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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1931
Page
5
Readable fragments describe 4-H Club activities and meetings from July with dates July 2 3 4 6 8 and 13 at Aunt Okoboji venues. References include clothing specialists and Epworth events amid a community schedule.
Morris Webb sustained neck and facial injuries and a leg cut when his car collided with a truck owned by Selby Prince Co at a grade crossing near Webster City. The truck overturned after the impact, a 12 year old girl aboard escaped uninjured, and Webb is improving under medical care. Insurance firms and lawyers dispute responsibility.
About 100 Trinity Lutheran members gathered at the parsonage in Surprise to honor Rev and Mrs Wangberg on their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Andrew Simonson presented a purse for the couple as friends toasted their milestone with ice cream and refreshments. they were married twenty five years ago at Soldier Iowa.
The Excelsior Society of the Presbyterian church sets a July 8 gathering in the church parlors with a 2:00 p.m. business session followed by a patriotic program. Mrs. Bryson, Mrs. Bruce, Mrs. Bruce, and Mrs. Mather lead the program, with the B Division handling serving. The program features community singing, scripture, readings, songs, a flag drill, and a Betsy Ross playlet with a large cast and musical performances.
Rolfe merchants keep stores open Friday evening to serve the public and close at 10 00 a m July 4 for the holiday. Shopping advised for Friday evening or early Saturday morning. Pocahontas plans a bronze World War memory tablet dedication at 1 15 p m with music and speeches. Rolfe ex servicemen urged to attend.
Last Friday June 26 marked the tenth Brinkman family reunion held on the M N Ives lawn south of Rolfe Iowa. Eighty two family members attended with out of town guests from Michigan Illinois and New York. Plans for a 1932 reunion were discussed and a program of music readings and skits highlighted the event.
Last Thursday evening residents near Rolfe enjoyed a Garfield Township Farm Bureau Unit chautauqua at the Ives home. J O Hosier chaired the program, Byron Olerich managed, with five numbers including a student orchestra, Norton Ives cornet, Margaret White flute, Barbara Melson reading, a Chester Truelsen Glenn Ives vocal duet, and a boys quartet. Warren Ives spoke on Unoccupied Mansions, Manley Johnson provided prelud e on harmonica and guitar, and Fern Witt directed the play Sauce for the Goslings. Lunch followed and many called it the best Garfield unit program yet.
Mrs. Bruce and The Arrowman returned from a ten day vacation in northern Minnesota near Otter Tail Lake at Camp Omaha. They describe the cool start, good crops, and abundant fishing only for black bass and wall-eyed pike, and note the heat rise after leaving the north.
Nine days of continuous heat kept temperatures around 100 degrees in the shade. A visitation of showers Wednesday offered relief. Heat has damaged oats and heavily affected horses, while corn escaped serious harm. Rain and cooler weather bring renewed hope for better yields.
Former Pikertown Sunday School attendees are invited to a reunion and picnic on July 12 at the Pikertown school house grounds. Bring sandwiches a covered dish and a pie for your family and join in a day hoped to be a success.
The Fort Dodge American Legion Post sponsors Fourth of July festivities at Exposition Park with baseball, vaudeville, horse and motorcycle races, drum corps exhibitions, and a concert by the Fort Dodge Municipal Band directed by Karl N. King. Midway entertainment includes a $40,000 pool, dancing, roller skating, and a large roller coaster. An attendance prize sport sedan will be awarded after the evening program.
Barley is believed to have originated in central Asia, with early cultivation spreading to neighboring regions over ancient times. Researchers cite archaeological finds and genetic evidence supporting its early emergence on the Eurasian steppe.
Rolfe will be well represented at the Memorial Celebration in Pocahontas on Saturday July 4. Liberty Post No 18 Pocahontas invites guests at a dinner at Hotel Pocahontas including Mr and Mrs E E Wilcox Owen Patterson Cecil Cummins Post No 25 commander and Mrs L A Rogers president of the Rolfe Auxiliary County Attorney A M DeVaul will present the bronze tablet to the American Legion and the local post expects to be in the parade of colors at 12 45 p m with a color bearer in full uniform and the post colors.
Members of the Pocahontas County Unit of the American Association of University Women and families gathered at Rolfe City Park for a picnic dinner. Men played golf before the meal and plans were made for another similar gathering in August. Mrs. Guy KE. White announced committees and plans for the coming year.
A provocative remark notes that some individuals accept hearsay and their own words without scrutiny, highlighting arrogance and gullibility in social discourse. The line emphasizes how people may misjudge information and their own assertions alike.
Oscar T. Olsen, a local blacksmith and machinist, has reproduced the frigate Old Ironsides in miniature. The model, including pulleys and brass cannon, sits in the Central States Electric Co show window. Olsen spent months crafting it with special tools. he notes it would take over thirty days of continuous work to build full vessels like this.
Des Moines township mothers and leaders gathered with nine members and fourteen visitors at Elva Fae Ham's home then walked to the Des Moines riverbank for a roast. Doris Vaughn demonstrated manicuring while Elva Fae Ham spoke on A Country Girl's Creed.
An economist argues that if many executives currently in conference would devote time to business, the overall low mood would quickly lift. The comment reflects workplace morale concerns amid ongoing corporate talks.
A letter from A G Chase of Centralia Wash reports the death of former local resident Will Leithead of Colville Wash on June 22 1931 at age sixty after a two year illness. He married Jessie Denend who predeceased him. He leaves two sons and two daughters, two brothers Bert of Meyers Falls and Dr Charles E of Lake View Ore, and his father C P Leithead age eighty three who is blind and living with Bert. The Centralia community gathered news of old neighbors with weather and strawberry crops noted at 3 000 acres harvested.
Pocahontas County supervisors met to review claims against the domestic animal fund and to address assessors objections to their pay. Six assessors refused warrants while fifteen accepted. disputes centered on time-based pay and a cap of twenty-five cents per town data sheet and forty-five cents per farm data sheet.
Fonda sent over twenty weather proof golfers to meet Rolfe players in a friendly match under 102 degree heat. Jean Mullen led the field with 74 while G. G. Butler and R. G. Hunter each shot 79 for Rolfe. Rolfe won 36 to 22 and will play a return at Fonda on Sunday July 12.
Denmark launches a rapid forest expansion initiative aiming to increase woodland cover. The plan emphasizes reforestation across multiple regions, with government backing and measurable targets to boost biodiversity and climate resilience.
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