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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1930
Page
3
A young woman Mem flees a troubled romance to Arizona and enters the film world. She endures deceit blackmail and advances from directors while pursued by love and ambition. Her rise echoes the era's movie industry temptations and moral judgments as family faces financial pressures.
Mem Steddon and her mother arrive in Calgary to confront memory of Elwood Marnaby and the church scandal. The pair meet the Rev Steddon, now unaware of them, while Mem contemplates guilt, atonement, and the fate of Elwood’s resting place as Dr Bretherick helps her arrange a tombstone for the boy.
The Arrow notes a twenty percent price discount for wool tied with binder twine starting with 1930 fleeces. Vegetable lint from such twines lowers fabric quality as it mixes with wool, which resists dye. Paper twine meeting market requirements is available from the County Agent in Pocahontas at wholesale cost.
Town farmers are urged to buy labeled seed this spring. H D Hughes of Iowa State College warns buyers to check dealer name, container quantity, variety, pure seed percentage, weed seed percentage, germination and test date, and where clover or alfalfa was grown. Avoid seeds with any state-listed noxious weeds such as Canada thistle or quack grass. A final quip notes the state that allows women to work twenty four hours a day is matrimony.
The Rolfe Iowa city council held its first regular meeting of the term with Mayor Bruce and councilors present. Appointments were made for town clerk F E Grant street commissioner and town marshal P J Calligan. Several standing committees were named and bills approved before adjourning. The Board of Review met in regular session with the same members present.
The text notes Yellowstone National Park covering an area equal to Delaware and Rhode Island combined. It also mentions Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin as an officer in the U S balloon corps during the Civil War.
State of Iowa Pocahontas County district court March term 1930 advertises probate of will No 1830. Public notice lists case details and invites interested parties to appear or respond within set deadlines.
Public notice states an instrument purporting to be the last will of Ed C Lehnus, deceased, dated July 29 1918, was filed. A hearing to prove the will is set for April 29 1930 at 2 PM in Pocahontas Iowa before the district court or clerk, requiring interested parties to show cause why the will should not be admitted.
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