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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1927
Page
8
Local items describe visits and relocations among Laurens and nearby families. Attendees include Homer Rhodes John and Mrs Maid Steid leaving Sioux City. house welcomes new renters the Speer residence. stock shipments to Chicago. church services feature Easter pageant The Resurrection and a Ruth Chase solo.
Sunday guests visited H SE Bachman and D F Beents homes. Pocahontas callers appeared at the start of the week. A post office sale of home made candies raised a tidy sum. Mrs Wm Randolph returned from Webster City visit. Mrs Henry Gruver visited Rolfe with daughter Mrs Elmer Sandvig. Hans Ralfe came from Humboldt. Ward Liester accompanied him home. Mrs John Smeltzer’s body arrived from Sioux City. interment at Washington cemetery. Obituary listed in this issue. Mesdames Lucile and Nellie Stover have mumps and are on the sick list.
Havelock Methodist Church notes a busy schedule with Sunday Worship at 11:00 a.m. and Sabbath School at 10:00 a.m. The Intermediate and Epworth Leagues meet in the evening with talks by Marguerite Miller Selah Bass and Rose Schallan Jewell McCarvell. Events include a Lantern League rally, a theatre debate, and Easter services with eight new members and a baptism.
Emma Rosetta Hoover born Feb 12 1866 in Howard County Indiana moved to Polk County Iowa as a child. She married Wm M Rhodes at Adel Iowa and had four children including Maud Steid of Sioux City.
Mrs. Hattie Smeltzer of Sioux City died after years of suffering from accident related injury and cancer. She was 61, survived by husband Virgil Rhodes or Rhodes family, children Mrs. Van Dorn and Jacob Smeltzer, four grandchildren. Funeral at Whitfield Methodist Church Sioux City with burial in Havelock.
Iowa producers and officials meet to promote National Egg Week May 17 urging Governor Hammill to proclaim the food value of eggs and support for egg grading legislation. They emphasize eggs as vitamins and growth aids, calling eggs “Sunshine in Sealed Packages” and urging unified state effort. Vaccinating chickens for soup and chickenpox is deemed useless. curing sick birds by killing and burning is advised. In Pocahontas County, James E. DeWolf is appointed administrator with will annexed for the estate of F C DeWolf.
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