Rolfe Socials and Local Dramas Touch Town Life
Rolfe residents visit relatives and shops mingle with daily routines. Dr F A Johnson prepares to occupy the former Beam residence as home and office. Jack Johnson suffers a safe, brief electrical shock. A Legion Auxiliary meeting features flag checks and plans a Knoxville quilt, with multiple members assisting at events and a mock wedding providing amusement.
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C. E. Boyce
Earl Kerns
Ruth Dawson
Evelyn Ferden
Doris White
Gladys Wooster
Dallas Center
Dorothy Cleal
Helen Brinkman
Helen Thompson
Florence Peterson
Helen Kauffman
Frances Vaughn
Irene
Emmetsburg
C. W. Lighter
Minneapolis
American Legion Auxiliary
Owen Patterson
E. C. Hoard
A. M. DeVaul
L. A. Rogers
L. M. Graham
T. D. Jones
Rolfe
America
Lincoln
Washington
Knoxville
Harold Carlson
Marshalltown
A. V. Perigal
Earl Ferguson
Fonda
Elizabeth Herrold
A. A. Richmond
I. C. Hoard
Lewis Paulson
BE. F. Stallcup
Marjorie Ann Jones
Jesus Loves
Why Buy a Fords Milker
Hess & Son of Plover Iowa advertises dairy equipment for sale including silos washing machines gas engines separators hammer and roughage mills with phrases urging less upkeep and asking prices on milking gear and related machinery.
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Hess & Son
Plover
Record Attendance Sets Farm and Home Week Milestone at Ames
More than 8 300 people attended Iowa State College Farm and Home Week at Ames, the largest crowd since the event began in 1900 as the Short Course. By midweek 2 800 had registered for the Short Course, beating the 1929 record of 2 600, with hundreds more on beef and dairy cattle day.
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California
Iowa State College
Ames
Nain Lutheran Church Services Update
Nain Lutheran Church led by Pastor L H Kjoller announces Sunday School Bible Class morning worship and evening service on 1st and 3rd Sundays plus mid week prayer on Thursdays 8:00 p m all are invited. The text notes New York City's population has risen tenfold since 1850.
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New York City
Epworth League
Wwew
Luther League
Methodist Church Plans Week of Activities and Events
Rev W A Wilkinson leads worship classes and Epworth League with Supt M D Anderson as leader. Woman's Missionary Society meets Feb 18 at 2 30 pm. Junior Missionary Society to meet Feb 21 at 2 30 pm with social time and Bob and Betty Stamp Book dues. Mother and Daughter Banquet Feb 18 at 7 pm with ticket sellers listed. Visitors welcome.
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Washington
Louis Paulson
Epworth League
M. D. Anderson
Woman’s Missionary Society
Geo. F. Smith
Junior Missionary Society
Otis Cook
W. R. Rogers
E. S. Colebaugh
A. V. Gracher
George Lehnus
Presbyterian Church Notes Rev J P Lester Pastor
Sunday services listed with morning worship class 11:15 junior Endeavor 3:00 Christian Endeavor 6:30 evening worship 7:30. Sermon topic for next Sunday is Getting Having Using. Congregation invited to attend.
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Presbyterian Church Notes
J. P. Lester
D. D
Junior Endeavor
Christian Endeavor
Trinity Lutheran Church Services and Mission League Theme
Trinity Lutheran Church schedules morning worship at 10:00 a.m. and Luther League at 10:45 a.m. next Sunday only services, with Luther League hosting a session on “A Group of Early Home Missionaries” led by Melvin Thorson. Also notes record high penitentiary population at Fort Madison per Warden Halowell.
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Luther League
Melvin Thorson
Iowa Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Halowell
64 Year Old Farmer Attends Iowa State Short Course
Homer Vincent of Letts Iowa attends the Farm and Home Week short course at Iowa State College Ames his sixty four years old. He has a 273 acre farm with electricity modern buildings and full plumbing and keeps returning yearly. He once tried California but chose life on his Iowa farm and remains an optimistic believer in farming progress. A Mediterranean machine for gathering olives is mentioned in passing.
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Homer Vincent
Letts
Iowa State College
Ames
Vincent
California
Towa
Building plans in demand by Iowa farmers
Iowa farmers received about 1,400 farm building plans in the last year from Iowa State College extension specialist V S Peterson. The college department logged 1,219 inquiries in eighteen months, 453 of which sought plans, with poultry houses leading at 795 plans and movable hog houses next at 100.
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Iowa
V. S. Peterson
Iowa State College
Extension Service
Agricultural Engineering Department
Plans for Barns and Cribs in Hog Houses Described
Readable text outlines various farm structures including forty plans for type hog houses fifty seven plans for poultry barns and eighty six plans for corn cribs and cribs. Mentions rain systems septic tanks and hog feeder variations as popular features.
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Mesdames L. E. Garlock
S. Swanson
A. G. Heathman
Harry Gray
McGregor
Amy Ireland
Leonore Meisenbach
Des Moines
J. Meisenbach
Jack Mark
Cedar Falls
L. A. Hansen
Mark
Johnson
Graydon Thornton
Iowa City
A. R. Thornton
University Hospital
Denzil Johnson
Jack Johnson
Central States Electric Co
Ed Boles
W. H. Cassell
Arrow Office
David Sorenson
Will J. Sennett
Arrow, Rolfe
Jamesway
A. M. Simonson
T. P. Comer
E. W. Meredith
Wood
Pat Wood
N. A. Lind
A. P. White
the State Savings Bank
Nain Lutheran Church
L. H. Kjoller
Pinky
BY Terry Gilkison
Victor Leo
Charley Walker
Jamaica
Rexans
Mrs. Pinky
Tere Bilki Son
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. A. Wilkinson
Trinity Lutheran Church
J. O. Wangberg
Mediterranean Countries
Iowa Farmers
Bridge Lumber
Powhatan Township
Board of Sunery
Randall Melson
C. A. Lester
Snell
Fort Dodge
Firkins’ Garage
Rolfe, Iowa
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