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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1938
Page
2
John Severson is having hardwood floors laid in his home a block west of the theatre. Mr and Mrs D E Young were Sunday visitors at the Chris Olson home at Rembrandt. Mr and Mrs Jimmy Moore are back home and he has returned to work after quarantine at the Wesley Lehnus home.
Des Moines visitors include Nerna Peterson and Gene Ryen taking Mrs Howland and Donald to Des Moines for the day. Laurens resident Jack Hurley visited his mother Mrs G A Everson. Local gatherings featured a Washington’s Birthday dinner at Plover church and a Methodist Sunday school pot luck with a bridge event.
Funeral for Alfred Johnson held at Lutheran church near Laurens after he died Tuesday morning from double pneumonia. He lived his life farming around Havelock and Laurens.
Mrs. B. A. Kerns recalls C. C. McIntyre former Gallipolis Union School classmate and longtime columnist. She remembers his Brookfield era stories and a setup with his grandmother and a carriage drawn by Charley the black horse. The tribute notes ties to Judge Wayne Kerns by marriage.
A note of gratitude expresses thanks for flowers cards and letters received during a hospital stay from Mrs. Frank Shimon Sr.
The third grade built a Dutch scene sand table and crafted Dutch shoes of soap. Fourth grade plans radio programs after Norway unit and aims to broadcast to other grades. Fifth grade poets compose Valentines Day verses and spelling winners prepare for junior high. Junior high resumes back work and a Rolfe basketball pep meeting features student questions and a playful wedding skit.
Two Rolfe men, T L McVey and A G Pavik, named among jurors for the March term in Emmetsburg. Judge George Heald of Spencer to preside. Case: State vs Ray Hoskins, Rodman banker accused of embezzling 533,300 in 1926. Hoskins free on 5,000 bond after Salem, Oregon arrest in December. clemency petition circulating in West Bend and Rodman. Palo Alto County officials expect a guilty plea.
A large Morningside banquet is set for tonight at 6 30 at the Pocahontas Methodist church. The event features President and Mrs Roadman, Professor Leo Kucinski, Miss Dimmitt, Dean Kirkpatrick, music students, and college staff. Tickets are available from Mary Beth Brinkman, Willard Klein, or Rev C W Tompkins.
The posture school for 4-H leaders and girls in Spencer on April 1 will be limited to one county committee member, one leader or assistant leader, one girl from each club, and the women's project chair or substitute. The session runs 9:30 to 3:30 amid state health concerns highlighting posture training by Ella Gardner of Washington DC. Iowa workers covered by unemployment insurance earned about $1,000 to $1,100 in 1987, up notably from 1936.
Arrow Files notes the Rolfangers capture the inaugural Twin Lakes Athletic Conference tournament in Pocahontas. Other items include Warren Ives hitchhiking home from Storm Lake, a golden wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. George Lighter, and a Rolfe school election set for March 13 with three board members to be chosen.
February 28 1918 reports show Mr and Mrs M P Hancher moving to new farm home northwest of town and H L Cornell returns from Texas. B F Stallcup moves back to a farm west of Gilmore City with son Emmet joining before military service. A C Hackley hosts St Margaret's choir. Lettie Campbell begins teaching at Dodd school. Clarence E Boyce and Bessie Irene Moore wed in Rolfe. Mrs William Pollock pioneer of the area dies in Fort Dodge. Harold Bruce hires on at S C railway in Fort Dodge. C B Bowen travels to Des Moines for Iowa Egg and Poultry Dealers meeting. a February snowstorm brings first real flurry. Lottie Thornton arrives from Cleveland to care for her ill mother.
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