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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
4
Local items note A J Eggspuebler visiting Minneapolis, and Rev C M Wetzell to preach the baccalaureate for Plover High Class of 1918 on April 28 with commencements May 2. Various visits, farm work, and Y M C A talks fill community life along with sales at Cora Richardson’s hat shop.
Prayer M E Church notes list Rev. Glenn M. Squires as pastor with class meeting at 9 30 Bible School at 10 Morning Worship at 11 Haworth League at 7 30 Evening Praise at 8 30 Y M and Y W C A meetings Wednesday 8 30 Prayer Thursday 7 90 Choir rehearsal at Geo Shaw home Saturday 8 30 Riverside Church Bible School at 2 Preaching Service 8 00 PM Riverside ladies meet today with Mrs Tansy and Plover ladies hostessed at church with Mrs Forsythe Tom Heathman and Wake Roberts.
Saturday specials announce top prices paid for butter eggs and cream with a prompt to view produce prices for the day.
The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered at this church Sunday evening with Rev Whetzell preaching. The County Bible School Convention will be held at Plover April 29 and 30. The Haworth League met at the P R Henderson home to discuss paying off the church building debt with a May 10 basket social. Dr McBurney will preach on May 5 at Riverside and Plover, with choir practice at the Parsonage Saturday at 8:30.
The Okoboji Investment Company of Plover Iowa is dissolved by mutual consent. Dated at Plover on April 4 1918 the dissolution is authorized by President L B Garlock and Secretary H H Hoyt.
Departed from this life at Rolfe Iowa April 25 1918 the above named. It had outlived its usefulness and in this era of conservation it should go where its author is going. Death brings us so near together that we can look at the virtuous acts of the deceased forgetting all peculiarities and we don't need to be thanked publicly for doing our duty toward each other J J BRU
Governor Fairbanks calls for a Liberty Bond campaign to weaken German strength during the war. He argues public investment funds will finance Allied victory and shorten the conflict.
The article urges farmers and all citizens to fund the war effort through Liberty Loan drives. It emphasizes no group is exempt from contributions and notes farmers have historically provided financial aid without seeking special treatment. It questions recent newspaper objections to the President’s wartime stance and calls for united support.
Clarence H. Rowland urges American fans and soldiers to support the war effort by buying Liberty Bonds and attending the national game of baseball. He links fan enthusiasm to wartime duty and warns against peeking through fences to witness the event.
A boot shop scene shows Muggins with an extreme foot size and a severe cough. The assistant hunts for a fit as Muggins quips about a doctor saying one foot in the grave while joking he cannot fit the other foot into a size 4.
The document certifies Bogbaki a grey Percheron stallion, foaled 1904, owned by R. E. Dunn of Plover Pocahontas County Iowa. Examined March 20 1918 by Dr H C Barnes, declared free of enumerated defects. Renewal certificate 11485. price $15 to insure cost to stand and suck.
Coquin de Gerona a bay imported Belgian horse valued as money could buy. He bears a star on the forehead and is in his eighth year in the community. Proven as a keen breeder with impressive colts to his credit.
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