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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1941
Page
2
Friends and neighbors hosted a farewell party at the DeWalls home last Wednesday evening. The event featured dancing and lunch after the festivities. Mrs Louis Dirks gave the couple an electric lamp as a memento from attendees.
The Methodist Church led by Pastor E. J. Plummer hosts Sunday school at 10 a m and morning worship at 11 a m Epworth League meets at 6 30 p m The day of prayer unites Rolfe churches Friday February 28 with a 2 80 p m service at the Methodist church The Woman's Society of Christian Service meets Wednesday February 26 Circle 2 serves meals
Pastor W F Schneck leads Sunday school at 9 a m and morning worship at 11 00. Choir practice Sunday at 2 30. Union Lenten services begin Feb 26 at 7 30 with Rev McDonald of West Bend to speak March 5 and Rev Need ing from West Bend at the Methodist church. Excelsior society meets Feb 26 at 2 30 to end the new member contest and hold annual business meeting and officer elections.
The Nain Lutheran Church begins Lent with a season of prayer and meditation. Weekly Lent midweek meetings will be held jointly with Trinity Church in Rolfe starting next Wednesday Feb 26 at the Nain church. Sunday services at 11:00 with 10:15 Sunday school and Bible class. Confirmation class Saturday at 1:30.
Pastor J. O. Wangberg leads regular morning worship with junior choir and Luther League in the evening. Catechism class Saturday at 1 30 p m. Junior choir at 3 00 p m. Ladies Aid food sale Saturday at Wold Hardware from 1 00 p m. Joint Lent services start Wednesday Feb 26 at Nain church evenings.
Thom O Lowery expresses gratitude to friends for cards flowers hospital visits and home calls after returning home from a hospital stay.
A simplified distilling apparatus at the University of Iowa achieves blood alcohol measurements with a maximum 2 percent error. Dr. R B Gibson directs the pathological chemistry lab as the device allows quicker distillation and reduces alcohol loss. legislators may advance the test by legalizing its use as evidence of intoxication.
Alumni of the University of Iowa in many states will observe the 94th birthday with downtown and distant dinner rallies. A WSUI radio program on February 25 at 9 p m will carry the first message from President Virgil M Hancher to scattered alumni and officials have sent university development facts to leaders for relay at meetings.
The Agricultural Marketing Service warns farmers that winter rape seed supplies are tight due to reduced imports. E J Schmuecker advises buying only seed labeled Dwarf Essex for forage use, as bird seed and oil varieties are unsuitable and not subject to labeling.
Preliminary figures from the Iowa Department of Health show 6,112 heart disease deaths in the first ten months of 1940 versus 5,848 in the same period of 1939. Officials cite aging population and call for stronger preventive measures against childhood infections and rheumatic conditions as key factors.
Watson Beam and his sister Mrs Myrtle Anderson of Boston plan a brief tour starting in Biloxi Mississippi they will spend a day at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans a day in Natchez Mississippi and visit the Vicksburg battlefield They will return to Rolfe around March 1 with Mrs Anderson driving back to Boston afterward
County Agent FE J Schmuecker reports low chinch bug winter mortality in Pocahontas county and urges separating corn and small grain fields. Creosote barriers can be minimized by keeping borders small, with winter kill rates under 20 percent so far. Iowa entomologists warn of possible outbreak and estimate creosote needs for statewide control.
A poll of 268 Morningside College students shows 175 support war if any foreign nation seizes our outlying territories, 75 oppose, with 18 undecided. Nine months earlier 187 favored war only if the continental U S is attacked, 80 opposed. Only 15 support entering the European conflict to stop Hitler. most oppose. A majority favor war to defend Latin American nations from aggression.
Garfield Go Getters 4 H club met February 8 at Mary Margaret Brinkman home. Mary Helen Murphy demonstrated interior decor color harmony and rug dyeing with Miss Genevieve Colgan county home agent assisting. Beverly and Phyllis DeWolf led picture study Mexican Child and Water Carrier. Mary Margaret Brinkman reviewed La Paloma music. Beryl White and Beverly DeWolf taught Spanish Bolero folk dance. Mrs Trehbbens spoke on dyeing materials. Mrs August Brinkman became club leader with Arlo Ives as assistant. eleven girls answered roll call and planned to meet March at Mary Isabel Cham erg s home.
The William Schonberger family and their children Donald Betty and Aloma will relocate March 1 to a farm near Balaton Minnesota. In the weeks leading to their departure they received many courtesy calls and hospitality from neighbors and friends including gatherings hosted by Geo Schonberger jr Roy Schonberger John Rickless Ernest Cox and others. Local friends wish them success in the new location.
The Pocahontas County Safety Council announces an adult class on Line and Color in Personalized Dress for Wednesday evening February 26. Topics include appropriate dress for occasions, line and style for various figures, color matching to skin hair and eyes, and a brief review of fashion history by Mrs. Fred Nelson.
Pocahontas county news notes the American Legion posts willed at Fonda on February 27. County adjutant urges all veterans to attend and participate in the meeting and events.
The Havelock high School girls basketball team won the Bedidings tournament at Gillett Grove by defeating Gillett Grove 53 to 49. They advanced by beating Garfield Webb 52 18 and Albert City 57 43. They will meet Akron in the district first round at Odebolt February 26 27 98 and March 1. Both Havelock and Mallard squads will face Mallard this Saturday in Havelock.
Dorothy Lokerse daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Lokerse of Rolfe wed Thomas Mellvain of Clear Lake in a Kansas City ceremony held Saturday February 15. Mellvain is a Minnesota University graduate and steel contractor. They will reside in Clear Lake after March 1.
The notice promotes a tile finish wall board to spruce up kitchens and bathrooms this fall, highlighting easy cleaning. It mentions a curious anecdote about a couple naming their baby Weatherstripping, adding local humor to the item.
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