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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
4
Alex McEwen visited Gilmore City while local groups plan meet nights this week. The M Y B Club and Willing Workers set gatherings with noted hosts. Several residents traveled to Fort Dodge Rochester and other towns for service, visits, and holidays.
The Plover Red Cross chapter will meet each Wednesday at the school house with a nine o'clock work room open for all day work. Members are urged to spend the day to maximize progress and aid troops. A knitting needle shortage is noted and donations are requested. The drive yielded 525 members at Christmas, with some unpaid names awaiting payment.
The Short Course Association held a meeting of members and re elected the current officers for the coming year. The Short Course is scheduled for February 14 15 and 16 in the upcoming session.
The wedding of Miss Gladys Buchacker to Mr. William Froh occurred in Fort Dodge last Thursday. Miss Buchacker has lived in Plover with her grandmother Mrs. Thompson. Mr. Froh, a young farmer from near Havelock, begins married life. A county agent movement for Pocahontas county is being started through a War Emergency Bureau with a $5 annual membership. Applications are at People's Savings Bank.
Church bulletin summarizes schedules for Plover M E and Riverside churches with Bible School and worship times. Mentioned are a quarter-year pledge due, upcoming meetings, officer elections, and a Guatemala relief note about Percy Hess of Iowa City, son of Lincoln Hess, connected to Grace & Co. and Guatemala.
Miss Florence Knittel a county courthouse stenographer in Sioux City Iowa received a mystery Christmas present from a friend in the Philippine islands. The small box opens only by touching a secret spring in a peculiar way and the sender has not revealed the combination so the box remains unopened drawing much attention.
After a parade from Hotel Muscatine hundreds of businessmen gathered at the German Lutheran School and forced the Reverend to raise a flag amid tense crowd control and local protest.
Haefner was ordered to pledge support by a 24 hour deadline. He was required to subscribe to the Red Cross and similar funds as a condition of continuing or completing a stated obligation. The directive reflects wartime fundraising expectations and civic duty cues.
The city executive department orders pool halls to close at 9 30 each night and 10 on Saturdays to conserve fuel and light. Cherokee opera house manager A G Ferrin announces the season is closed for the same reason. Sioux City to vote on the proposed commission plan soon.
A fragmentary line shows a prominent local adherent pushing for devotion within a small city group. The note hints at internal focus and a call for unity among supporters.
A notice directs all concerned to appear at the Pocahontas Iowa courthouse on February 5 1918 at 2 PM to attend probate of Martha Ryen deceased. The clerk W E Bollard signs and seals the district court at Pocahontas Iowa January 7 1918.
A catalog of discounted merchandise across floors including suits, coats, dresses, boots, shoes, undergarments, linens, and accessories. Items feature reduced prices such as heavy weight cotton studs, rugs, undermuslins, gowns, skirts, jackets, and bedspreads with marked sale values and floor locations.
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