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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1930
Page
7
Classifieds list well drilling and pump repair by L. M. Olson and Son, fertilizer offers from Sam Bakka, baby chicks at 14 dollars per hundred from Mrs Hoagland in Roland Iowa, and setting eggs from Tom H. Wicks. Also notes on want ad rates and a Malcolm E. Larson price listing.
Local notes report re sumed travel and visits in surrounding towns. Mrs. O M Anenson improves after illness. Piano lessons offered by Mrs. Otto J Hanson. Mrs. C Fosberg of Albert City visits Erickson home. Mrs. George Larson returns from Des Moines Osceola trip. J F Club hosted by Mrs Homer Duen. Bohning and Marilyn Thompson back from Forest City visit. Lloyd Carter moves to Guro Hegland estate residence. Verna Cheatland of McCallsburg staying with H I S Thompson. J A Knudtson and son Roy visit Ames. Milton Thompson and Barbara Ann travel to Omaha for weeks with relatives. Born to James Sanggaard Story City a son on March 22. she was Lydia Darby.
Miss Mildred Holland left Monday for San Diego to start work there. Henry Alvestad traveled to Kansas City on business and to visit his brother George. A baby girl Hannah Josephine weighed 12 pounds was born to Mr and Mrs H L Thompson north of Roland last Saturday. Otis Holland and family visiting from Minneapolis at Mollie Holland’s home. Britt visitors including C I Larson, Henry Anderson families at Oliver Cole home. Mrs Iver Wicks and daughter recuperating from hospital care at Mrs A J Olson home. Leta Schaefer and Leonard Wierson of Lanark Ill visited W T and W L Wiersons. Agnes Hall returned to Des Moines after two weeks with Obert Olson’s family. Rev Olaf Helen attended a Minneapolis inner mission board meeting. next two days in Minnesota. Mrs John Evenson went to Marshalltown for leg operation at Deaconess hospital. J S Wilson hosted dinner for multiple families. Oren Larson started as station attendant at Phillips Petroleum. Willie Amundson now runs tank wagon. Three American Legion Post 307 card tables missing. return to A M Michaelson. Clarence Erickson attended Coe College Alpha Gamma Delta party at Hotel Roosevelt. forty couples, Iowa City orchestra, ten dances.
Hazel Omundson and Harold Heg land, students at the state university of Iowa, spent the weekend at their homes here. Earl Johnson drove them back Sunday afternoon, returning Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Hill hosted a Sunday afternoon and evening gathering with Mrs. Ole Egeland and daughter Gladys, plus the Egelands and Rosen families and Rev. and Mrs. M. O. Sumstad. The Sumstads then went to Minneapolis for a few days for church and missionary board duties.
Teacher Jeannette Henderson of our school won first place at the district spelling contest held March 19 near Randall with 98 percent. Myrtle Nygaard took second with 94 percent and Emma Headley third with 76 percent. First, second, and third in each district advance to the county contest at Kamrar on April 1. The seventh grade geography class is making geography booklets and the group is borrowing books from Story City library.
Readership can obtain additional copies of the Roland Record with five cents charged per copy at the Record office.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Brandeland welcomed a ten pound baby girl born Wednesday March 19. Family news notes travel to Beloit for an uncle’s funeral. Ames visitors stop by. Fire destroys Milt Garman’s house four miles south. fire started in the roof. McCallsburg chemical wagon saved the kitchen and some furniture.
The report lists numerous Sunday visits across Walters Minnesota and nearby towns. Families including Schulenbergs, Christiansons, Warne, Nelson, Ostrem, Ose, Berven, Auestad, Anderson, Hegland, and Knutsons are named among those who spent the day with relatives and friends. A Radcliffe resident, C. E. Myers, made a business call, and Henrika Sevde planned to visit Carrie Peterson. The piece notes a Friday declamatory contest and program.
June Ose was chosen by three judges as the successful candidate for a school tryout. She will represent the school at a contest with other schools here next Friday, March 28, judged by Miss Edith Babcock, Miss Davidson, and Miss Helen Pheil. Mrs John Hoelscher and baby stay with her sister while the home is being painted.
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