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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1941
Page
7
Social notes record Mrs. Ghee White and friends spending the week at Lake Okoboji with multiple guests including Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fois of Denhart and others visiting in Fort Dodge, Ames, and Des Moines areas. The column lists numerous family visits, birthdays, and weekend travels among residents and relatives across Iowa.
The Weible family spent Sunday in Fairmont Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman of Marathon visited Mrs. Freeman's brother J. E. Tutt. Beverly Weible visits Estherville with aunt Mrs. Max Finch. Marjorie and Shirley Lothian stayed with grandmother Mrs. Anna Hamilton. A. A. Brinkman and wife traveled to Sioux City Monday. Ned Goodchild and Misses Sadie and Anne Goodchild of Havelock called on R. E. Green Wednesday night. Mrs. M. R. Soth and Kathryn visited A. P. Clausen and daughter Maxine at Holstein Friday. Aletta Grant Gladys Larson and Mrs. Esther Ragan called on Fort Dodge Saturday evening.
Mrs Muriel Wilson spent several days in Spencer visiting her daughter Mrs L A White and joined a Kitchen Klatter picnic in Gilbert park Spirit Lake with about 200 attendees including editor Mrs Leona Driftmeier of Shenandoah. She returned with her son in law Mr White en route to Des Moines where her daughter Muriel lives. She finished a course at the American Institute of Business and starts work in a Spencer drug store.
Mr and Mrs H F Olerich traveled to Cedar Rapids to attend a Poland China conference at the Montrose Hotel and fairgrounds. They then went to Chicago to visit son Byron and family and daughter Mrs Douglas Hope and family. Grandchildren Islea Beth and Douglas Hope accompanied them home for the summer.
A family reunion last Wednesday at the Des Moines home of Mrs. Arlo Ives' sister Mrs. J P Starbuck drew Mrs Ives and Mrs Starbuck's parents Mr and Mrs D G Taylor of Sioux City their two daughters their daughters in law and six granddaughters Also present were Mrs Gerald Taylor and two daughters Karen and Kathryn of Juneau Alaska Mrs Lindenmeyer of Westchester and others from Rolfe including Mrs Arlo Ives and daughters Carolyn Sally and Mrs M N Ives.
At the Treasury Department announcement readers learn of a new Defense Bond Quiz to run next week. Questions will come from common Bond and Stamp buyers and answers will explain what the Defense Savings Program means to individuals and the nation.
Scouts in the community distribute posters advertising United States Savings Bonds and stamps. Two million posters will be released nationwide by Boy Scouts to promote defense era savings efforts.
The Sts Peter and Paul parish bazaar in Pocahontas runs on July 3 and 4 on church grounds. Chicken supper family style at 5:60 p.m. Each day features amusements such as bingo bowling and throwing games with a bowery dance July 4 evening.
J N Zigrang of Des Moines visited Rolfe on Tuesday July 1 and completed a land sale with Hans Jensen for a quarter section located east of Bradgate.
Mrs Henry Anderson, who suffered a light stroke about four weeks ago, is now much improved and can take a short car ride each day.
Friends report Mrs Emma Lighter is slowly improving and now sits up for about an hour daily. Margaret Lanning, caregiver for a year, fell ill last week and moved to her daughter Mrs Leonard Lindsay’s home. Mrs R E Green now assists with the Lighter household.
A wooden corn crib measuring 2886 feet in length has just been completed on the Arlo Ives farm. The structure capacity is 4000 bushels of ear corn. Carpenter Art Erickson supervised the project.
Mel Falkenhainer and Vic Parsons helped the Fritz Pierce and Pat Jensen families pack their car for a few days in Wisconsin. The Pierces and Jensens were surprised to learn the two assisting families had left Algona two hours earlier, both from the same town.
Louis J Kelly of the Dover Dominators 4 H club was selected by the state committee from Pocahontas county to attend the first Iowa Farm Youth School in Ames from July 22 to August 28. The six week program, financed by Bankers Life Insurance and Iowa State College, will teach leadership, home making, and farm management to fifty boys and fifty girls from across Iowa. Bob Heathman of Rolfe was the other Pocahontas county candidate.
Outline of a course for home project women starts in September and will be planned on Friday July 11 at the Pohontas county courthouse. Mrs Sarah Porter Ellis from Iowa State College Extension Service will lead the meeting and each township chairman is to ensure township representation.
Mrs. Frank Schlensig county home project chairman urges town ship committee members to plan now to attend. The group includes township chairmen publicity chairmen sub project chairmen and county officers as the program may shift to aid the national defense.
The 1941 Pocahontas county 4-H Fair premium book rules and ads are finished and a portion has already been printed. The remainder will be completed in the first week of July. Ads were sold by 4-H club members, matching last year’s sales. The Toerhontag county 4-H club members credit leaders for the success of the premium ad campaign.
Carl Smith of Hamburg drove into a washed-out road fill and became suspended over a 16-foot ditch by his bumper. He was bruised, trapped with a damaged car whose horn worked, and was rescued by neighbors.
The article honors Col. W. F. Buffalo Bill Cody noting his showman fame hid a plan for a western empire. It describes Cody as founder of the town Cody in 1900, its irrigation projects, modern development, and enduring frontier spirit with rodeos and the annual Cody Stampede drawing visitors. Bills grave lies on Lookout Mountain in Colorado but Cody keeps his memory.
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