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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1937
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Everett Shaw of Mallard visited the D E Young home in Rolfe on Sunday. Miss Margaret Lokerse came back from Fort Dodge last Friday after about a week in the hospital for an operation.
New telephone entries published after the September 24 1936 list include numerous coded numbers and two named residences Kerns Fred and Papenfuhs HerbFarm. The notice urges residents to paste in their directory to build a closer community through telephone service.
Local residents share visits across Rolfe and surrounding towns including Clarence Moen in Fort Dodge and Rev Clarence Tompkins in Spencer. Community gatherings feature the Double-six Bridge club, missionary society, and post nuptial shower while a telecommunication crew repairs poles after a March sleet storm.
Sunday schedule lists a church service at 11 A M with a sermon titled An Invitation Bearing Messenger Epworth League led by Willard Klein as the third in a series What Jesus Stood For The Epworth cabinet meets at the parsonage at 4 P M next Sunday The Humboldt rally occurs Monday night The Woman's Home Missionary society holds a missionary convention in Webster City Friday April 16 Phone the parsonage to join
Mr and Mrs Francis Hood spent Sunday at the parental Frank Hood home in Clare.
Sunday social visits highlight small town life with the Forsythe family and Hendersons in West Bend and Forest City. shipments of grain to Keokuk Des Moines and Omaha reflect drought impacts and rising corn prices around 1.25 to 1.26 per bushel.
First and Second Grades report absences due to scarlet fever and illness for several students. Several pupils in Third to Eighth Grades earned perfect attendance. Also notices appointment of executrix for the estate of Mrs. Bessie Taylor with payment and claim instructions to follow.
Car owners and club members are listed with visits to Forest City West Bend and Rolfe. Social events include American Legion Auxiliary meeting planned for April 16 and M I Aid society gathering. Other items mention travel to Britt Swea City Am boy and Des Moines, with snow flurries and spring seeding underway locally.
The Plover Presbyterian Church led by Rev Walter Rothwell announces Sunday School at 10 80am and Morning Worship at 11 304pm with a time change to 9 30am starting May 2. A Willing Workers meeting is set for Thursday at 2 30pm with Mrs J M McKim in charge. A joint Fort Dodge presbytery meeting with the presbyterial will be held in Glidden on April 27 and 28.
The board of supervisors will hear the apportionments for the district on April 20 at 1 58 PM in Po Cahontas Iowa. The report may increase or decrease the proposed special assessments on all parcels within district 135 and lists owner names with amounts due. Objections must be filed by noon on the hearing day or waivers will be presumed.
The notice lists owners and parcels in District 134 with proposed assessments for April 1937. It requires written objections to the report by noon on April 5, 1937, filed with County Auditor Roy A. Johnson.
A court hearing item notes apportionments may be increased or waived and reports due by noon. The entry references April 5 1937 and an April 1 1987 timestamp with stated deadlines.
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