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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1914
Page
3
Rolfe community notes entertainments and visits from Fort Dodge to Des Moines. Families travel to lakes Okoboji for summers with Firman tales and local chautauqua attendance. Harvest plans, crop prospects, and weather calm readers with farm updates and town happenings.
A string of Iowa items covers bond votes in Atvond, a death in Colfax, a Davenport child’s death after a fall, and an Alton Milling mortgage sale. Other notes report drownings in Cedar Falls, injuries from a train fall in Malvern, long-lived Keenan family losses, Holiness church plans in Sioux Rapids, and school elections amid district consolidations.
The Pocahontas Iowa board of supervisors met July 9 1914 with all members present. Hearing on W H Bailey drainage petition continued to July 28. Contractor for Drainage District No 74 to be settled with 100 withheld until filling is removed. District 72 contractor I B Nelson urged to speed work or contract may be canceled. Chairman authorized to seek insurance exemption from Iowa Industrial Commissioner. Ousta claims were allowed.
Fragmentary OCR shows references to a daily register front page dated January 1st 1916. Mentions United States senator and Iowa newspaper context with monetary figures around 1.50 and 1 602. Content is garbled and does not form a coherent event.
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