of interest were for discussion. C.

W. Jacobs was assigned the topic of "Who should pay for the Highways?" His solution was based upon the text "By those who. the highway according to the benefits The discussions brought out some pertinent figures. which at least are interesting to arrive at about what gas tax would have to. be applied if the motor vehicles using the highways were required to pay the total first cost and maintainance for estimated 20 life of the paved roads, assumed to be $30,000 per mile.

Approximately it would take a gas tax levied about follows to carry out this plan of as "pay. as you is, Heavy trucks, 10c per gallon medium trucks 8c per gallon; light trucks 6c per gallon; passenger auto 4c per gallon an average of 7c per gallon. If the average mileage made on one gallons of gas. was 12 miles for all: types of motor vehicles it would require about 600 such vehicles per day passing over a mile of paving to. support: the expense, however expent highway engineers should definite be able to ascertain.

to a very, figure the actual cost and taxes necessary to avoid assessing any. of the highway expenses to other than patrons using them. The July meeting of the Ry. Club will be held at Dell' Rapids. BURNED BY BATTERY ACID Five children were riding in a car near Emmetsburg, Iowa, when the car overturned after one of the tires had blown out.

Acid spilled out of the car. battery all over the five youngsters, ranging in age from most seven to thirteen. Dale Scott was severaly burned. The others escaped with minor burns and The acid which spilled on the cushions rapidly ate away the upholstery. The, children had to crawl through the windshield to get out.

The broken acid burned holes in their clothing at every spot it touched. ORPHEUM THEATRE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY JUNE 29 AND 30 Buck Jones TRAIL" Another fine action picture with your favorite western star. Prices JULY 1 2 3 Johnny Weismueller Maurine O'Sullivan AND HIS MATE" Here's splendid entertainment for the whole family with a thrill you should not miss. Also comedy and newsreel. Mat.

10c-25c Eves 10c-35c WEDNESDAY THURSDAY JULY 4 AND 5 Katheryne Hepburn Miss Hepburn as "Trigger" Hicks a mountianeer's daughter does a great bit of acting. Prices DON'T FORGET THURSDAYS ARE PROFIT SHARING DAYS: STATE TAX ADDED TO ALL ADULT TICKETS. DEAD STOCK REMOVED! When you have any dead stock, Just call the Hunting Elevator, phone No. 87. or Residence No.

137-W. will appreciate your business and give prompt and: efficient service. -RENDERING WORKS Ray Woolridge, Prop..