Rolfe Arrow (Newspaper) - July 25, 1918, Rolfe, Iowa * rfi J. WITH FEBRUARY 12th, 1914. COMBINED 2,00 15. Fine Farewell any county in the state of Iowa eave its boys a better send-off than Pocahontas county gave its 232 stalwarts who left Pocahontas last Monday for Canip they were going People poured into the sleepy old county seat every corner of the county until the largest crowd that ever gathered in the county had It has been estimated at many but outguess is 8,000 and it's as good as any From eleven o'clock until one the park was filled with groups devouring spring frys and other choice and seeing that the boys had one more good feed before leaving the The had ben called to meet at seven o'clock in the and the registering in and checking out of baggage had just been completed when dinner dinner a small fraction of the crowd gathered in and around a small tent to listen to a which included patriotic but when the speaking began adjournment was to an and the whole east side of the park was filled with people who tried to hear what was Hon. J. H. chairman of the County War Service made the opening He took occasion to admonish his listeners not to take matters into their own but to file complaints with the War Service promising Impartial investigation and the righting of all wrongs if any He thot that probably some injustices might have crept but that no. good could come of proceedings that were not orderly and He advised against the use of vellow paint and told his people that disorderly conduct was to be frowned upon and would only embarass rather than assist in righting After giving some sound advice and making some sincere he introduced the speaker of the Ed G. Dunn of Mason better choice of a speaker could have been Mr. Dunn has a splendid voice and his Americanism is of the 100 per cent He could be heard as far as any speaker could throw his and his eloquent appeal would sink as deeply into the heart as any we have It was a sensible American without free from and from the He made the issues for i which we are fighting very j and they were not for anyone but 0tt*.Qodgiven Some i of the false notions entertained by j silly sentimentalists were are fighting a real for our Mr. Dunn has as a and is in position to talk He surely pealed to the patriotic impulses Makes Local Red Cross the Sum of offending anyone with American Mr. Dunn lived up to his well deserved reputation as a the speaking the selects were taken to the court room and given several and from the cheering that came from that we opine they were heartened for the experiences before If anv ever sent a better bunch young manhood forward to fight the battles of its it had more than * chautauqua came to a a of glory last special session of the bovs completing what many think they marched out in and as the best course in ut filed down the streets each soldier As had boon joined by a Red Cross lady in coif and prints this apron who were countermarching to Into the v U join The sight was an Cross chapter and must have heartened the bovs The for their There were more than 'M least Red Cross ladies for the bovs VoM and those who were not fortunate .in to draw a soldier lad felt the was to but filed in behind to the back them It must have given the lads a reassuring feeling to know were to be supported on the field Vested that battle by that bunch of ticket owed twenty A fellow who could for the Red ni I not fight after that would not bo Tf The Pocahontas and debt owed the Ii Rolfe bands and a drum corps had a He further fated place in the line of march The Red their worth and Cross ladies formed a cordon at the to forget that evening that POCAHONTAS JULY 25th, 1918. crimes of otters by being compelled to support criminals in idleness when they thru could support their own should work and be forced their earnings to support instead of leaving them to charity and The Booths have practiced what they preach along line of helping and it was a pleasure to listen to Charles Brandon's was the almost universal verdict that last chautauqua was the best one ever It was at least plenty good enough for the talent was greatly pleased to learn what disposition was being made of our and each took a hand at boosting for our Red The chautauqua is now to keep back the and had season tickets and buv single special train pulled in from Sibley This of them did amidst cheering anil The for the results show it What we he Osceola county contingent was on the Move was the crowd and with the Pocahontas county bunch made a train After the boys had been loaded up the train pulled out and the long ride to Camp Pike was begun with bands playing and the people waving crowd ever at a Rolfe chautauqua was present that evening The manager the S. V. T. which furnished the announced that it was the largest audience thov had played to this and thov a scene never to lie at in the The bless our noble was made during the them safe home f ram that the receipts had gone over Not a single person present would bad missed the occasion for When the all in and a slight Z made from Evangelical Lutheran but it will be An P. M. is checked The was boosted hard will be services July such a and when the Morning service in ment was received it with vorv ing service in In the after- hearty Our community hns noon at two o'clock we will hold our again gone over the ton in a patriotic annual school picnic at the matter in a way becoming the gallant Mads Johansen of our bovs in heartily welcome to Tt sure was a good chautauqua and in above the day was perhaps one of Mrs. Vandeventer returned satisfactory days of the entire from her stay in North Dakota she attendants than found her house had been Tries Aviation Stunts With Ford of her material locks things other things apparently