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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1967
Page
8
Rental notice for a 65 room modern house five miles northwest of Rolfe on paved road. Box 86 A A Rolfe. Remembrances from Mrs Dennis Wagner and DeAnn noted with appreciation.
A collection of heartfelt thank you notes from readers expressing appreciation for cards letters calls gifts flowers food and visits during hospital stays and after bereavement. The messages mention gratitude to friends relatives caregivers and supporters for kindness and sympathy shown to family members.
Northwest and West Central Iowa feeders are invited to a Feeder Cattle Grub and Feedlot Conditioning Conference in Cherokee on March 16. The program features a tour of Wilson Packing Co beef department, talks by Dr. John Herrick Iowa State and a diagnostic lab representative on Iowa feedlot losses, plus Dr. August Krause Dean Rinner and local feeder participants. It begins 10 00 a m at Wilson and Company and moves to the Country Kitchen Restaurant for dinner. The Cherokee Chamber Agriculture Bureau co sponsored this event.
The 73rd celebration for Mr and Mrs George Lockwood of Larrabee honored their 78th anniversary on February 7. George is 92 and Ruth is 91, described as years young in the report.
Twenty eight instrumental students from Rolfe Junior High will take part in the Northwest Iowa grade and junior high solo music contest at Storm Lake this Saturday March 11. Buena Vista College and Westmar College with the Northwest Iowa Bandmasters Association host the event with about 1200 entries at the Buena Vista campus. W B Green is local chairman and fourteen centers operate in Dixon Hilers Hall and the Swope Hall basement. Each student will be rated by judges and receive a merit certificate from the college. Gene Wibben Rolfe music director and accompanists will also attend.
The Gilmore City Bradgate High School dedicated a new addition on February 27, named the Wolcott Activities Center in honor of Belva Wolcott for 26 years of service. The facility includes music rooms, a multipurpose space, kitchen, biology lab, showers, and additional shop space with guided tours by National Honor Society members.
Five Pocahontas County farmers gathered this week to outline conservation plans for their farms, as stated by Don Trenary, chairman of the conservation district.
The Soil Conservation District in Pocahontas reports farms in Rolfe and nearby areas prepared complete soil conservation plans with help from Henry D. Tordoff of the USDA SCS. District commissioners warn orders for trees and shrubs are filling fast and urge timely contact at the Pocahontas SCS office or with commissioners Trenary DeWolf Lund Janssen Crotty.
The week lists Methodist Church events in Plover including W S C S at 2 pm and quarterly conference at 7 pm, youth class, church school, worship, and a joint Lenten service with Havelock. Community social notes mention visits and gatherings at the Westerman home and neighboring houses with local residents attending birthdays and dinners.
A February banquet at the Havelock Methodist Church parlor drew 130 attendees. Mrs. Russell Enockson gave the welcome, with toastmistress Mrs. Glenn Forsythe and other speakers including Alice Peterson and Diane Enockson. Guests came from several towns and a European camping slide program was shown.
The March Cub Scout Pack 56 meeting is set for March 29 at 7 30 p m in Plover Methodist Church with theme Handy men as boys learn carpentry tools Friendly Circle met at Woodrow Otto home with 14 members and co host Mrs Glenn Otto K S K Club met at J R Hough home with 20 members and 5 children present Roll call asked What have you done this winter A card shower planned for Byron Hubbell s birthday March 18 On Conference Teams Diand Enoyhson of Plover named to girls first team all conference and Jim Rude of Have lock named 18th team center for the 1986 1967 basketball season
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