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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
4
The Bradgate PTA December meeting drew a large crowd in the high school auditorium. The program featured a Santa Claus segment by grades 1–4 and a nativity pageant by the remainder, with costumes and lighting praised.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service met at the Methodist church for devotions and a Christmas playlet. The Rebekah lodge held a gift exchange in the IOOF hall with fourteen members. Local visits include Robert Isaeson enlisting in the air corps and other townsfolk visiting Fort Dodge and Buena Vista college. A Christmas vesper service by Progress club at the Methodist church drew a large crowd with carols and solos. The Lutheran Aid met at N C Madsen’s home with Christmas music and a vocal solo by Lorraine Isacson.
The dog days refer to midsummer in July and August linked to the rising of Sirius and the sun. Ancient belief tied the star's rising to extreme heat and canine madness, though the coincidence is geographic and accidental.
In the North American Review September 1878 Gladstone is quoted saying the British Constitution is the most subtle organism and the American Constitution is the most wonderful work struck off at one time by human brain and purpose.
The Morals of Jesus was a personal compilation by Thomas Jefferson arranging Jesus Christ's sayings for reference. In 1904 the fifty seventh Congress ordered publication and 9 000 copies were printed with later editions issued.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thompson of Rusk Texas marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mr. Thompson taught 40 years without missing a day due to illness and Mrs. Thompson taught 30 years. Five of their six children followed in teaching careers.
Eighteenth-century portrait makers toured towns with generic bodies and varied heads later added by request. Patrons chose a preferred body and had their own head painted to complete the likeness, Colller's notes.
According to EL C Nevins Witchcraft in Salem Village there were 17 executions for witchcraft in Salem and nearby New England. Giles Corey was the last victim pressed to death for refusing to plead guilty or not guilty.
Mrs. E. S. Deardorff of Winterset burned $800 in a stove accident but salvaged most notes with only about 45 dollars lost. Winterset residents who cashed checks offered to reissue by writing new ones. Grant Blum moved from Chicago to Wagnerly and waited two weeks before seeing the town. He had been quarantined for chicken pox. Joe Myram of Northwood shot a hawk with a 4 foot 4 inch wingspan.
Rolfe second team defeated Pocahontas 36 to 22 in a fast preliminary game. Gerald Cornwell emerged as a budding standout with 7 baskets, while Sandvng and Hartene combined for 8 more and Gadd for Pocahontas added 4.
Walter Henn trapped a bobcat near Lake Cornelia. A fight with the animal injured his dog’s ear.
Grinnell college student pilot Bill Orr went missing during practice power turns causing concern. He reappeared later, about fifty miles from Grinnell, ending the search and confirming his safety.
Nels Johnson of Hastings repaired a self-made electrical gadget intended to cure arthritis. The improvised device caused his death, authorities report.
A state health department roundup shows Iowa entering the remaining winter months with increases in five diseases and decreases in four. From November 1 to early this month, chickenpox measles scarlet fever whooping cough and pneumonia rose over 1939 while diphtheria mumps smallpox and tularemia fell.
The department cites healthy carriers and undiagnosed mild cases as key factors in the winter rise. Measles led gains with an 80 percent increase, totaling 992 cases this season versus 123 last year. Whooping cough rose 56 percent to 174 cases from 111.
Year end pneumonia cases rose in 1989, the health department reports a 5 percent increase totaling 489 for the season. Tularemia fell by 79 cases from last year, smallpox dropped from 48 to 1, and diphtheria declined from 1 to zero with other diseases showing varied changes.
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