Rolfe Area News Quietly Buzzes With Local Voyages
Local residents share travel and visit tales from Des Moines to Algona. Families like the Howlands and Phillips families host relatives while others attend fairs, weddings, and church events. Kids resume school plans as many prepare for vacations and milestone social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Christensen
Davenport
Chicago
Maud Ives
Mary von
Des Moines
August
Almquist
Nelvin Almquist
Pomeroy
A. R. Thornton
Charles Oval
Earl Prouty
IV. D
M. W. Webb
Dale Rierson
Radcliffe
W. D. Hauck
Martha Wangberg
Mt. Ayr
W. E. Cornwell
Dean of
Armstrong
George Ivey
J. C. Gunderson
Arthur Lighter
Algona
Emma Lighter
Ivey
Gunderson
Arthur
Wilhelm
Anne Bower
Buckeye
Arizona
Newell
Bower
Ivan Adams
Hampton
Ives
New Providence
Don Green
Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home
Onawa
Don
R. E. Green
Lake Louise and Banff: Canada Worth More Than Voltaire Supposed
The piece extols Alberta's Banff National Park led by Lake Louise, Victoria Glacier, and Paradise Valley. It notes Canada's vast resources, coal, timber, oils, minerals, and a rising economy with goods worth over 100 million dollars annually and a dairy and stock industry. It mentions 14 million American visitors last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Louise
Banff Nat
Alberta
Canada
Voltaire
Banff National Park
Banff
Victoria
Paradise Valley
Agnes
Mirror
Agnes Lake
Legion dance uses invisible ink wrist marks at Sumner
At a dance sponsored by the American Legion in Sumner patrons passing in and out were marked on the right hand with invisible ink that glows under a special light for hours. A plow once owned by Willard Van Steinburg was found on his Gilmore City area farm, in use during the seventies to till virgin prairie. the plow beam and plow itself are originals though handles and wheel are gone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Legion
Sumner
Willard van Steinburg
Gilmore City
Mgr. van Steinburg
Fisherman Leo Logan Proves Fishing Skill Before Critics
State conservation officer Leo Logan demonstrated his fishing ability by landing two bass in half an hour after a taunt from Waverly men. A quick lunch dish is suggested using split frankfurters filled with macaroni and cheese, topped with mustard and cheese, then baked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Logan
Logan
God Bless America Opinion Pledge Sparks Public Debate
A short political note asserts strong patriotic sentiment with calls to support the nation, inviting readers to choose loyalty over dissent and framing the stance as a civic duty.
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Kavens
Albert City
Susie Thompson
Daught
Colleen Hans
O. W Raver
N. J. Bixler
Piro
F. Bixler
Iron
Seaee
Li Rilrs
I. M. Graham
Marsh Kan
Itf
Mike Lynch
Clare
Sadie Quigley
Cella
O. W. Ver
I. J. Struthers
Yard
Leo Sheln
William Prendergast
Halltown
Anna Hamil
Is Kober
Tobinos College
Fort Dodge
Henry Ko
Bir
Walter Heddinger
Graettinger Ailay
Ed Howe
Webb
Spencer
Howe
LH. Howe
Rolfe
Corliss Stegge
Dotina Telfer
Kert Brewster
Melba Phillips
United Drug Co
Rego
Hutchinson
Archie
Minneapolis
Jerry Green
Pocahontas
R. Is. Green
Torkelson
Bode
Edward Green
Schneck
Joe Wolnce
H. Walace
Highland
Wis
Rev. Schneck Poy
Nebraska
Harry Kauffmans
Leone
Granton
J. H.C
E. Kauffman
Harry
Tuffmans
Plfe
Joe Meisenbach
C. J. Moen
Pullina
Chris Meltvedt
Tere
Mrs. Meltvedt
Moen
Dubuque
James Mulligan
Ee Archer
Archer
Rockwell City
Young Peoples’ Chorus
Sun- Y
Miss Archer
Northwesersity
Evanston
Ill
Glenn Jones
Indianola
Young
Oaks
Soa
Rembrandt
E. J. Plummer
Marcus
Louis Peterson
Deg Moines
Fred Witt
Earl Young
John Klein
Havelock
W. B. Watson
Brooklyn
New York
J. B. Bowen
Watson
Bowen
J T. Fraser
Grand View
Wash
Frasers
Ruth Louise Green
Tobin Business College
W. W. Green
H.C. Wiegman
James Shevlin
Patricia Lou Palmer
Aberdeen
Ted Girard
Shevlin
Girard
J. F. Kauffman
Harry Kauffman
O. J. Brownlee
Emmetsburg
Park Fauffman
Everett Bryant
Bernard Smith
Selfridge
N. D
J. M. Smith
Jimmie
C. W. Jarvis
Bradgate
Ivan Harris
West Coast
Wyoming
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Cheyenne
Wyo
Mr. Harris
Fraser
Lola Edith Siebert
William James Heritage
San Diego
Calif
Miss Siebert
T. H. Siebert
Corliss Stegee
Stegge
Fonda
Elmer Telfer
Stegges
Lillie Kee
John Bothwell
Eliza Dodd
Gilmore
Laura Isaacson
Rachel Spencer
Einar Isaacson
Esther Isaacson
Donald Hansell
Grinnell
Tom Ray
W. F. Schneck
Lois
Calvin
Paynesvlle
Minn
Frank Fanning
James
Frank Lighter
Moneta
Earl Wilhelm
George
Leslie Struthers
Ellis
Betty Ann
Betty
Jennie Evans
Ellis Struthers
Gene Ryen
Blythe Day
University of Colorado
Boulder
West Des Moines
Mickie
Tratler Vagabond
Ae. Ton Aary
By Warren Bayley
J. E. Rickard & Sons
Rolfe, Iowa
Fisherman
RIAL
Iowa
Wim. Boyd and
Russell Havyden In
Arthur Kennedy
Joan Perry
Clark Gable
Rosalind Pussell
Bombay
Clark
Rhett Butler
China Seas
Wayne Morris
Tom Brown
America
Midwest
NBC Blue
Jack Sprat
Miller’s Corn Flakes
Certo Bottle
Jack Spratton
Clorox
E. Eikenberry
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