Plover News weekly social and sports item roundup
The column reports multiple local social visits and gatherings across Plover and nearby towns. It notes travel by families to Yakima and Des Moines, birthday and anniversary celebrations, bridge and card parties, and youth basketball results with Plover girls beating Webb and later losses in the tournament. It also lists church activities, meetings, and upcoming services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Arnold
Priscilla Circle
David Hartsock
Waterloo
Jack Eppelsheimer
Younya
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Svauadg Ayy
Jo Ann Borman
Spencer
LaVerne McAlister
Toledo
Pocahontas
Plover
Pacific
Delbert Hubbell
Albert Havelik
Eldon MacVey
Lottie MacVey
Elmore
Minn
Leo
Dexter
Rolfe
Darlene Ferguson
John Wagner
West Bend
Glenn Forsythe
Russell Forsythe
W. H. Buchanan
Laurens
Buchanans
S. H. Kerr
Seattle
Wash
Mary
Birdie) Garlock
Elwood Garlock
Paul Kerns
Larry
E. W. Kerns
Bill Goodchild
Havelock
Gwendolyn Lehnus
Cedar Falls
Charles Lehnus
Bob Lynch
Albert City
Francis Lynch
Urban Osweiler
Jack Sindergaard
Peck Sean
Lohrville
Loren Barker
Frank Starr
Des Moines
Pocahontas County
Andy Barker
Town City
Raymond Hanisch
Roger DeWolf
Louis Wilson
Iowa City
Bill Smith
Friendly Circle
Lawrence Hilton
Louis Wilson, Jr
Nancy Knockson
Mary Jo Arnold
Sharon Dirks
Russell Knockson
Ralph Larson
Chil
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad
An advertisement touts Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and tablets as modern remedies for menopausal changes and related symptoms. It claims relief from hot flashes nervous tension irritability and functional distress and notes women and girls can use it for menstrual cramps and distress without pain-deadening drugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Pinkham
Lydisa Pinkham
Pinkham
The Highway Story
A winter sweepstakes of wrong headed drivers highlights leading incidents. An 18 year old blamed fog and icy roads for a crash and broken arm. Three Iowa brothers end up jailed on three driving charges in one night. A school bus driver ignored a bus stop and was charged by a patrolman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hullihan
Iowa
Florida Trucker Faces Unusual Award Consideration
An Iowa highway patrolman finds a Florida trucker stranded on an icy hill with his engine off and eyes fixed on the road ahead. The driver says he froze in fear after never seeing ice like this and planned to stay put until it melted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Iowa
Wisconsin hunter pays conscience money to Iowa license board
A Madison hunter traveled to Des Moines to settle an Iowa resident hunting license he bought as a Wisconsin citizen in 1953. He paid $23.50 to cover the license difference, joining other unusual conscience payments like a Oregon woman’s $10 for unlawful quail possession from childhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wisconsin
Des Moines
The
Conservation Commission
Iowa
Commission
Oregon
Some fish seasons close
The open season on seven game fish ends February 15 as announced by the Conservation Commission. The closing applies to walleye sauger white bass northern pike large and smallmouth bass and rock bass for the 1954 55 period. An open season continues for yellow perch crappies yellow bass warmouth sunfish bluegills bullheads and all rough fish. A two year old cow buffalo is a familiar sight near Squirrel Hollow Jefferson residents Mr and Mrs Leonard Meyers say they got the animal about a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conservation Commission
Squirrel Hollow
Jefferson
