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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1938
Page
4
A Rolfe school page notes Kindergarten activities include kite making rain picture projects Easter sand table displays and new work books. Fifth grade reports Ed ward Weiland illness but aims to return soon with a 99 percent spelling average and hobby displays.
Pocahontas County Iowa board met in regular session. Members present were Rude man Young and Clarence Jensen. Bids for gasoline were rejected and checks returned. Road tile agreement and lease for section 8 90 34 approved. Claims totaling multiple accounts were allowed including road maintenance and labor payments. Adjournment to April 5 1938. Roy A. Johnson County Auditor.
Plans to curb a threatened grasshopper outbreak in Pocahontas and surrounding counties will be discussed at a district conference in Spencer on April 19. County Agent E. J. Schmuecker announces that Dr. Carl J. Drake chair of the state grasshopper committee H. D. Tate and a US Bureau of Entomology representative will lead. Attendees include Farm Bureau board members and agricultural leaders from the county and townships. Weather conditions during hatching will influence the outbreak risk. dry warm weather favors hatching while heavy rains and cool damp spells slow it.
Marion Bruce and family toured Texas from Taft to Houston and Des Moines, visiting farms in Taft, view of 110 acre Bermuda onion field, and oil fields near Baytown. They met J. B. Kent Jr. and toured an oil refinery, then drove via Galveston to Des Moines, logging 89968 miles without a mishap.
Friday visitors include Rev Redmayne and Nona with Des Moines ties. Monthly Laurin subdistrict preachers meet at Rev and Mrs Clifton home in Havelock. Community members visit, travel, and attend church and club activities across nearby towns including Des Moines Fort Dodge and Algona.
A fragmented notice notes a visit by Kerns and a Sunday service at a Y location with a program and reception on Sunday April 17 at 10 am. It mentions a joint Fort Dodge presbytery and Boonetown program at Boone on April 26 and 27.
E Redmayne pastor announces Sunday schedule with Sunday School at 10, morning worship at 11, Epworth league at 6. The April 10 service will administer the Lord's Supper preceded by a short message on The Challenging Christ as the start of holy week preparations. All are welcome.
E P Lomen speaks on charging customers for withdrawing funds as surplus money sits in vaults and small checks rise. He notes checks for small amounts raise costs, leading bankers to seek service charges. Mrs Lomen serves a luncheon after the program.
In Pocahontas county Iowa probate district the executrix Alma R Shaw is appointed and qualified for the estate of George S Shaw deceased March 29 1938 Persons indebted or with claims must present them per law for allowance and payment.
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