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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1926
Page
4
Plover Patriot notes Sunday visits across town to the Horsman, Fitzgerald, Ferguson, and McFadden families. A wide array of relatives travel to Fort Dodge and Nevada, Britt, and Laurens for gatherings, church events, and Thanksgiving. Several local families host dinners, nurse illnesses, and send members to Iowa City for medical care.
Thanksgiving services at the Presbyterian church drew a strong crowd. Rev Mikkelsen of the M E church delivered a fine sermon. Local high school teams hosted Havelock Consolidated in basketball with the girls winning 22 to 10 and the boys 33 to 5. Referee Earl Rusty Chambers officiated both games.
Thieves forced entry at the C. R. Henderson produce station on Saturday night taking seven cans of Armour cream eggs and a radio. Auto tracks show suspects fled rear of building after prying a door panel and unlocking a Yale lock. Henderson found stock at about nine o clock Sunday, around three hundred dollars in the red. sheriff called but thieves and goods have not appeared.
The first sixty heads of families at tending the bazaar will receive a prize. The sale features baked goods and a large assortment of items typical of larger magazines and samples available for later purchase. Supper includes chicken mashed potatoes hot biscuits beans salad cranberries rolls pickles pie and coffee.
Old friends and neighbors gathered at the J M Bush home last Saturday for a reception honoring Mr and Mrs W D Heathman. Guests enjoyed a brief musical program a two course luncheon and social visits with attendees including Mrs Hi Perrington Millbank S D and several Heathman relatives from Marshalltown Deg Moines Ft. Dodge Laurens and Rolfe.
W J Johnson made business trips to Rolfe and West Bend the first of the week. Mrs Crouch of Mallard spent Monday night with the family of her daughter Mrs R E Dubois. Mr and Mrs B C Lehnus motored into Fort Dodge Friday to meet Miss Nellie Helvig enroute home from Cedar Falls for the Thanksgiving vacation. Mr and Mrs Will Thompson of Swea City and the Henry Thompson family of D M T were entertained at the A J Eppelsheimer home last Sunday.
The Plover Shipping Association hosted about two hundred residents for an educational gathering at the school gym. Senator A. L. Ames spoke on shipping and marketing farm stock, joined by W. W. Wilcox. a big S. H. C. Short Course is planned for January 6–7 with free, nationwide expert presentations and moving pictures. Local committees created and exhibits planned to support the event.
Wadman s Club Meeting highlights 4-H sewing displays by Busy Bees and Tidy Health Club at the Woman s Club. Each girl exhibited four garments judged by Miss Malcolm of Pocahontas with ribbons and a free Ames trip for top scorers. Lola Christen sen and Berna Spencer lead in their clubs. others receive trips.
Plover Methodist Church notes list services and sermon topics with morning and evening worship. Miss Luella Shaver leads Epworth League on the topic A Prophet of Dawn. Special music by Young People's Choir. Local visitors and travelers mentioned from West Bend Havelock and LeMars with farm produce station details.
W L Smith on the sick list recently. Mrs J L Johnson and son Ben and Miss Lillian Frye of Emmetsburg spent Sunday with friends in Plover. Mrs Chet Carpenter returned from Iowa City after a major operation. Krejer families visited the Carpenters in D M T last Sunday. Frank Cox Jr nurses a back crick from a wrench slip while repairing machinery. Misses Zola and Lucile Bucher drove to Sioux City and Sloan. Fred Smith accompanied them home. Mr and Mrs N J Muerer spent Sunday with her sister in Fairmont Minnesota. L E Thompson enjoys a new Ford coupe. Miss Zola Bucher carries an arm in a sling after a Jack and Jill fall fracturing her shoulder blade. Virgil Roberts of West Bend visited his father C W Roberts Sunday. Born Friday Nov 26 to Mr and Mrs Clarence Pringle a ten pound daughter. Mrs A Isaacson taken to Ft Dodge Monday for gall stone removal. Born Sunday Nov 14 to Mr and Mrs Walter Grady a daughter named Lee Ella. W S Barrack of Iowa Falls visited Monday at sister Mrs C R Henderson's home. C B Bowen of Rolfe looked after business matters in Plover early this week.
Continuation lists various county expenditures including supplies, labor, and repairs across funds such as Drainage Insane and Tuberculosis Eradication. Items mention Grace D. McMichael, Klipto Loose Leaf, J. H. Welch, and St. Joseph’s Hospital with numerous labor and material entries and a closing quote on taking trouble versus causing it.
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