Norma Shearer to star in Strange Interlude at Rolfe shows
Norma Shearer and Clark Gable head a Rolfe Promotion Club bill featuring Strange Interlude with an adult cast and aging characters. The Broadway hit returns after a long run and plays Saturday May 13 at 7:00 PM and Sunday May 14 at 7:30 PM. Wednesday and Thursday May 17-18 offer Rockabye starring Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea, with 7:30 PM starts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enuf
Ritz
Rolfe
Clark Gable
Constance Bennett
Joel McCrea
Webb's One Cent Sale At Webb's Drug Store
Webb's Drug Store promotes a three day one cent sale Thursday Friday and Saturday May 18 19 20. The ad touts nearly one hundred percent savings on Rex all remedies and lists the full offering. Read the ad in this issue for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webb’s Drug Store
Rexall
Jake Tellier Dies in Richmond at 82
Jacob Tellier, a former Rolfe businessman known to local old timers, died at his Richmond Virginia home May 2 1983. He had lived in Virginia five years after residing in Humboldt where he was born. He was eighty two years old. His body was brought back to Humboldt for interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Tellier
Rolfe
Richmond
Virginia
Humboldt
Hawley and Harris Named as Delegates at Conventions
The repealists and anti repealists held mass conventions at Pocahontas on Monday to name delegates alternates and election officials for the special election on June 20 to decide the eighteenth amendment. Hawley and Harris emerged as delegates with their respective groups also naming alternates and polling officials for northeast precincts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Iowa
Roy McCormick
Marshall Township
E. R. Donohoe
Po- Pigeons
Fred K. Hawley
Laurens
Mr. Hawley
Geo. W. Day of
Fonda
Harris
Fred Dubbert
Swan Lake Township
Wilbur W. Harris
Wilbur W.haris
Pp. J. Shaw
Player
Clinton Township
Geo. O. Hauck
James Bruce
Mary McIntire
Des Moines
N. C. Nielsen
H. C. Kauffman
William Gibbons
Garfield
Thos. J. Raines
Thos. Wiley
M. J. McCreary
Powhatan
F. R. Eggspuehler
C. A. Zeck
Wm. Nowack
Roosevelt Township
Rolfe Promotion Club Meets Reports on Movie Fund and Arbor Day
The Rolfe Promotion Club held its regular meeting at the usual Place with J. C. Damborg acting as chairman. Reports covered film committee finances, the upcoming Iowa Products movie, Arbor Day tree planting at City Park, school pupil Miss Mabel Clemons reciting, ball grounds work, and preparations for a new backstop and water system. Dr. H. C. Lawson named chairman from June 1, Bert A. Peterson to chair on May 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe Promotion Club
Riches’ Cafe
J. C. Bregotti
J. C. Damborg
J. E. Rickard
Iowa
G. S. Shriner
Treasury
George C. Hauck
Barney Bruce
C. B. Bowen
Mabel Clemons
Rolfe School
Valentine Hauck
H. C. Lawson
Bert A. Peterson
Mary Melson Elected President of Agora at Morningside
Miss Mary Melson, daughter of Rolfe, won the Agora presidency at Morningside College Sioux City after three years of service including YWCA activity debating and Kappa Zeta Chi Sorority roles She will lead dormitory freshman hall next year and guide Agora in mentorship and campus governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Melson
Rolfe
Agora
Morningside College
Sioux City
Miss Mary
Collegian Reporter
Kappa Zeta Chi
Dimmitt
Mary
Judge A M Kent Promoted to Presiding Judge in Texas
Judge A M Kent known as Mack locally, born in Brownsville area, is promoted by Gov Ma Ferguson to presiding judge of the fifth district. His new post covers ten counties with administrative control of seven courts and power to appoint replacement judges when needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Kent
Mack
Ma” Ferguson
Texas
Brownsville
Kent
Election note on eighteenth amendment debate and voting
The piece discusses the eighteenth amendment and the lack of public opportunity to express opinion. It notes unfairness claims and proposes seeing the matter settled by this election. It states no authority to challenge on behalf of either candidate and no certainty of a debate, presenting the proposition as a suggestion only.
The Hardest Job: Letting Go of Unneeded Things
A concise reflection on resisting deprivation for items that are unnecessary, highlighting the challenge of choosing simplicity over excess and the personal discipline involved.
