Community Event Calendar for Rolfe Area Dec to Jan
Local notices list a busy schedule of December events and December 25 Christmas Day and January 1 New Year’s Day. Activities include Missionary Society meetings at Mrs. Carmi Vaughn home, school plays, basketball games against Laurens Pocahontas, a Leaf Lodge Knights meeting, junior high comedy at Finnegan's Flat, and a Rolfe Woman's Club meeting at Mrs. Jos McEwen home.
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Jay
M. E. Missionary Society
Carmi Vaughn
John Je C. Nelson
J. Shaw
W. R. Rogers
Rolfe Yrens
Laurens
Leaf Lodge
Knightsiag
Rolfe High School
Stu
Finnegan's Flat
Jower
Mallarday
The
Presbyterian Church
W. P. Ife
W. R. Jones
Grant
Rday
B. H. Duval
Plovery
Ife High School
Park Kauffman
Juester’s S S Class Christmas Party Held
Juester's Sunday School class held its annual Christmas supper and party in the Presbyterian parlors. Guests enjoyed a toast program, gifts, and games with a festive tree. Officers praised the class's work and presented a ten dollar gold gift. members exchanged presents and partied late into the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Lester
E. Boyce
A. O. H. Setze
J. P. Lester
J. T
Arthur Vaughn
Henry Wiegman
Wilkin
Mr. Letzeplandt
Wolf
Earl Ferguson
Kime
Russell Tie
Christmas Post Office Orders Change Mail Service
Uncle Sam announces a Christmas day experiment in post offices. No mail deliveries on that day, only special deliveries and first class mail will be dispatched. Postmasters must follow orders as rural carriers do no deliveries and newspapers won’t be mailed.
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Uncle Sam
Closing Out Farm Sales Near Plover Rolfe and Mallard
B H Duval near Plover plans a December 20 sale to move to Oregon offering twelve horses twenty four cattle twenty nine shoats chickens a Ford car and farm tools. Park Kauffman southeast of Rolfe sells December 21 head including seven horses four cattle forty shoats a Ford son tractor and farm machinery. J H Crower northeast of Mallard holds December 18 sale with horses mules cattle sheep hogs and farm machinery.
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B. H. Duval
Plover
Oregon
Park Kauffman
County Auxiliary Meeting Held at Rolfe Methodist Church
The first County Conference of the American Legion Auxiliary met Monday December 10 at Rolfe Methodist Church with delegates from Laurens Havelock Pocahontas Palmer and Rolfe. The program included flag advancement salute and pledge singing invocation readings reports and a social hour with refreshments by Rolfe Unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the American Legion Auxiliary
Methodist Church
Rolfe
Laurens
Havelock
Plover
Pocahontas
Palmer
the Assembly
America
L. R. Rogers
Ee Pocahontas
Geo. Waters
Secy
Legionaire
Abe DeVaul
Beenie Nce
E. L. Kunkle
J. M. Bushard
S. Heathman
H. Webster
San Antonio
Millette
Essex High Dive Crash Injures No One
E R Rushmore traveling for the 0 B West Co of Des Moines lost control on a gravel patch near a hill north of town. The car went over a ten foot embankment into a ditch then creek turning on its side before being recovered by Rolfe Auto Company. The new Essex was badly wrecked.
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E. R. Rushmore
0. B. West Co
Des Moines
Rolfe Auto Company
Essex
Mr. Rushmore
Pocahontas 4-Hers Shine At National Club Congress
In Chicago last week twelve hundred 4-H members gathered for the National Club Congress. Marjory Vaughn of Pocahontas County placed fourth in the meat identification contest, identifying most of twenty four wholesale cuts. Clarence Goecke showed the grand champion steer at the International Livestock Show, earning about nine thousand dollars in prize money and sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pocahontas County
Marjory Vaughn
Carl Hertz
Clarence Goecke
State Center
Iowa
Rolfe Produces Cadet Colonel and Major in ROTC
C Gordon Siefkin was named Cadet Colonel of the ROTC unit at the State University on December 5 after faculty committee recommendation and approval by President Walter A. Jessup and Lt Col Converse B. Lewis. E Everett Smith was appointed major in the same ROTC unit. The two are recognized for elevating Rolfe's name in state headlines.
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Rolfe
Daily Iowan
C. Gordon Siefkin
The
State University
Military Department
Walter A. Jessup
Converse B. Lewis
Military
Presbyterian Church Notes Sunday Schedule and Drama Plan
Pastor Rev. J. P. Lester leads services with morning worship at 10:00 and Sunday School at 11:15. Evening programs include Junior Endeavor at 6:30 and Bible drama on Christmas story with music and lighting. Golden Rule Sunday next week and Sunday school officer elections planned. Elder M. P. Hancher mourned by the church.
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Bible
Junior Endeavor
Christian Endeavor
Prayer
M. P. Hancher
C. E. Boyce
Rolfe High School Christmas Pageants Planned
Rolfe High School students present a Nativity pageant Friday December 21 at 2 30 p m in the school auditorium. Admission is free and the event is sponsored by the Student Council. Earlier Tuesday evening December 18 at 7 o clock the Junior High stages Christmas at Finnegans Flat as a Christmas contribution with cast and details announced.
