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Rolfe World Hears News and Local Visitors
Rolfe residents share visits and news from friends and relatives across Iowa and Minnesota. Notables include J. A. Carroll learning of his son Pat’s wife’s death in Santa Maria California, and many gatherings at the DeWolf and Frees households. Oil-burning locomotive updates, birthdays, picnics, and town notices fill a bustling town chronicle.
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J. A. Carroll
Pat
Santa Maria
Cal
Dick Milley
Princeton
Minn
J. W. Parkens
Estherville
St. Paul
O. C. Carlson
Leona Smith
Rich
Fred Johnson
Ernest Forsell
Nina Hanson
Ruthven
F. C
J. E
Billy DeWolf
F. BE. Fuller
Sioux Rapids
Tom DeWolf
Tom
T. R. Campbell
J. T. Fraser
Campbells
DeWolf
C. R. Stoakes
Fred Stoakes
Ames
Grant Pollock
Petersons
Rolfe
Iowa
Mildred’ King
Spencer
Frank King
J. W. Tilton
Bradgate
W. J. Hotek
Baby
Fort Dodge
Lawrence Meech
Hansen Studio
Paul Lothian
Des Moines
Lily Lothian
Methodist Hospital
Rhoda Lothian
John
Clark Jolliffe
Guy Lothian
Humboldt
Allie Grant
Olerich
Clarence Calligan
Ottosen
Lou Larson
D. W. Trick
Mulholland
Ray Seaman
Plover
Edress
Minnesota
Milt
Lillian Kellner
Fla. Sernett
Cedar Rapids
Mary Sernett
G. C. Harris
Ft. Dodge
Harris
Mercy Hospital
L. W. Larson
Thor
Jewell Junction
J. L. Hall
Oscar Frees