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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1919
Page
4
Traditional pipe users and new pipe enthusiasts alike praise Prince Albert as a peak choice for smoke pleasure. The ad touts its non biting, non parch qualities and urges readers to buy now with an exclusive process cited.
Mrs. M. C. Burnell returns from Newton Iowa with husband visiting the latter's parents. J W Mangun and T E B Meredith go to Minnesota on business. Mangun back Tuesday. Geo Pirie Jr discharged from navy and home for good. A E Bush and A FE Bush visit Estherville. Heathmans ship and move to Scranton. Hilton heads to Des Moines. Miller couple move from Have lock. Sroufe family update after hospital operation. wife recovering. Parradee returns from LaPorte Ind tractor school. Rochester hospital update on J W Phillips. People's Mercantile stock capital nearly collected. manager sought. Henry Fitzgerald sick. Short course planning meeting held. future sessions under discussion. K P hall meeting next Saturday to decide winter course. S T Grove enlarging store for larger drug stock. Webb Grove store evolving into drug store. Hilton infant death due to erysipelas. Garlock families laid up with fly. Mrs Oscar Phillips ill with influenza. Geo Jeffries out sick with flu. New Years resolution humor about pipe recovered from snow.
A community sale at the M. E. church basement raised 125000 for church ladies. Rolfe high school teams played, with boys 23-8 at Rolfe gym and later results from West Bend games: boys 21-23 loss and girls 10-7 win. Local travel and visits include D A O Neill at Gilmore City, Dr. F H Gaffey in Humboldt, and Miss Lizzie Smith caring for Mrs Hans Porter. Residents speak of moves, teaching, and camp updates with several Sunday visits noted.
The Des Moines based State Traveling Library provides loans from three to six months with transportation paid. Individuals may borrow up to fifteen books while organizations can borrow fifty or more. Collections cover fiction, information, war stories, history, poetry, farming, home care, biography, travel, and science. Applications and blanks are available from the library. The piece ends noting optimism about the League of Nations progress and Allied advance.
Articles of Incorporation for The People’s Mercantile Company outline formation under Iowa law. It states the name, principal place in Plover Iowa, and describes business as purchasing holding selling renting real property and personal property, with management and general corporate powers.
The text outlines capital stock terms including paid in full, nonassessable shares, transfer rules, lien rights for debts, treasury stock, and voting by proxy. It sets articles on duration twenty five years, board of five directors, annual meetings in January, and officer structure with president vice president and secretary treasurer elected by the board for one year.
Article Eight outlines the first election of officers on the first Tuesday in May 19 and the board of directors will appoint powers. It lists C A Garlock H Fitzgerald Wm L Smith and C D Ferguson as exercisers. Article Nine limits indebtedness to two thirds of issued capital and states private property of holders remains exempt. Signed this 19th day of 1919 in Iowa.
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