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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1970
Page
4
Mrs. Kenny Pederson joined many women applying a finishing coat of blue paint to the R-shaped baby pool walls and bottom last Friday. The pool, 42 feet long with steel sides, is filled and opened Tuesday for children six years old and under, with depth from eight inches to 22 inches.
Rita Wax and Douglas Kelly exchanged marriage vows at Assumption Catholic Church in Canton Minnesota on Saturday June 27 1970 at 2:00 pm. The couple received a reception in Harmony Minnesota with 150 guests and planned a Florida honeymoon before settling in Rochester Minnesota.
Citizens attend Monday July 27 at 8 PM in the Assembly Room for a taxpayers meeting. F E VanAlstine will present articles of incorporation for abortion. Public invited.
The Rolfe Pilot Creek FFA officers and advisor Robert Kurth attended Leadership Camp at Clear Lake last weekend. A total of 142 members from 23 chapters participated in the event.
Glen Neugent commends Miss Amy Turley bookkeeper at Iowa Electric Light and Power for 25 years of service with IEL&P as of the 17th. A congratulatory message from Duane Arnold, company president, was read during an informal office gathering Friday afternoon.
Rolfe organizers announce a grand opening for the Rolfe Area Swimming Pool on Friday July 31 at the west Rolfe pool site. Free buffalo feed at 5:30 sponsored by the Rolfe Chamber of Commerce, free swimming with a 7:00 to 7:30 water show, and the Little Miss Rolfe 1970 crowning at 6:30. Former President Lyndon Johnson Johnny Carson Senator Jack Miller and bandleader Karl King are invited life memberships sent to life donors. A flag sale by Cadette Scouts and the American Legion continues with 40 flags ordered to date and a flag display drive for homes year round.
A $140000 Bradgate Cooperative Elevator project was halted after a 17 year old worker, Monte Howard of Rolfe, fell about 40 to 45 feet from the structure Thursday. He died Saturday evening at Iowa Methodist Hospital. The incident follows another Rolfe teen’s fall earlier this summer.
About 80 visitors attended the 12th Annual Plover Flower Show on Friday afternoon July 17 at the Plover School gym. The event, with 173 entries, was sponsored by the Plover Garden Club. Special honors went to Doro thy Zeck Mallard for Tricolor, Martin Peterson Rolfe for Award of Distinction, C. E. Lehnus Rolfe for Creativity, and Lorna Westerman Plover for Award of Merit.
Mr and Mrs Roy Simonson of Rolfe host an open house marking their fortieth wedding anniversary on Sunday August 2 from 2 to 5 pm at St Pauls Lutheran Church. Their children and spouses invite friends and relatives from Au relia Inver Grove Minn Rolfe and Marshalltown to join the celebration.
Twenty golfers took part in the first two ball foursome of the season at the local course last Thursday evening. Two playoffs decided high and low scores with Mrs Garth Stoufe and Lee Burris of Bradgate as low, Mrs L D Wilson and Dick Bennett as high.
John Beckord, son of Mr and Mrs George Beckord, was voted MVP among 62 boys at the Dubuque Basketball Training Camp June 14 to 20. He led in rebounds and points, ranked second in scoring, and named best player in his 11 to 14 age group. David Spencer took second in scoring and top honors in his 15 to 17 group. Other Rolfe attendees included Gus Brinkman Patrick Shimon A G Sroufe and Dan Seward.
R. H. Elsesser of Varina was appointed to the Pocahontas County Board of Review for an unexpired term from July 14, 1970, to January 1, 1972, filling in for E. H. Prendergast of Fonda who requested relief due to ill health. The board now includes Geo. C. Buckwalter Laurens Harold Dodd Gilmore City T. A. Nixon Pocahontas Luther Thompson Rolfe and R H Elsesser Varina.
The children of Mr and Mrs Chester Hansen invite friends and relatives to an open house honoring their parents thirty fifth anniversary on Sunday August 2 at Rolfe Methodist Church parlors from 2 to 5 pm. The Hansen family includes four children Jenalea Bennie Hilton Rolfe Jim Janice and Julie and four grandchildren.
Diane Diederich of Omaha spent the weekend with her family and Leo Diederichs.
About three hundred neighbors and relatives gathered at Gilmore City First Lutheran Church to honor Mr and Mrs Joseph J Johnson on their 50th wedding anniversary on June 21 The couple’s children and grandchildren produced a program though grandson John A Wilson of the U S Navy was unable to attend.
A young worker Monte Howard died after slipping near the Bradgate elevator hopper bin while installing reinforcement rods. He fell from a work platform section above the main alleyway, with a similar platform not in place at the time of the accident.
The Gilmore City Town Council will meet at Town Hall on Tuesday August 4 at 8:00 p.m. to hear taxpayers on the 1971 expenditure estimate of 114,929 with 26,529 to be raised by tax. The town budget is published in the Rolfe Arrow. Also noted is a family visit by the Cox and Lowe families.
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