Gerd Pos Family Vacation plans and local honors
Nineteen years ago Aug 25 1960 Mr and Mrs Gerd Pos and family left for a vacation to the Bad Lands and Black Hills. Sp Bernard G Schurr Fort Benning Ga son of Mr and Mrs John Schurr Rolfe chosen Driver of the Month for August after a mechanical test. Jill Jean and Jann Brinkman visited maternal grandparents at Plover. Walter Gretchen Loren Thompson and Wayne Arnold families of Plover vacationed at Lake Okoboji. Pocahontas golf tourney winner first flight cup went to a player who shot 85 beating R G Hunter who had 86.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerd Pos
Bad Lands
Black Hills
South Dakota
Bernard G. Schurr
Fort Benning
John Schurr
Rolfe
Jill
Jean
Jann Brinkman
E. H. Westerman
Plover
Pocahontas
R. G. Hunter
Retired Zelda Snyder moves to Friendship Haven Fort Dodge
Twenty years ago Zelda Snyder relocated to Friendship Haven the new Methodist home for retired people in Fort Dodge. Roberta Reckard will teach first through third grade in Casper Wyoming. Robert Thompson joins Chanute Field Rantoul Illinois in the Air Corps Reserves after five WWII service. He is son of Harry and wife farmers southwest of Rolfe. Iwan Makuchal and son Wally from Ukraine displaced persons camp plan two years with the Art Zeman family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zelda Snyder
Friendship Haven
Fort Dodge
Roberta Reckard
Casper
Wyo
Robert Thompson
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Ill
Air Corps
Robert
Harry Thompson
Rolfe
Iwan Makuchal
Wally
Ukraine
Art Zeman
J E Rickard and daughter depart for Joy and Rock Island NL
J E Rickard and Mrs Harry Bruner leave Saturday to visit relatives in Joy and Rock Island NL for a few days. The note also mentions plans for September 2 as the new school term opening with Miss Estelyn Roberts returning as teacher. Oats quality noted as superior with minimal damage from August rains. No 3 white oats bring 20 cents per bushel in Rolfe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Rickard
Harry Bruner
Joy
Rock Island
Estelyn Roberts
Arnold H. Wold
Rolfe
Wangberg Boys Build Private Tom Thumb Golf Course
In northeast town on the D. Brinkman lot the Wangberg brothers Orlando and Reuben fashioned a private miniature golf course. Miss Mabelle Ryen grows a small cotton patch on the Nels Ryen farm southeast of Rolfe and will seek harvesters. Orvan Olerich and wife attended a Decker-Damberg wedding in Clarence then visited Chicago friends, while Edgar Showers and others enjoyed a Des Moines baseball game Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wangberg
Orlando
Reuben
D. Brinkman
Mabelle Ryen
Nels Ryen
Rolfe
Orvan Olerich
Decker-Damberg
Clarence
Chicago
Douglas Hope
Edgar Showers
Ed Calligan
Will Christensen
Des Moines
Danish Lutherans Host First Church Sociable on Lawn
August 26 1920 report notes the Danish Lutherans plan a church sociable on the lawn next Saturday evening inviting all. John P. Lester joined Boy Scouts for a river campout with beds of straw and roughing it. J M Boyce Gordon Glass drove to Arnolds Park to visit the McIntires at the We're All In. Harris Thomas took two bass horns to Fort Dodge for a week with the Hawkeye Fair band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John P. Lester
J. M. Boyce
Gordon Glasscock
Arnolds Park
McIntires
Harris Thomas
Fort Dodges
Fort Dodge
Hawkeye Fair
Also Mentioned on This Page
Walter Gretchen
Loren Thompson
Wayne Arnold
Lake Okoboi
Florence
Meredith
Gordon Mehaffey
Harold Morey
West Bend
Ottosen
Kermitt Fowler
Mgr
Iowa
Spinet Piano
Joplin Piano Co
Joplin
Wold Hardware
Jay
Jay Arnold
Mallard
Virgil Shelgren
Marvin Kuhlman
Buster O’neill
George Diederich
Kerns Bros
Andy Pedersen
Dean Johnson
Church World Service
Arlo Ives
Ernest C. Hinners
Gilmore City
Virgil Behrendsen
Jim Lanus
Regal
Manley Johnson
Syd Beckord
Melvin Thorson
A Rolfe
Pat Wood
Gaius Ives
Dumor
Eldon Ham
LeRoy Simonson
Maytag Wringer
Gilfert Nielsen
Leo Diederich
Mary
Randy Martin
Richard’s Hardware
Nora Clarke
Don Spencer
Darwin Kuchenreuther
Pat Samson
Ed Weiland
Karen Christiansen
Theo Ripperger
Steinlite
St. Margaret’s Blue Mound
Calligan Sundries
Taylor's Conoco
St. Margaret’s Parish
Doug Post
Geri Smith
Melvin Pedersen
Hope Howard
Marilyn Whitmore
Donald Wright
Humboldt
Goldie
Wm. Kemna
Alice Charmers
John Deere Sales and Service
Farmers Cooperative CO
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