Rolfe to Host Large Girls Track Meet This Thursday
Rolfe Community hosts 24 area girls track teams at the new Guy P Bendixon Memorial Field. The meet opens with field events at 3 00 p m and running events at 4 00 p m. Teams include Albert City Truesdale Twin Rivers Central of Fenton Ayrshire Boone Valley Renwick Clay Central Fonda Gilmore City Havelock Plover Laurens Meriden Cleghorn Mallard Marathon Palmer Pocahontas Rembrandt South Clay Terris Titonka West Bend and Rolfe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe
Guy P. Bendixon
Gilbertson
Albert City
Truesdale
Twin Rivers
Central of Fenton
Ayrshire
Boone Valley
Renwick
Clay Central
Fonda
Gilmore City
Havelock-Plover
Laurens
Meriden-Cleghorn
Mallard
Marathon
Palmer
Pocahontas
Rembrandt
South Clay
Terris
Titonka
West Bend
OEO Grant Funds Area Head Start Summer Program
The Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc received approval for a $37,121 OEO Summer Head Start grant to run an eight week program for 150 preschoolers aged 4 to 6 in Emmet Palo Alto Pocahontas and Kossuth counties. Classes will run in Estherville Ringsted Bancroft Graettinger Laurens Podations and in Algona Emmetsburg with three adults per class and a nurse weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Opportunity,Inc
Don Thomason
OEO
Kansas City
Missouri
Hughes
Emmet
Palo Alto
Pocahontas
Kossuth
Estherville
Ringsted
Bancroft
Graettinger
Laurens
Podationtas
Algona
Emmetsburg
M. Peter Hart
Jurors Named for May Term Court in Pocahontas County
Clerk Paul Poduska announces the May term Petit Jury for Pocahontas County with presiding judge G W Stillman. Jurors report at 10:00 AM at the courthouse on Monday May 8. The list includes numerous residents from Pocahontas Laurens Rolfe Fonda Gilmore City and nearby towns.
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Petit
Paul Poduska
Disa
Pocahontas
Petit Jury
G. W. Stillman
Algona
Petit Jury Pane
Amice
Rodney
Havelock Buske
Earl
Pocahontas _ Byerly
Norma
Pocahontas Challand
Paul
Laurens Look
Gardum
Laurens Cooper
Marcille
Laurens Cox
Madalyn
Gilmore City
Davidson
Adna
Rolfe
Bike
Opal
Flaherty
Leo
Pocahontas Flynn, Mrs. Robert, Pocahontas Freak, Edward, Pocahontas Home
Clara
Hood
Emmett
Francis
Tena
Gilmore
City
Enterim
Lillian Ua
Pomeroy Lillig
Mary
Albert City
Logen
Richard
Havelock
Marron
John
Scout Meeting Place Is Needed This Week
An area scout troop seeks a new meeting site and equipment storage. Scoutmaster Sydney Beckord says the group plans a hike and hopes to find a suitable building soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scottmaster Sydney
Beckord
Greater Rolfe Days Set With June 13 and 14 Festivities
The Greater Rolfe Club votes to stage Greater Rolfe Days on Tuesday and Wednesday June 13 and 14 with carnival rides by Baumann Shows, advance ticket sales, and events including a Horse Show Fun Day on June 18, a tractor pull, square dance on Rolfe Main Street, and a barbecue supper with an evening $2.00 play.
