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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1930
Page
4
Local item dense with visits from Granville Ames Iowa Falls Storm Lake Webster City and Des Moines. Neighbors attend fairs and markets, a death shocks the town Etherel Comer dies in Mallard, Mayo Clinic planned health trips, races and circus trips noted, several families host relatives and travel to Rochester Des Moines and Denver.
Pocahontas county teachers attend the county institute on Monday and Tuesday. The Plover faculty remains led by Supt G L Sanders with Miss Geneva Hoff as principal and Miss Pearl Jensen as the new eighth grade teacher. The building has new ceilings, painted walls and floors, refreshed radiators, new railings, clean curtains, new blackboards, updated shelves, a new fire escape door, and fresh paint on fixtures.
Emma Thompson, a child, fell or jumped from a moving car while on the running board as Mrs. Henry Fitzgerald drove slowly to Emma’s home. She was found unconscious and taken home by Fred Forsythe and Chas. Northrop. A doctor declared no serious injury. The driver learned of the crash later and stayed with Emma until she recovered.
Eighty three Grove family members gathered at McCalls Park Algona for a reunion and picnic with relatives from Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota and several Iowa towns. The event featured many new members and warm kinship across distances.
Miss Leota Smith of Havelock and Ralph E. Creger of Parkersburg married at the Little Brown Church in the Vale near Nashua on Saturday noon August 28, 1930. Rev S T Grove officiated in front of relatives and close friends before the couple will reside in Cedar Falls until Mrs Creger finishes college.
The Chas. Otto and family along with W. H. Roberts and John Otto visited Vern Prine in Vin cent. Frank Henderson and his wife with Mrs. Wick ens of Avon S C returned from a motor tour to Washington D C and other eastern points. J E Grove and Miss Kathryn returned from Ortonville Minn where Mr Grove handled farm business.
Mr and Mrs Holger Larson of Ft Dodge and Mrs Frank Jarvis of Rolfe visited Charles Lehnus for a Sunday gathering. The Larsons just returned from Europe visiting Larson's Danish relatives and traveled via New York. En route they met Bert Doe's Detroit relatives and visited Rev C M Whetzell and Miss Mary Whetzell in Cleveland, where Mary teaches.
Froh families gathered at Harrison Park in Emmetsburg on Sunday August 24 for a reunion and picnic dinner. The group included Mr and Mrs August Froh and daughter Margaret of Ft Dodge Miss Martha Froh and Mr and Mrs Elmer Kehm of St Louis MO Mr and Mrs William Froh and two daughters of Ayrshire and several other Froh relatives from Havelock and Terris areas. The day was ideal and attendees will recall the pleasant meeting.
Mr and Mrs G L Sanders and son Grant attended the funeral of Sanders niece in Town Falls last Saturday. Mr and Mrs Wm McKim and baby, Mr and Mrs Fred McKim and family, and Mr and Mrs J M McKim and family joined a family gathering in Story City last Sunday. A number traveled to the State Fair in Des Moines for a day or two and another group visited the Frank McKim family in Nevada.
The Plover Methodist Church led by Reverend Gd Mekkelson announces a Harvest Home event next Sunday. A Sunday school rally at ten, worship at eleven, a noon picnic, an afternoon program at 1:30 with varied numbers, and an Epworth League rally in the evening followed by depictions and songs. Community invitation extended. Sap notes travel speed of thirty to forty feet per hour in some trees.
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