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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1914
Page
12
Personal travel and social activity noted with many residents visiting Fort Dodge Ayrshire Ruthven and Rolfe. Auto purchases and upcoming meetings including the Willing workers April 30 and Alumni banquet May 29 are announced along with illness and church youth events.
The Plover M E Church notes the pastor Rev G J Poppenheimer and a regular Sabbath service schedule. A cordial welcome is extended to all with emphasis on personal responsibility and Epworth League social planned for this evening in the church basement. Sunday school at Riverside is busy with special activities.
Plover Presbyterian Church holds a business meeting to elect officers and discuss matters. Willing Workers plan an exchange at Plover Mercantile next Saturday and April 30 meeting at Mrs. J H Pollock's home. Basket social and a school program planned in Sub-District No 5 and No 1 with April dates. Notice urges settlements at Plover Mercantile Co. and bank. Article mentions a wolf capture near Waterloo.
Des Moines residents protest the opening of a shoe shining shop employing fifteen girls from Omaha. Police Chief Crawford notes opposition but cites no legal route to stop it. Women’s clubs take an interest as city tensions rise over the business venture.
The city voted nearly unanimously to grant a franchise to the Interurban company for extending its line to a site five miles north where the state epileptic colony is planned. The decision authorizes the extension toward the selected location.
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