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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1968
Page
6
Editor Sandy Spencer announces March 28 kindergarten visitation and no kindergarten classes on March 29 with no school. Parent visits scheduled for K-12 on April 3. Special American Composer’s Concert on March 5 and FHA trip to Des Moines. Elementary music program on March 8 and FFA banquet at Stub’s.
Alice Rickard, RHS senior, stands 6'2" with brown eyes and piano of activity. She balances honors classes, chorus, glee, FHA, and Dart staff with a job at Sunset Hill Manor while planning nursing studies after graduation. She enjoys reading In Cold Blood sewing TV shows and shrimp, dislikes irresponsibility. The Lions Club honored RHS with a banquet and speakers.
The article cites Roman lore linking April Fools to Proserpina and Pluto in the underworld with daffodils in the Elysian fields. It notes Ceres hearing the echoes and describes the tale as one of many differing legends about the origin of playful April pranks.
The text notes April Fools customs lasting centuries in India and England with pranks tracing to the eighteenth century. American colonists adopted the practice from England, suggesting it as a notable but lighthearted cultural import.
Readers name a mix of candidates for 1968 with Kennedy Nixon Johnson and Rockefeller frequently cited. Some predict Kennedy or Nixon to win the Democratic or Republican nominations, others hedge on the field.
Adolph Anderson of Eagle Grove was honored on his 96th birthday February 24 with a party attended by many friends and relatives. The event marked a joyful milestone in his long life.
Local households report Sunday visits among the Vand Wirs George Smith Heathman and George Spence households in Cherokee with extended relatives from St Joe and Rolfe. A fall from a fence injured Robin Swan, 34, while visiting the Nielsen family. Other arrivals include visitors from Winnipeg and Minneapolis, plus gatherings in Cedar Rapids Mason City and Algona with multiple relatives attending church and meals.
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