Rolfe Promotion Club notes holiday spending and relief work
The report covers expenses of 330 for the Promotion Club as it aided Christmas in the town. Welfare baskets cost 201.02 with toys distributed to children, poultry and advertising by Publicity Committee totaling 654 with decorations and minor items. A committee for highway funding was appointed and will review via the Highway Commission. An accident near Jan 30 involved a high school car with a front brake failure, none seriously hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayrowman
Deli- Et Ak
Rolfe Promotion Club
Andy” Eiikenberry
Dignity and Dispatch
Gineles
Sexcelsior Society
Ayor Brinkman
J. O. Wangberg
Jones
Promotion Club
Aubrey Wilson
G. C. Harris
Moen
Curtis Jones
William Wine
Local January events and club meetings listed for Trinity Lutheran era
Readable notices show church events, club meetings, sales and gatherings around January and February. Entries include Trinity Lutheran meetings on January 16 to 22, farm sales in January, chapter luncheons, Homemaker and Missionary society activities, and community club gatherings across towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tesday
Trinity Lub“Mgresation
Thesday
Trinity “Tian Missionary Society
Alvin Zu
Notice to Subscribers Pay Early to Support The Arrow
The Arrow urges subscribers with due dates of January 1 to pay promptly to fund ongoing work. Subscriptions outside Rolfe county and trade territory will be discontinued if not paid in advance. A 5 cent statement fee is described as wasteful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe
Kent Elevated to Worshipful Master in Pilot Lodge East
John B. Kent, longtime charter member and sole surviving Rolfe resident, was installed as Worshipful Master of Pilot Lodge No. 467. The lodge, which marked its 50th anniversary last fall, elected him after years of service. other officers named include N Aubrey Wilson, LeRoy Nelson, J H Brinkman, C W Siefkin, N G Lokerse, Nels Nelson, G C Harris, G S Shriner, and C L Gunderson as Tyler. The Minnesota trip of the celebrants delayed the ceremonial events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pilot Lodge No. 467
Pilot Lodge
Kent
Rolfe
Minnesota
East
King Solomon
N. Aubrey Wilson
LeRoy Nelson
J. H. Brinkman
C. W. Siefkin
N. G. Lokerse
Nels Nelson
G. C. Harris
G. S. Shriner
Tyler
C. L. Gunderson
Stoner sale at Shannon Charlton farm January 20
H C Stoner will close out the Shannon Charlton farm 32 miles northeast of Rolfe on Monday January 20 at 1 PM. The sale includes seven head of horses, 12 cattle with milk cows, 10 hogs, farm machinery, seed oats, soybean hay, and chicken raising equipment. Also Shimon furniture sale January 18 at Rolfe, selling household goods and tools beginning 1:30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.C. Stoner
Shannon Charlton
Rolfe
Stoner
Shimon
Joe Shimon
Mike Shimon
Eastern Stars Install Officers in Masonic Hall
The Order of Eastern Star held an installation Friday night with about seventy attendees at the Masonic Hall. New officers included Mrs. J. C. Damberg as W. M and L. M. McDonald as W. P, with a banquet preceding the ceremony and corsages from Mrs. Glyde Brinkman. Also noted: illness of Robert Biederman and local sledding caution for Rolfe children on a hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Anna Vaughn
Bessie Oyee
Nellie Butler
Ila Hille
Glyde Brinkman
W. M
J. C. Damberg
W. P—L. M. McDonald
A. M
H. D. Brinkman
George Jeffries
G. G. Butler
Anne Wiley
J. H. Brinkman
Marshal
Gladys Larson
Ada
Helen Tiedeman
Ruth
C. J. Morrison
Esther
Clarence Jensen
Martha
Clara Hendrickson
Electa
PF. 2. Nelson
O. U. Cook
Geo. O. Hauck
Orvan Olerich
Sentinel
Glyde Brinkmin
KK. HL Field
Robert Biederman
Joe Biederman Sr
Rolfe
Ed Wilcox
Hobbies Exhibit Showcased At Night School Event