taken used and She has been annoyed at night It is hard to think Rolfe has a character who would dis- break off when it turb a lone but if it a The audience encored a be made to it would give bv the American four food looking and talented ladies from the states east of They bad the vim and to glue the audience right to and if was mighty bard ime time to ind encored effort should be made to give them The the culprit and full justice not only good lie meted out to If some of the they the goort sense to choose night prowling that has characterized that would the past few years continues all of their songs were given it means that a vigilance committee m ami in a stronc effort won their audience right at and and held it The to and touched the once he must be put where can do no more submarine may usurp the place of the at tho Atlantic summer and enduring pride enter American with the casualty your civic pride and by swatting the Keep 'em If your own property Is free from stretch a point and them on the and byways und even help your neighbor to conquer All for one und one for April Fool breakfast In Paris Is getting What can be detaining an easy matter for some men to their they are young and would like to have the world at the mercy of a nation that deliberately practices scientific such as bombing hospitals full of wounded the draft age is extended from forty-nine it will remove from our sight temporarily at many of tho boys who chew gum ind the men who chew English fined for attempting to sell sour explained that his kine were suffering irom shell All ot which reminds us of the story of the Kansas cow that humed her own butter by galloping round the pasture William the has coBt the human race something over in money every year for more than to mention other It's no Joke to cull war bills of England and America are met by appropriations made by Parliament and Congress But the American soldiers are preparing to pay War Hill in full for all his If we will bar out tho foreign language and ln tho we will have made a stride toward roil the power conferred by the Overman tho President has put un end to a lot or useless legal work That's great is called to the fact that the annual meeting of the Rolfe Chautauqua Association is scheduled by the for the second Monday after the and will therefore be held this year at the office of Ward Ferguson on Monday July Let there be a good attendance that all matters may be wound up for the The Mrs. Mrs. * board of directors chosen Don Kent and Mrs. Dolliver Kent business sorely bruised in an automobile Monday We the way home from | Mrs. Herbert Doe Passes coming cast past the Callon while Mr. Noggle was Elma Harn was born in Pocahontas from the south on the north and south county on a farm near At tho comer the cars came 22, 1868. She was married to in view of each other only a short dis- Herbert Doe in Bradgate in the year tance from the the field of 1898. To this union were born six of big corn and a clump of willows four boys and two extending out into the roadway and with her survive her giving a very limited We wero and are all of Rolfe except the eldest timed to each The first who is in Early in life impulse that entered our noodle was she united with the Methodist wo had to get behind the Noggle pal During her last illness car to avoid a We only she was a great She passed had time for one We made away nt the Methodist hospital at good on the idea and avoided a col- Des July 15, where but it. involved two abrupt she had been taken by Dr. W. W. and in getting back into the Beam for an operation for the Kord rolled It made Tho funeral services were held three and landed in the Free Methodist church of on the making it real easy for on July 18, at 2:00 o'clock us to get All four of us remained p. m. Interment was made in Clinton ill the seats thru it and none of where her body awaits tho us wore strapped in. None of usj resurrection The bereaved kne when the car was on top of 1 relatives have the sympathy of and in fact did not know it luid Miss Viola Holmgren of Ruthven but others say it and the position visited over Sunday at the Nels Ryen of the car when we got out proves it. Contrary to one of tho stories put Noggle did not inn into us there was no or Fruits and it's the real NEEDS you are why we have them all and of the highest quality and at the very lowest price possible Corn and It's just the why we have them These constitute the trimmings of and we try to supply your every it's to be found in a first-class Grocery you'll find it C. Thomas as but also had a splendid violin and piano player and a most excellent They varied their program and kept the audience on to see what was coming We want them J. the community snoke in the He is one of those rapid and his guns did not jam. He strode onto the platform with a choice bouquet picked from the of and poured in some shots that were but ho got thru with his talk Rolfe was all for he compli us on our school building and other and the flower about the He missed the sewer and told why we ought to have but that was one on him As a community his talk was a rouser and ought to have been heard bv more Following his this would be a dandy town to live in and we'd all like each other well enough to trade at home and the other fellow his legitimate Robert O. Matthews came in the right out of a where he hail been forced to go for a few days with a shattered He had been in France recently and waH able to tell us many interesting things he had It was an intensely interesting talk and confirmed many of our He had seen Japanese and Chinese troops on the west front He had verified He had seen the long line of wrecks coming back home thru erland with German offspring at their The horrible black stonr of Hun cruelty