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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1943
Page
2
A series of social gatherings honors James Anderson and Max Higgins as many neighbors attend oyster suppers and dinners at the Higgins, Lindsey, Hansen, and Shaw homes. Club meetings, birthday events, showers, and bridge games populate a busy week of community hospitality and civic activities.
Epworth League members held a party at the Methodist parsonage with refreshments served. The Past Matrens society plans to meet January 26 at Mrs. M. R. Soth’s home. Theo Ripperger is honored as he leaves for army duty after a January 19 farewell gathering at the Nicos home with a group of relatives and friends. Arnold N Enge from Plover Is graduated January 18 from Gunner's Mates school at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and is eligible for third class petty officer rank.
An accident near Storm Lake involved August Bartelle and his family from South Dakota after hitting ice on the road. The car skidded and left the roadway but no serious injuries occurred, though the interior lay smeared with red residue and speculation briefly swirled about casualties.
The note reports Marines at Jackson dealing with equipment shortages and a tough stance. It mentions hair shaving for Red Cross, steel wool, cement and bricks scarce, and looming supply constraints. Vehicles and fuel supply are stressed by weather and mining rail uncertainties.
About 35 to 40 pheasants roost nightly in an evergreen grove on the Don Bolton place near West Union. Each evening around roasting time a bird slips into the foliage and soon all the birds are nestled for the night.
An oxygen tent purchased last summer by the Elkader fire department was used for the first time with Jerry Johnson a seventeen month old boy suffering from pneumonia. The baby improved quickly and was removed from the tent and sent home.
Albert Budding, a miner near Pella, was injured when the mule he guided in a coal car ran away. His leg broke after the car pinned it between the car and the shaft wall.
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