Plover Paragraphs Highlight Local Moves and Basketball Loss
Local notes report A W Hess installing a milking machine at Ledyard and the Buck family moving to the DeVaul farm while the DeVauls tour the south. Several social calls, visits, and a notable basketball loss by Plover to Swea City 86 to 31 mark a small town week.
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A. W. Hess
Ledyard
Alva Buck
F. P
J. H. Gembler
Edith Horsman Stiles
Laurens
Iowa City
Eddie Lehnus
Chicago
Swea City
Plaver
Plover
Plover Library Moves to Permanent Town Hall Home
The Plover community library, growing to 1400 volumes, moves from the Plover Lumber Co. building to the west room of the new town hall. The well lit space features built in shelving, a circulating heating stove, and free access with no charges for library books. Quarterly shipments from the state library bring new titles for loan at small fees.
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Plover
Plover Lumber Co
New Town Hall
B. F. Riggs
State Library
Hendricks Luft Wedding Quiet Fort Dodge Fort Worth?
Lucille Hendricks and Howard Luft wed in Fort Dodge on December 1 1937. Attended by Roy Luft and wife, the couple plans a home in Plover. Lucille, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Hendricks, grew up in Powhatan and Plover and worked at Peoples Mercantile. Howard Luft, son of Mrs Mary Luft of Rolfe, is a farmer with construction experience. A community shower is set for January at the Plover Presbyterian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucille Hendricks
Howard Luft
Fort Dodge
Roy Luft
William S. Hendricks
Powhatan Township
Plover
Lucille
Havelock Public High School
People’s Merchantile
Mary Luft
Rolfe
Pocahontas County
Des Moines
Hendricks
Plover Presbyterian Church
Plover Presbyterian Church Plans and Gatherings
Rev Walter Rothwell and family attended the Pocahontas high school concert after a Ladies Aid meeting last Thursday. The Willing Workers meet Thursday at 2 30 pm with Mrs R E Dunn Mrs Arthur Johnson hosting and Mrs J H Pollock in charge of devotions. Christmas program committees have been appointed and seek cooperation.
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R. E. Dunn
Arthur Johnson
J. H. Pollock
W. Rothwell
Pocahontas
Ladies’ Aid
Presbyterian Church
Mrs. Rothwell
Pocahontas High School
Plover M E Church Notes Highlight Open Window Sermon
Rev. E Redmayne hosts morning services at Plover M E Church with the Gospel of the Open Window as the morning sermon. Subdistrict Men's Brotherhood meets Dec 18 at 7 pm with Senator Shaw of Pocahontas as speaker. Local guests included Mr and Mrs Lloyd Brown and Betty of Inwood. obituary of William Samuel Strong announced for next week.
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Subdistrict Men’s Brotherhood
Plover
Senator Shaw
Pocahontas
Lost Hub cap with lock for V 8.4 reward
Classified item offers a Lost Hub cap with built in lock for a V 8.4 and a reward. Listing by T G Sime dated 38-1 includes contact details.
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T. G. Sime
Rolfe Local News Highlights Family Visits and Events
Mrs. Paul Shrader improved after illness. A daughter was born Saturday to Max and Mrs. Dale Spiker. Havelock’s Mr. and Mrs. George Spear visited G. S. Shriner. Sweeney family dropped by A. R. Lanus home. Eastern Star to hold regular meeting and officer elections Friday with potluck at 6:45. Naomi Sroufe returns to Rolfe to resume school after quarantine. Richard Jarvis celebrated his fourth birthday with friends and mothers at Bradgate party.
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F. B. Dixon
Raymond Dixon
Paul Mikes
West Bend
R. BE. Houck
W. F. Hofert
A. R. Thornton
Rolfe
Hofert
A. L. D. Club
George Arnold
B. D. Baker
J. F. Arnold
Reuben Sibley
Ruthven
Pleasant Ridge Club
B. B. Hubbell
W. R. Iler
Glenn Horsman
Jean
Ivan Harris
Wallace Knapp
Carroll
Paul Shrader
Max
Dale Spiker
George Spear
Havelock
G. S. Shriner
Josephine Sweeney
Patricia
Hubert
A. R. Lanus
Order of Eastern Star
Naomi Sroufe
Edith Gustafson
Naomi
Pocahontas
Clifford Slayton
James M. Smith
Esther Ragan
Marilyn
Charles Jarvis
Bradgate
Richard Jarvis
Plover Auxiliary Notes Meetings Travel and Local Visits
Mrs O Smith catalogs wintering in Des Moines at 1525 Pennsylvania Ave. Auxiliary to meet Dec 17 at Mrs M McKim home with Mrs J A Mehaffey assisting. Local visits include Anita and Bradgate members, plus Pocahontas and Amboy connections. Lost Clown juvenile operetta performed Nov 30 by Plover grade pupils under Miss Velma Hill with 65 student cast and 6 5 in the chorus.
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O. Smith
Des Moines
Pennsylvania Avenue
American Legion Auxiliary
M. McKim
J. A. Mehaffey
Fred Chinn
Anita
Ted Woodruf
Bradgate
G. L
Cassell
Clyde Maulsby
George Heathman
C. R. Henderson
Fort Dodge
B. B. Frye
Emmetsburg
Plover
Velma Hill
Glee Club
Goodman Dick
Dean Beneke
Rover Jo
Harlan Horsman
Dashaway
Donald Roush
Stealaway
Alan Stearns
Long Sparrow
Helen Beneke
Jean Pringle
Ruth Buchanan
Charles Sharp
Joan Mer
Walter Jackson
Archers
South Sea Islanders
Flyers
Pocahontas County Tax Schedule For Railroads And Lines
The 1987 tax schedule lists fire equipment water works roads drag railroads telegraph telephone and express lines in Pocahontas County with fixed valuations. The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway shows 11.01 miles assessed at 10 091 per mile and the County Auditor is to enter these figures on the tax lists.
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Pocahontas
Pocahontas County
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Where to pay how much for how many of which kind
A collection of light quips on budgets prices and plans amid jokes about coal taxes receipts and balance of payments. The piece muses on European chips and table, crossed cabbages with onions, and urges closing books by December 31 without unpaid accounts while noting the author’s own temporary layoff.
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Beggars’ Union
Mexico
Rolfe
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Rawleigh
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Rolfe Local News
Plover Legion Auxiliary
Eee
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Park
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Varina Cedar
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Laurens Cummins
Washington
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N. 50
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Orchestra
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Jack Ream
New York
Ridetto Nite Club
Open House
Jimmy Moore
Rolfe, Iowa
Hee Haw News
Coulumber Yard
J. T. Grant
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