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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1971
Page
6
Rolfe Public Library announces the January 1 1971 retirement of Librarian Mrs Flossie DeVaul after eight years of service. Mrs Deane Gunderson is appointed to succeed her with Mrs Joe Perkins as assistant librarian.
Mrs Thos Diggs of Rolfe was chosen president of the Poca hontas County Historical Society at the January 18 meeting in Pocahontas Court House. Other officers include Lester Applegate vice president Mrs William A Peterson secretary and Mrs Roy Thompson treasurer. The program featured a slide show on the first library in Iowa and a talk on Sunken Grove Cedar Two with notes on Sac Fox and Sioux Indian use.
Red Cross will offer a First Aid course for town officials instructed by Roger Ewing. The first meeting is Tuesday January 26 at 7 30 p.m. in Town Hall. Ten week class targets firemen ambulance drivers and attendants. Public course possible later. contact the instructor for textbooks and materials.
Rolfe Community School athletic director Al Gilbertson announced two boys basketball games, with Arnolds Park visiting on Tuesday February 16. The Jr Varsity game is set for 6:30 PM.
On Tuesday January 20 buses run one hour late with no school until 9 20 to allow teachers at Rolfe School to attend an In Service Training in the library from 7 45 to 9 15. The first monthly meeting will plan curriculum and address mutual concerns. Mr. Robert Liston will present the Town Tests results for grades 9 12.
Ruth L. Rickard appears on the Deans List for the fall quarter at Iowa State University as a freshman zoology major. Also named to the Dean's List are Ron J. Eberle from Rolfe in Forestry and Charles W. Lipp from Rolfe in Chemical Engineering.
The Adult Farmers Class meets at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday January 27 in the Vee A g room at the school. The topic is Minimum Tillage.
Des Moines students from Town Methodist School of Nursing will receive caps at the 8 15 p m Friday ceremony in First Methodist Church. Janus Ferguson, daughter of Dale and Kolfe residents, is among 95 freshmen. class is largest to enroll. A seniors meeting to form a club is set for Friday at 2 00 p m in Rolfe Library basement with guest Millen from Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc. The Rolfe Chamber will lend the former Dr Loxterkamp building as a meeting space if the club forms.
Double services for Harry Luft 61 of Rolfe and his granddaughter Leonard Luft one day old were held Monday at St. Margaret's Catholic Church. The Rev. Jerome Coyle officiated the Mass. Harry Luft died Friday at Palo Alto County Hospital, Emmetsburg after a short illness. Burial was in St. John's Cemetery, Gilmore City. Leonard Luft was born January 14 at Webster City and died January 15. He is survived by his parents, a brother Jeffrey and his grandmother Mrs. Harry Luft of Rolfe.
Miss Amy Turley was appointed by the local School Board to serve as treasurer of the Rolfe Community School District, filling the unexpired term of the late Mrs. Robert Wiegert. Turley works in the Iowa Electric Light and Power Company office and also serves as town treasurer.
Joe Reigelsberger a Rolfe area farmer is nominated as a candidate for a director seat on the Farmers Grain Dealers Assn board. F G D A is a regional grain marketing cooperative with headquarters in Des Moines and operations including Avon Grain Terminal and barge elevators at McGregor Muscatine and Meekers Landing. The group owns the North Iowa Soybean Processing Plant in Mason City and participates in Farmers Export Company in New Orleans. The 43 local cooperatives in the 5th district will elect a director for a three year term at the Des Moines convention January 25 and 26. Reigelsberger has served on his local cooperative board for four years.
Albert City-Truesdale teams defeated the Rams and Rammettes in a Friday Twin Lakes Conference doubleheader. Albert City improved to 9-0 in league play while Ram teams slide to 3-6 and 7-2 respectively. High scorer Robert Johnson led AC with 17 as the Rams and Rammettes struggled from the field.
Pocahontas hosts a workshop on farmstead windbreaks and wildlife plantings. January 27 at 2:00 p.m. in the Soil Conservation District Office. A. E. Grafton, Extension Forester from Ames, will discuss tree and shrub types and plant patterns. All interested residents invited.
Lettie M Proctor 77 a former Rolfe resident died Tuesday at Blue Earth Minnesota hospital Funeral services Friday at 10 at Salem Lutheran Pilot Grove then at 2 30 Powers Funeral Home Rolfe burial Clinton Garfield Cemetery Survived by four children Ellwood Ferguson Arcadia Allen Ferguson Granada Mrs Ken Steuer Guc keen Arlo Ferguson Mulvane 12 grandchildren one great grandchild a brother Ernest Johnson Emmetsburg and three sisters Edith Pike Rolfe Olive Barth Havelock Elnora Hendricks Storm Lake
The Grand Jury Panel for 1971 named by Paul J. Poduska Clerk of District Court will report at 10 00 a m Monday February 8 for its first meeting presiding judge Hon Richard W Cooper Chief Judge of the 14th Judicial District Storm Lake Eldon J Anderson Pocahontas Russell Boore Gilmore City Mrs William Brinkman Rolfe Lois Freeburg Pocahontas Helen L Jolliffe Laurens Mark L Kelly Fonda Edward Kirschbaum Laurens Dennis G Kruse Palmer Francis Lynch Varina Mrs Myron Nelson Pomeroy Ray Tjaden Manson Edwin Wirtz Mallard.
The First Presbyterian Church of Rolfe held its annual Congregation and corporation meeting on Monday evening January 11. Elders and trustees were elected and other officers named. Mrs. E. P. Brinkman and Roger Gardewine elected as elders. Mrs. Wm. Fisher re elected for a second term. Dr. D. W. Duitscher and Virgil Shelgren re elected as trustees. Miss Clara Dawson and Deane Gunderson named to the stewardship committee. Mrs. Bonnie Wolfe reappointed secretary treasurer.
Berniece Hiatt Pocahontas County treasurer urges residents to mail in 1971 motor vehicle and trailer license fees by Friday January 29 to avoid a monthly five percent penalty and a minimum one dollar. Storing vehicles before February 1 allows later renewal to avoid the penalty.
Mrs Gary Beckmann and her husband among more than 500 people served pancakes at the Lions Club Pancake Supper in the Rolfe School lunchroom on Saturday evening. Lions flipped over 1 000 cakes with helpers William Hutchinson and Spike Robinson aiding in the setup and serving duties.
Lions members worked unseen to feed over 500 attendees with kitchen duties. KP duties were carried out by Helmer Kaiser Gay Stover Lawrence Henderson Don Behrendsen and Kermist Shimon the automatic dryer.
Glen Neugent persuades Gene Hughes to take a final pancake as he tours the lunchroom adding portions. Hughes seems content with his two cakes and sausages indicating the meal is ample for him.
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