Local Diddings and Club Notes From Rolfe Iowa
Iowa State College students Misses Mariel Rudolfson Mildred Heald and Wessy Ralph and LeRoy Nelson returned to Ames Monday after spring vacation. The Y M C A Bridge club met at Pocahontas with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Alexander and guests. The club plans to meet April 8 with Mrs. Walter Lortz. Mr. and Mrs. Chas Hurley learned their son Ralph Hurley and nephew John Dillinger were hospitalized at Mankato Minnesota with serious burns. Tuesday club met at Mrs. C J Morrison with Irish stories and a review of God Wills It. The club will meet April 8 with Mrs. J R McIntire. New smocks at Cora Lighter’s. J B Adkins of Des Moines, representing the Iowa Society for Friendless, visited Rolfe. Ministers gave Bible study and he spoke on crime prevention at the school. Adkins spoke from experience with released and paroled prisoners.
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Iowa State College
Mariel Rudolfson
Mildred Heald
Wessy Ralph
LeRoy Nelson
Ames
Y. M. C. Bridge Club
Martin Alexander
Pocahontas
Louis Shors
Walter Lortz
Chas. Hurley
Ralph Hurley
John Dillinger
Mankato
Minn
C. J. Morrison
J. B. Adkins
Des Moines
Iowa Society For Friendless
Rolfe
Adkins
Methodist Church Schedule Promotes Evening Concert and Services
Rev W A Wilkinson leads Sunday worship at 11 00 a m and 7 30 p m with a 6 80 p m Epworth League session and 7 30 p m midweek prayer meeting The Riverside Methodist choir from Fort Dodge performs a varied program following the morning service The W C T U meets Friday at 2 30 p m at the parsonage.
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Epworth League
Riverside Methodist Church of
Fort Dodge
Harrington
Beethoven
Wilson Hark
Baines
Adams
Bernice Anderson
Clara Long
Riley-Stenson
Foote
Johnson
Valley of Prayer
Mae Anderson
Dora Killam
Roma
Somerset
Blount
Stott- O’hara
Clara
Ethel
Penn
Bertha Barnhill
Lutkin
Stainer
Three Humboldt County Women Enter Mayoral Races
Three women file for mayorships in Humboldt County towns. Mary H. S. Johnston seeks re election in Humboldt on March 31 and is unopposed. Bertha VanAlstine campaigns to lead Gilmore City after two years as mayor, recalling a 1920s controversy involving the town marshal. Clarence Burr runs for Bradgate mayor, active Farm Bureau member and Humboldt County grand jury alumna.
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Humboldt County
Mary H. S. Johnston
Humboldt
Bertha VanAlstine
Gilmore City
VanAlstine
H. S. VanAlstine
Gilmore Exchange Bank
Clarence Burr
Bradgate
Simple home tests to verify fabric purity
Iowa State College textile experts describe quick at home methods to tell if fabric labeled as silk or rayon is genuine. By burning threads and using a lye test, housewives can distinguish pure wool and determine fiber content with simple results.
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Iowa State College
Becker to be tried at Pocahontas
Forty seven new district court cases are filed for Pocahontas County opening March term with Judge James DeLand presiding. The state case against Henry G. Becker from Independence, charged as an accomplice in the Gilmore City Exchange Bank robbery, is slated as the term’s lead trial, after a Feb 10 delay due to his attorney’s illness. A summons for petit jurors is issued for the first week of court.
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District Court
Pocahontas County
James DeLand
Storm Lake
Henry G. Becker
Becker
Independence
Aug. Becker
Gilmore City Exchange Bank
Arrow
Laurens Enjoys Boom as Homes and Businesses Rise
Laurens experiences a spring building boom with four new houses contracted and two completed last winter. Remodeling is under way and a new filling station starts at the end of Primary No. 10. Families seek housing as all space is occupied and business houses are full. Watch Laurens grow.
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Laurens
Present day foods criticized by Iowa State specialists
Home economists at Iowa State College say modern American fare lacks the nutrition of pioneer era diets. They note immigrants show healthier outcomes after adopting traditional coarse peasant foods, suggesting earlier whole grains dried fruits and vegetables were superior to today's meals.
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Iowa State College
Emmetsburg Weekend Visits and Juror Call
Plover Patriot reports Emmetsburg visitors including Mrs Fred Forsythe and the Shaw families. Supt Fritz of Curlew and M I Helvig hosts. Local shoppers from Emmetsburg noted. Woman's Home Missionary society to meet Mrs J H Bucher for mite box opening Tuesday at 3 PM. W H Roberts visit Rolfe home. Several women named as petit jurors for county capital service next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Forsythe
P. J
Geo. S. Shaw
Emmetsburg
Election Proclamation Notice for Rolfe Iowa 1930
The qualified electors of the Incorporated Town of Rolfe Iowa are notified that the regular election for town officials will be held at the fire equipment house on Monday March 31 1930 from 8 00 a m to 7 00 p m The offices to be elected include one mayor five councilmen one treasurer one assessor and one park commissioner Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly James Bruce Mayor
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Rolfe
Iowa
James Bruce
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Cora Lighter’s
White Rocks
Diggs
Joe J. Johnson
L. E. Buck
Plover
Tillie Hanson
Phone
Conrad Majorowicz
O. C. Schleusner
Havelock
Arly
Ohio
New Yorker
Poland
China
Victor Shimon
Monarch Range
Owen Patterson
Northwestern Aluminum
Business Man
C. M. Patterson
Frank Atherton
S. C. White Leghorn
D. H. Bower
R. C. R. J. Reds
Louis Nemecek
Florence Kelsey
Kalamazoo
Clarence Smoot
Chas. Majorowicz
T. H. Fisher
Charles Knutson
John Deere
Thompson Bros
Orpington
A. V. Graeber
L. T. Lundy
Hess & Son
W. P. Wheeler
Spencer
Lowa
Spencer Chick Hatchery
Spencer, Ia
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. A. Wilkinson
Black Hills
South Dakota
Don Johnson
Sioux Falls
S. D
Arthur Somers Roche
Rolfe Arrow
America
Ritz
Columbia Mills
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