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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1929
Page
2
Rolfe residents enjoy a calm period with visitors from Fort Dodge and Spencer noted. Calls include the Pythian Sisters meeting on April 3 and ongoing smallpox cases in the region. A large crowd celebrated Bob and Maude Ives’s twentieth wedding anniversary with food and a keepsake rocker.
The Presbyterian Church reports Sunday services from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. with Sunday school at 11:15 a.m. and youth groups. Easter services are planned with a breakfast at 7:00 a.m. and a 10:00 a.m. service. A baptismal service for children is scheduled for next Sunday morning and parishioners are urged to notify the pastor by Friday night. The annual canvass and congregation meeting are announced for early April.
Improved tracts offered by A W Graeber Rolfe Iowa 120 acres at 180 per acre 160 acre farm at 12750 per acre 240 acre best farm at 140 per acre good terms Town properties of all sizes listed Includes Rolfe contact A W Graeber for details
T D Jones purchased the so called L C Thornton lots on Broad street east of the State Savings Bank and intends to erect an office building. Workers are cleaning the site, previously a dumping ground, a civic improvement praised as valuable to the town.
Pastor J O Wanghberg conducts morning worship at 10:00 a m. Luther League at 11:00 a m. Evening service at 7 30 p m. Communion Friday morning March 29 at 10 30. Prayer meeting Wednesdays. Catechism class Saturday March 30 at 7 00 p m. Ladies Aid meets with Mrs Andrew Simons on Wednesday April 3. Sunday evening service a joint affair with Luther League. Pastor discusses Life Unending.
Old Man Winter is blamed for reduced pig crops in Iowa as many early litters suffer heavy losses from weak and dead piglets. Livestock extension man E L Quaife says cold, deep snow kept sows indoors and exercise limited, with possible low protein in rations.
Rev W A Wilkinson and the Methodist Episcopal Church invite members to Easter services with an aim of 250 in Sunday school. Easter envelopes fund Home and Foreign Missions with a sermon on The Angels Rolled Away the Stone. Baptism, catechism enrollment, and Good Friday communion service are announced.
Rev L H Kjoller leads Nain Lutheran services with seven weekday worships and an Easter program. A prayer meeting at 8:00 p m and an evening program with music are planned, with Ladies' Aid Society events at Mrs Ly Johnson's country home on April 2 at 2:00 p m.
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