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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
3
Local notes recount visits and trips as Mrs. Harold Wright and Betty join Emmetsburg shoppers. varios relatives visit and recoveries noted. Community ties include birthdays, hospital stays, travel to Des Moines and Omaha for fairs and work, and local social events with neighbors and kin.
Helping Hand Circle meets Thursday evening at Mrs. Gus Henningsen’s home for officer elections. A wiener roast will be followed by homemade ice cream and cake.
The Havelock Ladies' Aid society elected officers led by Mrs. Will Smith as president and Mrs. Mary Boysen as first vice president at a well attended Thursday meeting at the Methodist church. Lunch followed, hosted by Mrs. W. A. Bachman and others.
Havelock Methodist Church led by Pastor John Drake Wolcott holds Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. Epworth League gathers at 7 30 p.m. A short fall session of the Algona District conference meets at Woden Iowa on Tuesday September 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 15 p.m. to discuss New United Methodist church organization. Epworth League plans a fox and hound party at Elmer Krause home Friday. youth urged to contact Robert Dettley or Vernon Krause about attendance.
Bunen nose has been taking night classes in manual training and built a peculiar three legged table. Clara wanted it for the dining room to hold a goldfish bowl. The table appears like an antique weathered by a cyclone, with legs of different lengths and only stands when tilted in a corner.
Bernice Holden married Leonard Eberle of Emmetsburg in a Sacred Heart rectory ceremony on Saturday August 24. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs QO Holden of Bode, worked as a beauty operator in Isabels Powder Puff. The groom, son of Mr and Mrs F X Eberle of Pocahontas, is a Pocahontas High School graduate employed by M and J R Hakes in Emmetsburg. The couple plans residence in Emmetsburg after a brief wedding trip.
Mrs John Terwilliger the former Rita Carroll DePew was feted at a miscellaneous shower at the DePew home hosted by Mesdames Harry Green Jess Freeman S Mad sen John Mordan and W Codner. About fifty guests from Pocahontas Webster City Eagle Grove Mallard Rolfe Plover Havelock Storm Lake and Humboldt attended. A large wedding cake was presented by Mrs Fred Jurgens of Mallard and recipes plus many gifts were given to the bride.
The August meeting of St Joan of Arc court W C F will be held Thursday evening August 29 at the home of Mrs Henry Debeck near Gilmore City. Committee members include Mae Schall Josephine Stelpflug Mary Monaghan and Veronica Lampe. Dolores Eich began work recently as bookkeeper for Pocahontas Auto Co. Rita Albrecht of Omaha has returned after two weeks vacation with her parents.
Miss Rita Burke suffered a severe cut on her left wrist when she slipped on a muddy sidewalk Monday morning. Four clamps closed the wound. Mr and Mrs Ed Burke and son Francis returned home Monday afternoon from Boone and Des Moines after visiting relatives for several days. Miss Genevieve O'Brien of Ames visited last week with her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Ray Beck, then went to Lake Andes S D for a visit with relatives.
Pocahontas farmer Frank Miller suffered a fractured right arm in a farm accident. He was treated locally and expected to recover, with no further injuries reported.
A player suffered a dislocated right shoulder Friday evening as his team pulled away after he returned home from threshing around 9:30. The report notes the incident and mentions Mr. and Mrs. Louis Vodraska as the parents of a daughter born August 8.
A local Council of Republican Women met at the court house Friday afternoon. A political quiz was led by Mrs. Park Kauffman. Mrs. R. L. Hudson presented a lesson on the Republican candidate Willkie. The regular business session was held. Miss Betty Parmeter returned to Pocahontas from Cedar Falls where she attended summer school.
Robert Shaw son of Senator and Mrs A J Shaw received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tawa State Teachers College Cedar Falls at commencement exercises held last Thursday evening. He will teach English Social Science and General Science in the consolidated Martensdale Iowa school this academic year. Senator and Mrs Shaw Mrs Lawrence Flaherty and son Charles Mrs Frank Shaw attended the exercises. They traveled to Cedar Falls Thursday afternoon returning Friday morning with Miss Dorothy Lampe.
Miss Dorothy Lampe earned a two year teaching credential at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls and plans to teach Roosevelt No. 1 near Pocahontas. Mrs. L. C. Thornton returned from visits with relatives in Council Bluffs Sioux Falls and Chicago and her daughter Miss Jane Thornton prepares to teach in Honolulu. A Lampe family reunion at J H Lampe home drew relatives from Spencer Mallard Omaha Pocahontas Mason City and Algona.
Mackovets and Junior Moore will return home this Thursday from a ten day Des Moines camp near Boone. Mrs. Jack Fraser of Madeira Minnesota, formerly of Pocahontas, visited last week with Pocahontas friends. Dr. W B Smith and son Kenneth of Coleridge Nebraska visited Sunday with Mrs. F J Lorge and family. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Smith who spent a week visiting in the Lorge home.
Agnes Schuller of Pocahontas and Arthur Zatloukal were married in Sacred Heart church on Monday August 19 at 8 30. Rev G F Wessling officiated. A three course breakfast followed at Kermore Hotel Emmetsburg and the couple planned their home in Pocahontas after a September 2 return from a wedding trip to Denver.
A typical pound of meat travels about 1,000 miles from production area to the consumer region, reflecting long supply chains and regional consumption patterns across the country.
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