Leonard Meyers
Rolfe Local News Chronicles January Family Updates
Miss Lorena Spreen travels to Clinton January 19 due to her brother Wm Spreen's heart attack and returns January 28 as he improves. The Flinders welcome a son January 29 at a Cherokee hospital, with O B Fuller aiding. Several relatives visit, including Fred Block funeral rites for Lee Seaman, college student visits, and hospital observation for Clarence Johnson at Iowa City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dren
Jim Otto
John Forry
Harold Forry
Long Beach
Calif
Donald Ferry
Rockwell
Loren Barker
Denison
Arthur Petratz
Fred Grove
Gilmore City
Alvin Fowler
Laurel Worster
Ottosen
Ray Reinders
Garrit den Hartog
Ft. Wayne
Ind
James Trimble, Jr
Orville Nicol
Graettinger
T. R. Jones
Herman Griffell
Vincent
Dick Bush
Gerald Kerns
Jessie Fitzgerald
Glenn Lent
Charles McFadden
J. E. Grove
Lhren
Donald Becke
Joan Shaveland
David Guess
Cindy Lu
Colin Lee
Des Moines
Earl Guess
Laurens
Methodist Church
Kenderdine
Robert Phillips
Franks
Ruthven
Martin
Emmetsburg
Dave Strayfeller
Mallard
Badeley
Ayrshire
Howe
Havelock
Liliengrin Fieldman
Morningside College
Sioux City
Kinderdine
Lorena Spreen
Clinton
Wm. Spreen
Miss Spreen
Chris Mason
Floyd Calton
Lorena
James Flinders
Sutherland
Cherokee
O. B. Fuller
Fred Block
Lee Seaman
Spencer
Divorce Petition Seeks Custody in Pocahontas Iowa
In Pocahontas County Iowa the District Court has on file a petition by Jacqueline Johnson for an absolute divorce from George T Johnson. The suit alleges cruel inhuman treatment endangering the plaintiff, and seeks sole custody of their minor daughter Rebecca Lynn Johnson. Defendants must answer within 20 days of the last publication, with publications set for January 27 February 3 and February 10 1956 in the Rolfe Arrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George T. Johnson
District Court
Pocahontas County
Iowa
Pocahontas
Jacqueline Johnson
Rebecca Lynn Johnson
Rolfe Arrow
Plaintiff
Albert J. Shaw, Jr
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Warren
T. R
Lyle Jones
Earl Hauck
Ames
Ed Mendenhall
B. D. Baker
Pine Room
Walter Moyer
Tata
Otto Bode
Edwin Grove
Bob Mathers
H. Westerman
Will Walter
Lytton
E. H. Westerman
David Brinkman
Garland Westerman
Garland
Cecil Twigg
Katherine Rouse
Linda Rouse
Texas
Guy de Reus
Albert McFadden
Prairie City
de Reus
McAllen
Tex
Tillie Barker
Brownsville
Corpus Christi
John Parradee
Wichita
Kan
Pearl Crook
Marilyn McFarren
Jan Bee
Dike Broadwell
Huey Halcomb
Dike
Robert Henderson
Selfridge
Mich
Air Corps
Korea
Japan
Okinawa
Eileen Henderson
Port Hueneme
Jean Pringle
Will Struthers
Ben Prochaska
Louis Dirks
Raymond Henderson
A. C. Johnson
Walter Grethen
Leonard Henderson
Clayton Jones
Esther
George Arnold
B. Kerns
Mable Arnold
Open Bible
Ladies Missionary Society
R. L. Henderson
Overcomers
Wilover First Presbyterian Church the Presbyterian Women’s Organ
Ization
Henry Webbink
Elizabeth van Alstine
Coleen Auten
Westminster Fellowship
Lincoln
Janet Pringle
Deanna Roush
Myrna Burgardt
Ronnie Jones
Dean Strong
Roger van Alstine
Dennis Goodchild
Trinity Larger
Trinity Larger Parish
the Methodist Church
Stanley F. Kenderdine
New York, N.Y
Ihan, i
Beck
Coles
Webo’s Drug Store
Fay J. Wax
Rolfe, Ia
Rolfe Local News
Merlin Rickless
Lowell Thorson
John Moore
Brian
Anna Peterson
Nebr
Miller Kline
Humboldt
Maxine Nielsen
Hilda Nielsen
Viggo
Fremond Nielsen
Guy Kerns
Johnnie Nielsen
Fred Froh
Lee Harmon
Cecil Hocking
Clarence Johnson
University Hospitals
District Court OF Iowa
Zenith
Rog
Roger Hewland
Bradburn Truck Lines
H.P
Chevrolet
Rolfe Auto CO
Rolfe, Iowa
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