Miss McNeorganised a hobby show for night school to encourage interests among members. Visitors crowded the home economics lab as grade and high school students admired china dogs, a model aeroplane, Joan Hauck's doll house, and four large drawings by Franklyn Brinkman. Additional displays included stamp collections, movie scrapbooks, Arrowlet clipping scrapbook, Dionne quintuplets sketches, photographs by Russell Nelson, and various handwork pieces and mineral collections. The event proved ambitious and satisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucile Iverson
Rudy Phillips
Joan Hauck
Jimmy Hauck
Franklyn Brinkman
Leo Shelgren
Donald Grant
Jack Patterson
Marsh Graham
Naomi Stoufe
Grace Vining
Anita Miller
Dionne
Naomi Sroufe
Lu Mae White
Russell Nelson
Pearl Harmon
Nelva Dean Roberts
Jean Wiegman
la Mae White
John Wiegman
Jean Graham
Henrietta Hoefing
Miss Hendrickson
Anita Millar
Donald Nelson
Catherine McIntire
Beverly Grant
Norma DeWolf
Marian Heald
D M T Woman's Club Holds Tuesday Meeting
The Des Moines Township Woman's Club met at the D M T school Tuesday afternoon. A program with recitations songs a pantomime and a health drill was presented by members led by Mrs Jens Thompson Mrs J M Gehrt and Miss Lillyn Nelson. A lunch followed and the next meeting is set for February 11 at the same location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Miss Muffet
Iniaeinrningener
Rachael Leith
Shirley Fisher
Phyllis Seaman
Willie Winkie
Arnold Zeman
George Neeney
Mallard
Joe Weishaar
Chas. Lehnus
Miss Head
Virgil Hancher to Speak at Finkbine Memorial Dinner
Virgil Hancher a Chicago attorney and Iowa State alumnus will be principal speaker at the Finkbine memorial dinner for leading students to be held at the University January 25. The dinner established by the late W O Fink hine of Des Moines is sustained by a trust fund. Hancher, a Rhodes scholar, will deliver the address to alumni members as Rolfe claims him as one of their boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Hancher
Chicago
Iowa State University
Finkbine
W. O. Finkhine
Des Moines
Hancher
Rolfe
Pla Mor honors staff with dinner and band dance
Manager C J Moen and Mrs Moen hosted nearly 40 Pla Mor employees friends and Le Roy Miller's Twilight Serenaders for a seven o clock dinner in the Pla Mor Buffet Bar The banquet featured capon and other trimmings and ended with music in the Pla Mor Ballroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Moen
Pla- Mor
Hauck's January Sale Opens January 18 in Rolfe
George O Hauck & Co advertise their annual January sale in Rolfe with price cutting across all departments including shoes rubbers dry goods overcoats blankets ready to wear and groceries A white elephant bin offers special bargains The sale runs January 18 to February 1 Also noted A M Simonson sets February 21 for a farm closing out sale, one of the region's largest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George O. Hauck & Co
Rolfe
A. M. Simonson
Rolfe High School seniors stage light operetta Ask the Professor
Senior music students at Rolfe High School presented the operetta Ask the Professor in the auditorium to a full house. The production featured Mary Van Ives, Lucille Everson, Sally Webb, Cleo Hansen, seven seventh grade girls, and violin instructor Mrs. Carl Vohs with solos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe High School
Mary van Ives
Lucille Everson
Sally Webb
Robin
Cleo Hansen
Carl Vohs
West Bend
Inez Archer
Helen Tiedeman
Naylor Brinkman Nuptials in Omaha Home Ceremony
Miss Enid Naylor and Paul Brinkman wed on January 6 1936 in Omaha Nebraska at the bride’s sister’s home. Attendants guests and a wedding dinner followed with plans to reside in Minneapolis where Brinkman is a division supervisor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enid Naylor
Paul Brinkman
O. G. Lear
Omaha
Neb
Dorothy Belle Mngglish
Wm. McKibben
Miss Naylor
Cary A. Naylor Ji
Cimarron
Kansas
Mr. Brinkman J
H. D. Brinkman
Rolfe
Iowa
Cuba
Minneapolis
Minn
Dorothy Belle English
QO. (. Lear
Cleveland
Ohio
Drake Estate defendants freed in Chicago court verdict
