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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1916
Page
4
Plover defeated Whittemore 2 0 at West Bend last Sunday with Kendall neutralizing Whittemore’s power hitters. The report notes community events and local visits including camp meetings at the Lakes, outings, visits to Rolfe and Crystal Lake, and several residents traveling or attending gatherings.
The notice invites customers to conduct banking business with a focus on prompt and efficient service, aiming to attract patrons with streamlined handling of transactions.
Groceries are sold very cheaply at this store attracting traders and families who seek bargains and regular buyers who rely on low prices for daily needs.
Reverend Whetzel from Creston Nebraska will occupy the pulpit at Plover Presbyterian Church next Sunday August 20 in morning and evening services. A congregational meeting follows the morning service with important business to transact. All members urged to attend.
Des Moines hosts the Great Iowa State Fair and Exposition from August 28 to September 1. The event features agricultural horticultural livestock dairy and industrial exhibits larger and more engaging than before with a comprehensive farm methods display and a large amusements program. Train service via Chicago North Western Railway is available with home ticket agent assistance.
Bargain notice announces a Cream Station at the store offering the highest prices for cream anytime and invites customers to receive payment on the spot.
Saturday specials advertise various goods with discounts including soap cups and saucers sets 50 cents each 200 blue or black options, extra specials with 12 pounds for $100 and 12 water glasses horseshoe 25 cents, men’s dress socks in tan and dress shoes with 10 percent sugar noted.
Local column records Owen Overholt and family visiting Henry Goodchild. Hewitt Minn visitors John Persona and relatives. numerous households spend Sundays at Lost Island Lake with extended family travel from Des Moines Chicago Minneapolis and White Lake. Several residents ill or traveling and social visits described with partial names and places.
A speaker argues that private donors and employers shoulder wartime family support costs while soldiers are away. The essay urges Congress to place army expenses on public funds, ensuring no citizen bears excess burden and safeguarding national patriotism and decency.
A short exchange recalls a distant sound described as tasselike thunder, as she comments on the perception of distance and its effect on imagination. The dialogue hints at themes of interpretation and sound in a poetic mood.
A fragment urges careful copying of models with trelese care and notes their attitude as upright grand or quare. The odd phrasing suggests a humorous or satirical tone about selecting and presenting figures or personas in a studio or artistic context.
A playful dialogue contrasts youth marriage with bachelorhood, as the maid questions why men marry young and the bachelor jokes that men may be too naive to choose wisely.
Dialog fragments show two drummers debating a hotel in Spottsville. A claim of arrest over a spoken opinion follows, with a cynical remark on self created misfortune and fear of being forgotten after death.
The passage argues personal finance differs from government finance noting individuals pay their own bills while Congress and the U S government cannot. It highlights the numerous officials serving in government and implies collective responsibility for public debt.
Proceedings report the Board of Supervisors of Facabontie County Iowa approve the engineer's plans for drainage improvement petitioned by W P Weaver and others. Protests are overruled and damages to claimants are authorized as per the commissioners' appraisal.
A health column urges readers to start each day with hot water and a teaspoon of limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach kidneys and bowels. It claims this simple internal flushing improves digestion, appetite, skin and general well being and touts limestone phosphate as a cheap aid.
The board moved and passed the resolution with Dooley Klein Sedlacek Elsen and Hopkins voting aye. A drainage district numbered 89 was created for the W P Weaver group. Contract for road grading by Sheenan and McPherson was approved after examination. Draining Carlson’s property received engineering approval from O P Malcolm with notice planned to all interested parties. All claims were allowed and the board adjourned to August 8 1916. An advertisement for Chamberlain liniment offers relief for sprained ankles.
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