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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1941
Page
7
Local residents and visitors from Algona Humboldt Whittemore Estherville Lake City Glidden Des Moines Sioux City and Ames drop by for dinners visits and weekend stays. Notable names include Dr W W Beam Leonard Tangeras Norton Ives and the Kauffman family with numerous kin and friends cited in weekly notes.
Mrs C J Moon travels to Dubuque to spend the week with son in law and daughter. Gilmore visitors include Mr and Mrs Curtis Jones Miss Marjorie Hansen and Barton Streit. Miss Marybeth Brinkman visits Ames for spring break. Families dine in Gilmore and Fort Dodge. Rochester Minnesota trip for Mrs Grant after operation. Soth attend Iowa Press association convention in Des Moines. Pollyanna club meets at Donald Eikenberry home with Mrs Jarvis and Mrs Locke among attendees.
Mr and Mrs George Lane moved from an apartment in Mrs Etta Symes house to a block west of the Ritz theater recently vacated by the Tony Nielsen family. Mr and Mrs H C Grafton visited over the weekend at the home of Mrs Graftons parents in Sanborn. Mr and Mrs J J Dolan who lived in Marshalltown have returned to Rolfe and are settled in their north home.
An American visitor outlines Mexico’s peso value and living costs, noting a peso equals twenty cents and prices vary wildly from gas at ten dollars to a hotel room for three local dollars. He contrasts labor income with purchasing power, and praises Monterey’s cathedral, colors, and tranquil streets 146 miles south of the border.
The west town area remains occupied by the Paul Snooks family living on South Main. Kenneth and Gladys Stafford departed for a new farm near Hartington Nebraska. Mrs. Marston Feaster Mrs. Harold Selstead and Vernon Feaster returned from Minneapolis after attending the funeral of their grandfather J. L. Feaster in Rolfe.
Mrs Myrtle Hartgraves and Misses Della Brehmer and Myrtle Burgett, nurses at Spencer hospital, were guests Tuesday at the J C Olerich home. Mr H C Wiegman and wife returned from Rochester Minn after his operation and are back at work. Orvan Olerich entertained at dinner Sunday with Dr W F Brinkman of Pocahontas and families H F Olerich Ellwood H D Brinkman and Davia.
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