Forty indicted in the Drake Estate mail fraud case saw 21 released as Federal Judge DP L Sullivan urged a not guilty verdict. Those freed included Ben Crummer of Gowrie H L Clum Emmet J Cook of Emmetsburg and B A Duthbert of Laurens with 19 others to be tried. The judge told the men to go home and sin no more warning that there is no pot of gold at the rainbow’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drake Estate
DP. L. Sullivan
Chicago
Ben Crummer
Gowrie
H. L. Clum
Mary Jane Hughes Dies After Illness
Mrs. Mary Jane Hughes mother of Leslie Hughes Harris and Margaret Hughes died January 13 after surgery for a diabetic condition near the knee at Lutheran Hospital Fort Dodge. She was about 74, the body brought to the Hughes home west of Rolfe for services conducted by Rev. P. C. Larsen, with burial in Munsun cemetery. A full obituary will follow next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jane Hughes
Leslie, Harris
Margaret Hughes
Fort Dodge
Hughes
Rolfe
Delegation in Ames Seeks Help for Rolfe Paving Project
A city delegation led by Mayor J. H W. Brinkman and councilors visited Ames to request Highway Commission support for paving Main Street and related streets in Rolfe. They aim to pave Primary No 41 from M and St L tracks to Pilot Creek and extend along Garfield Street to North Western depot and Broad Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Promotion Club
Ames
Highway Commission
Rolfe
Pilot Creek
Garfield Street
North Western
Broad Street
Bank Corners
J. H W. Brinkman
W. L. McIntire
Robert G. Hunter
Henry ©. Wiepnman
F. i. Grant
Randall Melson
L. R. Davidson
M. W. Webb
BL. Grant
Supreme Court
The
Whittemore
West Bend
Father Dobbberstein
Joe Wolke Dies at Ledyard in Bitters Cold Burial
Joe Wolke, a longtime lone figure in Ledyard, was buried in Harrison Cemetery Saturday in bitter cold after dying Friday at the L. J. Hanson home Eagle township of dropsy. Born in Marion Virginia he was believed to be 67 or 68. He lived in Sioux City and Rolfe with the Porter family before joining the Hansons the past three years. An effort is made to trace his east relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Wolfe
Harrison Cemetery
G. R. McDowell
Joe
L. J. Hanson
Eagle Township
Marion
Virginia
Middle West
Sioux City
W. C. Porter
Rolfe
Porters
L. J. Hansons
Hansons
Ledyard
English papers mirror American ads and temperance shifts
A Maidstone Kent paper shows hard liquor ads and wine recipes, contrasting with Iowa norms. The writer notes England’s temperance stance appears stricter and questions revenue loss from home papers when foreign ads arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Turley
Maidstone
County Kent
United States
Towa
Iowa
England
Post nuptial shower honors Mrs Chester Hanset near Plover
Mrs Chester Hanset was guest of honor at a post-nuptial shower in the W Lee MaceVer home northeast of Plover. About thirty guests attended despite illness and heavy snow. Miss Lucile Kilbourne and Evelyn Colee assisted, gifts and a four o clock repast followed the hour of visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Hanset
W. Lee MaceVer
Plover
John Thompe
Mars Jolliffe
Mars. Bay
Tite
TE. Leonard
Lucile Kilbourne
Evelyn Colee
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Marience
Thurs
T. Carroll
Ming
Zach
Atlday
Trinity Lutheran
Trinity Pubushing
Tday
Henry Stoner
Ntay
Bon Ton Bridge
Neday
LF. Y
Ning
Westay
Presbyterian Mis- WY Society
Dubhie
Pestay
Cdnesday
Epworth
Reb
ML. Simonson
John B. Kent
Eastern Stars Install
D.M.T. Woman's Club
Twin Lakes
Pocahontas
Albert City
Lake City
Rockwell City
Manson
Laurens
Lohrville
Shelpren
Ee Cornwell
Rudolfson
K. Rickard
Tickard
Smith
Kennedy
Tans Sanece Flatts
Smith Fene Petal Patterson
Bauman
Pat Atm Ach
Saden
Ape Ninawieteg
Bell
Sthirke
Phen
Waoaad
Shelgren
Enone
Rickard
Cata
Cornwell
Rickard Aka
Q Melsen
Sedge
Calliean
Tenus Mle
Rickard Melson
Lanus A
Streit
Maltzahn
Florton Ms
Sedlacek Af Eerie
Af - Ween Ndl Mk
Powers
Scherer
Johrville
K. Richard
McDowell
Haudes
Sedlacek
Reyman
Hauck
DRAKE
Joe Wolke
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