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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1945
Page
6
Social news from Rolfe and surrounding towns details visitors and family gatherings. People mentioned include Mrs. Dipe, Scott family, Mrs. J. T. Grant, Miss Julia Hurley, postmasters at Laurens, and many locals visiting hospitals, attending services, or traveling to Fort Dodge, Council Bluffs, and Chicago. Names include Kibler, Lomen, Kibler, Harland, and Mulligan, with military assignments and moves noted.
Cpl Dale C Leadley prisoner of the Japs since Corregidor has been heard from. A telegram to his parents in Washington informs them he appears on a list of personnel at Camp Hoten Mukden Manchuria dated August 26. Leadley 29 entered the army September 1941 and last wrote in October 1941.
Libby Montana reports indicate 72 year old Mabel Lemon disappeared from her daughter Marie Hathaway’s Dakota Avenue home around 5 a.m. Wednesday August 22. Local authorities fire department and volunteers searched the area including the Kootenai river by land air and river routes with a sole authentic sighting near the Great Northern overpass. Sheriff Baney of Lincoln County appeals for clues as the search continues.
Mrs. Sarah Helvig of Plover died Tuesday night at her daughter’s home three miles north of Rolfe after a three week battle with illness following a stroke. Funeral services set for Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in the Methodist church at Plover.
Mrs. Etta Symes of Des Moines spends several weeks with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Elmer Bishop and family. They were breakfast and dinner guests at the home of Mrs. Sarah McDonnell and Miss Pearl Bishop in Ayrshire Sunday. Leo Bishop returned home with them after a six week stay working there.
Alice Bratton, 69, died Tuesday morning at Mercy hospital Fort Dodge after being taken by ambulance from her home last Friday. Funeral services will be at McIntire funeral home on Friday August 31 at 2 30 pm conducted by Rev Charles R Buckwalter of the Methodist church.
Forrest Grant, traveling to Colorado, stopped in Julesburg where a young man who shared the same Iowa roots learned he was from Rolfe. The man, son of William Peterson and brother of Louis E. Peterson, invited Grant to his home for supper and lodging for the night.
Mrs Floyd Speaker spent Friday with relatives and friends here while en route from Toledo Iowa to her home at Livingston Montana.
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