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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1970
Page
6
Youngsters wrap up vacation as the town polishes the three R's and repairs after a hail storm. Elm disease prompts removal at City Park and Golf Course while locals prepare for school supplies from Rolfe merchants. Community pride centers on shopping local.
Miss Amy Turley and Mrs Ferne Patterson left Friday August 5 for a vacation by car along the north shore drive around Lake Michigan. Captain and Mrs James W Anderson and family returned from Alaska for a week with his parents. George J Smith Rolfe registered the herd name Toy-Pro for Holstein Friesian cattle.
Telmer Sime won the County Golf tournament last Sunday in Rolfe, taking the Championship flight with a 36 31 and setting a new course record. Dr. and Mrs. R B Ranney and sons left Saturday for Chicago to see the Cub Card baseball game. Howard Spencer traveled to Des Moines for two weeks to assemble John Deere machinery for the state fair.
Mrs Pat Wood and her daughters Martha Sally and Ann visited Monday with Mrs Wood’s daughter Mrs Burl Butterfield and family at Plymouth. Martha remained for the rest of the week.
Twelve year-old Laurice Kerns of Plover fed and showed the Grand Champion baby beef calf at the fifth annual Poca hontas County 4-H Club fair last week. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Watts and family attended a Watts reunion at the Edgar Watts home in Livermore on Sunday. Clarence Lanus of Rolfe high school was selected as a guard for the all star high school football game at Drake University Stadium on August 30, with Jack, George and James Taylor also high in the statewide vote.
Forty years ago Leona Ives and Ruby Green drove to Fairmont Minnesota Saturday after Mabel Cox returning Sunday Floyd Struthers and Okaena and Blanch Willard traveled to Yankton Dakota Territory where the young women sang from the Gurney broadcasting station WNAX in the afternoon.
Jon Meisenbach prepares a new cistern for rain water storage as forecasts predict more rain. Baths Shower baths at the Nelson Hotel at 35c are open to the public.
Miss Ethel Taylor visits Miss Lillie Fitzgerald in Gil More City for the week. A Petit Jury list for Rolfe’s August term includes J T Grant A Doe R B Campbell W S Strong P W Peterson C J Cihlar BE J Stegge J Damberg Wm Tiernan with no women on the panel. Rolfe Grain and Milling Co erects a 120 ton capacity warehouse and two story addition. Fire of unknown origin destroys a straw stack at Perry White farm north of town Tuesday evening.
Gerald Harland is a medical patient at Mercy Hospital in Fort Dodge after being admitted on Friday.
Rolfe Community School offers hot lunches for August 26 to 28. Wednesday features Wieners in buns with potato chips carrots and celery sticks chocolate cake and milk. Thursday serves creamed potatoes ham salad sandwich green beans orange jello salad cookie and milk. Friday offers tuna noodles sliced tomatoes apple crisp Vienna bread and milk.
Paul Harrold of Rolfe has accepted employment with Robinson Farm Implement. He is a 1969 Rolfe Community School graduate and completed the Farm Power and Equipment Mechanics program at Iowa Central Community College Fort Dodge center.
Auction to settle the Agnes Cain estate will be held on the property five miles south and 14 miles west of Rolfe on Saturday August 29 at 1 00 PM A complete listing appears elsewhere in this issue of the Arrow Leonard Everson dies August 3 in Hayward California services and burial there He was a former resident and son of the H L Eversons
Three Rolfe girls earned college degrees this summer. Sharon Truelsen and Linda Van Gorkom of Iowa earned B A degrees from Wayne State College and will teach second grade this fall in Urbandale and Emmetsburg respectively. Sara Olerich earned an M A in English from the University of Iowa and will teach 11th grade English in Lyons Township School System, LaGrange, Illinois.
The previous list of last year's 14 senior football players omitted Aller Henderson and Allen who was on the team and graduated in May. Mrs. Dennis Duerling, kindergarten instructor, was also omitted from the 1970-71 faculty list and begins her second semester in Rolfe School after her 1969-70 final term and college graduation.
West Union guests included Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kaiser and family visiting the H. A. Kaiser home. The Whitmores hosted a Sunday potluck with relatives from Omaha, Storm Lake, Havelock, and Fort Dodge. Other gatherings featured the Witt home supper crowd from New Iberia and Fort Dodge, and trips to Turtle Lake with Pocahontas families.
Wide range of social visits and travel noted from Esther Sinek at Lake Okoboji to relatives in Alden Emmetsburg and Pocahontas. Several trips include Omaha for work at Archbishop Bergan Mercy Hospital and a two day Federal Crop Insurance Corp training in Rock Island Illinois.
An inventory of used Ford Galaxie Torino and Mercury Colony Park autos plus pickups from 1960s shows. models include LTD 4-door sedans, Galaxie 4-doors, Torino 2-door, F100 and F250 pickups, and a Mercury wagon. Prices range from $90 to $150 for various 4-door sedans.
Notice lists sale of part of Third Street in Third Addition to Rolfe at 7:30 p.m. during the September 2 1970 town council meeting. Bids must be submitted to the Town Clerk before the meeting time.
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