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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1919
Page
2
A collection of sales and notices from Rolfe Iowa includes stock tanks and wind mill monitoring ads, several houses and farms for sale, livestock offerings, a Hamilton home for sale, and a dissolution notice for McIntire & Son. Also includes a World War I letter from Dwight Gibbons describing service locations and wounds.
For sale in Humboldt Iowa A J Goodell offers serviceable Aberdeen Angus bulls up to 1300 pounds cows with calf at foot and bred again to a strong bull plus heifers of all ages. Herd contains 70 head must reduce price to move within 80 days. Also pure Red R I Reds roosters listed by B G Behrendsen Gilmore phone 226.
Yard sale display lists 36 inch soft bleached muslin at 59 cents per yard and Fairfax unbleached at 26 cents per yard. Sheridan lil unbleached yard priced at 24 cents and a 10 pound sack of tea noted in the listing.
Missouri College of Agriculture reports 16 two year old steers fed 180 days produced an average gain of 82.2 pounds per head while consuming 8.16 tons of corn silage 750 pounds of alfalfa hay and 508 pounds of cottonseed meal per steer. No other corn fed, suggesting three steers fattened per acre on good corn instead of one.
Will Eikenberry brings a Ford sedan to Rolfe Auto Co for local trade. C J White advertises optical services with success on obstinate cases. Lincoln township reports a house fire destroying the Alberts home.
Rev Echlin announces Sunday services at Rolfe Presbyterian with morning worship at 10 30 and evening service at 7 30. A War Activities Card appeal seeks $60 for Armenian and Syrian relief plus general offerings to aid starving far eastern peoples. Bible school follows the morning service and a 12 30 p m roll call canvass is noted.
Rev A H Bryan notes bids to Feb 8 for sale of the brick school building west of the new wing in Rolfe Iowa. He suggests saving community value by organizing a hotel stock company to rebuild the structure into a hotel. The note mentions the building could be moved later or torn down and valued at 8000 to 10000 dollars. The church reports good attendance and upcoming Centenary remarks.
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