Rolfe High Posts Film Program and Teacher Training News
Rolfe Arrowlet reports four film reels shown to Rolfe students including St Augustine Nova Scotia Evangeline and Songs of Yesteryear. Normal training seniors practiced teaching in rural Rolfe schools with visits to local Misses Grant Munson Christenson Sinek Sinek Tutt. North Central Teachers Convention in Ft Dodge prompts Rolfe schools to close Friday. U V R Club met March 19. St Patrick theme and Mother Goose talk featured. Rolfe hosts state basketball tournament with junior sophomore and freshman classes forming teams. finals to crown champion with Mason City Ames as placeholder names.
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Land of Evangeline
Rolfe
St. Augustine
Fla
Yesteryear
Nova Scotia
Aletta Grant
Beatrice Munson
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
Marcella Howland
Miss Hendrickson
St. Patricks
Town City
Mason City
Ames
Iowa City
Rats Evidence Found In Boos Home Office Claim
In the Leon Journal-Reporter office, investigators present a piece of lead water-pipe found at Bill Boos’s home that had been nibbled by rats.
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Leon Journal-Reporter
Bill Boos
Farmer Hurt After Horse Dragging Near Clarinda
C. B. Hawkee of Clarinda was dragged by a horse when his foot caught in a line and the animal pulled him around the yard until the line snapped. He suffered a knee injury and remained bedridden for several days.
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Hawkee
Clarinda
Diet For Safe Weight Control
Safe weight control centers on a calorie controlled diet with dairy nutrition from the National Dairy Council. It emphasizes moderate calories, regular life patterns, and balanced meals including milk vegetables fruits lean protein eggs butter and whole grain bread.
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National Dairy Council
Dairy Council
Farmers gamble on wheat if war ends profits are uncertain
Dr. W R Wertz summarizes Ohio State university findings that some farmers plant more wheat hoping for higher prices after war. However global grain stocks are high, world wheat prices are low, and wartime consumption may not rise, risking farm income in 1940.
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W. R. Wertz
Rural Economics Department
Ohio State University
Liverpool
Elizabeth
England
United States
Local Seed Advantage in Tree Planting
North Carolina State College extension forester R W Graeber says home grown seeds outperform distant stock. Local seeds within 100 miles and within 1000 feet elevation adapt better to planting sites, with seedlings showing more favorable size and survival over time.
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R. W. Graeber
North Carolina State College Extension Service
Graeber
State College Forester
Nation wide soil erosion program expands across states
Since 1933 the soil conservation service has grown into a nationwide effort with 175 demonstration areas in 45 states and Puerto Rico. Erosion control advances under CCC camps supervision with hundreds of farms replanned and almost 70 000 landholders in cooperative efforts across more than 12 million acres of private land.
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Soil Erosion Service
Soil Conservation Service
Puerto Rico
Deer problem spurs fencing efforts across eastern states
A surge of white tail deer in eastern states threatens farmers. Pennsylvania erected long deer-proof fences while Michigan tests electric fences to protect crops. The National Wildlife Federation reports on the issue. A Michigan farmer who killed 14 trespassing deer in one field quit after more deer continued.
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Pennsylvania
Michigan
National Wildlife Federation
Rolfe School News Pictures Show and Burns Singers
Rolfe students enjoyed a free screening titled The Progress of Man Matter and Materials illustrating manufacturing advances since the turn of the century. A junior English program featured Burns songs and readings with Lucille Brock Catherine McIntire Everett White and Rachel Wiegman performing roles and music. Marjorie Taylor and Ruth Roberts were absent with scarlet fever and pneumonia, while Rachel Tutt underwent an appendectomy and is improving.
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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
Marjorie Taylor
Ruth Roberts
Rachel Tutt
Mercy Hospital
Front Wheel Loosened Car Hits Ames House
A front wheel came off a car driven in Ames by Rolland Sellars of Forest City. It rolled into the house of C. P. Winsor, striking hard enough to knock leaves from the cave troughs. No major damage reported.
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Ames
Rolland Sellars
Forest City
C. P. Winsor
Notice of Probate of Will in Pocahontas County Iowa
In District Court Pocahontas County Iowa an instrument purporting to be the last will of Arthur Vaughn deceased dated June 16 1927 was filed opened and read on April 16 1940. The court fixed 2 00 P M on that day for proof and all interested persons must appear and show cause why the will should not be probated. Dated Pocahontas Iowa March 12 1940. Katherine Boozell Clerk of District Court.
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State OF Iowa
Pocahontas County
Arthur Vaughn
Court House
Pocahontas
Iowa
Said County
Bitten Child Seeks Care After Dog Bite in Dumont
Kathleen Miller visiting grandmother Mrs Kate Barnett at Aredale was bitten by a dog while returning from Sunday school. The dog leaped and bit her ear requiring nine stitches. The incident raises concern for future safety around dogs.
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Kathleen Miller
Dumont
Kate Barnett
Aredale
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Harm ‘S Opics
Rolfe School News
Katherine Boozell
Ford Tudor
Cheve
Pocahontas Auto Co
Pocahontaz, Iowa
Stromberg
Hatchery
Chevrolet
Evrolet
Flint
Rolfe Auto Company
Rolfe, Iowa
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