Garfield Town News Upcoming Local Activities and Meetings
Community calendar lists numerous club meetings, socials, auctions, and farm events across Garfield Town from January to February. Highlights include the American Home Life Club luncheon, Odd Fellows card party, Legion and farm crop talks, bridge and ladies’ aid gatherings, farm sales, and Youth/Men’s activities.
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Robert Id
Iyersday
Trinity Luth
Ladies’ Aid Society
Myome
J. O. Wangberg
Piete Bridge “Club
Wm. Obrecht
Onda
Edgar Cornell
Legume
M. A. Hauser
H. F. Olerich
Outhwest
Rolfe
Odd Fellows Bl
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Blc
A. L. D. Giabinett
A. R
Ordes Buys New Plane and Seeks Southland Flight
Cordes, active on Garfield and nearby farms, recently purchased a Curtiss Robin from Rockwell City and plans a southbound flight with his brother Gilbert. The dual-control monoplane carries two and the pilot, aiming for seven hours aloft on a 50 gallon tank. This echoes a family start toward the south begun by J. A. Cordes seven decades ago. Spectators in Havelock, Rolfe, and Gilmore gathered to wish them luck on the venture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CH. Cordes
Garfield
N Townships
Eno
Rockwell City
Mr. Cordes
Cordes
Gilbert
Southland
Ead
Des Moines
J. A. Cordes
OVS
Vd Godspeed
Two lively high school basketball games Monday night
Two spirited games featured Bradgate and Havelock girls with Havelock overcoming Bradgate 19 to 15. Rolfe beat Plover 27 to 16 as alumni teams played to lively crowd with close guarding and fast play.
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Bradgate
Havelock High
Havelock
Plover
Rolfe
Howard Strong
Prentice Shaw
Morningside College
Harvey Hoskins
Robbie Calligan
Jack Patterson
Kenneth Hughes
Pat Hurley
Leo Rude
Valentine Hauck
Ware
Winter
Thorson
P T A Holds Notable Meeting at Local School
The Parent Teacher Association gathered in the school auditorium Monday evening to hear Des Moines educator Miss Clara Wallace discuss normal training work. Pocahontas county schools Rolfe and Fonda host the state program as the junior high Girls Glee club performed and Miss Harriett Damborg played piano.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Clara Wallace
Des Moines
Wallace
Rolfe
Fonda
Pocahontas County
Harriett Damborg
Garfield Farm Bureau bids warm farewell to Cornells
Garfield Township Farm Bureau hosts a farewell for Mr. and Mrs. Cornells at their home. A noon gathering of about fifty members shared a prepared song, a bountiful meal, and testimonials recalling first meetings dating back to 1898. A reading lamp was presented as thanks for years of service. The couple expressed gratitude and soft commitments to their new community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield Township Farm Bureau
Edgar Cornell
Cornell
H. F. Olerich
J. C. Truelsen
Guy White
Martin Christensen
Randall Melson
Garfield Township
Farm Union Holds Annual Meeting at County Hub
The Farmers Union of Pocahontas county met at Pocahontas on Thursday January 2 with decent local turnout despite bad roads. Congressman Dickinson spoke in the afternoon, a business session followed, and B C Lehnus was elected president to succeed his brother O E Lehnus.
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Farm Union
County Hub
Farmers’ Union of
Pocahontas County
Pocahontas
Dickinson
B. C. Lehnus
O. E. Lehnus
W. A. Patrick
Pocahontas Auto Co
Butler Reelected President Heads Rolfe Golf Club
The Rolfe Golf Association met at G G Butler's home to elect officers for the new season. Officers include President G G Butler Vice President Charles E Watts Treasurer Geo C Hauck Secretary W P Wheeler with committee heads led by T D Jones Grounds head may form a grounds beautification committee. The meeting closed with a Hearts card session and a luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe Golf Association
G. G. Butler
W. P. Wheeler
Chas. E. Watts
Geo. C. Hauck
T. D. Jones
J. B. Kent
Greens
Marion Bruce
Carl J. White
C. W. Siefkin
Butler
Dr. Siefkin
Seifkin
Echoes From the Vic Victory Day Program
Mrs. F L MacVey summarizes Rev W A Wilkinson on prohibition and its economic gains. He cites higher middle class living standards, increased home ownership, rising appliance and radio adoption, and stronger national output from 1919 to 1928. Supportive quotes from Hoover Ford Lloyd George and others underscore industrial growth and enforcement.
