Notable Local Graduates And Summer Work Crews Listed
Ten years ago this week in 1962, Cedar Falls youth Jerry Rickard worked at a family owned sporting goods store. Other items note Kathleen Grove Rolfe leading a music teaching workshop at SUI Iowa City and Carolyn Ives earning a Master’s in English from the University of Chicago. Additional notes mention Robert Ranney at Prairie Gold Council Scout Camp Okoboji, a county 4-H rally electing Mary Je Nelson as president, Jed Kirkpatrick attending from California for the Alumni Banquet, and gifts given to Rolfe High graduates Mrs Gussie Bruce and Mrs Clara Malcolm amid a 1892 class milestone.
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Jerry Rickard
Cedar Falls
Dale Rickard
Kathleen Grove
Rolfe
Sui
Iowa City
Carolyn Ives
University of Chicago
Ill
Robert Ranney
Prairie Gold Council
Okoboji
Rolfe High
Malcolm
Boy Scouts Court of Honor Highlights Second Class Advances
Twenty years ago the Boy Scout Court of Honor honored several boys who were advanced to second class on Monday evening. The list includes Danny.
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Boy Scout Court of Honor
Danny
Iowa Bet ter Groomed Girl 1942 chosen at 4-H convention
Mary Margaret Brinkman of the Garfield Go-Getters Club was named Iowa's Bet ter Groomed Girl for 1942 at the Girls 4-H Club Convention held on June 18 1942.
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Mary Margaret Brinkman
Garfield Go-Getters Club
Iowa
Local anecdotes and notes from Ames week
Last week in Ames, Miss Amy Turley has worked at the W. J. Allen law office in Laurens since Monday of last week. A humorist offers fifty cents to buy slacks for rotund women while Rolfe ranks high in the number of good looking women wearing slacks.
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Ames
Amy Turley
W. J. Allen
Laurens
Rolfe
Sweets Half Price Show Visits Rolfe June 20 21 22
Forty years ago on Thursday June 16 1932 Geo D Sweet is featured at half price tickets for adults twenty five cents and children under twelve ten cents. He performs in Rolfe on June 20 21 22. Rolfe families celebrate Howard Cook’s graduation from Phoenix Junior College on June 1 with a third place in a class of eighty eight. A school band concert lights up the grounds Thursday evening with a caution to kids to stay quiet as officers monitor the event.
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Geo. D. Sweet
Rolfe
Howard Cook
Phoenix, Ariz
Howard
Ald 50 Years Highlight for J Bernard Smith Publisher
J Bernard Smith son of Mr and Mrs J M Smith of this city now publisher of the Selfridge North Dakota Journal received a one third page write up in the Publishers Auxiliary June 3. Zook's Grey Devils a colored professional team meet Billy Taylor's Colts at Rolfe City Park Monday afternoon June 19 at five o clock. Billy says the Colts will give the Devils a hard contest.
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J. Bernard Smith
J. M. Smith
Selfridge, N. Dak
J. Bernard
Zook
Grey Devils
Billy Taylor
Colts
Rolfe City Park
Billy
Two Day Rolfe Festival Promises Parades And Food Fun
The Greater Rolfe Days celebration arrives next Wednesday and Thursday with a parade in three divisions tricycle bicycle and costume. A free smorgasbord supper offers pork barbecued sandwiches and a horseshoe pitching contest invites all ages. Randy Buck leads a Rapid City disaster fund drive collecting donations at local containers for Rapid City Disaster Fund. The Chamber of Commerce urges Rolfe residents to join in the appeal. A yellow demonstrator fire truck drew crowds and officials consider purchasing a new fire truck to bolster firefighting for town and surrounding areas.
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Rolfe
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Ni No Aber Association
Greg Kaiser
Joan Kaiser
Evelyn Kaiser
Society
Ie Towa
Lane Ee
Chase
Mable McKim
Gertie Peterson
Ida Fisher
Plover
Spencer
Pate
Randy Buck
G&j
KEEP
Iowa Clean, Inc. Oal Matical Bar & Trust Gurding
Des Moines
CWE
Give &S
Clover Farm
Oreo
Musselman’s
del Monte
Sal Freeman
Apu
Dad
Member
Pectoral Deposit Insurance Corporation
Rolfe State Bank
Joe Lehman
Rolfe Memorial Gymnasium
L. W. Feldman
The
Rolfe Chamber of Commerce
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