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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1929
Page
8
Community notices from Rolfe and Pocahontas report a Methodist schedule with worship services, a Bible study, and a youth league. Local news covers visitors, car purchases, high school sports, a funeral, a skating accident, and social events including a Rebekah lodge reception and planned dances for Odd Fellows and Rebekahs.
Henrietta Kauffman returns to school after illness. Second Grade performs Snow White and Rose Red. Third to Sixth grades make valentines. Valentine box drawn. Sophomores win geometry versus algebra, party at gym Feb 2. Freshmen lose, seniors plan class play. Edgar and Henry Holcomb join Freshmen. Naomi Spencer to Sophomore. Algebra race goals reach 3,000 miles. Packard versus Cadillac. Manual Training builds book cases and racks. sharpening tools. Third Graders sing for Woman's Club program. D M T Ottosen boys beat on home floor 21 12 amid rough play. Ottosen fast team. D M T girls lose 12 9 to Ottosen. Pocahontas county first and second teams defeat D M T squads 11 3 and 19 11.
A list of upcoming Home Management and Mothers Welfare meetings, Farm Bureau sessions, and the Henry A. Wallace talk at Pocahontas Court House. Also includes brief jokes about manners, skin ailments, folding cars, parking, and basketball’s impact on feet and hearts.
R H S Arrowlet notes progress in eighth grade arithmetic with bonds stocks and graphs. The Speech Club banquet on Feb 7 featured toast themes Treasure Island Two Years Before the Mast and The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Glee Club production Cherry Blossom is set for Feb 26 with Nanna Lea Smith Kokomo and John Henry Smith in the cast.
A jumble of names Lorraine Morrison Henry Foster Jones Rueben Wangberg Jessica Vanderpool Catherine Nacke ee Ej Melvin Thompson appears alongside campus choruses the Geisha Girls and Americans Boys Glee Club. The text wryly notes sayings about value and miracles and recalls country friends and a home with sausage and spare ribs as a quirky period snapshot.
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