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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
2
Rolfe will play Rutland in the second game of the season this Friday at six thirty. The Rolfe team faces a well organized Rutland squad in a game expected to be competitive. No admission will be charged but a collection will be taken.
Rialto Theatre features Chas Starrett and Ann Doran in Rio Grande with Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane in Torchy Runs for Mayor on Friday and Saturday July 21 22. July 28 29 30 brings Gary Grant Jean Arthur Richard Barthelmess Rita Hayworth in Only Angels Have Wings. July 26 27 showcases Robert Taylor Myrna Loy Douglas Fowley and Bernard Nadell in Lucky Night. Heroine pursues a happy go lucky playboy amid debts leading to memorable results.
Mrs Flossie of Deval Virginia travels with Mrs Je Gotti and Christobel to Fort Dodge on Tuesday. Buddy Morrison of Philadelphia arrives for vacation with his Morrison parents in Rolfe. Neighbor visits span from Bode to Storm Lake as families gather, with hospital visit and car accident injuries noted.
The Avery Good Luck 4-H club met July 11 with LaVelle Stacker as president LaVenne Marchant called the meeting to order Twelve members attended and a finances report led to a decision to sell furniture polish at 75c per bottle Program included songs and talks on care of equipment courtesy buying and wash day with several members named A luncheon followed.
Mrs. Al Seaquist hosted Delia Mae Sinclair for a small birthday gathering on July 12. Mrs Seaquist returned home from Ft. Dodge after an operation last week. Spray Mr and Mrs Ted Woodruff traveled to Anita to pick up Norma Sue visiting relatives there. Noble Heghy had X rays in Ft. Dodge for a winter fractured leg with favorable results. Mr and Mrs Art Kaiser of East Moline Illinois arrived for a week’s visit at Charles Ham's home.
Mrs Harry Spencer Mr and Mrs Dale Spencer and Karen Kaye visited Tom Raynes in Mercy hospital Fort Dodge Thursday. The DMT Merry Mixers 4 H club held a West Bend picnic with several members present.
Waterworks Rake in Iowa will receive a new Works Progress Administration water system. The project aims to improve supply and sanitation, with construction details expected to be announced by local officials.
About 80 friends hosted a picnic supper at the John Poulsen home Thursday night for a surprise birthday party honoring Axel Iversen. Martha Jean Durian was also honored at a city park picnic hosted by Mrs. H C Wiegman for Fort Dodge guest Rachel Wiegman’s visitor. Attendees included Jeanette Hauck La Mae White June Shelgren Margery Thompson and all attended a Pocahontas movie afterward.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Howland observed their 25th anniversary with a Sunday ceremony at home ending in a cafe teria dinner. A large white cake with silver frosting and colored candies, brought by Mrs. Howland’s aunt from Sioux City, highlighted the meal. Gifts poured in from relatives including Mrs. Martha Stonesifer and the Stonesifers of Paullina, the Lyman family of Primghar, Miss Powell of Sutherland, the Hawkins and Dahl couples of Sioux City, and Leslie Carlson of Linn Grove.
Prices drop with larger orders from one to five to ten tons and car loads. The note urges filling bins now, while expressing fear of coal shortages this fall and hope they are wrong. It emphasizes cost savings for bigger purchases.
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