Rolfe Consolidated School News Highlights Move Outs and Party
The Rolfe Consolidated School report notes two kindergarten girls moving away Marilyn Peterson to Fairmont Minnesota and Debra Heathman to Laurens. Students enjoyed a Valentine party with exchanged valentines and treats. Miss Fox and vocational homemaking students helped finish a play house by tying quilts sewing a table cloth napkins and curtains. Mothers and younger siblings visited the room during the week.
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Wearesory
Marilyn Peterson
Fairmont
Minn
Debra Heathman
Laurens
Cynthia Taylor
Henry Brinkman
Miss Fox
Valentine Party Delights Spread at Class Group Event
Attendees enjoyed a festive Valentine gathering with friends exchanging cards and sharing treats. The room brimmed with cheerful mood as everyone admired valentines before the distribution of sweets and small gifts.
School notes on fractions machines and class events
Students describe fraction concepts and unit study on simple machines. They plan a bulletin board display and list perfect spelling awardees and Valentine party helpers. Activities include geography lessons on Belgium Luxembourg Netherlands and a grain judging team placing ninth at Graettinger.
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Bulletin Board
Joan B
Joy
Ann
Robert
Garry
Wayne
Joann H
Joanne K
Judy L
Janis
Ronald M
George
Patricia
Henry
Susan C
Phyllis
Karen
Elaine
Mary
Kaye
Judy S
Barbara
Rita
Danny
Eugene Schmitt
Linda Leadley
Mary Lehman
Richard Farlow
Miss Corsair
Patty Behrendsen
Dianna Larson
Joe Boeckholt
Linda Robinson
Judy Otto
Junior Mortreth
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Joe B
LeRoy D
Richard F
Dallas I
Max P
John P
Danny S
Patricia B
Helen G
Gloria G
Dianna L
Mary L
Judy Q
Judy P
Karen S
Patricia Behrendsen
Mr. Kiburz
Graettinger
Ted Ranger
Marvin Dornath
Raymond
Rolfe FFA and Homemakers hold meetings and announce sub-district contests
Heald and Taylor led team wins with Heald topping one individual division and seventh overall. Seward placed fifth in crop and seed. Sub-district FFA contests set for March 26 amid new eligibility rules. Loren Tiernan works on scrapbook. Ives and Dornath handle secretary and treasurer books. Homemakers meet February 11 with film Dating Dos and Don ts and dating panel. Marilynn Eikenberry, reporter.
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Loren Tiernan
Joel Ives
Larry Dornath
Rolfe
The
Future Homemakers of America
Marilynn Eikenberry
Iowa Farmers Get 2 Million For Canning Crops
Town farmers received more than 2 million dollars for vegetables grown last year for canning and freezing. The payment reflects a 9.5 percent rise from 1955 and stems from about 167 million pounds sold to processors. Production rose 18 percent in 1956 with 26 280 acres planted to asparagus beans cabbage corn cucumbers peas and tomatoes.
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W. C. Schultz
Iowa
American Can Co
Schultz
Farm Bureau Young People Meet in Pocahontas
The Farm Bureau Young People gathered in Pocahontas on February 18 for a combined business and social meeting. They discussed forming a basketball team and instructed the chairman to contact other FBYP groups about March games. Reverend Robert Moss spoke on Meeting People and Making New Friends, followed by a skating party at the Pocahontas rink.
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Farm Bureau
Pocahontas
Robert Moss
Rockford Banker Retires After 52 Years of Service
H C Batty of Rockford ends a 52 year banking career at First State Bank retiring as cashier after 27 years in that role.
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H.C. Batty
Rockford
First State Bank
Local Club Activities Highlight Social Schedule
Recurring gatherings fill the week with meetings hosted by Mrs. Ernest Vaughn and Mrs. Caroline Olerich as groups such as the Tuesday Club 12-4-Fun Club and Presbyterian Sunday School workers share messages, slides, and potluck meals. Guests attend, prizes are awarded, and birthday celebrations accompany the events.
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Don Weishaar
Anne Weishaar
Delima Phillips
Rose Taylor
Presbyterian Sunday School
Arlo Ives
Florida
Harold Lawton
Boy Scouts
Canada
New Mexico
Ellwood Olerich
Reckards Marry at Sacred Heart Church Livermore
Mr and Mrs Reckard were married December 27 in Sacred Heart Church Livermore. They now live in Ames. A stork shower for Mrs Virgil Peterson was hosted at Floyd MacVey home with games and gifts and refreshments. Judy was helped by Shirley and Judeen Peterson. Hostesses were Mrs Lottie Peterson and her daughters.
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Art Kilbourn
Fritz Johnson
Mrs. Johnson
James Cruickshank
Mrs. Kilbourn
Roger Ives
Jeffrey Kent
Ives
Allen Ives
Plover
Wayne Lund
Charles Reckard
Ames
Mary Seger
Hardy
St. Margaret's Church
Mary Gretcen
Livermore
Mallard
Pocahontas
Rolfe
Virgil Seger
John Seger
Agnes Reckard
Everett Rickard
Bob Rummens
Gene Grethen
Bob Struthers
Duff Peterson
Gerald Lever
Reckard
Sacred Heart Catholic Chuch
Virgil Peterson
Floyd MacVey
Judy
Shirley Peterson
Judeen Peterson
Lottie Peterson
Township women chairmen set meeting on February 22
Farm Bureau building hosts township women’s chairmen for regular business with a special focus on schools. County chairman Mrs. Harold Larson notes school bills in the state legislature and announces preliminary work for Farm Bureau women’s scholarship winners. County winners to be named in March 9 papers. Additionally, a tractor incident near Burlington killed 29 year old Wayne Upton when a dragging tow-chain struck him. Alaska’s eastern point lies about 600 miles west of San Francisco.
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Farm Bureau
Harold Larson
Palmer
Wayne Upton
Burlington
Upton
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