Ed School Notes and Classroom Updates
The second six weeks has closed and the last six weeks of the first semester begin. The Lit erary Society plans a Christmas box social for Tuesday Dec 28 at 7 30 PM. Domestic science girls sew Xmas gifts and new physics lab apparatus arrived early this week improving facilities. Manual training boys build seats for sleds replacing buses. Isabel Maxson hosted seventh and eighth graders for her birthday. several students were absent or ill. Health Crusade completes two weeks with health certificates awarded. A new girl Sally Ann joined domestic science. Gladys Roberts missed Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ito
Literary Society
Isabel Maxson
Mabel Fay
Carrie Nielsen
Verda Elberts
Ruth Webb
Neva Struthers
Sophia
Margaret Johansen
Bobbie Rutgers
Leslie DeWolf
Marie Ryen
Sally Ann
Gladys Roberts
Winter Hog House Building and Local Snippets
Local items note Frank Shimon hauling material for a new hog house and remaining flat cribs. Witty exchanges and small anecdotes appear, including a judge offering ten dollars or ten days, a purse misread at a bank, and a talk on shingles and concrete floors for hog houses. The notices promote information services and advertise J. and W. C. Shull of Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Shimon
Rolfe School Notes Reflect Busy Fall Term Activities
Rolfe students and staff report exam reviews in English classes including Shakespeare and Scott readings, with Dixieland tests and first grades on holiday. The high school adds a magazine rack, subscribes to periodicals, and thanks donors. Reports on class work, poetry, Christmas Seals sales nearing $38, and Red Cross fundraising milestones accompany a detailed financial statement showing balances and expenditures through November 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siefkin
Jones
Scott
Dicken
Two Cities
Mina Truelson
Foster Fraser
Harriss Thomas
Literary Digest
Review of Reviews
Atlantic Monthly
Saturday Evening Post
Ladies’ Home Journal
National Geographic
Popular Mechanics
Des Moines Register and Leader
Thomas
Country Gentleman
Stoufe
Vaul
Red Cross
Turner
Kahley
Pocahontas
Sioux Rapids
Manson
Fonda
Laurens
Humboldt
Bradgate Iowa seeks electric transmission franchise
Official notice from the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa lists Bradgate as petitioning for a franchise to erect and maintain poles wires towers and other facilities for lighting power and heating. The proposed line would run along and across public lands highways streams and private lands described along sections in township 92 north range 31 and 30 west of the fifth principal meridian with details of starting and routing along highways and section lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas County
Bradgate
Iowa
Board of Railroad Commissioners
State of
Railroad petition hearing set for January 6 1920 in Devines
The Board of Railroad Commissioners fixed January 6 1920 at 10 a m in Devines Iowa as the time and place to hear a petition concerning a route described by township ranges and county lines in Humboldt and Pocahontas counties. Des Moines Iowa dated December 10 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humboldt
Pocahontas
Iowa
P. M. E Board of Railroad Commissioners
Devines
Des Moines
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Sita
Honest John
John Flasters
Honest John, Inc
Shull
Rolfe and Vicinity
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Mr Farmer
Risoner
Tommy
Parson
Bridget
Prince Albert
Jimmy
P. A
ROLFE
Merle Finn
Holland
U.S
Bloom
F. M. Ritchey
Board of Railroad Commissioners of
The
C. M. Webb
Sina
Low
Florence Ferrell
Thomas A. Edison
Ferrell
Edison
J. R. McIntire
Canada
Mr. Edison
Rolfe, Iowa
Santa Claus
Happ
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