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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1945
Page
6
A partial OCR fragment reports a local notice involving Cahontas Nebraska and Wes Co with references to a meeting or addition. Details are unclear but indicate an administrative action or filing.
Dr John Audry is identified as the father of a son born in 19th century Ireland. The brief item notes the family connection and a church or local record reference.
A Rolfe column lists numerous local residents visiting relatives and friends across Iowa. Names include the Ives, Freel, Wangberg, Klobe, and Siefkin families with travel to Des Moines Sioux City Cedar Falls and Seattle. Households host dinners, babies are welcomed, and furloughs or nursing assignments are noted.
Dr. W. E. Gower of Pocahontas spoke at the Garfield township Farm Bureau meeting at the H. F. Olerich home on June 28. He described the Pocahontas County Hospital association formed to take contributions for a county hospital and the various membership options. He noted decentralization of medical care and that doctors prefer practicing where hospitals exist.
Mrs. H. J. Turley and family express gratitude to relatives and friends for flowers and cards sent to Mr. Turley during his hospital stay.
A war veteran questions whether raising congressional pay would trigger wage and price inflation. He asks if approving legislative raises would force higher worker wages and manufactured goods prices, and whether Congress would set inflation in motion.
Relatives report the death of John Sinek in a Sacramento hospital after an attack of diphtheria. He is survived by his brother Leon Sinek of Rolfe and by a daughter Mrs. Lucern Schuler of Des Moines. Other survivors include his mother Mrs. Mary Sinek, brothers Roy and Jim, and sister Mrs. Veronica Harrison of Pocahontas, and another sister Mrs. Wm Beneke of Gilmore City.
Mr and Mrs August Grendler and their three sons moved to a new home provided by the board of education for the school custodian. They come from Jordan where Grendler served as custodian for two years. The piece notes their family ages Paul 9 Francis 7 and Clare 3. The note ends with a magazine plug for The American Weekly distributed with the July 8 Chicago Herald American.
Mr and Mrs L C Olney take possession of the Eikenberry grocery and plan to move to the R B Mather home August 1 Their children Janet 15 and Edgar 9 will stay with their grandmother Mrs E D Banghart at Storm Lake until then They are currently staying at a hotel.
Des Moines Township Farm Bureau met Friday evening June 29 at the DMT school where 4-H club girls staged the pageant The Way to Victory and Peace in 1945 with Mary Dean Fanning prologue reader Rita Zeman and Robert Reckord as narrators Eugenia Fanning accompanied the performance led by Miss Hattie Lehnus and Mrs Thos Diggs
Extension director O Naylor described the extension service soil conservation service cooperative farms established in Pocahontas County. Several games were played at the close of the meeting.
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