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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1933
Page
5
A sequence of local gatherings and notices running February 16 to March 10. dances church meetings bridge and catechism classes, church services, sales and club meetings with locations in Rolfe and surrounding areas. notable items include Feb 23 home furnishings class, Feb 28 B O T U event, and Mar 10 Poland China sale.
A four year home furnishings course by Pocahontas County Farm Bureau and Iowa State Extension wraps up in the county during the week of February 2028. Training sessions run February 20 to 25 at Laurens library, Fonda school, Pocahonta Court House, and the Rolfe Carlson home, each an all day program starting at 10 a.m. Ladies invited to attend as leaders are recognized for 100 percent attendance across the program.
The declam contest at Rolfe medium was postponed due to cold weather and will likely be held early next month. Jace rte ey previously placed second in local history contests at Plover Poca and Rolfe. Mae Rented by Viola Boyd Brinkman and Marie White are listed in the Rolfe school notice.
The Rolfe Promotion Club presents recent release films at The Ritz Theatre each weekend. Featured titles include Divorce In the Family with Jackie Cooper, What Price Taxi, Smilin’ Thru with Norma Shearer, Red Dust with Clark Gable, Tess of the Storm Country starring Janet Gaynor, Prosperity with Marie Dressler, Flesh with Wallace Beery, Strange Interlude, Hot Pepper, and Grand Hotel. Audiences are urged to attend Saturdays and Sundays for low prices and entertainment.
John Pouelsen, long time buttermaker at Titonka Co-Operative Creamery, has resigned and leased the old Reveille building on Broad Street for five years. He plans to install modern creamery equipment and expects to begin butter production by about April 1. Further details will follow.
James Cuff, in his seventies, suffered facial burns and bruises when a frozen waterline to a storage tank caused steam pressure to blow up the kitchen range. The blast threw him across the room, knocked out cabinet doors, and damaged the kitchen, but he escaped permanent injury after extinguishing fires with help from his daughter, a plumber, and a doctor.
The Des Moines Township Woman's Club gathered at the D M T school last Thursday. Members enjoyed a program honoring Lincoln and Washington with talks on Lincoln incidents, The Perfect Tribute, Edgar Guest verse Washington, and a February Birthdays paper. Thirty members attended and were served lunch by the refreshment committee.
E B Thompson of Thompson Bros local implement dealers returns from Ft Dodge meeting where John Deere Corn Plan was unveiled by R B Case. Plan offers substantial allowances on John Deere equipment to secure a higher corn price than current market, aiding farmers amid low crop prices. Thompson Bros invite inquiries for details and terms of the plan.
The third and final tri school music festival was held in the Plover school auditorium Tuesday evening with participants from Rolfe Pocahontas and Plover. Soloists pianists vocalists and ensembles performed including Geraldine Jones Grace Thompson and Glen Beneke among others as the county contest was skipped for economy and series substituted to give public appearances before state contest later this year.
Mr and Mrs Guy Eccles and their family were burned out early Thursday morning last week and moved belongings to the Symes residence near The Ritz. An insurance adjuster settled losses Tuesday, enabling cleanup and repair of smoke and water damage. The piano, rugs and upstairs furniture suffered the worst harm, while a cedar chest with baby clothes survived. The family has found sanctuary with friends Mr and Mrs Jos McEwen and expects to move into a new home soon.
David Sorenson lists a closing out sale Tuesday February 21 starting at 1 00 pm on the former State Savings Bank farm north of Rolfe. Auction items include mares cattle hogs and farm machinery plus household goods. H F Olerich and Son to sell Poland China bred sows on Friday March 10.
The Rev. C Paul Carlson led a Sunday school class social and potluck at the Wiegman residence. Hosts Mr and Mrs H C Wiegman and assistants Mr and Mrs Earl Fisher organized fried chicken puzzles and Rev Carlson bear stories. Ruth Webb led a song fete.
The Junior High Home Declamatory Contest will be held Friday Feb 24 at 8 00 p m in the Rolfe high auditorium. Igor Peterson reads Convict No 9653 Helen Johnson Jean Val Jean Oration Mary Graves Bunker Hill Maxine Kelsey The American Indian dramatic readers Charlotte DeGroote Peter and the Angels Estelyn Roberts The Bed Next Door Maxine Landvig Beautiful Flavor Janice Wiegman The Bow Arm humorous class Mary Beth Brinkman Brothers in Love Mable Clemons The Family Group Charlene Sandvig Hannah Sprouts Naomi Sroufe Whos Afraid The Junior High Chorus and Small Vocal Group will provide music. The reading selections include old favorites and new offerings and a good program is assured. Admission is ten cents for children fifteen cents for high school students and twenty five cents for adults.
Rolfe hosts the county junior high basketball tournament at its gym Saturday February 26 with six schools invited Fonda Pocahontas Palmer D M T Laurens Have lock and Rolfe. Two games morning two afternoon and two at night will be played Casey Heathman of Plaver named as official. Season tickets cost thirty five cents for students fifty cents for adults. Admission per session fifteen to twenty five cents. Trophy to the winning team.
Rolfe Promotion Club, 31 members, grew to forty for a noon meeting at the Central States show room last Thursday. M. D. Anderson, chair for the day, appointed J. J. White as next meeting chair for Feb 23. Reports covered a movie proposition and town improvement ideas, with some referred to later. Dr. T. D. Jones and L. R. Davidson were assigned to assist hoboes for two weeks.
The Thompson Brothers and crew stored ice this Saturday with hopes of finishing Thursday. Ice thickness averaged thirteen inches this season, a modest but solid yield amid cold, windy weather.
Rolfe High basketball opens Twin Lakes Conference action next Saturday in Pocahontas facing Pocahontas with Lohrville Manson Rockwell City Lake City and Rolfe. Early games include Rolfe vs Pocahontas at 9 30 am with key matchups to follow and a 9 15 pm final.
The Des Moines Township Farm Bureau Unit will stage The Lost Elevator a one act comedy at the D M T school Monday evening Feb 20 The cast includes Manley Johnson Russell Johnson James Jensen Louise Vaughn Virgil Vaughn Roy Boles Laura Jensen Jennie Johnson and Ethel Howland Directed by Mrs Arthur Vaughn the evening will also feature an address by Mrs Ellsworth Richardson noted for her farm service leadership Musical numbers will open and between segments Sponsor Mrs Clarence Jensen praises the program set to include a notable speaker on agriculture issues
Circle No 2 of the Methodist Ladies Aid Society hosts a Washington Birthday Party in Mrs Marvin Burroughs Kens aton home on February 22 with open invitation to men and women. Prizes for best costume. Program includes songs America and America the Beautiful a piano duet and a prayer.
Gilmore City and Manson teams will meet Rolfe in a doubleheader at Rolfe gym Tuesday evening next week February 28. The first and second strings of Gilmore City face the R. H. S. aggregations in what promises to be a real battle on the local hardwood court.
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