Rolfe Area Social Notes Highlight Summer Visits
Local residents and relatives gather for visits across Rolfe and nearby towns. Friends from Pocahontas, Estherville, Fort Dodge, and Mason City share meals and dinners while extended trips to Minneapolis and Chicago are noted. Families welcome travelers and announce upcoming vacations and schooling plans in this community recap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marilynn Barrett
Shirley Fisher
Fort Dodge
Everett Bryant
Algona
John Kauffman
N. J. Bixler
T. D. Jones
Anne
Dodge
J. R. Grant
Pocahontas
J. A. Grant
Ethel Bess
Spencer
Fred Smith
Henry Kober
Lois Schneck
Minneapolis
Hail Department
D. G. Taylor
Sioux City
Arlo Ives
Glen Ives
Billy
Barbara Jo
Cedar Rapids
Barry Kauffman
Victor Shimon
C. J. Morrison
Joan Still
Vern Perrin
Evelyn
P. H. Cooklin
Osceola
B. H. Peters
Melbourne
Telmer Sime
J. A. Sime
Fairmont
Minn
Will Rudeen
Beverly
Bird Island
Priscilla Hancher
F. FE. Grant
Lou Ella Roberts
Bingham, Lake
Virgil Roberts
Bingham Lake
Rolfe
Barry Thomas
Ames
A. C. Thomas
Amy Ireland
Martha Wangberg
Iowa City
Reuben Wangberg
Lemmon
5. D
Mike Shmidt
Roy Jennings
West Bend
John Damborg
Mark
Orlin and
Lee
C. W. Hamand
Sioux Rapids
Mason City
Gerald Hamand
Alberta Jacobson
Dorothy Biedermann
Jose Smillie
R. N
Estherville
Jos. Biedermann
Melba Ader
J. A. Biedermann
F.C
Navy
Defense Board Advances Custom Harvesting Support
The War Food Administration moved to aid farmers using custom harvesting gear by securing gas and tires through ODT and OPA, aiding itinerant wheat harvest operators. A June 17 Omaha meeting aligned state efforts to move custom machinery across wheat states. Byrnes ordered no price increases for canners of green peas beans corn and tomato products to stabilize essential cost-of-living items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Food Administration
ODT
OPA
Omaha
James Byrnes
WFA
War Labor Board
Conservation pushes higher yields and price controls amid wartime farming
The article urges farmers to apply conservation methods to boost per acre yields and maintain soil resources. Chester C. Davis notes June crop prospects emphasize near 1942 yields with livestock output raising total food production. Bruton becomes acting director of the War Food Administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester C. Davis
Farm labor program and WPB machinery quotas set
Lieut. Col. Jay L. Taylor recalled for Army service with Colonel Bruton assisting. The War Production Board sets farm machinery output at 80 percent of the 1940–41 average starting July 1 1948, with carbon steel and metal quotas raised to support a new program. Despite higher quotas, not every farmer will be able to buy new equipment this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay L. Taylor
WFA
Army
Bruton
Col. Taylor
War Production Board
WPB
Nelson
Factory Finished Oak Flooring and Home Trade Ads
An advertisement round up promoting factory finished oak flooring ready to use with no sanding or varnish. It lists a room 10x12 cost of 21 dollars and mentions screen wire doors repairs, poultry self feeders, coal donation note, and old time household nostalgia about rationing and kitchen appliances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Leroy Nelson
Local ration boards require housewives use 10 pounds sugar first
Most boards require housewives to exhaust 10 pounds of canning sugar bought with stamps in War Ration Book No 1 before applying for more sugar. OPA officials expect boards to grant only a few additional sugar requests before August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
OPA
Iowa’s Collection Town Surpasses May Tin Tube Total
Iowa’s Collection Town gathered 6,578 pounds of collapsible tin tubes in May, lifting its running total to 47,982 pounds. The national May collection reached 397,052 pounds, about 10 percent lower than April. Get in the scrap.
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Sigs
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Hfe
Roy Brooks
Milter Guese
Gilmore City
Helen Neville
Lau
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Jim
Virginia Cox
Barbel
It Cox
Ed Christianson
J. Vivian Johnson
International Falls
Gill
Homer Beem
Ily
Iowa Falls
Muriel Wilson
Beem
Pyllis Ludwig
Whittemore
Grant Pollock
Coral Bob
Fort Hige
R. W. Blair
Erin
Harold Calligan
Denver
Colo
Ution
Fort Knox
Ken Fev
A. C. Long
Parentas
R. Seth
Oscar Snyder
Oscar Snyder’s Grave. Is Russel McIntire and Miss Isherine
Tors
Arthur Erickson
L. D. Smith
Ich
Leserman
Rolfer
John Cassidy
Cassidy
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Robert Herrik
Alta Hewlett
Murielli
Carol Bruce
How- Bruce
Mary Ellen
Vla Anderson
Om Dodze
Yithia Peterson
Ariel Peterson
Kenell
B. A. Peter
Ws. C
Paul Biedermann
Paul, Jr
Phyllis Ludwig
Whittemore Oil
Clyde Richards
Iteran
D. M. Steiner
Udreesboro
Tennessee
Sattay
Is. Steiner
Beth McEwen
Roy Nelson
I. W. F. Sehmeck
A. M. Simonson
Mthy Simonson
Enseth
Simonson
Park Wittenberger
Meth
G. C. Harris
Micago
Walter Janas
Walter
Rock Island
Clifford
Bessie Harris
Moines
Ifeterson
Rachel Spencer
Treyirn
Weis
Tal
West Des Moines
Eyre Marilynn Barrett
Shirkheidge
Manson
Cedar Paris
War Barrett
Bill Wikerberry
E. Eikenberry
Warren Freeman
C. L. Gunderson
Don Christianson
Pipestone
G. A. Everson
Patsy Hurley
Nat Tiernan
William Tiernan
C. A. Vaughn
Gary
Janice Ferden
John Mosbach
John E
Ernest Vaughn
Alice Klein
Humboldt
Miller Klein
Esther Ragan
I. W. Wilson
D. W. McGirk
Sam
Don Thompson
Town Falls
Mac Nicoson
Defense Board News
RIAL
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Iowa
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Bob Wills
Fighting Devil
Lee Powell
Herman Brix
Sun
Random Harvest
Ronald Coleman
Greer Garson
Philip Dorn
Donna Reed
James Hilton
Dent
New Labor
Col
Philip G. Bruton
U. S. War
Ritz Theatre
HPIYA
The
Ritz Bros
Jane Frazee
Robert Paige
Web
Henry Fonda
Maureen O'Hara
Thomas Mitchell
Emmetsburg
Abbot & Costello
Tennessee Johnson
van Heffin, Ruth Hussey
Crystal Ball
Paulette Goddard
Ray Mill
William Boyd
Andy Clyde
HeeHaw
John Lewis
J.T. Grant & Son
Paone
Bourry Biua
Eni
Elite Theatre
Laurens
Paul Muni News and Cartoon
Mon
China
Gene Tierney
Geo, Montgomery
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Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
Wheaties
Sturgeon Bay
Cherries
ARIES
Jack Sprat
Certo Bottle
Lewis Lye
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