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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1931
Page
3
The notice lists subscription prices: 1.50 per year in advance, 15 cents per month for less than a year, 2.00 per year outside Story Hamilton and Hardin Counties, 2.50 per year for foreign subscriptions. Advertising readers 10 cents per line, card of thanks 50 cents, display advertising rates available on request.
The June gathering of the Roland Community Club is scheduled for next Tuesday evening June 9 above the Story County State Bank.
T K Thompson 70 died suddenly Friday morning at his Story City home from a heart attack. He had suffered strokes in the past and lived in Story County most of his life, born on the Thompson homestead near Story City. Funeral services were held at 1:30 from the family home and 2:00 at Bethel Lutheran Church with burial in Roland cemetery.
Senator Smith W Brookhart will be the principal speaker at Slater's Fourth of July celebration this year. Sherman W Needham of Eldora buys the Ames Milepost and the Service Printing Company at Ames and will take possession in midsummer after recently selling his Eldora paper.
The four year high school ranks show Maxine Thompson with an average of 4.25 and Thomas Jacobson at 86.52 earning scholarships from St. Olaf, Luther, and Waldorf. Helen Erickson Eleanor Rad Ernest Sevde and Arlene Michaelson posted no absences or tardies this year.
Louis Schneider of Indianapolis wins the 500 mile Speedway Classic on Firestone Gum Dipped Tires. With mechanic Jigger Johnson, he achieves an average speed of 96.429 mph and notes no tire failures, praising Firestone safety and dependability in a telegram of gratitude from the track.
The Roland Week-Day School of Religion reports a 223 family base with 218 children enrolled, 36 weeks of classes, and steady gains in attendance. Grades detail memorization, catechism, and Bible study from First through Eighth, plus mission work funding and notes on teachers, missionaries, and church-side activities. Eighty parents and friends observed the year's work. two Christmas programs were produced, and funds supported Alma missions and Braille scripture efforts.
A religious note by Josephine Fielland, teacher, closes with a Bible quote from Acts 29 38 and a blessing for readers to grow in grace and in inheritance among the sanctified.
A correspondent recalls a spoken exchange with a nearby farmer about handling a large peach crop. The farmer explains they eat what they can and what they cannot, they can. The questioner notes they sell what they can and what they cannot sell. A man spends his vacation.
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