Fourth of July Celebration at Gilmore City
Gilmore City hosts a big Fourth of July program with baseball games, a morning parade, and an afternoon show featuring Donaldson Bros. air displays and parachute leaps. Trapeze acts, Pocahontas band music, fireworks, and nightly dances are planned. The event aims to boost crowds from Rolfe and nearby areas with a short return trip home afterward.
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Ialehbornt
Lizard
Clare
Yaclock
Humboldt
Gilmore City
Donaldson Bros
Pocahontas
Rolfe
Sweets Come Back to Storm Lake in Strong Season
George D. Sweet and his company opened a three night Storm Lake engagement with Cappy Ricks Fair and Warmer and The Girl He Could Not Buy. Everett Walker headed the cast in Cappy Ricks, Mrs. Sweet led Fair and Warmer, and the crowd praised the performances. The troupe, in its twenty fourth year here, will visit Rolfe on July 4 5 6 with the same prices.
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George
D. Sweet
Storm Lake
Sweet
Mr. Sweet
Cappy Ricks
Everett Walker
Walker
Sweets
Epworth League Gypsy Social Set At M E Church
The Epworth League will host a Gypsy social at the M E church on Saturday evening July 2. Ice cream and cake will be served for fifteen cents. Everyone is invited and expected to attend.
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Epworth League
M. E
Lutherans in Joint Program Held by Rolfe Churches
A joint program by Norwegian and Danish Lutheran youth in Rolfe featured hymns scripture reading and prayers. Participants included Trinity Choir with duets by Isaacson Redding Thompson and Simonson as well as Esther Berthelsen and Minnie Peterson. The service closed with a benediction.
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Rolfe
Trinity Choir
Histher
Agnes Isaacson Redding
Rose Thompson
Minnie Peterson
Andrew
Dora’ Simonson
Esther Berthelsen
Turkey Industry Highlight at Walter Spence Farm
Homer Malcolm visits his uncle Walter Spence west of town to discuss turkey production in Altus Oklahoma. He explains the plant shipped a car of birds daily during the season from early November to just before Christmas at thirty cents per pound, surpassing cotton as a cash crop. Turkeys forage on grasshoppers and the Altus plant is a large operation finishing thousands of chickens yearly.
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Homer Malcolm
Walter Spence
Homer
Altus
Okla
Wilson & Co
Missionary Society to Meet. Election of Officers Planned
The Woman's Missionary Society of the M. E. church will meet Friday July 8 at 2 30 p m Mrs W P Wheeler will give the home lesson and Mrs F A Malcolm the foreign lesson All ladies invited and members urged to attend as annual officers election will be held at this meeting Place of meeting will be announced next week.
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Woman’s Missionary Society of the
M. E. Church
W. P. Wheeler
F. A. Malcolm
Arrow announces reduced outside subscription price
The Arrow reduces the annual outside county subscription from $2.50 to $2.00 cash in advance citing lower paper costs. If postal rates rise, further changes may occur, but the paper hopes to maintain the low rate despite possible increases.
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Uncle Sam
Visitors Thrive: DeWolf Home Hosts Gilberts and Virginias
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Bagg and Miss Virginia visited the F. C. DeWolf home over Sunday. They joined C. BE. Clifford, Mrs. H. C. Barnes and daughter Miss Bernadine who went to Fort Dodge on Tuesday for Bernadine’s tonsillectomy.
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Gilbert Bagg
Virginia
F. C. DeWolf Home
C. BE. Clifford
H. C. Barnes
Bernadine
Fort Dodge
Rebekah Convention in Rolfe Iowa Open Session
The Seventy sixth District of Iowa Rebekahs meet at the I O O F hall in Rolfe. The program covers reception of visitors opening session with addresses and prayers, minutes readings, roll call, reports from lodges, afternoon sessions on various papers and contests, balloting, question box, and selecting next convention site followed by supper.
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Alice Klein
Rolfe
Jennie Stiller
Havelock
Martha Hansen
Maggie’ Heathman
Margaret Ferguson
Pocahontas
Dolly Wykef
Fonda
Emma, Miller
Rebekah
Ed Meredith
Amateur Golf Scores Snapshots From Weekly Roundups
Amateur players show varied progress with scores noted but many details are garbled. Scores range around the low fifties and sixties for listed players including Brace, Seifert, Wheeler, Ritchey, White, Peterson, Theobald, Gook, Beok, Siefiinge, Elwood Garlock, Bruce, Hunter and Campbell.
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M. Brace
P. Seifert Payer
W. P. Wheeler
Sania
Ritchey
Eesnin- Ga. White
Arthur Peterson
Theobald
Bruce
Robert Hunter
Heat sets June record as crops suffer in storm
The region faces a sweltering June with some thermometers at 100 degrees and a passing comet tail rumor. A damaging hail storm hits Mallard area, winds topple corn and oats, with more rain and wind overnight helping potatoes and corn, though harvests remain difficult.
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Mallard
Trinity Lutheran Church Services Notice
Rev Carl M Vevile presiding with morning English service at eleven. Sunday school after the morning service. Young People's Luther League at seven. Evening Norwegian service at eight. All welcome to attend any or all services.
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Young People’s
Luther League
Not Webbed Feet Nor Shallow Wages In Patins Story
A South Dakota banker questions an Irish farmer Pat about borrowing money after a corn shipment. Pat quips that the ducks took the earnings, from fifty-two cents sale to five cents after deductions for freight, commission, elevator charges, husking, shillings, hauling, and hired man wages, illustrating harsh farming conditions.
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South Dakota
Pat
Vacation Bible School closes with 80 enrollees
Rev. John P. Lester leads the Presbyterian Church in a note on the second daily Vacation Bible School ending midweek with eighty boys and girls enrolled. An open service this Sunday invites parents and friends to view work, with handwork exhibits and a sermon by the pastor. Newly elected Christian Endeavor officers will be installed at evening service.
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Christian Endeavor. Society
Woman’s Missionary Society
A. W. Ives
Tomato production prospects and local farming experimentation
The writer reflects on tomato yields from a May planted potted plant and notes June 29 harvests, contending early tomatoes can fetch high prices. They urge local experimentation on river bottom lands to grow berries and other crops, suggesting ten acres could yield as much as a quarter section with proper crops and markets.
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Florida
Claremont
Rolfe
Wrenching Arm Injury Slows Mrs Cleaver
Mrs. Nora Cleaver suffered a sizable puncture when a rusty nail pierced her arm on Monday. Prompt surgical care was given and doctors reported no danger of infection.
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Nora Cleaver
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Gilmore Crry
Epworth League Social
Missionary Society
First National Bank
Rebekah Convention
Trinity Lutheran Church
Carl M. Vevile
Buddy’. Morrison
Presbyterian Church Notes
John P. Lester
Frances Cruickshank
Balaton, Minn
F. C. DeWolf
Junior Endeavor Bible School
Christian Endeavor
Carmel Myers In
Eileen Percy
Oliver Thomas
Tarzan
Rolfs
Iowa
Board of Directors
J.B. Kent
Robert Brich James Bruce W
U&bwen
Joseph MehWiEn
the State Savings Bank
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