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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1914
Page
1
W E Priebe urges readers to support Buy American while also buying in Rolfe to strengthen local commerce. He argues loyalty to home and town boosts the economy, with price not always the sole factor and import of community welfare.
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory logged 1530 seismic disturbances in 1930. At Pennsylvania State College the Polylith monument showcases every known Pennsylvania building stone variety.
A Iowa State College circular notes 1932 farm price declines and a 20 percent drop in US farm real estate taxes since 1929. It cites Turkestan alfalfa seed value, adjustments to 4 H dairy calf premiums, kitchen changes for farm women, and a total Iowa farm mortgage load exceeding a billion dollars with about 45 percent of farms mortgaged.
Local social life includes visits by Mr and Mrs Clarence Zeck and friends, quilting by ladies, and several trips to nearby towns. Basketball games feature Havelock and Mallard independents with Fort Dodge seniors. a foreclosure sale near Pocahontas concludes with a loan company taking the farm at value. Heavy January rainfall marked the weekend in the area.
Old-timers describe ponds of water covering fields in all directions on a recent Sunday morning while the fall season is judged at three to four inches. John Klein and son Fred with Sam Veazie visited neighbor Adrian Logan and family Saturday evening, as did Mrs. Lester Goodchild and her mother-in-law with J. W. Logan and family. Miss Charlotte Pirie attended a miscellaneous shower.
A Malt parish gathering is planned for Saturday afternoon in the church parlors to honor Orlan Hersom with local Methodist community involvement and a social program.
A trainload of tractors arrived in Saskatchewan for the Regina district. Farmers in the vicinity prepared to receive the shipment and assign the machinery to local fields.
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