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Rolfe High School
Finnegan's
Home Declamatory Contest slated for Rolfe December 17
Rolfe school auditorium hosts the annual Home Declamatory Contest Monday evening December 17 at eight o'clock. R H S students vie for home honors and a chance to enter county and state contests. Miss Wille coaches all contestants with additional musical numbers planned and a varied program of orations and drama featuring students from multiple classes.
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Rolfe
Wille
John A Lothian Dead at 51 in Rolfe Iowa
John Albert Lothian died suddenly December 1928 at his mother's home in Rolfe after living all his life in the community. Born February 12 1877 in Des Moines township he managed the mail and express business and cared for his mother. Funeral held at the Methodist church with Rev W A Wilkinson, burial in Clinton Garfield Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Lothian
Rhoda Lothian
W. W. Beam
John Albert Lothian
Des Moines
Jas. B. Lothian
Rolfe
Johnnie Lothian
School notes hint at plays for young performers
The article urges public encouragement for youngsters in the school stage works and notes that these plays will be found in school notes elsewhere in the paper.
Henry A. Wallace to address Pocahontas Farm Bureau
Henry A. Wallace of Des Moines will speak at the Pocahontas County Farm Bureau annual meeting at the courthouse on Monday Dec. 17 with a 8:00 p.m. address and a 6:30 p.m. farmers and wives lunch. The meeting follows a new late-year schedule adopted by the legislature and includes plans for soil and fertilizer tests to study potash deficiencies in corn stalks across Pocahontas county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry A. Wallace
Farm Bureau
Court House
Pocahontas
Des Moines
Pocahontas County
F. K. Hawley
Laurens
Robert Freeburg
Roosevelt Township
J. L. Boatman
Henry Toben
Palmer
State Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ Association
Robotka
Frank Robotka
George Arnold
Ames
Wilbur Thompson
Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ Association of Iowa
Fort Dodge
Christmas Preparations In Rolfe Hit Full Swing
Rolfe residents prepare for Christmas with a street tree and decorative windows. Santa Claus will visit Saturday afternoon December 22 at two o'clock, giving candy treats to all the children on the street.
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Rolfe
Santa Claus
Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday Schedule and Christmas Theme
Trinity Lutheran Church led by Rev. J. O. Wangberg displays morning worship at 10:30 a.m. Luther League at 7:30 p.m. evening service at 8:30 p.m. prayer meeting on Wednesday and catechism class on Saturday December 15 at 10:00 a.m. The message invites parishioners to hear discussion on the question Whom are we looking for Christ or another.
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Luther League
Chicago man held in jail on Iowa charge of false pretenses
Walter Hawkins of Chicago, 68, claiming two doctorates, is jailed in Pocahontas County on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses tied to his healing activities in Palmer and northwest Iowa. He was arrested in Glidden and held to the grand jury on 1500 dollar bonds after an elderly paralytic victim, Nels Kaiser, reported a 100 dollar payment. Hawkins waived examination and faces county attorneys and sheriff investigations into alleged practice across Iowa Minnesota and Illinois.
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Pocahontas
Iowa
Walter Hawkins
Chicago
Pocahontas County
Palmer
Glidden
Nels Kaiser
Hawkins
Rasmus Kaiser
Kaiser
W. W. Harris
Chas. Stebbins
Dodge Messenger
Obituary of J Bradley Moore of Rolfe Iowa
J Bradley Moore died at the State Hospital in Cherokee from blood poisoning on December 5 1928 aged 60 years 11 months and 15 days He was born in Abington Virginia December 20 1868 and later lived in Lake City Havelock Rolfe and Pocahontas He married Rose Ward in 1901 and had four children Ward Pringle Dale and James Survived by wife four children and four sisters He was a respected stock judge with wide business ties Funeral services were held December 8 at the McIntire Funeral Home in Rolfe with Rev W A Wilkinson of the Methodist church officiating Interment in Clinton Garfield Cemetery Relatives from out of town attended the funeral
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J. Bradley Moore
Cherokee
Abington
Virginia
Lake City
Iowa
Newell
Havelock
Rose Ward
Ward
Rolfe
Clarence Pringle
Plover
Dale
Gordon
Neb
James
Moore
W. S. Eakin
Farrell Stevens
R.H. Blemins
Mary Dukes
Damascus
Bradley Moore
McIntire
W. A. Wilkinson
Methodist Church
Clinton-Garfield
Molly Fakin
Clara Grantham
Dave Dukes
Walter O’connor
Walter Eakin
M. J. Hoover
Carroll
J. E. Moats
Boone
Catherine Steen
Sioux Falls
S. D
Maud Moore
Pocahontas
Card of Thanks for Help During Bereavement
We extend thanks to friends who helped during our bereavement and at the funeral of our husband and father. Mrs. J. B. Moore and Family.
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J. B. Moore
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Juester
S. S
Il Hola
Dgar Cornell
Dis- No
Ida Hanish
County Auxiliary Meeting
Presbyterian Church Notes
D. D
R. H
Halleck Brinkman
Ruby Green
Norman Siefkin
Cornet
Eee Csieres
Rueben Wangberg
Ralph Wilkinson
Melvin Thompson
Peter
Harriett Damberg
Pea Lorraine Morrison
Daughter of the
Mary Pollock
Bobby
Helen Thompson West
Catherine Nacke
China
Clare B. Dean
Hoover
Christmas
Trinity Lutheran Church
J. O. Wangberg
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