Rolfe Visitors and Local News Highlight Plover
Rolfe residents and visitors populate a weekly column with numerous names and towns including Rolfe Laurens Fort Dodge Des Moines and Spencer. Town events note Easter supper cancellation patriotic meeting and a new chemical fire engine order with bids to be opened.
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Andrew Rasmuseen
Fort Dodge
Minnie Bush
Des Moines
J. J. Mullaney
Spencer
P. J. Shaw
A. McEwen
8. T. Grove
National Guard
I. R. Egespuehler
L. A. White
Robert McEwen
White
Eggspuehler
Robert
Plover
Ernest Meredith
Meredith
Card of Thanks for Darlings Meredith Family
We express deep gratitude to kind hearts who helped during illness and burial of our darling little one. May God bless and reward them, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Meredith.
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Ernest Meredith
Plover School Notes and Upcoming Play at Auditorium
Plover school reports new transfers Henry Spencer Francis Chris tenson Nelda White and Miss Ives notes thirty one Grade 1 pupils. A filing cabinet safe has been ordered to protect records. Havelock Seniors will perform Tompkins Hired Man in the school auditorium on Friday April 13 with 20 and 60 cent admissions, receipts split with Havelock. Superintendent cancels Bolivia assignment. teachers sign next year contracts and a new department teacher will join to handle Music and Drawing.
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Havelock
Tompkins
Plover School
Suzette
Ives
Vera Means
Frances £. Moore
Lola Connor
Marjorie Harmon
Gladys Simon
Daphne Ives
Bolivia
South America
Local Notables and Weddings Highlight Bradgate Week
Humboldt visitors and residents fill Bradgate social pages with business trips and friendships while celebrating the quiet marriage of Miss Johanna Hoveland and Leonard Seaman on April 6, 1917. The couple plans Paullina visits before residing locally. teachers, shoppers, and travelers populate the week’s notes.
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A. Hoag
Humboldt
Johanna Hoveland
Leonard Seaman Eprung
C. E. Ellefson
Beadgate M. MM
Paullina
Seamhan
Poultry and Farm Machinery Dealer Ad in Plover Iowa
J W Mangoun of Plover Iowa invites the public to inspect stock including J I Case Oliver tractors kerosene stoves Buckeye Incubators and Colony coal burners gas engines and tractors. He introduces the Colony brooder as a major money maker capable of brooding 100 to 1000 chicks at a time with about six cents a day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. I. Case
Oliver
Colony
J. W. Mangoun
Plover
Iowa
Flag and War Speak in Echoes of Halo Compared to Hell
Fragmentary lines reflect wartime sentiment comparing hellish conditions to a haloed contrast. The text presents pained rhetoric about struggle and relief, hinting at broader themes of sacrifice and resilience amid conflict.
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Hell
Unclear text fragment on cold and illness care
Fragmentary note discusses illness and weariness with references to a cold and coughing. Text is garbled and lacks clear events, names, places, or dates to establish a concrete news item or report.
Gentlemen Of The Jury Petit Jury May Term 1917
List of jurors for the May term 1917 includes R W Speer Havelock Mike Rieter Palmer Albert Johnson Fonda Frank Weber Gilmore City John Schroeder Rolfe Jacob Meigenbach Rolfe BE M Richards Pocahontas John Hewlett Rolfe L A Halder Varina L R McCree Laurens A H Richey Laurens A C Prissner Havelock Chris Lastine Rolfe Luft Pocahontas Schoon Manion Albert Loots Pomeroy 8 H Thumme Laurens P C Murphy Pocahontas Peter Wiemers Palmer H Vaux Pocahontas J Hollenbeck Rolfe F A Leander Laurens I H Siddal Laurens Jas McAlpin Pomeroy H A Hanesgn Fonda Barl Spangler Rolfe Nels Runneberg Laurens A McCormick Pocahontas Jack Wolfe Pocahontas A Widel Palmer H McFadden Rolfe J R Lynch Laurens Henry DeWall Pocahontas
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R. W. Speer
Havelock
Mike Rieter
Palmer
Albert Johnson
Fonda
Frank Weber
Gilmore City
John Schroeder
Rolfe
Jacob Meigenbach
BE. M. Richards
Pocahontas
John Hewlett
L. A. Halder
Varina
L. R. McCree
Laurens
A. H. Richey
A. C. Prissner
Chris Lastine
Luft
Schoon
Manion
Albert Loots
Pomeroy
H. Thumme
P. C. Murphy
Peter Wiemers
H. Vaux
J. Hollenbeck
F. A. Leander
I. H. Siddal
Jas
Jas. McAlpin
H. A. Hanesgn
Barl Spangler
Nels Runneberg
A. McCormick
Jack Wolfe
A. Widel
H. McFadden
J. R.lynch
Henry
DeWall
George 93094 Stallion George Listed With Locations and Terms
The document outlines George 93094 a black Percheron stallion owned by Fred Hoffert Rolfe Pocahontas County Iowa. It covers stud book registration details Pedigree certificate number 9197 examinations by Dr H C Barnes March 4 1916 and a warranty against diseases and unsoundnesses with terms for standing at stud and ownership transfer fees and care provisions.
