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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1914
Page
3
In the May 23 1920 issue the Boomerang seven reel feature questions if the poor man's baby deserves the same rights as a millionaire's poodle. The drama promises daring and spectacular scenes, claimed to be among the era's major productions.
Luther notes visits and travel including Luther Miller returning from Des Moines in a new Ford sedan. Local social items list weekend stays and callers at various homes in Mallard Plover Pocahontas Laurens Spencer and Fort Dodge. Missionary society meeting held at the M E church basement last Friday afternoon.
Cataracts form inside the eye and do not require removing the eyeball. When vision falls to mere light detection only surgery offers cure, with about eighty of a hundred successful outcomes. Early medical treatment can arrest cataracts, but once dimness becomes pronounced surgery is often the only remedy.
Misses Goldin Hendricks and Orpha Bloomer traveled to Rolfe for a visit with relatives. Des Moines visitors included John Dunlap and Marion Gruver. Local events feature Ford ownership, Rebekah lodge initiation for several residents, Illness of Kilert Landing, and a Fort Dodge outing by Orville Hersom with Alice Garten and Pearl Hersom.
John Anderson visited his daughter in Fenton Iowa while Rolfe residents circulated in town. Shoppers and guests joined Miss Marguerite Bradbury for a large bridal shower in Rolfe and another for Miss Gwendolyn Jolliffe at her sister’s home. Community members traveled to Arnold’s Park Humboldt Fort Dodge Ames and Rolfe for events and business.
In Des Moines C C Holly praises Ingalls and compar es the Senate to a statesman’s temple while condemning modern politics as a millionaire’s club. The piece recalls Ingalls in Ann Arbor, Corwin and Lincoln stepping back from war rhetoric, and ends with a note on a Glenwood farmer selling mules to the government and a family letter from Germany.
H M Havner Republican candidate for Iowa governor solicits support on a definite platform. He calls for a court of industrial relations to settle disputes by arbitration, not strikes, argues labor troubles harmed farmers and the public, and vows law enforcement and clean state administration. He is a native Iowan, a farmer, veteran, and business owner, facing opposition from political rings but presenting a concrete program. Political Advertisement.
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