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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1922
Page
4
A reader notes Royal baking powder is the highest quality and improves cakes, with testimonials claiming cakes are 100 percent better since using the product. The ad highlights Royal contains no alum and leaves no bitter taste.
Frank and Harvey Henderson motored to Fort Dodge for Warfield Campbell illness. L. E. Garlock and Mrs Watts shopped in Fort Dodge. County declamatory contest at Laurens saw Laurens win in oratorical, Pocahontas in dramatic, and Plover in humorous. Louie Muntz had appendicitis surgery in Webster City. he is recovering well. Plover and Laurens high school basketball met, Laurens winning 36 to 10.
Warfield Campbell dies at Fort Dodge hospital after illness and funeral held at Me EB church with interment in Powhatan cemetery. Peter Jensen dies after long illness. services from Jensen home and burial in Clinton cemetery Rolfe. Christmas program planned at Presbyterian church Saturday Dec 28. Plover High faces West Bend on Thursday Dec 21 in a closely contested game. Mrs. W. W. Wheeler shops in Fort Dodge. Frank Henderson helps at Plover Mercantile Store during Christmas rush. Herbert Barrett buys old creamery ice house and moves it to farm east of town.
The Plover Woman's Community Club met on Wednesday December 18 1922 with Miss Antoinette Bonnstetter Red Cross nurse delivering an instructive talk on the Perkins and Haskell Klaus cases including their legislative history growth and admission methods. The club organized in June 1922 electing officers earlier and held sessions under Child Welfare and Citizenship committees. A school of instruction in voting with Mr Watts demonstrating the voting machine was conducted ahead of the election.
The narrator recounts travel from New York to Iowa in 1855 with father Elisha Randall and siblings. They faced scarce funds, long delays, bridgeless streams, and a winter storm while crossing to Tipton Cedar Rapids. A stranger queen passenger rode outside as horses struggled, highlighting pioneer hardship and family resilience.
Chester Birch, veteran evangelist of thirty two years, begins city meetings under United and First Presbyterian churches in Plover. He blends theater, theology, and music from army camps, prisons, chautauqua platforms, and Bible conferences at Winona Lake and Ocean Grove. He trained with Moody and Jones and will lead two weeks of services starting December 28.
The event featured talks by Mrs. E L Hollis on the Sale of Christmas Seals and Mrs. Mary P Watts on Community Betterment. January’s meeting will be led by the Civic Improvement committee. The Powhatan Township Farm Bureau plans its annual meeting at the Plover Consolidated school house on Friday evening December 25 at eight, with work for next year and officer elections on the agenda. J M Simons son, Director.
The tale recounts a bride’s hurried wedding to a stage driver, a fragile escape in bare slippers and stockings, and a harsh journey through Tipton and Cole's Station. It sketches frontier travel’s grit, the daily toil of settlers, and a weary, nightly retreat to scarce beds.
A pessimistic individual recognizes a good chance but clings to doubt and delays action, letting a favorable outcome slip away. His stubborn stance creates self inflicted barriers to progress and success.
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