Bond election planned for Rolfe schoolhouse funds
Rolfe residents will vote next Monday on issuing bonds of 10 000 to finish paying for the new school building and equipment. The motion aims to cover costs totaling 87 859.12 with current plant value cited at 25 000 more than the debt, and explains tax options to repay over two or three years. The article notes the bond plan is favored to settle bills already contracted and to reduce future taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Malcolm
Pril
Honda
Rolfe Whem
Aotal
Pst
Obituary of Ellen Hayward Bontericthises ieeeee Rolfe Pioneer
Ellen Hayward Bontericthises died at home in Rolfe Iowa in her eighty first year after a long battle with blindness and illness. She was born to Mat thew and Sarah Tilley and married Henry J. Hayward in 1854. The family joined Somersetshire colonists in 1868 near Old Rolfe. Funeral services were held at the Rolfe Methodist church with pastor Rev C S Burnette, followed by burial beside her husband in Clinton cemetery. Surviving children include Louis Johnson Rolfe Darley C Washington and ten in all, with many grandchildren and siblings. One brother Howard Tilley of Idaho survives.
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Ellen Hayward
Arete
Rolfe
Iowa
Matthew
Sarah Tilley
America
Dyersville
Henry J. Hayward
Somersetshire
Eng
Old Rolfe
U. S
North
West
Hayward
C. S. Burnette
W. C. Kennedy
W. A. Grove
H. K. Squires
Edgar M. Wilcox
J. F P. Chambers
J. J. Bruce
Methodist ‘Church
Land Friends
Hollis
Watson H
Albert G
Searing
N. C
Belle Sarber
Milledgeville
Til
Hopsy Forsythe
Gladbrook
Susie Boyle
Sioux City
Louie Johnson
Darley C
Norwegian Lutheran Church Basket Social in West Bend
A basket social is planned at the Thos Vandecar schoolhouse in West Bend township District 8 on Wednesday evening May 1. Proceeds benefit the Red Cross and help finish paying for the organ. prayer meeting is at the parsonage at 8 00 p m on Wednesday. The Ladies Aid Society meets at Mrs Andrew Simonson Sr home. members are urged to bring baskets and their pocketbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asid
Beltville
Ladies’ Aid Society
Andrew Simon- Baskets
Son Sr
Thirty-Eighth Pocahontas Sunday School Convention at Plover
The Thirty-Eighth Annual Pocahontas Sunday School Convention will be held at Plover Iowa on Monday and Tuesday April 29 and 30. Delegates from Protestant churches and Sunday schools are urged to attend to bolster church activities amid wartime strains and rising secular influences.
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County S. 8
Plover
Juvenil
New York City
Stutlav Oehedt
Cole Prit
Iowa
Schools to Present Another Interesting Grade Program
The Rolfe public schools will present a grade program at the high school auditorium Friday evening April 26 at 8:16. The event features drills solos farces and acts by the First Second Sixth Seventh and Eighth grades. Highlights include Pinning Solo Neva Johnson Rainbow Division First Grade Unite Sam's Assistants Sixth Grade Young America Entertains First Grade and Marian Hollis Dorothy Pearce The Catherine Farce Patriotic Peanut Stand Seventh and Eighth Grades. Admission is 16 and 26 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe
Neva Johnson
Sam
Young America
Marian Hollis
Dorothy Pearce
Catherine Farce
Aneana
America
Free Methodist Church Notes Pastor W. & Taylor
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at eight. Preaching next Sunday at eleven in the morning and eight in the evening. A cordial invitation to join. The church building has been wallpapered by Miller Brown of Pocahontas after Rolfe paper hangers were too busy. Oatmeal paper improves interior appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe
Miller Brown
Pocahontas
Cammie Writes Home From France March 1918
A World War I correspondent letter from March 16 1918 describes France weather and time changes March 9 the 168th division in action and soldiers going over the top. The writer notes watching battles and the artillery barrage and mentions seeing various towns and people during duty.
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France
Fue
Sas
Presbyterian Church Notes Rev 8. D. Echiin Pastor
The church schedules an Every Member Canvas with a men only prayer meeting Thursday evening and a Sunday afternoon canvass. President Wilson urged church patriotism as reports from teams will guide families and the campaigns for Current Expense and Benevolence Funds begin at two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Paul
Army Information Weekly Notes on Enlistment and Ranks
Weekly Army information details enlistment in the Quartermaster Corps for men aged eighteen to forty one, notes officers training camps and rank progression from private to general, and explains army ribbon symbols replacing medals. It urges inquiries to the Publicity Department in Omaha Nebraska and cites War Risk Insurance info.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
U. S. Army Recruiting Station
Omaha
Nebraska
Quartermaster Corps
Raymond W. Rystrom
Stromsburg
Washington
Rolfe Schools Launch Thrift Stamp Campaign
Rolfe public schools begin selling Thrift and War Savings Stamps with a $50 starter fund. Students are urged to sacrifice small expenses to back the war effort, supporting roll call heroes Cecil Cumming Walter Green Wayne Coffin Luther Thompson Billy Taylor and others overseas. Weekly grade tallies will publish stamp sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe
Board of Education
Cecil Cumming
Walter Green
Wayne Coffin
Luther Thompson
Bily Taylor
Uncle Sam
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Perry Ridenour
Rian
Perry J. Ridenour
Fort
Presbyterian Parsonage
Peterson
W. C. States
Dubuque
Des Moines
Soodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Dubuque High School
Ada
Basket
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Free Methodist Church
W. & Taylor
C. &. Barnette
Cammie
Presbyterian Church Notes
D. Echiin
Bible School
Eeree
Christian Endeavor
Army Information
Altho
Farenzo D. Arnold, Nickerson
Neb
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Washington, D. C
School
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