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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1936
Page
7
Neighbors gathered at Charles Pohl’s home for a farewell party as the Pohls plan to move to a Gilmore City farm. The evenings included games and a lunch, with Mrs. Pohl active in church work and the note that all will be missed.
A list details numerous farmer relocations in the Havelock area this week. Albert Martin moves from Pocahontas to Will Nowack farm, Fred Halder from Mallard to Froh farm, and Herman Classen from Curlew to Arthur Nowack’s former place, among many others including residence moves for Tom Edge and Will Nowack and room changes for Merrit Brazier.
News from Havelock Methodist Church includes services at 10:00, 11:00, and 7:00 with worship at Ware and Epworth league sessions. Fellowships with Laurens subdivision ministers, Ladies Aid, Epworth cabinet events, and meals at parsonage noted. Dr. E Stanley Jones quoted on choosing between communism fascism or Christianity during Lent.
The article explains comets as the bulkiest and lightest sun satellites, once feared yet now intriguing. It notes their head is a clump of tiny meteoroids bound by unknown forces, with tails that bend away from the sun due to heat and light pressure, sometimes at right angles to the sun line.
A historical note traces tipping to English inns where coin boxes bore prompts like to insure prompt service. The tale links tips to T I P initials, though Oxford records suggest tip derives from the verb to tip meaning to give. Examples from 1610 and 1706 illustrate early usage, with 1755 confirming widespread tipping.
The term sick man of Europe likely originates in journalism with Montesquieu's Persian Letters describing the Ottoman Empire as frail and needing strong but exhausting remedies. Some credit Nicholas I in 1853 for using the line in a Turkey discussion with a British diplomat.
The article notes the adult clothes moth has no nourishment and a brief adult life of about one month. Females start laying eggs before one day old and most die between days seven and fourteen. larvae are the ones that cause damage.
The Iroquois possessed nearly 2,000 Adirondack peaks some over a mile high and built a powerful confederation in a brisk climate. Their influence extended along the East Coast to the Carolinas covering almost four million square acres.
The Hartford Convention was a secret assembly of New England leaders in 1814 objecting to wartime policies. It proposed constitutional amendments to reduce Congress control over war and peace decisions.
Passage recounts early Rolfe life including a pneumonia death in 1870, burial in a brick schoolhouse, and family moves. Des Moines township school teaching by Mrs. R. W. MacVey, visit to the Des Moines courthouse, and the memory of wolf pelts hung in the recorder’s office.
The Pattersons and Watermans, brothers in law, housed upstairs in the county courthouse during the brutal winter of 1870 71. They burned county wood, paid no rent, and built wagons while several family members later achieved prominence. The structure was sold after the county seat moved, used as a granary, and parts of it were repurposed for the Tremont hotel in Rolfe. Frank LL. MacVey.
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