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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1931
Page
4
Rolfe area clubs churches and schools announce meetings contests and socials from April 16 to May 21 1931 including Sorosis Club Pocahontas Spellin Contest Home Study Club Music Contest Farm Bureau units Odd Fellows Rebekahs Tuesday Club and more with events at homes churches and schools across Rolfe Garfield Des Moines Township and Pocahontas venues.
Mrs. W. R. Rogers hosted a 7:30 dinner for the Methodist church choir and the Live Wire class. About seventy five attended, with guests including twenty from the morning choir and spouses. Bouquets and Easter lilies decorated the church dining room as A V Graeber led a toast program with remarks on Welcome What Music Means to the Church What Music Means to the Pastor and What the Audience Means to the Choir. Carnations were given to the honorees at the end.
A Western dust storm swept through the area last Wednesday evening, turning to dust rather than rain as it moved from Yankton to Sutherland and Rolfe. Winds and drifting sand covered fields and fences, with widespread dust coating houses and vegetation. scientists link such events to loess soil and historic glacier-era conditions.
Kittenball players are urged to meet at City Park on Thursday evening April 16 to organize for the season. The note says spring fever has begun and soon the bat will be heard, inviting all interested in the pastime to attend.
Soybean seed available at reduced prices this year from $1.25 to $1.50 a bushel. Renters lacking alfalfa options can grow a legume crop by planting soybeans. Information on seed sources and growing methods available through the Farm Bureau office.
The Central Savings Bank and Trust Co of Emmetsburg received a state charter to open a bank at Ayrshire. The local First National Bank closed earlier, and the Emmetsburg firm has established a clearing house there. The former bank building will be renovated to host the new Ayrshire branch.
Rev. J. P. Lester submits his resignation after eleven years as Rolfe church pastor. He will serve as supply pastor until a successor is secured, with May 1 as the effective date. He plans evangelistic field work in Kansas Nebraska and southwestern Iowa while Mrs. Lester and home arrangements move to Elliott Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Conrow marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary on Sunday April 12 with church attendance joined by daughter Iva from Des Moines. Neighbors and friends hosted a reception with poems a floor lamp and cake. One son and daughter could not attend. they are great grandparents hoping to reach seventy five years of marriage.
The Sixth Annual Pocahontas County Music Contest will be held Saturday Apr 18 at Fonda. Three hundred forty three students from Des Moines Township Pocahontas Fonda Havelock Laurens Plover Rolfe and Ware compete in three sessions 9 30 am 1 15 pm and 7 00 pm.
The Women's Missionary Federation of the Eagle Grove Circuit meets in Humboldt on April 22 for an all day convention. Rev E Haavik will preach at 10 30 a m with a 1 30 p m business session and a 2 60 p m regular session. Miss Gertrude Hilleboe of St Olaf College speaks on The Christian Home. Rev Helge Hoverstad leads the evening session. Circuit officers are Mrs Edward Duen president and Mrs George Gunderson secretary.
Iowa State College expert E C Volz advises gardeners to plant asters in cut flower plots and avoid reused soil. He notes wilt is the major threat, urges soil sterilization and seed testing, and recommends disinfection with formaldehyde for long term plantings. A yellowing disease is linked to perennials and should be managed by removing affected plants.
The Des Moines Township 4-H Club girls met at Louise and Doris Vaughn’s home on April 11 with six members. Officers elected: President Louise Vaughn, Vice-President Wilna DeWolf, Secretary Marie McKinnon, Treasurer Wilna Struthers, Parliamentarian Evelyn Hovland, Reporter Elva Fae Ham, Chorister Doris Vaughn. A health talk and a sewing patterns session followed, with a plan to plant two trees per member in a Biennial Tree Planting Program honoring Washington.
The American Legion boys and Auxiliary ladies held a large Laurens meeting Monday evening. A three day chautauqua entertained with C E L Lee as superintendent and Maurice Cahill, state commander, delivering the main address. Frank Miles of Des Moines, editor of The American Legionaire, spoke briefly. 209 attendees enjoyed refreshments and dancing afterward.
Altho we have had a mild winter there is considerable winter injury to red raspberries and black caps, says T J Money pomologist at Iowa State College. Pruning should be delayed until buds start to determine how far wood has been killed back.
A two year old son of Mr and Mrs Frank Marchant of Bradgate drank kerosene from a lamp Wednesday last week and was rushed to Dr Shipley Ottosen for treatment. A stomach pump was used and the child appeared to suffer no serious ill effects.
Miss Marge Acheson resigns after seven years at The Journal. Sister of Mrs. George Ivey, she wrote a column titled The Flapper and will move with family to Linton North Dakota to settle there permanently following their mother’s recent passing. Advertising in The Arrow urged readers to buy and sell.
A Pocahontas County Dairy Cow Testing Association member shows March gains by selling four low producers and keeping thirteen, totaling $56.07 saved in labor and feed for the month. In March 427 cows tested produced 824654 pounds milk and 11998.9 pounds butterfat, with top herds led by Allen & Searcy and the Woman's Reformatory.
Mrs. Guy E. White leads an Garfield Township Farm Bureau program at Mrs. Nels Ryen’s home on Apr 23 with a talk on The Place of the School in Community Activities and student performances. Cummins Township meets Apr 20 at Mr. and Mrs. John T. Cowan’s home featuring livestock marketing entertainment and music. Marshall Township gathers Apr 17 at Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Aschenbrenner’s home under Mrs. B. F. Weeks. Des Moines Township plans Apr 20 at the D M T school with music pork production talk and Home Furnishing Project relics exhibit. Attend the nearest meeting.
A meeting for farmers with seed corn for sale will be held Saturday evening April 18 at 8 00 p m at the Pocahontas court house. Several farmers have surplus seed and distribution will be arranged during a thirty to forty minute session.
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