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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1930
Page
4
Mrs Martha Dillin and children moved to Gordon Lara’s farm for the summer. Several residents traveled to Des Moines and Nevada for business and health reasons. Local clubs held socials and meetings with meals and refreshments, while students and families faced travel and homesickness. Rev Benthin led services with active parish engagement.
Milford High School this week covered a Glee Club trip to Ames for a Music Contest at Catherine McKay Auditorium. Attendees included Reva Rhodes and peers. football coach Levi discussed basketball prep. English classes study Shakespeare. Dr Armstrong assessed athletic fitness. Junior and Senior social invites issued. 30 Traveling Library books arrived. declamatory practice began. a Class Play titled Lets Have Some Excitement is planned with Miss Fox as coach. theater shows Old English and Bits of Blarney noted. MES signs off until after corn husking vacation.
H N Bakke pastor at Zion Lutheran conducts services in Norwegian with Communion on Sunday October 26 at 11. Bethany Lutheran holds Bible study and prayer every Wednesday at 7 30 in the parish house. Choir rehearsals Thursday evenings. Catechumens meet Saturdays at 10. Ladies Aid meets Saturday October 25 in the parish house. Luther League program Sunday evening October 26 with Mrs M O Sumstad as speaker. Sunday School each Sunday morning at 10.
Bob Davis recalls O Henry seizing a door to doors moment in New York. He hid from friends for weeks then demanded raises to write introductions while a bowl of pears iced nearby. The author offered a final deal and kept the pears, dismissing earlier offers.
The Manchester Guardian notes that the Kit Kat club of thirty-nine Hanoverian loyalists made mutton pie the official dish at dinners to symbolize their political stance. The piece hints at a possible royal preference for boiled mutton with turnips by George I and George II, and recalls Rochester’s quip about Charles I as a “mutton-loving king.”
An extravagant sum bought the Pepys mazer, a famous maplewood bowl long tied to Edward VI almshouses in Saffron Walden England. The piece features silver gilt lip decoration, a Saint head maker’s mark from 1507-08, and a Virgin and Child engraving inside. Now it travels to America.
Coleridge described composing Kubla Khan after an afternoon sleep brought on by an antidote. He awoke with a complete fragment in his mind and wrote it down, but was later called away and could not recall the rest of the lines he had drafted in his dream.
Fourteen pupils attend the rural school with six students non absent in six weeks. New blackboards arrived, Halloween decorations are up, photos were taken, and a math contest is planned. The well water was sent to Iowa City for testing. several pupils were absent to help corn harvest. Pearl Borwick elected editor in chief and Myrtle Borwick assistant editor.
Nutgalls come from diverse trees with Asiatic oaks producing hard nnt like galls. Chinese and Japanese nutgalls derive from Rhus trees and appear large and irregular. Rich in tannin, they serve leather, dyeing, ink, and medicine industries. Several New York firms import nutgalls from China and other countries.
The lady and maid discuss a neighbor across the hall disturbed by radio noise all night. The maid jokes the neighbor should be placed in a country home for indignant women, naming it with a playful mock title.
Histories of the British navy note that frigates during the War of 1812 were manned largely by English seaman. Enlistment relied on bounties, county quotas, and press gangs, creating a mixed force of quota men and pressed sailors.
McCallsburg High School football was shut out 26-0 by Melbourne on Melbourne field. Melbourne’s Yardy and Lanning scored in the second and third quarters with multiple end runs and a strong lineup, while McCallsburg prepared for next Friday’s home game against Radcliffe.
Mrs Silas Espe and Olive of Radcliffe with Mrs Lars Seversicke to Des Moines last Monday. Farmers Elevator installs a twenty ton grain scale for trucked in grain. Tom Sever sicke and crew carry out the work. O T Olson reshingles his house and Martin Lee and crew do the roof. Mr and Mrs Theo Skeie visited Mr and Mrs C M Pearson Sunday. Miss Ragnhild Male and Mrs Jo-
On October 10 the Camp Fire Girls gathered at guardian Marna Cole's home for music and games. They enjoyed nut fudge and popcorn and finished the evening with a moonlit hike after all members attended and had fun.
A note from Hester Cole thanks the Vanage Fire Girls for caring for children during a Parent-Teacher meeting at their home last Wednesday night. The writer says the task was enjoyable and hopes for more entertainment in the future.
A note indicates extra copies of the Record are sold at five cents per copy. The brief item records the price and availability without additional context or names.
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