Local Diddings Party Visits Spencer Sights and Shops
Mesdames R. G. Hunter B. S. Bryson Shirley Thornton Leonard Smith and Marion Bruce drive to Spencer to view the sights and visit local shops.
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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1935
Page
7
Mesdames R. G. Hunter B. S. Bryson Shirley Thornton Leonard Smith and Marion Bruce drive to Spencer to view the sights and visit local shops.
Mrs P Amick and son Paul along with Mrs Henry Hudson visited Fort Dodge last Friday. Rodman guests Mr and Mrs Fred Douglas and family visited in the Henry Hudson home Sunday. Fort Dodge callers included Mrs F J Grant Beverly Mrs Jd Grant Mrs J R McIntire and Catherine last Saturday. Easter gatherings saw Mr and Mrs Earl Firkins and family Henry Lovig and Mable Young of Ottosen visit D J Young home, with William Christensen from Rockwell City reporting a busy mediat department at the White Market. Grant Pollock resealed his west town residence with new shingles, as did the former I B Charlton home. Easter dinner for Mr and Mrs Wm Fisher and family and Mr and Mrs George Yahnke in Algona ended with a drive to Pilot Knob State Park near Forest City and other sights.
Local items report Earl Fisher hauling horses to Des Moines, visitors in Fort Dodge, and Easter trips. Advertisements highlight Maytag washers and gains in the Holms area as well as church pension fund talks and chinch bug watch. Residents discuss weather, oats, 4‑H, travels to Orange City and Omaha, and prospective new neighbors in Rolfe.
Mr and Mrs O A Cook and others visited the Leon Watson home near Rutland Sunday evening. Carrolls called on Clint Morrison at Fort Dodge and visited J F McCreery home in Fonda last week. Hunter Webb and Peterson attended a chain store tax hearing in Des Moines. Grover Shriner drove to Forest City with Dan Urquhart, then returned with Gyla Shriner and Byron Rude from Pocahontas, Waldorf College students.
A social note recalls a party where a woman gave a prize for bridge that surpassed any she had won, highlighting generosity and rivalry in social games.
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