Rolfe Area Golf Final Goes Extra Holes
In Rolfe area coverage 19 years ago Bob Dixon and Keith Chapman needed four more holes to settle the Country Club championship after finishing 18 tied at 67. Dixon won. Also noted were State Representative Earl Chambers and Mrs. Chambers at Gover nor's Day in Clear Lake, Fay Wax's return from De Kalb Illinois, the adoption of baby Steven Joseph by Mr and Mrs Gene Grethen, and visits by Clarence Nuss of Lockwood to Rolfe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Dixon
Keith Chapman
S. Dixon
Earl Chambers
Clear Lake
Fay Wax
de Kalb
Ill
Gene Grethen
Steven Joseph
Clarence Nuss
Lockwood
Anna Howe
Rolfe
Plover News Briefs Include Appointments and Farm Yields
Plover correspondent reports Joan Bixler will teach music in Goldfield public schools next year. Tuesday Club welcomes Mrs. Ralph O. Mortensen. Threshing yields run 50 to 55 bushels per acre as corn grows tall and pollinates. Local man Byron Hubbell’s son, Flying Fortress crewman, was shot down over Kiel during a recent raid. Lathrop Produce moves into former Rolfe Creamery building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ter
Plover
Joan Bixler
Goldfield
T. S. Clark
Ralph O. Mortensen
Kiel
Germany
Byron B. Hubbell
Lathrop Produce Station
Rolfe Creamery
Pocahontas County Golf Tour Winner Shoots 74
Guy Eccles Jr won the Pocahontas County golf tournament at Rolfe Park with a 74 for 18 holes. Mrs Allen Heathman ends her work for the Arrow this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Eccles, Jr
Pocahontas County
Rolfe Park
Allen Heathman
the Arrow
Des Moines Township names Mrs Flossie DeWall as teacher
The notice states Mrs Flossie DeWall accepted the position as instructor in Home Economics and English at Des Moines Township Consolidated school for next year. Frank Sroufe resigned as sexton at Clinton-Garfield cemetery after 25 years of service. The Hamilton Girard family moved into apartments above the Super Valu store from Des Moines. Lieut Loren E Hubbell was rescued by a fishing boat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flossie DeWall
Des Moines Township
Rain delays threshing as flood waters rise in farms
Thirty years ago a heavy Friday night downpour dumped about four inches, flooding shacks on several farms. C A Nicoson Rolfe school custodian, burned from waxing floors last year, died Wednesday at Iowa City University Hospital. Tilton Guthrie Players open a four day Rolfe engagement August 11 in a big tent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Nicoson
Rolfe
University Hospital
Iowa City
Tilton-Guthrie
Bradgate
Bill Phillips
Community Notes From Gilmore City and Surrounding Areas
Mrs. Lois Hellar visited her mother Mrs. H. S. VanAlstine after returning from a winter in Arizona and a West Coast trip. Susan Marie Lynch was born July 28 to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Lynch. The Happy Homemakers Club held an annual picnic at Pocahontas Park with nine families. Various families visited relatives in Pocahontas, Newell, Storm Lake, and Madison, Wis. Armona Frank, a student at Iowa City, visited her parents over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Hellar
H. S. VanAlstine
H. S. van Alstine
Happy Homemakers Club
Pocahontas Park
Sherry Meyer
Art Hasenbank
Newell
K. F. Neel
Jan
Okoboji
Methodist Bible Camp
Sidney Lothian
Paul Lothian
Storm Lake
Lowell Rickless
Palmer
Lawrence Meyer
Susan M. Lynch
Larry Lynch
Susan Marie
Darrell Granner
Madison
Wis
Harold Granner
Humboldt
Lester Lynch
Donald Day
Wallie Frandsen
Roland
Irv Diechmann
Marcus
Armona Frank
Iowa City
Des Moines Trip Stirs Local Touring Trio
Edward Calligan Edwin Hix and Lawrence Quinsland traveled to Des Moines on a Sunday in early August 1928 for a planned visit or event as part of a brief local itinerary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Calligan
Edwin Hix
Lawrence Quinsland
Des Moines
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fort Des Moines
Ivyl Grant
Sioux City
Gladys
Black Hills
Edgar Showers
Bud Carroll
Gilmore City
Lorraine Morrison
A. B. Symes
Gilmore City News
Mrs
Armon Frank
Progress
Fehr Electric
Rolfe, Iowa
Max
Standard Service
Conoco
Oraf
Taylor's
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