Rolfe Fourth of July Celebration Plans Big Irish
Rolfe gears up for a July Fourth celebration with Ottosen band forty concert entertainers, parades including an automobile and baby cab, free street spectacles, a peppy lineup of acts, a Park baseball final, and a grand fireworks display. Prizes total 40 dollars for parade winners, with a merry go round and dances at the opera house.
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Rolfe
Ottosen Band
W. B. Quarton
Algona
R. B. Gibbs
Jay Benson
Happy Hi Hibbard
The
Armstrong Amusement Company
Plover
Ottosen
Pocahontas
Humboldt
Community Picnic at Rolfe Park Hosted by Woman's Club
The Woman's Club invites all to a noonday picnic at Rolfe Park on Wednesday June 28 under club auspices. Coffee provided, guests urged to bring cream if desired, lemon for lemonade, dishes, tablecloths, and camp stools. Games for children and seating for older folks planned. Reverend J A Smith of Sioux Rapids to speak Sunday at Pickerel Lake Park on the United States role in world preparedness. No sports.
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Pocahontas County
Extensions Department
Iowa State College
Rolfe Park
Woman's Club
Rolfe
Lake-Des-Moines
Marble Valley
S Tock Road
Manson and Rolfe Road
Loufs Nemecek Farm
Rolfe Road
Geo. Short Farm
M. P. Hancher
Andrew Simonson
I. M. McKim
Plover
A. L. Roberts
Barnette
Woman’s Club
J. A. Smith
Sioux Rapids
Pickerel Lake Park
United States
C J Club Picnic Ends In Rescue Near Brad Gate
The C J Club picnic by river near Brad gate ended with a small fish catch and a rescue as two men rushed to aid two ladies sent for water and freed yearlings from danger after a call for help.
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C. J. Club
Bradgate
Ft Dodge District League convention at Manson
The Ft Dodge District League convention was held at Manson this week with two record breakers and 275 delegates. Next year's convention will be at Fort Dodge. Epworth League attendance is strong. Services next Sunday include preaching at 10 30 am with the message Visions From the Heights and an evening sermon The Young Man Who Went Away. Good music by orchestra and chorus.
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Ft. Dodge
Manson
Fort Dodge
Presbyterian Church Notes Dr A Z McGogney
Morning preaching service at the usual hour with a sermon on En vironment. Sunday school after the morning service. Y P S C BE at 7 PM. Evening preaching at 8 PM with sermon The Power of the Gospel. All are invited to attend.
Dane predicts German defeat and helps Rolfe car trade
E Semler of Copenhagen arrives in Rolfe to spend a week with his sons John and Knute Damborg. He seeks prompt ocean shipments for cars and plans to obtain the Dodge agency, noting Americans are gaining market share in Denmark as war disruptions shift European car supply. He believes the war ends soon due to food shortages in Germany and expects to visit Rolfe for about a week.
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E. Semler
Copenhagen
Denmark
Rolfe
John
Knute Damborg
Mr. Semler
Hudson Automobile
America
France
Germany
Semler
Fake detective runs amuck at Laurens
A man claiming to be a United States marshal from Minneapolis seized a man on a M and St. L. train, took him to Laurens, and jailed him for drunkenness. The imposter, described as shadowing a bootlegger and white slaver, was later jailed ten days. The case raised questions about impersonating officers and mixed alibis.
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United States
Minneapolis
Rolfe
Minnesota
Marshal Kober
Bob Klein
Laurens
Klein
Rober
Manson
Messrs Klein
Kober
Is Rolfe Progressive a Call for Local Enterprise
The note argues Rolfe is lagging in amenities like a baseball club town hall and modern school. It urges enterprise and cooperation to obtain facilities and criticizes a trend of ostentatious displays such as attaching four small union flags to a mobile goat end.
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the Sun
M. M. Noah
Ames
W. A. Buchanan
Fred C. Stenton
Chas
Dorchester
Nellie M. Barnette
Methodist Episcopal Church
C. S. Burnette
Presbyterian Church
A. Z. McGogney
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