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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1942
Page
6
The Plover sub-district Youth Fellowship met Monday with sixty-one registrants from Havelock Mallard Ruth Emmetsburg present. Lois Glasco read and Rev Ruth Alginay spoke as Carolyn An charged led. Lunch followed and singing by Miller and McKim noted. Next meeting set for March 9 at an unspecified location.
A digest of community happenings includes minor injuries from Fletcher Pringle’s fall at home, visits by(Hendrson) school board members, dinners hosted by local families, out of town trips by residents such as Charles Mehaffey and Charles Sharp, a birth recorded for Ed and wife, and various visits between Des Moines Fort Dodge and Sheldon area residents. The entries reflect everyday life and family events across several towns including Emmetsburg Pocahontas Fort Dodge and Rolfe with names like Mr. and Mrs. Boles Glasco and the Heathmans.
The report lists residents and guests from Rolfe Pocahontas Algona and nearby towns visiting homes of Foust Buck Firkins and Alva Buck. Attendees include Mrs Ward Van Alstine Mrs Meda Stowell Mr Bert Young Kenneth from the Army Air Corps and Maynard Firkins. The M Y B club votes for a single lunch item during wartime and a joint Masonic and Eastern Star dinner and officer installation is planned this Thursday.
Plover Presbyterian Church led by Rev. G. F. Butler Sunday schedule includes Sunday school at 10 15 a m and worship at 11 15 a m Visitors are welcome to commune and families may bring children for baptism during the service.
Plover Methodist Church invites parishioners to the regular Sunday service led by Pastor Robert A. Grigsby. Superintendent Harvey Minkler will present a three minute talk on the Aim of the Dedication Week as It Relates to the Church School. An executive committee luncheon of 25 cents will be served Thursday January 21 at one o clock to the public.
J C Hunter of Adel shows a 1775 Fairfax county Virginia deed recorded sale of 1806 acres from Ignatius Diggs William Diggs and John Addison to George Johnson. Price noted as five shillings per acre about $1.20. The document has been in Hunter family for over a century.
Kathleen O'Donnell and Mary Gehrt spend weekends at home, local clubs meet at Roy Ellsworth and Jack Henderson homes, Christmas gift exchanges and multiple visits noted. Fort Dodge and Fort Lewis ties appear with guests from Akron and Bode, family gatherings, showers, dinners, and a basketball game in Ottosen.
Bery Bonde underwent an appendicitis operation at the hospital Friday night. Corp. George Prewitt left Friday for Camp Carson after a ten day furlough with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Axel Iverson of Rolfe visited the D. H. Neilson home Sunday. Mrs. Maude Tilton returned Friday from a visit with her daughter and son in law Rex McCreary of Perry. The Rebekah lodge held its annual gift exchange Thursday night. Bradgate Methodist Church scheduled morning worship at 10 a.m.
Sunday church school at 11 am and the W S C S regular meeting at the church Wednesday afternoon January 20. Let us make an extra effort to be on time at church services.
Bremer county tops the state for the first ten months in per capita War Bond purchases with a $78.06 average. Scott county is second at $78.85 and Polk county third at $78.05, based on 1940 population figures. Bremer’s lead would widen with actual population figures.
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