Rolfe and Pocahontas County Families Gather for Decoration Day
Local Rolfe residents host guests from nearby towns for visits and Decoration Day events. Telegraphed notes detail family travel, picnics at Avery Woods, community speakers, Legion activities, and numerous homecomings from Spencer, Des Moines, Marshalltown, and Sioux City with names of families and towns cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. F. Fisher
Sioux City
B. L. Green
Ruby
Marie Lemon
Marshalltown
J. K. Lemon
Mildred Goin
I. C. Thatcher
Storm Lake
Fred Dumbaugh
Wilbur W. Green
Pocahontas
Green
Rolfe
Letter from J B Wilson to Congressman Dickinson
A 1922 letter from J B Wilson Vice-President and Secretary of the National Sheep and Wool Bureau of America to Hon L J Dickinson Iowa. Wilson praises Dickinson's agricultural work and expresses support for his primary election bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Walker
Frank B. van Suan
J. B. Wilson
National Sheep and Wool Bureau OF America
East Jackson Boulevard
Chicago
L. J. Dickinson
Algona
Iowa
Congressman Dickinson
Washington
Rolfe Community Notes Honor Decorations and Family News
Local residents attend Decoration Day events and visits across Rolfe and neighboring towns. Movements include Miss Clara Dawson elected secretary at Sinclair Literary Society, C E B 8 initiation, and many trips to Fort Dodge Cedar Rapids Emmetsburg and Ames for clubs, school and social functions. The Rolfe Woman's Club and Methodist Ladies Aid plan meetings, while several graduates from Iowa State Teachers College are listed among the Rolfe area connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Lathrop
Earlham
Ross Wilson
Arrow’s
Drakville
Town
F. J. Nacke
Catherine
J. A. Carroll
Fonda
Geo. Helmer
Palmer
Morningside College
Jens Thompson
Mary Short
Cedar Falls
Teachers’ College
Mabel Perrin
Kansas
Clara Dawson of
Rolfe
Sinclair Literary Society
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
C. EB
Lydia Hoard
Clarksville
Rolfe Woman’s Club
Martha. Trick
Anna Matteson
Ayrshire
Mina Truelsen
State Teachers’ College
Alexander
Winterset
T. D. Jones
J. T. Grant
A. V. Grant
Charlotte Cumming
Fort Dodge
Geo
O. Hauck
H. F. Peterson
St. Paul
Joe White
Rockwell City
J. K. Lemon
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Hattie Emelia Lehnus
Gladys D. Howe
Marian
Waitstill Palmer
Emmetsburg
Department of
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Men’ S.A Wool
Percale
Eadie Oitardd
Lin
Rude
Oxfords
Ana
Hyke Poppinga
Sexton
Omaha
Fred Nelson
C. E. Clifford
H. C. Shrader
Gilmore City
C. W. Lighter
Mildred King
Spencer
Dick Miller
John Junkman
Princeton
Minn
Johnnie Lind
E. S. Colebaugh
Orville Cobbs
J.S. Pearce
Art Vaughn
Ernest Vaughn
H. C. Wiegman
Frank Jarvis
Geo. Ham
Carmi Vaughn
Art
Ed Vaughn
San Francisco
California
S. E. Steeves
Steeves
W. L.evans
Dexter
Evans
Elva Lighter
Minneapolis
Clinton Miller
Baby
Miller
Josephine Brown
Mildred Gain
W. W. Beam
Watson
L.S. Anderson
W. C. Kennedy
Parkersburg
Mike Shimon
Agnes
Ruth Webb
Hans Jensen
Geo. Christians
Hershel Jackson
Cleveland
Hershel
Georgia
American Legion and Woman’s Auxiliary
Pocahontas County
Lizard Lake
Earl Chambers
Geo. Bruce
Des Moines
Raymond
Clinton Cemetery
B. I. Salinger
Carroll
Decoration Day
Mike Healy
Healy
The
Legion
Rolfe Legion
C. C. Johnson of
Havelock
Byron Boos
Grand Junction
W. R. Jones
H. A. Beam
Moline
Ilinois
Golf
Rolfe and
Plover
Dickinson
Anton Williams
N. A. Lind
Dorothy Messinger
Linn Grove
Geo. Sheeley
Daisy Day
Holster
LeMars
C. M. Webb
Dora Barker
Tunnel City
Wis
M. E. Ladies’ Aid Society
Kensington
Bertha Craver of
Ward Ferguson
Hattie Ratcliff
Gordon Siefkin
O. M. Chaney
Newell
Will Hansen
Eagle Grove
Margaret Green
Missouri Valley
Albert Wolfe and Son
Windom
J. T. Grant, Rolfe
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