and misuse was vividly and it made one He had witnessed the long-range bom of Paris and the needless bombing of unprotected towns with nothing but women and children in It was even worse than brot the Oxfords a mixed quartet of opera While they were good musicians they didn't find their way to the hearts of our people like the American The light opera they put on in the was very ingenious and quite It pleased the children the last brot the S. Military a splendid of to a high degree Their music was excellent and the but the band down in not varying their They were advertised as a but only sang one We are sure they had the to do most but everything presented was by ind while it was of it grew occasionally would OOt murie rural 8th Grade tions will be held In the court room at J time between on August 15 and 16. D. County Church It. 8ERVICBS: Service 8chool....... Bible Class Christian Endeavor Preaching Service Prayer and Study Hour Thursday country Is now building ships arguing about The of tin kings should | make think of a cannod A. M. 11:35 A. M. 11:35 A. M. 7:00 P.M. 8:00 P. Sale have put on tables pair of ami Dress which we are to regardless of Regular go at go at go ot Children's from 75c House from Percale and are pricing them at from A A a heady piece of Hii hunch was to speed If he bad had a hunch similar to we would have come together in spite of for the distance was too short to stop and think it It was a lucky and wo much prefer what we went thru to a which would have involved eight people und two instead of four people und one It was a desperate we took it. It seemed the only and we thot we could but the momentum was too great for the turn and over we The quarter of tho roll was in the and the others down the side of a slight A more experienced driver might have seen a better way out of and he might have killed The man who is sure of what he would have done under tho same conditions has our permission to try it if he can get a volunteer to practice with The road was there was no there was no excessive would huve been all right | T the two cars hadn't been timed to iV H T H Howe reach the same spot nt the same ' had the visibility been While we all painfully ludicK more so than no bones wore broken and the soreness Is gradually coming We expect to be whole again in a short The voices of his dear ones never sounded better to the writer as up after the car came to a and he never made a move until he heard every one of Mr. and Mrs. Noggle were on the spot just as soon as they could get there and as Harry saw us all alive and moving his first words He voiced our sentiments to a Some of you may not think there Is any God in such things and we wont quarrel with but we wouldn't know who else to The and Will Hunter brought us to town and every other car that passed The Ford was not damaged near as much | as it might have The periscope I was the snout knocked | the tinware twisted and the top the and a glim torn I and a few other minor bruises It rambled to town on its own power we all got out of the carl the same We feel that we have qualified for the air having taken a nose a side and ran our craft up side Ir you miss | us vou will know Uncle Sam has called wo haven't lost our I we're going out again as soon as we can crank the car and the is Episcopal C. P. vest and made th oat retur Lieut Lufi being overcome few of the but most countered after tL few of them tell There porting the was nearly but stood Aft yet encountered any ' that if they could noi i of this it would but the war i way to ' be organized to counter attacks will I but the boys maintain the ad vanti the 1 they mean no trying to do a Hun and help the all joking aside such essential to win the for food stuffs must T it is lucky the work or the stroy more food of kicking 1 is now showing up gives the town S. T. W. A. W A. P. M. H. M. L. A. E. C. W. A. G. Alwin G. D. L. O. W. IT. M. The Dr. A. C. they J. H. and Much during the next ing parties and it will alo of the crate them on O. S. call to Captain scrap of paper boys out to do or d from their and the evening apt Harvest the of agree to i farmers in caring fO will devote all the ti grain is cared pay for the labor donated to the A. P. Robert I. C. J. W. Boy C. H. F A. B. Thorns R. i- E. L. 7. H. O. T. F. Tomj A. G. Mercerized and the thing for hot weather Three in lace and To we sell at tii the price of the lbs. Barley Rye Flour Red the Q K for you seen that Combination Basket 1 Flat Hog Rack and Wfl Box we are four in Loosen a few bolts and make the Surely the belt your old rack needs a few ' We have the stuff to do it boards to get your granary i for that crop of per cent off for A.M. A. 3:00 P.M. P.M. Praise Service 8:00 P.M. Prayer Meeting ft Bible 8:00 P. ML W. H. M. S. will meet with Mrs. E. S. Colebaugh Friday I All members and friends urged to be I car loads of the young people of the Epworth League spent Saturday and Sunday at the League Institute at the M. E. camp Lake They report a fine time and I great with about 800 Leaguers pastor will on evening next 'n series of missionary lectures will be This will be an oat T. will preach morning and next Sun will be per schedule except in when at nine o'clock the doors service on the church I or you can sit in your cars and enjoy the lecture on South America and the I large number of fine colored slides | showing the the their manners and and the progress of Christian missions in this great These lectures are prepared by the missionary society of the church for the instruction and information of our people regarding the missions of the Come Sunday will enjoy Red CroM your income as you gambling with destiny and with You stand all to lose and tho if eliminate chance and establishes your future bank desires to