Baccalaureate Services Set For Rolfe High School
The Rolfe high school will hold its annual baccalaureate on Sunday evening May 14 at eight in the school auditorium. Rev. J O Wangberg will give the address titled Press On. Rev T S Bassett and Rev C P Carlson will attend and participate in the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe High School
J. O. Wangberg
T. S. Bassett
C. Paul Carlson
Arlene Cook
Brahms
Gaynor
Trinity Lutheran Choir
C. P. Carlson
Jameenik
Phillipians
Ato
Teat
Rolfe's oldest citizen life marked by trees and records
C. H. Tollefsrude, Rolfe's claimed oldest man at eighty eight, remains active with trees and kept diaries. He planned Rolfe City Park beautification, authored The History of Rock Prairie Settlement, and preserved Norwegian and local histories. His work spans libraries in Beloit Minneapolis and Oslo with the original copy at St Olaf College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Tollefsrude
Rolfe
Altho
Tollefsrude
Tollersrude
Rock Prairie
Norway
Beloit
Wis
Minneapolis
Minn
Oslo
O. E. Christeson
John Kenna
Eagle Grove
H. E. Olson
Webster City
Blanche Blake
Cyrus Tollefsrude
Grant Township
County Kitten Ball League Promises Summer Play
At a Pocahontas convention of twenty five school board presidents Mrs Grace D McMichael was re elected county superintendent by one vote on the first ballot. A Havelock meeting organized a six team kittenball league for Pocahontas Ware Havelock Laurens Plover Rolfe with schedule ten games beginning May twenty first and ending Labor Day. Sixty foot bases and a thirty five foot pitcher box were adopted. no admission charge planned to fund the league.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Grace D. McMichael
Laval
Valentine Hauck
Guy G. Buttler
Havelock
Legion Hall
Ware
Laurens
Plover
Rolfe
Milton Hess
G. G. Butler
Will Berry
W. John Pollock
Weather and Crops Report Delayed Planting After Mock Downpour
A week of cloudy cold weather with little rain ended Sunday as a community saw a heavy shower with wind and hail. No damage reported though hail packed the ground delaying corn planting and forcing reseeding for some seedbeds. Farmers expect a busy period once conditions dry and spring resumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandfather Price
Pioneer Settler Mrs Borg Dies Near Gilmore City
Alice Bendixon Borg died at her home near Gilmore City on April 30 1938 aged sixty one. She was a daughter of P H Bendixen and widow of Chas Borg. Survived by sons Ivan and Vernon Borg and daughter Mrs Ethel Hutchinson. Funeral held at Gilmore City Methodist church with Rev P C Larson officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Chas. Borg
Gilmore City
Borg
P. H. Bendixon
Ivan
Vernon Borg
Ethel Hutchinson
E. N
Wm. Bendixen
Chas. Bendixen
Canada
Maggie Christensen
Minnesota
Tilda Peterson
John Bendixen
Minnie Lynch
Albert Bendixen
P. H. Bendixen
Rolfe
Nellie Higgins
Fort Dodge
Alice Bendixon
Chas Rorg
Garfield Township
P. C. Larson
Danish Baptist Church
Future happiness hints in springlike thoughts
In the minds of men the future already exists. Happy daze are here again. Spring is still just around the corner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring
Pocahontas County Wool Pool Offers Freight Savings
Pocahontas County wool pool will advance up to fourteen cents per pound on shipment and will be shipped to Des Moines for grading with the advance sent promptly. About 100 sheep owners can save about twenty cents per hundred weight by pooling. Wool reception receipts noted despite cooler weather delaying shipment to Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas County
United States
Des Moines
Restrain Your Dogs During Wet Weather
A community notice urges dog owners to restrain pets to protect gardens and flower beds in wet weather. Marshal Peterson argues dogs should not be seized for spoiling property, and if taken they may be executed in three days with care costs charged to owners. Speak kindly and keep dogs at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal Peterson
Sernetts Gather at Pocahontas Family Event
Mr and Mrs James Sernett attended a family gathering at the home of Mr and Mrs Jerry Hotovek in Pocahontas Sunday. Mrs Mary Sernett, recently at Hampton since her daughter in law Mrs Lee Sernett died, joined the visit and returned to Hampton that evening to live with her son and help care for the children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Sernett
Jerry Hotovek
Pocahontas
Mary Sernett
Hampton
Lee Sernett
Also Mentioned on This Page
Puraday
Uradtyg
Luther. Thompson
Say
Deren
Rolfe High
C. J. White
City Park
Wilton
Missiona
Society of the Presbyterian Churchill
American Legion Auxiliary
J. M. Bush
Ameri Study Club
Jane Arthur Vaughn
C. E. Boyce
A. D. Cleal
Methodist Missionary Societies
T. D. Jones
Garfield Go-Getters
H. D. Brinkman
Epworth League
M. E. Church
O. U. R. Club
Nelson Hotel
Lola Cornell
M. E. Ladies’ Aid Society
Kensington
Garfield Township Farm Bureau
4-H
Earl Ferguson
Auxiliary and Relief Corps
Rolfe Woman’s Club
J. A. Johnson
North Edge of
Olfe
E. F. Stallcup
Norma Shearer
Webb
Jake Tellier
Divide
Hawley
Clinton Townshi
C. L. Gunderson
W. P. Wheeler
O. E. Lehnus
Anna Vaughn
Melvin Thorson
Garfield Townshi
A. A. Christensen
Maybelle Ryen
Will Waldron
Frank Reyburn
J. C. Gunderson
Luliows
McMichael Graeber' Kunkle _ Boozell _ McCartan Mitchell Hunt Morgan
Eset
Psh
Arthur M. Johnson
Powhatan Boys
Buelah Campney
O. A. Campney
Garfield Boys
Clarence Heathman
Glenn Ives
Swan Lake
Poca
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!