Rolfe News Highlights Local Visits and Travel
Rolfe residents report visitors from Fort Dodge and Spencer, trips to Minneapolis and Milwaukee, and relatives staying with families. Threshing resumes after a week, with notes on oat quality and field conditions. A death in Idaho is reported as a local elder and pioneer connected to Mrs. Howe.
Trinity Lutheran Church Observes 50th Anniversary
Trinity Lutheran marks its fiftieth anniversary with notes on charter members, church building history, organists, language shifts from Norwegian to English, pastor lineage, and ongoing church activities including Sunday school Luther League choir and women’s groups. The milestone highlights baptisms 277 confirmations 182 marriages 37 and 65 burials 65, with 2543 communion recipients and steady mission support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther League
Ladies’ Aid Society
John Sivertson
The
Missionary Society
Trinity Lutheran
Local notes from Plover and surrounding towns
The Plover Patriot reports on community happenings including travel, visits, and family news. Shifts include shipments of stock, trips to Fort Dodge, Spencer, and Omaha, birthdays, anniversaries, and social events among residents of Rolfe, Pocahontas, Emmetsburg, and nearby areas.
Local families visit relatives across Minnesota and Iowa
A string of visits and family gatherings unfolds across Iowa and Minnesota. The article notes Lulu and Walton Fish visiting sister Mrs. Cla Miller in Nebraska, various kin from Fronten and Spencer meeting at Lake Victoria, and many others: Hurd, Wachter, Heathman, Roseland, and Pollock clans sharing time with relatives, attending reunions, and helping with errands as relatives travel between Ot73o and Fort Dodge.
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Miller
Lulu Fisher
Fort Dodge
Omaha
T. P. Comer
Spencer
Charles McFadden
Cylinder
Fred Dixon
Raymond Dixon
Paul Mikes
West Bend
F. R. Eggspuehler
Billy
Jack
Iowa Falls
Glenn Forsythe
Delmar Haxell
W. H. Buchanan
William Haxell
Delmar
Bloomington
Ill
Wm. Bilton
Freddy
Quebec
Canada
Forsythe
Buchanan
Eugene Stafford
American Legion Auxilliary
J. M. Bush
O. A. Smith
Bush
Henry Webbink
Thos. Vandecar
Marion Ham
Ham
Bill Hough
Fred Forsythe
Ruth Buchanan
Emmetsburg
W. L. Smith
Sterling, II
Earl Day
Gilmore City
S. L. Horsman
Claude Albaugh
Ankeney
Harold Justice
Geo. Ande
Benny Jean
Rolland Henderson
Patricia Ann
Pocahontas
R. E. DuBois
Rochester
Lucian Meurer
Whittemore
N. J. Meurer
Jean Ann
Warren Heathman
D. Everson
Rolfe
M. I. Helvig
W. Nunamaker
Mr. Nunamaker
Guy Smith
Severn Holden
Ottosen
J. . Meurer
Wesley
Meda Stowell
Pounds
Mich
Indh
Ouls Parradee
Silo Sl
Seaborn
F. E. Broadwell
J. J. Johnson
Simonson
Lulu
Walton Fish
Neb
Cla Miller
Walton Frier
Shipley
Otto
I. M. McKim
Ernest Quorer
Clarence’ Heathma Kerns
Front
Minn
Lake Victoria
Bird
Ma Johnson
Lakes
Diente
Tyr
Hurd
Merly
Burnette Thompson
Bert Roseland
Eaghe Grove
Lee Fisher
Burl Houck
Houck
New Hampton
Lucile Christensen
Deg
Deg Mow Mrs. Amber Wachter Attended Reunion of the Wachter Familie
Galena
Qually
Gangstead
Beymer
Estherville
John Callander
Summit
N. J
Edward Lehnus
Warren Haman
Merwindler
Sanderson
Clear Lake
Casey Heathman
Emma Horton
Park Rapids
H. Pollock
J. H. Pollock
DuBois Jones
Hanna
Ruthven
Jones
Chillicothe
Dorothy Hemphill
Detroit
R. EK. DuBois
W. S. Strong
Elsie Temple
Wi Mont
Howard Strong
Castle
Wwo
Badger
Heathman
George
Prentice
Nevis
Tyler-Strong Tie of Bonnie Tyler and How Strong Wed
News notes a marriage between Bonnie Tyler once a Ruthven school er and How Strong son of Mr and Mrs W Strong. The couple plans to move to Newcastle Wyoming where Howard will teach this year. The bride is described as an orphan who has taught for years and the groom a University of Iowa graduate with teaching experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnie Tyler
Ruthven
Plover Presbyterian Church Announces Sunday Services
Pastor Walter Rothwell leads morning worship and a 9 30 sermon titled The Value of an Education. Sunday school starts at 1a and the Willing Work Mission invites Medic’s Aid guests from West Bend for a Friday noon gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plover Presbyterian Church
Walter Rothwell
Willing Wort
Medics’ Aid Society
Presbyte Church
West Bend
Plover M. E. Church Notes and Epworth League Election
Church notes outline Epworth League officers election next Sunday evening and call all Epworthians to be present. Morning worship at the church with Bible study and a birthday party hosted by D Pirie and Mrs. Fred Fover. Evening worship at 8 o clock, first Colossians study, and a note on the Watch and a casual dog trick remark.
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A. Johnson
Aurelia
A. P. Anserod
Badger
Wigdahl
C. Shelveland
N. Tosseland
Dows
Ole Halgrems
Thor
G. E. C. Gregerson
H. G. Engum
Our Theological Seminary
St.Paul
Engum
F. Anderson
C. L. Dalseide
Carl M. Verle
J. .0. Wangberg
Norway
Epworthians
League
Ladies’ Aid
D. Pirie
Fred F
Colossians
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Burr Oak
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Shirley Thornton
Joyce
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Milwaukee
Jean
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B. A. Messinger
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Gaskins
Ella Baker
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George Salisbury
Shirley
Ramona ‘Sime
Duncombe
Telmer Sime
Bill Sime
Ted Tilley
Kimberly
Ida
Tilley
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Old Rolfe
John Howe
Trinity “Lutheran Church
John Sivertsen
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John Everson
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E. E. Sanding
Lewis Lewison
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Peter Christensen
Ingvald Gabrielson
L. M. Gunstad
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Anna Bower
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Ariz
Maude Ives
Ruth Fisher
Earl Fisher
Fae of Rolfe
Alvin Enge
Eugene Johnson
Belmond
Raymond Enge
William
Harry MacFadzen
L. E. Garlock
C. H. Peden
Jewell
B. E. Poundstone
Dewaine Sease
Con Sease
Dewaine
Fred Grove
Isaac. McKim
Moline
Isaac
John Deere
McKim
Morgan Plymale
M. E. Aid Society
F. Pirie i
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Presbyterian Society
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Walter Martin
Merle Kerns
Robert Jolliffe
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E. L. Wallace
Ames
Fred Chinn
Anita
Harry L. Grove
H. H. Grove
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Navy
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Electric and Ordnance School
Nes
Tyler-Strong
Epwort League
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