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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1930
Page
4
Plover and Laurens squads battled to tight scores with Plover taking both local games. Nearby teams and residents, including visits from Bradgate and Pocahontas, filled a busy week as county tournament play loomed.
Miss Merle Perkins and Conrad Majorowicz married by Rev. J H Walker on Monday February 1 in Sioux City. Attendants were Miss Vivain Pringle and Edward Lehnus. The couple head for a southern honeymoon then reside on the Des Moines township farm south of D M T school.
Mrs James Meredith died at her home near Evansville Wisconsin on Monday February 3 after a stroke and complications at age seventy three. Born Emma Withey in England February 28 1856 she married James Meredith May 2 1888 and lived on farms in Albany Wisconsin Plover Iowa and Ivansville Wisconsin before settling near Evansville. Funeral services were held February 5 at the Janesville Episcopal church with burial in Maple Hill cemetery Evansville.
Mrs J M Bush expresses gratitude to friends and relatives, East ern Star Aid Society and American Legion Auxiliary for fruits flowers prayers letters and cards during a five week hospital stay at Hampton Hospital. She thanks them for their support and asks for blessings from the good Lord.
The county and state sectional boys tournament will be held in Plover after last week’s decision. Music groups including the Boys and Girls Glee Clubs Mixed Chorus Orchestra and soloists are rehearsing for the county and state contests. Mable Young placed third and Archie Layton fourth in the county declamatory contest in Pocahontas January 29.
Nettie Campbell, long separated from her mother Mrs. Perry later Mrs. Shaddock Schultz, learned of her kin after a journey to Kilbourn and Chicago. The two women, once mother and child, had not met since the child was five, and their reunion followed by the mother’s death at seventy eight.
Plover Presbyterian Church schedule lists Sunday School and Bible Class at 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p.m. Evening Worship at 7:30 p.m. Morning sermon topic The Greatness of Great Men and evening topic What Is Salvation led by Mrs Velma Strong.
Prayer Methodist Church notes Pastor C J Mekkelson outline Morning Worship at 10:00 a m Junior League at 11:00 a m Epworth League 4:00 p m Evening Worship 6:30 p m Week day services include Prayer Meeting Thursday 7:30 p m sermon Lincoln's Faith Miss Ruth Walker leads Epworth League rally at Mallard next week Also real estate notice For Rent House in Plover March 1 C F Heathman Rolfe 46tf
Community updates report visits and social calls at area homes including the J. M. Bush residence and the Andrew home near Ware. The district records a third case of spinal meningitis with Harvey Sloan hospitalized in Rochester, Minn., and ten other male victims noted. Merely routine mentions include jury service for C. E. Kauffman, Rochester visits for treatment, and a progression of Grace Hilton’s illness with improvement.
I wish to thank the many fire for the many kindnesses shown in during my long illness. All helped make this period more endbrac ws seem shorter. Grace Hilton.
Des Moines Township Famey Union Local No. 973 presented the three act farce Done In Oil at Laurens school auditorium on Friday February 7. About 165 attended with many guests from Cummins Local No. 866. The cast and orchestra received praise and Ben C. Lehnus spoke on county unit plans for the year. Refreshments followed. the crowd felt the event a success and hoped for similar occasions. Coffee plantations in Puerto Rico threatened by a green scale insect newly found there.
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