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Rolfe
Player
A. W. Poduske
Weil
Iowa
Percheron Stud Book of America
Sechaanns
State Department of Agriculture
Feaa
Per Azad Partment of Agriculture
Des Moinesy Towa
H. C. Barnes
Pocahontas County Board Proceedings Report 1917
Pocahontas county Iowa board session on April 10 1917 in Auditor's Office with Hopkins Klein and Elsen present Dooley and Sedlacek absent W P Hopkins named chairman pro tem all bills approved hearings on Drainage Improvement District Eral adjourned to April 18 and Nog 86 87 continued to May 3 board adjourned to April 18 W C Wood county auditor
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State of Iowa
Pocahontas County
Board of Supervisors
Iowa
Auditor’s Office
Hopkins
Klein
Elsen
Dooley and
Sedlacek
W. P. Hopkins
M. J. Dooley
Eral
On Motion
W. C. Wood
Five Year Closed Season For Quail And Prairie Chickens Passed
Iowa lawmakers approve a five year closed season on quail and prairie chickens with the McFarlane chicken bill and Turner quail bill clearing the senate and house. Debates center on quail status and per-bird limits while amendments fail. final vote 85 to 14.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Senate
House
Byington
Chase
Evans
Price
Caswell
Whitmore
Genatora
Schrup
Segeral
Wilson
Taylor
Laffer
Holdoegel
Fellows
Recruiting Drive Urges 6000 Guardsmen For Nation’s Call
Posters in red ink totaling six thousand were mailed from the state house to broaden recruitment for the Iowa National Guard. Mayors and prominent citizens may organize mass meetings to surge enlistments as officials prepare for possible new calls from the president for 30 000 to 40 000 more troops.
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State House
Iowa
National Guard
Iowa Veterans Plan Reunion at Maxwell Brings Hornets Nest Brigade
The Hornets Nest Brigade a Civil War veterans group plans its thirteenth annual reunion at Maxwell Iowa on May 9 and 10 Col D J Palmer president will open the event Charles Olinger will give the welcome Major 8 H M Byers Asa Turner and several Comrades including Ryan Neely French McGaraugh Frailey Akers Clark Jacobs Moora Bowen and Salmon are listed on the two days program The Town Brigade participated in some of the war's fiercest fighting.
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Iowa
Maxwell
Hornets Nest Brigade
Col
D. J. Palmer
Charles Olinger
H. M. Byers
Asa Turner
Ryan
Neely
French
McGarraugh
Frailey
Akers
Clark
Jacobs
Moora
Bowen
Salmon
Iowa Miners Consider Strike Over Machine-Mined Coal Scale
Coal miners in seventeen central Iowa counties threaten a stoppage unless the wage commission reports a loader scale for machine mined coal. The Third District Central Miners resolve to retroactively apply the scale to March 1, 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
Third District Centra
Cut Down Crop Waste in Iowa War Effort
Ames college president R A Pearson warns Iowa wastes farm products that could bankrupt a European nation. He notes Iowa crops last year valued at a billion dollars and argues proper farming and waste elimination could add a hundred million to that value. He stresses farmers' importance to the war effort.
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Ames
Iowa
Europe
R. A.pearson
Ames College
Pearson
Germany
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J. A. Carroll
Re. L. E. Thompson
Luella Shaver
Will Chinn
Roy Seaman
James Anderson
Wm. Eikenberry
Squire Heathman
Marshalltown
G. A. Everson
L. E. Garlock
Ft. Dodge
J. W. Mangan
Nellie Wallace
Zella
Geo. Brian
Pioneer
H. H. Grove
Wm. Stoltenburg
Rela
Minnie Appelsheimer
Frank Wiewel
John Hacker
Geo
Roberta
Blooming Prairie, Minn
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Sioux City
Fred Ehler
Henry Spencer
Francis Christenson
Nelda White
Bradgate
F. F. Caywood
Frank Seaman
Frank Carlton
Donald
Floyd McCreary
Hawarden
Floyd McCleary
Esther Smith
Grace Weaver
O. J. Sheldon
Eva
Irma
J. Bell
Lake City
D. D. Hammond
Register & Leader
Evening Tribune
Harriss Thomas
C. Messer
Consolidated
W. S Wallace
Rollfe
Martin Silkenbacker
Valentine
Oleson
Consolidated Schools
Kolp
West Bend
Ruth Fuller
Peoples’ Savings Bank
CA. Garlock
W. McEwen
CB. Watts
Firat
Pocali
Ba Pitetas
Aeanedes
C. A. Garlock
Chas. E. Watts
A. Garlock
Chas BH
Watts
Charles H. Watts
Gariock
Fas W. McEwen
Petit Jury
George
Fred Hoffert
Albert ‘Li
Hoffert
Towa
George Hillman
C. Mann
W. H. Starr
Ware
THE
Qunl Bil
Bubscuibe
Webster City
Chicago
H. B. McKee
McKee
Hamilton County
Columbus
Canning Company of Muscatine
Towa City
Universi
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J. Carson Duncan
J. 8. Blair
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Odd Fellows Plan
Grgs
Dee Moines
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