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Greater Rolfe Club
Greater Rolfe
Jerry Turner
Carnival Ag
Ater
Greater Rolfe Days
Rolfe Ranch Riders Saddle Club
Rolfe Main
Rolfe
Greater
Rolfe Club
Turner
Jaycee
Rolfe students’ artwork displayed in uptown window
An exhibit of art by Rolfe Community School students from grades through high school is now shown in the Iowa Electric Light and Power Company building window. The display is sponsored by Rolfe’s three federated women’s clubs as part of their Creative Art and Writing projects, led by art teacher Carla Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Federated Women’s Clubs
Rolfe Community School
Carla Jones
Mother Daughter Banquet Held at Methodist Church Apr 6
About 160 attendees gathered Thursday evening April 6 at the Methodist Church parlor for a spring themed Mother-Daughter Banquet. Dorothy Farlow hosted as toastmistress. Mrs. Marvin Helmke spoke as toast to daughters, Linda responded. Triads performed vocal selections and Mrs. James Janvrin, known as the blind lady from Fort Dodge, gave a life story talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Farlow
Marvin Helmke
Linda
Fritz Hudson
Don Shoemaker
David Brinkman
Annual Scout Drive For Handicapped Good Turn Day
The Prairie Gold Area Council of the Boy Scouts plans its annual Good Turn Day clothing drive for the handicapped. Cub Scouts will distribute bags on April 22 in Rolfe, then Boy Scouts will collect them on April 29 for Goodwill Industries in Sioux City. The effort supports 140 handicapped workers who are self supporting and taxed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cub
Boy Scouts of the
Prairie Gold Area Council
Boy Scouts of America
Rolfe
Prairie Gold Council
Cub Scouts
Richard Schott
Boy Scouts
Sydney Beckord
Goodwill Industries
Sioux City
Scouts of the Prairie Gold Area Council
Rolfe Arrow Seeks Bradgate Area Correspondent
The Rolfe Arrow requests a local correspondent for the Bradgate area immediately. Contact the Arrow office for details. Miss Caroline Madsen, longtime correspondent, is moving to another community and is wished well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Rolfe Arrow
Bradgate
Arrow Office
Caroline Madsen
Injury at recess leaves boy with leg fracture
John Reckord ten receives a broken bone below the knee pulled tendons and internal bleeding after a football game during recess at school. He was taken by ambulance to Lutheran Hospital where surgery set the fracture and cast from hip to toes. He remains hospitalized about ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Reckord
George Reckord
John
Lutheran Hospital
Three I Ratings at Palmer Music Contest
The Class C Solo and Ensemble Music Contest held April 7 and 8 at Palmer awarded I ratings to Marc Stoufe baritone solo Kathleen Rickard French horn solo Brass Duet Kathleen Rickard French horn and Susan Ricklefs baritone Cheryl Wilson piano solo IT Tom Olerich baritone solo I ratings. Several entrants canceled participation. Mr. Wibben directed the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer
Rolfe
Marc Stoufe
Kathleen Rickard
Susan Ricklefs
Cheryl Wilson
Tom Olerich
Mr. Wibben
Wisconsin State U River Falls Dean's List runner
Deborah Lehnus of Rolfe was among 206 students at Wisconsin State University River Falls named to the winter quarter Dean's List. She is a freshman in the College of Education. Clean-up Week runs April 23 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deborah Lehnus
Rolfe
Wisconsin State University
River Falls
Wesley Lehnus
College of Education
Federated Clubs Host County Convention in Rolfe
About 100 members attended the Federated Women's Clubs county convention in St. Pauls Lutheran Church Rolfe with theme Education for Living. The event featured awards for book reading, a conservation panel with foreign exchange students and a tea reception after adjournment alongside a luncheon hosted by district officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federated Clubs of
Rolfe
Federated Women’s Clubs
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
A.L D. Club
Ray Nonneman
Laurens
Biase
St. ‘Paul’s
Everett Burns
Roy Neville
Ducommun
Mattie Kruel
Stella M. Brown
Cecil Bartley
Ed Shelgren
Vera Fisher
Telmer Sime
Gilmore City
Lester Lynch
Belle Day
Pocahontas
Zelle Pattee
Emma Pattee
Young Apprentice Lineman Carl Struve Hired by Town Electric
Carl Struve age 19 has been employed since March 18 as an apprentice line man with the Town Electric Light and Power Company. He previously worked as a helper for the Fight company in the Sioux Rapids Peterson area during the summer months. He and his wife Pamela moved from Storm Lake to the Lime township northeast Lop town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Struve
Electric . Light
Power Company
Fight Company
Stoux
Rapids-Peterson
Mr. Struve
Paméla
Storm ‘Lake
Ar Din
Telmer
Former Rolfe Teacher Reaches 103rd Year
Thomas Amlie, who observed his 108th birthday at Pocahontas, is believed to be the oldest living University of Iowa alumnus and a former Rolfe teacher. He taught at Rolfe, later farmed, and has lived at the Gaona Samaritan Center in Pocahontas. His hearing and eyesight have weakened with age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Amlie
Pocahontas
University of Iowa
Amlie
Rolfe School
Virgil Hancher
University of Town
Gaoa
Samaritan Center
Gitaliere En
Reseal Planned for Farm Stored Grains
LeRoy J. Nelson, chairman of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, announced a reseal plan for four farm stored grains after 1967 maturities. The program lets farmers keep price support loans and storage payments on 1966 crops of corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats, with loans on 1965 crops and 1964 corn and grain sorghum possibly extended for another year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRoy J. Nelson
Conservation County Committee
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Rammettes
Vial
Donald Bygness
Vietnam
Jerry Hatcher
Lee Hatcher
Humboldt
South Vietnam
Hatcher
Joe EB. Hatcher
Lindhart Funeral Home
Methodist Church
Lad
Nancy Riggan
Jean Watters
Loren, Oleson
Pocahontag
F. M. Hudson
Raymond Majorowicz
Jesus
Clocca Mora
N. A. Wilson
Eldon Watters
INWC
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Progressive Club
Flossie DeVaul
A.L.D
Fred McKim
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