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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1942
Page
3
Mrs Emory Kirby longtime Havelock resident died Sunday morning at about 4 oclock in the Emmetsburg hospital after a two week stay. Funeral services were held at the Laurens Catholic church with burial there. Survived by husband, several brothers and relatives.
The Gibson store held an annual orange day with a free orange for every dozen eggs traded. A dust storm toppled the Gaskill barn Monday night injuring no one in the milking shed. Relatives and friends visited at the Carlson home for dinner on Sunday as well as various local travels and visits.
Havelock High School lost to Laurens 11 to 8 Tuesday afternoon. The team will compete in the county tournament this week at Pocahontas.
The American Legion Auxiliary will sell red poppies on Poppy Day to raise funds. Proceeds support veterans programs and local assistance.
Havelock Methodist Church invites worshippers with Sunday service at 11 a.m. and Sunday school at 10 a.m. Next Friday the Woman's Society of Christian Service meets in the church parlors with hostesses Mesdames Hauswirth and Waters and serving committee including Hawn Henningson and Cornwell. Mrs. Bert Gaskill is chaplain and Mrs. J D Wolcott will present the study.
Mrs J Gordon Smith of Clarinda reports her brother Sgt Roy A Dodson among a quartet of American prisoners singing on a Tokyo radio program. The broadcast claimed to originate from an internment camp at Shanghai China to illustrate prisoner activities.
A hen at the How ard Fenton farm near Albia laid an egg bearing characters that resemble L WW 6. The cipher has not been deciphered to date.
Funeral services were conducted Monday at SSPeter and Pauls in Pocahontas for John Hotovec 88 who died Friday after a heart attack. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. Born in Czechoslovakia he came to the U.S. 60 years ago and lived in Pocahontas County since 1901. He was survived by a widow four sons four daughters 31 grandchildren and two great grandchildren with one sister and one brother. He was preceded in death by two daughters.
Installation of officers of St. Joan of Arc court No. 1113 WCOF took place Thursday evening at the court meeting at Mrs. D C Hood home. Mrs. Charles Nieman past chief ranger was installing officer and will be succeeded by Mrs. Charles Albrecht as chief ranger. Cards were played after the meeting.
Adolph Koebele led the winning high score in the Pocahontas public school defense course completed Friday. The event drew participants including Conrad Aronson Clayton Drobney Frank Goernor Archie Johnson Robert Naughton Marvin Peters Marion Steen and Clyde Williams. Refreshments were served by the committee at Donohoe Home where Priscilla Club hosted contract bridge with prizes to Mrs Alfred Miller Mrs Clarence Groff Mrs J L Powers and Mrs A C Carmichael and a consolation to Mrs L E Eckerson.
Mrs. Joseph Schoofs and Mrs. F J Lorge travel Saturday after word of the critical condition of their sister Mrs F J Groff of Remsen, injured in an automobile crash near New Hampton Friday night. Mr Groff also seriously hurt, son Clarence Groff of Pocahontas injured lightly. Phoenix club held season ending party with committee members and officers for next year named L J Elbert president Jospehine Posakony vice president Jennie Thornton secretary.
A May music program was given in the Des Moines Two auditorium Friday night May 1 at 830 under Miss Mary Rita Ehrhardt music instructor and grade teachers. The program featured rhythm band second and third grades piano solos duets and various vocal and instrumental items including selections by Betty Ann Struthers Keith Hewlett Opal Ryen Eugenia Fanning Joan Schonberger Mary Dean Fanning Claribel Micalek Shirley Heathman Deloras Schrier and others with performances from kindergarten through third grade and the Mother Goose Stories.
A brief page notes performances by soloists and duets at a school concert. Virginal Heath, Marvin Zeman, Mary Dean Fanning, Eugenia Fanning, and Bruce Rishel performed pieces including Daffodils and Valse in E Flat. Majorowicz played piano while the Flag Makers Club conducted by Miss Widman featured fourth and fifth grades.
Walter Saunders of Montezuma reports possession of a small size ten dollar bill, 3 by 2 inches, carried by his grandfather during the Civil War. The 1868 printed note remains legal currency.
Gauti and the smaller pigeon friends start with dry lot feed to get used to the new ration. After acclimation, they will be moved to the pasture without risk of stress or harm.
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