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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1914
Page
12
Local news from Mallard covering visits by residents and neighbors, upcoming dances at the opera house and J M Bush home, carnival and basket social plans, and moves to new farms. Names include Eggspuehier, Meredith, Graham, and Roberts families, with community happenings and social reminders.
Mrs P R Henderson and Mrs G J Poppenheimer will host a church luncheon in the basement on March 12. All invited for a social hour and the regular business meeting. Ladies who furnished table linen for the dedication banquet urged to check pieces and arrangements. Mrs J W Phillips seeks exchange for a mislaid tablecloth left in the basement.
The Roberts family thanks friends and neighbors for help during illness and death of their husband and father and for the flowers. Mrs. W. A. Roberts and Family.
Readable notes describe a March 13 carnival at the school featuring a big parade at 7:30 pm, a Broadway style show Jacob Schraft’s Mistake with actors from New York, a Japanese and German booths exhibit, a House of Seven Wonders, and various attractions priced at five and ten cents.
M W A members will meet at the Plover hall Monday evening March 9 to elect two delegates for the Pocahontas April convention and handle lodge business. Ames Improvement Co seeks subscriptions to raise 20000 to guarantee Mayor Parley Sheldon and builders A H and M I Munn for a proposed 100000 four story hotel. Detectives pursue Jack Crawford Roy Davis and J W Murphy after a jail break near Grate in Pottawattamie county. Maxwell Presbyterian Church has let contracts to build a new modern church costing about 290010.
William A Roberts born March 6 1838 near Manchester Indiana died February 24 1914 at his home in Plover Indiana aged 75 years 11 months 18 days. He left a large family including four sons and fourteen grandchildren and was buried in Powhatan cemetery after services at the Plover M B church with several pastors in attendance.
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