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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1926
Page
5
Doris McCray presents tested corn sugar recipes for readers including Parkerhouse rolls and coffee cake. The article explains doubling sugar in bread, yeast activation, dough handling, rising times, and baking at 400 to 425 degrees, noting corn sugar keeps bread moist and browns quickly. It also includes cinnamon buns with corns sugar and lemon rind.
Mason Michigan farmer L H Laylin who won the 1925 International Hay and Grain Show explains alfalfa culture on a Radio Farm School program. He urges planting depth soil inoculation and uses Grimm seed for better stands. He describes sowing in a prepared seed bed and curing hay in small cocks for quality output.
Milo Reno state president of the Farmers Union spoke at Butler Hall Rolfe to a packed audience from Pocahontas county. He defended farmer rights to legislative aid argued for cost of production plus a profit and criticized competing committees as redundant. The two hour address covered the Corn Belt farm issue and the value of strong organization.
Rev. J. P. Lester's class of young married people held their regular monthly social at the Brinkman home with Clinton Miller and L. R. Duxbury assisting. Guests wrote messages, identified noses through a curtain, and spun the bottle game. Delicious cats were served before “High Twelve.” No serious mishaps occurred among about forty guests.
The County Credit Bureau holds a banquet on Tuesday evening April 6 at Poca hontas. Tickets cost 1.00 to cover supper and speaker expenses. Principal speaker C. D. Streeter of Keokuk leads a gathering praised for its helpful, instructive value and social program with music and good time.
Iowa City announces bids for a new 2.5 million general hospital with 700 beds expected within sixty days. It will be the state’s largest teaching hospital linked to the state university system and part of expanded University hospitals totaling about 1,000 beds. State patients under Perkins and Haskell Klaus laws will be cared for, and medical laboratories under construction should be finished by September 1.
The Woman's Club of Des Moines Township will stage a carnival at the D. M. T. school house next Friday evening March 26 at eight o clock to fund a new piano. An orchestra program playlet songs and musical readings will be presented. Booths include Trip Around the World Fish Pond Blind Man Peanuts Menagery Fortune telling and more. All are invited for a good time and value.
A colleague recalls Reno as not radical and that he always favored the law over organizational policy when in conflict. The note adds that changing the law remains a legal option and credits Reno's Rolfe visit with advancing agriculture.
James C Christensen son of Martin and Anna Christensen. born near Nagle Grove Iowa October 8 1893 died in Los Angeles California March 18 1926 age 32 years 5 months 10 days. Navy veteran 1917 1921 served on a submarine. later chief engineer on Los Angeles S S Co ship Calawan. Autopsy inconclusive heart failure suspected. Survived by parents five brothers and three sisters and in laws and uncles. Funeral held at Methodist church Clinton cemetery interment by Masonic lodge and American Legion.
The Struthers couple of D M T and EK J in Plover marked their 46th wedding anniversary with a surprise gathering. Sons Alex and Will, plus relatives from Ottosen and nearby families, staged a playful reenactment with grandsons Floyd and Lee acting as bride and groom. The event left many with fond memories and wishes for future celebrations.
We thank friends and neighbors for their kindness and help through the sickness and at the funeral of our father Wm. M. Dickey. Mrs. Frank Sroufe and other daughters and sons. Sell it with an Arrow Adlet.
At the Laurens theatre on Saturday March 20 more than 300 people attended a motion picture event. Farmers brought soil samples for testing while E S Dyas of Iowa State College spoke on alfalfa and sweet clover.
Cordes of Gilmore reports capon profits with top birds at 3.60 and 0.45 per pound for over seven and a half pounds while five pound capons bring 0.37. He favors large breeds and winter sales from January to March. Dry picking and careful packing are emphasized. A Farm Bureau poultry flock is planned. Iowa State College tests show 84 percent seed strength for early 1925 seed corn, 50 percent for late, and 69 and 53 percent for 1924 crib corn respectively. Newspapers aid seed corn interest. testing is available at Rolfe, Gilmore City and Pocahontas. Imported seed likely yields less than county-grown, tested seed.
The town news lists three ballot slates for mayor council and other posts with names such as Damberg Bruce and Kelley and notes voting by machinery. The piece remarks on lack of campaigning and predicts Morris Webb as treasurer with odds at three to one.
Buxbom who had been ill for weeks at the Mrs E M Wilcox residence passed away on Wednesday forenoon Mar 24 from internal cancer. He walked with a friend Friday before hemorrhages rapid decline followed. Nurse Miss Billings aided care. Daughter Mrs C O Hansen and husband were en route from Long Beach Calif. funeral arrangements to be set on their arrival. An obituary will appear next week.
The Woman's Club will hold its regular meeting Friday afternoon April 2 at the K of P hall. A speaker will be present.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Christensen and family express deep appreciation to friends neighbors and the Masonic fraternity for sympathy help and floral offerings during their recent bereavement.
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