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F. L. MacVey
W. A. Wilkinson
U. S
United States
Herbert Hoover
America
Europe
Great Britain
Sir Wm. McKenzie
Charles Edward Russell
Lloyd George
Henry Ford
American Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
WASH
American Insurance Union
Change of Style in Newspaper Caps Practices
A droll note from The Linotyper explains efforts to standardize capitalization in the printing process. The Boss and Linotyper request readers bear with the affliction of altered capitals as the sheet moves toward metropolitan daily style.
Farm sales scheduled for February 5 and 6
Thos Shaveland retires and will sell livestock including twenty four head on February 5 two miles south of Mallard on Primary No 17. A large sale of Charlton Bros. follows February 6 on the old home farm near Rolfe with thirty four horses and mules, Holsteins, an imported Belgian stallion, and extensive farm machinery plus hay fodder and poultry.
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Shaveland
Mallard
Charlton Bros
Old Home
Rolfe
Charlton
Rolfe Belgian Colt Club
Charlton- Kilburn
Cheerful Mound Ladies Aid Society Meets Postponed Meeting
The Cheerful Mound Ladies' Aid Society held a meeting on Tuesday January 21 at Mrs Azro Shaws home after a weather postponement from January 16. Mrs Jennings led the business session with many members attending and visitors present including Mrs Moore Mrs Elmer Hertz Miss Kinkade Miss Moore and Misses Clara and Mabel Hertz. A covered dish luncheon followed. The next gathering will be at Mrs F A Kilbourne home on Thursday January 30 with lunch served by the hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheerful Mound Ladies’ Aid Society
Azro Shaw
Jennings
Moore
Elmer Hertz
Kinkade
Miss Moore
Clara
Mabel Hertz
Reorganization Meeting of Rolfe Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The Rolfe WCTU met at Mrs. W. P. Wheeler's home on January 27 to reorganize and plan for the year. Officers were elected and monthly meetings set for the fourth Friday, with the next gathering on February 28 at Mrs. C. L. Gunderson's home. Mrs. Libbie E MacVey is secretary.
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W. C. LU
C. L Meron
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of
Rolfe
W. P. Wheeler
C. L. Gunderson
Libbie E MacVey
Des Moines Township Consolidated School Notes
The Geometry class studies circles while students enter the Pocahontas County Essay Contest. European history moves into art periods. agriculture covers soils. physiology tackles oxidation. Students Dorothy Johansen and Louise Cox drew a map of Scotland’s lake country for use with Scott's Lady of the Lake. Hot lunches include scalloped potatoes and salmon toast through the week. Virginia Vaughn’s tenth birthday brings treats for fifth and sixth graders. Perfect grades in spelling: Paul Bates, Evelyn Mae Sennett, Wilna Struthers, Evelyn Weishaar. Perfect inspection: Virginia Vaughn, Elva Fae Ham, Evelyn Mae Sennett. Orville Kilbourne tops the general knowledge test. Roy Boles and Clarence Madsen second. Eighth grade leads in work-book contest by a quarter point. seventh graders host the eighth. A Coast ing party at Avery Hill. a home declamatory contest yields winners in Oratorical, Dramatic, and Humorous categories. Mrs. Betsworth guided the contestants before leaving after training.
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Virginia Vaughn
Paul Bates
Evelyn Mae Sennett
Wilna Struthers
Evelyn Weishaar
Elva Fae Ham
Ivelyn Mae Sennett
Orville Kilbourne
Roy Boles
Clarence Madsen
Weeslie DeWolf
Doris Kauffman
Frances Vaughn
Marjory Vaughn
Madeline Snook
Gilbert Weishaar
D M T Woman's Club Notes January Meeting
The D M T Woman's Club met January 14 at the school. Activities included a play selection Done In Oil with coaching by Mrs. Lehnus and Mrs. Diggs, a diphtheria toxin discussion, Christmas seal sales totaling 42.65 and badges 5.90, a committee formed to buy a sanitary cot, and the election of Mrs. Guy Smith as president for the year. A program followed with piano duets, home nursing, and violin solo, then a postmeeting lunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. M. T. Woman’s Club
Thos. Diggs
O. E. Lehnus
Woman's Club
Franklin Majorowicz
Guy Smith
B. C. Lehnus
Geo. Lehnus
Jean Scheffers
Frank Carlton
C. R. Melntire
L. F. Fisher
Lester Thorson
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