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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1950
Page
7
Local notices recount visits among Rolfe residents with family and friends from Gilmore City, Emmetsburg, Laurens, Fort Dodge and Des Moines. Engagement announced between Marie Trimble and Donald Jeffers. several attendees at family events and church gatherings.
Virgil Mr. Hancher president of the State University of Iowa is named to NYU Hall of Fame electors. Also named are Dwight Eisenhower Robert Taft Ralph Bunche and Fred Vinson. Electors vote every five years and must have been deceased at least 25 years. They will vote in 1950 on new inductees.
S A Oleson III has been ill at home for a week and entered Lutheran hospital Fort Dodge for neuritis. The Oleson family plans to move to the house once he returns home with Francis Larson helping at the Super Service station.
Mrs Ivan D Rice a former D MT instructor accepts a kindergarten teaching position in Pocahontas School. Mr and Mrs Robert Pedersen took Mrs Chris Pedersen to Des Moines Thursday morning where she will enter a hospital for observation and treatment.
Tauren K Soth and Wm H Wisdom of Des Moines visit to take Mr R Soth and Mrs R Soth to Des Moines. Mr Soth to enter Methodist hospital for observation and treatment once a room is secured. He is under a physician's care at his son Lauren Soth's home and is responding well to treatment. Mrs Soth convalesces from a recent operation in Rochester Minnesota.
Mr and Mrs Robert Hunter returned home Sunday from Los Angeles where they had been visiting since before Christmas in the home of their daughter Mrs R A Dow and family They missed seeing the Ernest Vaughns when they called on them but visited Mr and Mrs Bert Peterson and Dr and Mrs G G Butler before leaving her home
Mr and Mrs Louis Paulson spent Sunday through Tuesday in Des Moines where he attended the Chevrolet mechanics school of instruction. Mrs Paulson enjoyed shopping and they visited the home of cousins Mr and Mrs Ben Kluger. On the way home they called on Mrs David Heidt of Humboldt a patient at Lutheran Hospital.
In Decorah a meeting connected two men named Lars both linked to the area. Lars Sem hosted a visit from Lars Seim a well known local contractor who arrived with his 20 year old nephew from Norway. The nephew is a member of the Norwegian merchant marine.
A terse appeal urges donations to the polio fund promising help for future victims. The message warns that the next sufferer could be anyone and calls for urgent public contribution.
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