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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
3
In Havelock and Laurens various residents attend to matters, visit kin, and travel for work. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Johnson, Mrs. Silkebakken, Dr. Beatty, and families like the Masons and Bateses. The T. H. Mason sale drew buyers, and several locals plan moves or visits to Ames, Des Moines, and Rolfe.
Long list of citizens summoned for February 1 and January 25, 1921 grand jury duty including Stover, Shimon, Barthart, Snow, Halder, Huston, Hart, Soderburg, Murray, Harris, Thornberry, Shaw, Vetter, Hurley, Weinhold, Coffman, Johnson, Eisenhauer, Buffington, Peters, Monklen, McDonald, Harrold, Lehnus, Shelgren, White, and others. Brief political observations follow about fear of wives, jokes about country folks, peace in Ireland, and horse breeding and timber statistics from U S and Canada.
Mr and Mrs Chris Olsen hosted a New Year watch party with friends. Mrs J Burgseiker of Carroll visited at her daughter Mrs F I Caywood's home. Clarence Kinseth and family vacationed with Theo Benjamin. John Logan Jr plans to enroll at Capital City Commercial College in Des Moines. Floyd Henderson and Alice Henderson visited his sister in Des Moines over New Year. Harry Collie hosted a gathering for daughters friends from Cedar Rapids. The Somerset Club held a watch party at Mr and Mrs H P Schoonover. Dr T R Campbell of Rolfe visited Mrs Milan Sharp who is ill. I J Godden returned from Estherville business trip. Fred Bradburn of Humboldt dropped by. Mr and Mrs Leo Fuller and child left for Whittier California to help son Morris health. Sidney Lovrien and wife assume farm duties. Jarvis and Albert Hemerson were Fort Dodge visitors.
A snapshot of 1920s activity shows U S business firms lagging in cost systems adoption, Germany ahead with higher efficiency. Maine Auburn shoe factories return to full schedules after half-time. Saskatchewan farmers manage near forty million bushels of wheat. California builds a 2 million dollar terminal elevator in Oakland. Immigrant arrivals to New York exceed departures by nearly 49 thousand in October, with 198 thousand surplus for ten months. A Wrentham machinist Marine sergeant becomes heir to a Philippine island estate with pearl fisheries and cocoanut groves.
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