Rolfe Local News Items Highlight Small Town Moves
Miss Cora Lighter moves to Rolfe to manage the Fair store after selling her Gilmore City stock. Leona Putney of Nashua guests in Rolfe and returns as Junior High principal. A teen finger injury on a farm worker prompts surgery and recovery. Chester Delle weds Marie Shaffer at Humboldt. Mrs. Grove Woodford leaves for Marietta with Franklin Grove. Army worm appears late but limited oat impact. Manhattan service station roof to be a band stand. Local visits include Hoyne family, Mulholland Sisters, and Miss Minnie Sage. Laurens band boosters promote American Legion event. Joe Wiewel attack framing and subsequent hold up questioned. Wiewel injured but recovering. investigation notes possible suspect Frank Wiewel.
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Cora Lighter
Gilmore City
Rolfe
Leona Putney
Nashua
Miss Putney
J. P. Moore
H. D. Brink
Chester Delle
John Delle
Lake Township
Marie Shaffer
Gilmore
Humboldt
Chester
Andy Eikenberry
Lake Okoboji
Z. T. Kestler
Sharon
Ronald Wiewel
Frank
Wiewel
Origin of the Word Jazz Traced to Southern Overseers
A London cablegram claims the word jazz originates from the American South among African Americans. It suggests overseers named workers Jasper, shortened to Jas, then Jass up the work, with the Southern drawl turning Jass into Jazz. The piece cites Musical America on energetic implication of jazz.
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A. Long. Cablegram
London
England
America
South
Jasper
Engishman
Jas
Jass
Kensington event hosted by D Division of excelsior society
Mrs. Co. AL Grant hosted an afternoon at her home yesterday for the D Division of the excelsior society where about one hundred ladies attended. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Boyer and daughter Helen from Chicago and visitors with Rolfe ties such as Mrs. Ben Sherman Dexer and Mrs. L R Wellstead Ottumwa among others from Los Angeles Des Moines Fonda Greenfield and Ottumwa.
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Kensington
I Excélsior Society
C. F. Linnan
Fonda
J. L. Young
Greenfield
A Physician in Pioneer Wisconsin
Dr John G Reeve recounts frontier medicine in Dodge county Wisconsin during the 1860s and his January 1852 journey from home to Cleveland Milwaukee Chicago Toledo and Galion by sleigh rail and wagon amid scarce roads funds and comforts.
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Wisconsin
John ‘G. Reeve
Wisconsin’ Magazine of History
State Historical Society
Reeve
Dodge County
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Chicago
Michigan Central Railroad
Michigan
Toledo
Sandusky
Cincinnati
Galion
The Remembering Eye Shapes a Writer's Word Choice
The passage argues that painters and writers use memory to sharpen their speech. A painter waits for a clear memory of color or form to appear before speaking. A writer similarly pauses until memory reveals the exact subject, producing fresh precise phrasing.
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Phinp Littell
Between the Pretty Faces and Pleasing Manners
A humorous note contrasts two types of women, then reports Japan’s peanut crop as normal andAmerica’s crop as unusually good in political circles. It quips that reading baseball news is sporty, yet suggests stepping away to play the game oneself.
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Japan
America
Plover Folks Make Local Moves and Sports Update
Local notes reveal multiple moves and visits across Iowa. Families from Phillips and Garlock travel between Cresco, Sioux City, Windom, and Fort Dodge while Whittemore upends Plover 7 to 6 in a baseball clash.
Presbyterian Church Notes and Local Advertisements
Church notices list Sunday services led by C M Whetzell with Bible School at 10, morning worship 11, Endeavor 6 30 and evening service 8. An advertisement promotes Hollister Mountain Tea from Webb's Drug Store in Plover. Scattered editorial and ad snippets discuss engagement talk, courage, Mexican policy, and American investments with compact, fragmentary text.
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Christian Endeavor
Hollister
Webb’s Drug Store
Plover
Notice to attend probate hearing in Pocahontas Iowa
To whom it may concern you are notified to appear at the courthouse Pocahontas in the 81st day of August AD 17 at one o clock to attend the date of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Liam Kennedy deceased late of Pocahontas County Iowa at which time and place you will appear and show cause if any why said will should not be admitted to probate Witness my hand and affixed seal of the district court Pocahontas this 24th day of July 1920 163 P B Thompson Clerk District Court Seal
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Iit
Court House
Pocahonta
Othliam Kennedy
Pahontas County
Iowa
Nas
District Court
Pocahontas
P. B. Thompson
Plover Methodist Church Weekly Services and Plans
Sunday schedules include Bible School Morning Worship Epworth League 7 00 p m and Evening Service 8 00 p m Weekday Prayer Meeting Thursday 8 00 p m Regular services next Sunday Fourth quarterly conference on August 28 Pledges due payable local church money to stewards and Centenary benevolence money to C Miller at the bank Evangelist Frank Mathis planned for September Watch notes for details and reflect on the Kingdom of Christ and personal conduct.
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Bible School
Epworth League
C. F. Miller
Frank Mathis
Kingdom of Christ
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Pocahontas County
Palo Alto County
Woodbury County
Kossouth County
H. Murray
Mrs. Grove Woodford
B. F. Pike
Mrs. Woodford
Marietta
Ohio
Manhattan
Main Street
A. H. Hoyne
Family of
Salem 8. D
F. I. Hoyne
Mulholland Sisters
Fort Dodge
Robert Klein Jr
Minnie Sage
Cherokee, Iowa
J. A. Carroll
Murrill, Carroll
Fairmont
Minn
C. M. Patterson
Peter Jensen
Clarence Jensen
Jensen
Mary Thomas
E. R. Wiswell
Los Angeles
Ei. R. Wiswell
Westbrook
Harold
Nature
Rolfe Grocery
Rolfe Grain & Milling Co
St. L
J. W. Phillips
Cresco
Tom Jones
Tom
Mr. Phillips
N. H
Lawrence Phillips
Sioux City
Theo. Kietaman
L. E. Garlock
Menahga
Ed Hubbell
the Lakes
Garlock
W. E. Roberts
Windom
Virgil
C. A. Garlock
H. H. Hoyt
Webster City
Northwest Town
Epworth League Institute
Presbyterian Church
C. M. Whetzell
Ay Jean
Rio Grande
Mexico
Plover Methodist Church
Glenn M. Squires
Ensilage
AW. Hess
U. S
United States
First Liberty Loan
Second Liberty Loan
Third Liberty Loan
the People’s Savings Bank
Lowa
Boston
Fort Dodce
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