Rolfe Arrotwlet Highlights School Activities
Rolfe students viewed four reels including St Augustine Nova Scotia Evangeline and Songs of Yesteryear. Normal training students practiced teaching in rural Rolfe schools with visits by Miss Grant Manson Christenson Sinek Sinek Tutt. North Central Teachers Convention heads to Ft Dodge with Rolfe schools closing Friday. U V Reclub met March 19 with Mother Goose theme and Trish lunch. Rolfe hosts a state basketball tournament with three grade divisions and a round robin leading to a grand final. teams named from Iowa City tournament towns include Mason City and Ames.
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Land of Evangeline
Rolfe
St. Augustine
Fla
Yesteryear
Nova Scotia
Aletta Grant
Beatrice Manson
Joyce Christenson
Mary Margaret Sinek
Bernice Rickless
Evelyn Struthers
Ruth Lundy
Jean Mather
Arlene Jarvis
Elizabeth Sheeley
Rachel Tutt
North Central Teachers Convention
North Central
Iowa Teachers Association
Ft. Dodge
Warden Hotel
U. V. R. Club
U. V. Reclub
Marcella Howland
Miss Hendrickson
St. Patricks
Iowa City
Mason City
Ames
Rats Evidence Found In Boos Home Leads To Report
The Leon Journal-Reporter notes evidence in its office showing a lead water-pipe fragment nibbled by rats. The piece was located in the home of Bill Boos.
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Leon Journal-Reporter
Bill Boos
Farmer dragged by line suffers knee injury near Clarinda
Gardiner S Hawkee a farmer residing near Clarinda was riding a horse when his foot caught in a line. He was dragged around the yard for several days until the line broke leaving him with a painful knee injury.
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GC. S. Hawkee
Clarinda
Diet For Safe Weight Control Diets and calories outlined by Dairy Council
The article promotes safe weight loss through a regulated diet and states diet as the key remedy for reducing fat. It cites calories per pound of fat and lists daily portions for milk vegetables fruits lean meat eggs and butter with sample meals and a claim that exercise can increase appetite.
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National Dairy Council
Dairy Council
Farm EcOpPises wary of wheat boom as war shifts farming
Dr W R Wertz argues Ohio State University data show farmers rush to more wheat in wartime may not boost 1940 farm income. World wheat stocks are high and Liverpool price fell despite war, while global consumption lags. Consumer resistance could blunt price gains and ruin the plan to plant extra acreages.
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Rural Economics Department
Ohio State University
Liverpool
Elizabeth
England
United States
Local Seeds Preferable for Tree Planting Says Forester
North Carolina State College extension forester R. W. Graeber argues local seeds from within 100 miles and under 1000 feet elevation yield better trees than distant stock. He notes seedlings vary in size and survival, usually favoring home-area sources due to climate adaptation.
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R. W. Graeber
North Carolina State College Extension Service
Graeber
State College Forester
Nation wide soil erosion effort first launched in 1933
The soil erosion problem grew with westward settlement, but 1933 marked a nationwide response with the Soil Conservation Service now directing demonstration areas in 45 states and Puerto Rico. The program operates through CCC camps and state extension services, involving about 70,000 land-holders and over 12 million privately owned acres.
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Soil Erosion Service
Soil Conservation Service
Puerto Rico
Deer fencing and culling efforts span eastern states
The report notes a deer problem in several eastern states with farmers and wildlife groups responding. Pennsylvania has built extensive deer fences while Michigan experiments with electric fences to protect crops. A Michigan farmer, allowed to shoot trespassing deer, killed 14 in a field before stopping due to ongoing deer pressure.
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Pennsylvania
Michigan
National Wildlife Federation
Rolfe School News Highlights Free Movie and Burns Program
Rolfe students enjoyed a free Wednesday movie titled The Progress of Man Matter and Materials, with a news commentator framing progress in manufacturing and auto safety. The junior English class then presented Scottish songs by Robert Burns, including Annie Laurie Coming Through the Rye and Oh Wert Thou in the Cold Cold Blast with performances by Lucille Brock Catherine McIntire Everett White Rachel Wiegman and others.
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Rolfe
Robert Burns
Burns
Lucille Brock
Annie Laurie
John Scott
Catherine McIntire
Everett White
Sweet Afton
Rachel Wiegman
John Anderson
My Jo
Jeanette Hauck
Marie White
Mendelson
Absences mark week for local students illness seen
Marjorie Taylor missed school all week and remains away due to scarlet fever. Ruth Roberts recuperates from pneumonia. Rachel Tutt underwent an appendectomy at Mercy Hospital last Thursday and is improving as expected.
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Marjorie Taylor
Ruth Roberts
Rachel Tutt
Mercy Hospital
Front Wheel Looses On Car In Ames Hits House
A car driven in Ames by Rolland Sellars of Forest City lost its front wheel which rolled into the house of C. P. Winsor. It struck the house hard enough to knock leaves from the cave troughs but caused no great damage.
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Ames
Rolland Sellars
Forest City
C. P. Winsor
Notice of probate of will in Pocahontas Iowa District Court
Katherine Boozell, Clerk of District Court in Pocahontas County Iowa, fixes April 16, 1940 at 2:00 PM for hearing proof of the will of Arthur Vaughn deceased dated June 16, 1927. All interested persons must appear to show cause why the instrument should not be probated as last will and testament.
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Iowa
Pocahontas County
Arthur’ ‘Vaughn
Pocahontas
Pocahontas, Town
Woman bitten by dog in Sunday school visit
Kathleen Miller of Dumont was bitten on the ear by a dog while visiting her grandmother Mrs. Kate Barnett in Aredale. Nine stitches were required. The report notes U S farm incomes in 1929 averaged under $600 on about 80 percent of farms.
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Kathleen Miller
Dumont
Kate Barnett
Aredale
United States
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Beach
Dr. W. R. Wertz
Rolfe School News
Guergia
Will
Katherine Boozell
Ford
Tudor
Ford Tudor
Del
Cheve
Buick
Pocahontas Auto Co
Pocahontas, Iowa
Stromberg
Hatchery
RN Aed
Chevolet
Chevrolet
Flint
Rolfe Auto Company
Rolfe, Iowa
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