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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1931
Page
10
Fragmented text mentions a road office and a ship with scattered numbers and names, unclear actions or outcomes. Details are incomplete, with unreadable segments obscuring dates places and responsible entities.
Many neighbors share visits and travels in Pocahontas county including Gruver families, Barcus and Buck households, and Des Moines visitors. Rural Letter Carriers elect Chas Grove secretary treasurer. Death of Mrs Eldora Nichols noted. family ties across Pocahontas, Rolfe, and Emmetsburg areas.
The 1931 Iowa State Fair in Des Moines August 26 to September 4 will host the largest 4-H Club Congress in the Midwest. Every Iowa county will be represented by teams and hundreds of individual contestants in eight days of junior exhibits and demonstrations. Over 15000 dollars in prizes scholarships trophies and trips will be awarded to 4 H participants. A feature will be the largest baby beef and calf show in the state.
Havelock Methodist Church notes Rev. C. L. Day as pastor with Sunday morning worship at 10 00 and 11 00 July and August schedule keeps Sunday services morning. Epworth League and evening preaching to be held in the country Sunday July 12 at 7 00 and 7 30 at the home of Mr and Mrs Q F Young. All invited. Apology for a past printer error in Heart Sisters reference.
Pocahontas county Iowa supervisors authorize ten road certificates totaling 50.18 dollars for Secondary Road District No 10 with 6 percent interest dated June 1 1931 and maturing January 1 1942. They sign and deliver the certificates to the county treasurer for sale at par with proceeds credited to the district.
A petition to establish a gravel surfaced secondary road district in Pocahontas County Iowa is set for hearing July 14 1931 at 10 30 a m before the county board of supervisors in the courthouse. The district includes described real estate and begins at the northeast corner of Section 8 Township 98 Range 82. The notice lists involved parties and administrative details.
The 4-H youth program will showcase more than 600 prize animals at the State Fair with over 3,000 calves on feed. Counties will send participants to final livestock, fat barrow, and pig club events, plus extensive girls and boys health and home-making demonstrations and a large livestock judging congress. over 2,000 farm youth will attend, housed in state dormitories with a shared dining hall under fair supervision.
A humorous note on aging and flirtation contrasts with a quirky fad as hens hatch purple green and blue chickens after a new serum. The scene imagines returning home to see vividly tinted roosters greeting the sun.
Beginning at the northwest corner of Section 25 Township 98 Range 32 the description runs east to the railway right of way with sub divisions and owners named J D Hollenbeck Andrew Simonson G N DeWolf Eddie D Sroufe all listed with lot references. The notice states a sale at the office in the Pocahontas courthouse Iowa at 10 15 a m on July 14 1981 with interested parties deemed informed as of June 28 1981.
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