Oxford Journal: Arrives at Rhodes Scholar Life and Study
A Rhode Scholar writes from Oxford about matriculation day, lectures, tutors, and daily routines. He notes formal chapel, strict dress, numerous clubs, and adapting to English life including cycling, dining manners, and the layout of the hall and J. C. R. He enjoys rowing, tea breaks, and the social hospitality of the English campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberal Club
Conservative Club
Labor Club
League of Nations Club
Good Lord Only Knows
Hearst to Speak at Pocahontas County Farm Bureau Meeting
Chas E Hearst president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation will address Pocahontas County Farm Bureau at the courthouse in Pocahontas on Thursday afternoon December 18 with an evening session to follow The talks will cover agricultural issues in Iowa and the United States Hearst arrives from the American Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Boston He is also a director of the federation. Legal business and nominations for county officers are noted with elections planned for 1931 to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. FE. Hearst
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Pocahontas County
Hearst
Boston
Pocahontas
Iowa
United States
Town Farm Bureau Federation
American Farm Bureau Federation
Black Hawk County
Farm Board
A. W. Ives
H. F. Olerich
John Wisenhauer
Charles Ek. Watts
Swan Lake
O. E. Erickson
Marshall
John Grobman
Cummins
Jay Ryan
Des Moines
Gail Ives
Garfield
Lincoln
John Eisenhauer
Dover
Garner
Farm Bureau
Boys Short Course At Iowa State College December 29 31
The annual Boys Short Course at Iowa State College Ames runs Monday to Wednesday December 29 30 31 with new features including radio broadcasts at 11 am and 1 pm. 4-H members may skip repeated work and music appreciation is added under Miss Fannin Buchanan. The Fifth Annual State 4-H Club Boys Convention will elect officers and conduct business during the course, with a banquet on December 30. Judging contests cover horses dairy and beef cattle hogs sheep grain classes and a 20 crop identification test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State College
Ames
F. P. Reed
WOI
Fannin Buchanan
Fifty Years of Presbyterianism in Rolfe and Nearby Communities
Fifty years ago Pocahontas county began settling Clinton township where the Rolfe church formed. The Unity Presbyterians first met in a log cabin near McKnight’s Point, later moving to Rolfe’s court house and a brick schoolhouse before becoming Second Presbyterian Church of Rolfe in 1880. The First Presbyterian Church of Rolfe formed briefly, then folded. in October 1880 the Second Presbyterian Church of Rolfe was organized with fourteen signers, enduring harsh winters and trials.
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Pocahontas County
Clinton Township
Rolfe
David S. McComb
Algona
Unity Presbyterian Church
Robert Struthers
Unity Presbyterians
Edward ’ McKnight
Des Moines
McKnight
L. C. Gray
Second Presbyterian Church of
Fort Dodge
North Western
First Presbyterian Church of
Presbytery of
Boone
Old Rolfe
Presbytery
Man of God
Flickinger
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Phobes
Oxford
Bince J
R.M. S
Sutton
Germany
Hobbes & Kk
Mill & Bryce
England
Anay
Bretherton
The
Presbyterian Church of
Altho
Emily Post
States
Rhodes
Mary
Albert T. Reid
Merry Chic
Chas. E. Hearst
John Pickens Lester
R. E. Flickinger
First Presbyterian Church
Matthew C. Wood
Princeton Seminary
Kennedy
Wood
Rolfe and
Plover
Presbyterian Church
Bro. Woods
Rev. Wood
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