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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1915
Page
5
The column lists residents visiting, traveling, and returning home, with notes on motorbike trips, naval service visits, and local social events. It mentions Mrs. Thos Casey returning to Sanborn, Sterling Dean visiting from Rolfe, and a Ladies Aid picnic with a patriotic program.
Residents from Gilmore City and nearby towns hosted and visited families this week. Visitors included Eugene Corzette of Sterling Illinois and Orville Legg of Perry Town, staying with local households. A Humboldt outing drew a large crowd despite rain, while other locals traveled to Rolfe Estherville and Alta for visits, plays, and chautauqua events. A birth recorded July 4 1916 at the Sheldon home and lectures planned by Rev Everett Looney in Hamilton Missouri complete the week’s notes.
Winks jokes that the new country club is ideal for poker as Dinks asks why fifty. Winks answers they built it on a bluff.
Fragmented notes mention real estate activity in a town with references to farms and landslides. The text references Unger-Waal and a bull lod with unclear details about ongoing property transactions or disturbances.
The Bank as a financial power house to the community advocates practical bank cooperation with farmers to uplift agriculture. bankers are praised for loans aiding livestock, seeds, silos, and markets, building a future where profits come from wiser investment in farming, not simple interest. The piece lauds bankers as God Almighty's noblemen, turning banks into community partners and pillars of rural progress.
An old remedy of Sage Tea and Sulphur returns in Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound sold in drug stores for about five decades. Apply with a comb or brush to a strand, gray hair darkens by morning and gains a soft lustre, while preventing dandruff and itching.
Gilmore City Gleanings lists residents and visitors including Lorenz Torenzen in Denison South Dakota travelers Mrs H Van Alstine and daughter Miss Loist with Mrs F KE Beers to Fort Dodge and others visiting Eagle Grove Clare Humboldt Omaha Pomeroy Fort Dodge and Lizard Lake picnic notes include Amy Ireland expected back for piano work July 10 and a Sunday school picnic with AJL report.
The Rolfe Chautauqua offers a week of lectures and entertainments from July 4 to 11 1915. Highlights include Edward Earle on Japan and America and the Monroe Doctrine plus Latin America, Hann Jubilee Singers concerts, and talks by Harold C. Kessinger and Charles Edward Russell with European War discussion. Preludes start daily at 2 30 and 8 o'clock in the evenings.
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