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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1942
Page
4
Havelock residents host visitors from Rolfe Pocahontas Des Moines Hoboken and Chicago. Families relocate move and travel for visits and war era duties. Local church events include a Helping Hand Circle picnic at Henningsen home with a sandwich bring.
A call to renewed church attendance as vacation ends and farm work eases. The piece urges families to attend services to keep the celestial spark alive on altars and worship together on the Lord's Day.
A Pocahontas group forms a Girl Scout troop with Mrs. George Reath guiding and help from Sioux City scouts Margaret and Jean Aoropaugh. Members listed include Lorraine Atkinson and 14 others. first meetings feature hikes, fires, and learning Scout law. Families from nearby towns attend a Sunday reunion.
The Loyalty Circle of the Methodist church held a guest day on August 25 at 2 45 p m with a program including piano solos by Janet Lou Bouma Grace Shaw Lorraine Lucas and Connie Hudson a vocal solo by Lorraine Lucas a playlet The Wall Paper that Talked and Mother Goose songs by the intermediate Sunday school girls A fifteen cent tea followed. Local families visited including the Ferguson and Schoofs parties with travel through Minnesota Laurens Dubuque Ossian Waterloo and Charles City and a recent Religious Reception of Sisters of St Francis at Mount St Francis with Sister Mary Rosann taking the name and several other Sisters noted.
Des Moines readers note free swimming lessons offered by the Red Cross chapter and city council for 17 to 21 year olds. Truman Manship, a high school athletic coach and Red Cross instructor, will conduct sessions with about 40 students beginning mid September. In other news, Mrs. George Mileschik returned from Mercy hospital after a major operation, and nursing classes with W. E. Gower and Lloyd Rob inson as instructors are planned. Kay Frances O'Brien visited Greene and Joseph Schools, while L S Homan of Remsen visited and Mr. Homan attended a Pocahontas State Bank directors meeting.
A busy local rundown lists a Thursday steak fry at the courthouse fire place and the W C C F meeting at Mrs Adolph Koebles home. It also notes Lutheran convention attendance in Waverly and other moves and travels among residents including Basil Stelpflug Battershell Westell Long Shimon Bush Cles Evans and family.
Miss Dorothy Law spent last week visiting relatives in Armstrong. Mr and Mrs Leo Fuller attended the Kossuth county fair and visited Algona. Attendees at the Phyllis Edwards and Ensign Lester Olson wedding in Gilmore City included numerous Bradgate residents and relatives. Mrs Frank Tellier and children of Lake Mills stayed with Mr and Mrs George Wallcott. Rebekah lodge Past Noble Grand Chain to meet at Mrs William Crans home. Mrs Joe Placar of Bennett Wisconsin planned visits with relatives in Bradgate.
The Rebekah lodge met in the 1.C. O.F. hall on Thursday evening. Humboldt lodge was invited to attend the next meeting on September 3 to assist in initiating a class of candidates. A social hour followed with refreshments served by Mrs. Ivan Godden and Mrs. LaVelle Wollcott.
The Avery 4-H Good Luck club held its Achievement Day Monday afternoon at Miss Peggy Christianson’s home with members’ mothers as guests. Also attending were Miss Hewitt, Miss Lindsay of Humboldt, Miss Marjory Cran, Analee Zeman, and Peggy Christian.
Community members attend Lutheran Aid meetings and Luther League events. Ensign Lester Olson visits from Pensacola with plans to return after stops in Chicago and Cincinnati. Numerous family visits, trips to Lake Okoboji, Algona, and Mankato, plus varied travel from Des Moines to Gilmore City.
Social items from Des Moines and surrounding towns list visits to Fort Dodge Pocahontas 4-H fair Inter-Laken Lake Fairmont Minnesota and Okoboji travels. Numerous families including Nielsen Kerns Pedersen and Schrier kin joined gatherings at homes fairs and picnics with extended relatives across Iowa Minnesota and Nebraska.
Eldora rural school teacher Dorothy Campbell found a workaround during tire shortages by storing her car and purchasing a bicycle after being barred from new tires by rationing rules.
Hybrid corn merchants hire women to fill detasseling roles as male labor shortages persist. Newspapers showcase women crews working across fields, highlighting a shift in farm labor dynamics.
Tonsils and adenoids removed offered on Tuesday and Thursday with a charge of twenty dollars. Dr T. 8. Clark D.C. Bradgets tl phone 2341.
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