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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1931
Page
5
A list of local meetings and observances across Pocahontas County from May 14 through June 5. Clubs include Sorosis American Home, Willing Work Society, Pythian Sisters, Presbyterian Society, and Trinity Lutheran Ladies Aid. Events cover baccalaureate, commencements, 4-H meets, town tours, and a dairy tour.
Dr M. T. teaching force signs for next year with changes in the staff. Superintendent BE Fritz of Curlew leads a new slate including B Corder of Cendar Falls as principal and Miss Verna Christensen of Fertile as high school head. Other teachers include Miss Jeane Scheffers of Hornick in music, Miss Mary Casper of Sioux City in senior and junior grades, Miss Frances Mohr of Arcadia for fifth and sixth grades, Miss Ruth Klemesrude of Osage for third and fourth grades, and Miss Nellie Peterson of Rolfe for primary and second grades.
The Rolfe high school will hold commencement in the high school auditorium on Thursday evening May 21. Professor G W Walters retired head and professor of education at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls will give the address titled Making Americans. He is an educator and noted naturalist with a garden that serves as a classroom and who once served as official taxidermist at I S T C. He is an outdoorsman whose main recreation now is fishing.
Professor Walters, long noted for his wide experience and human approach, will give a commencement lecture at the school campus. His career spans Ft. Madison, Whittier College, Howe’s Academy, Iowa Wesleyan, and the State Teachers College, where he has held multiple professorships and leadership roles. The event, beginning at eight, will feature music from the high school music department.
The Rolfe town council sold three thousand dollars of sewage disposal plant bonds at five percent interest with a twenty five dollar premium. Ray Seaman was the winning bidder at Monday's meeting. Funds cover rebuilding after filter bed failure with most money paid to local workers and washed sand trucked from Humboldt by George Keuck’s fleet.
The Farm Bureau office in the Pocahontas courthouse provides wool sacks and paper twine at actual cost for local growers to conveniently handle wool.
Two Pocahontas county boys Virgil Vaughn and Karl Anderson are named as nominees for International Harvester scholarships, with up to 100 awards of 500 dollars each. Anderson is noted for seven years in 4 H club work, top pig and boar wins in Duroc breeding and solid grades. Vaughn has six years in 4 H, raising hogs and lambs and accumulating savings from club projects.
The Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian church held a special Mothers Day meeting last Sunday evening. The program featured Scripture reading, prayer, a Mothers Quartette performance, a talk on The Home, a vocal solo, and leadership by Miss Pauline Lothian despite poor weather.
The Farm Bureau sponsored four 4-H Club meetings last week in Rolfe Pocahontas Laurens and near Fonda. About 480 attended the programs the largest crowd gathering in Rolfe. More meetings are planned around June 1 and a county picnic is set for Tuesday June 16 at Sunk Grove.
Pilot Bill Titus and passenger M. H. Falkenhainer escaped uninjured when the Curtiss Robin’s propeller shattered during takeoff at Algona airport. The motor’s misalignment is blamed for the incident, Titus then circled and returned for a safe landing.
The State Highway Commission extends Primary Road No. 71 by six miles from Royal to the town, following Rep. A. H. Avery of Spencer’s request. Paving timing remains unsettled with No. 71 in Clay County slated for contracts. paving will likely wait until next year.
Mrs. H. F. Olerich county chairman and township publicity leaders of the Farm Bureau Home Furnishings Project will meet at the Pocahontas courthouse at 1 30 p m on Wednesday May 20 to plan the Third Year Home Furnishings program The session will cover basket weaving lamp shades accessories and pillows and cushions as the year study topics.
The R H S seniors presented A Peach of a Family by Esther E Olson in the school auditorium Tuesday. The comedy centers on Steven Richmond played by Reuben Wangberg with strong support from Mary Pollock as Mrs Pickett and Burdette Graeber as Jack Belmond. Other key roles include Garwin Stein Ruth Dawson as Mr and Mrs Richmond and Tom Tiernan as the lawyer Frank Manning, with Edward Calligan as Cornelius Shelby. The plot follows Steven’s misadventures, adoption scheme, court damage threat, and eventual marriage to Pauline Shelby, ending happily.
The Rolfe Golf Club ends ties with golf associations and shifts to club play only. Members will face no lengthy travel and can arrange matches with nearby clubs on set dates including May 12 Rockwell City at Rolfe and August 2 Emmetsburg at Rolfe.
The Pocahontas County Sunday School Convention will meet at the Methodist church in Plover on Tuesday May 19 beginning at 9 30 a m The program lists devotional periods led by Rev Walter Rothwell and Rev W A Wilkinson with multiple divisional conferences and addresses on Christian education.
Three carrier salesmen for The Register and Tribune Capital and their parents are invited by Gardner Cowles to the Carrier Salesmen Convention and Frolic in Des Moines on June 15. Vernon Harmon Robert Larson and Ralph Rickard will attend with 2,500 expected participants. Events include a theatre party a parade with "Baby Mine" an elephant street car ride and Riverview Park refreshments.
The Worth While 4-H Club of Des Moines township met at Doris Vaughn's home on Saturday afternoon May 9 with eight members and seven visitors. Officers announced committees for Farm Bureau program numbers and for a future club event in northeast Pocahontas County. Louise Vaughn spoke on 4-H Club uniforms and provided fabric samples while Mrs. Chas Ham led a color lesson and everyone made a color wheel. Doris Vaughn hosted lunch and a social hour. The next meeting is set for Marie McKinnon's home on Saturday May 23.
Box office receipts show a successful run as Miss Helen Tiedemann directed the play with strong interludes of musical selections and stunts between acts. The evening offered real entertainment and left the audience pleased.
Pocahontas county organizes three new 4 H clubs amid rising interest. Leaders met at the county courthouse for Clothing Project instruction with Miss Helen Putnam. Club girls plan to attend the Iowa State College convention in Ames, with state chorus and orchestra participation and state office candidates.
Jacob J Luft died at his farm nine miles northeast of Rolfe on Sunday May 3 at 8 30 p m from a heart attack after health decline. Born May 15 1875 he was 56 years 2 months 18 days old. Survived by widow six sons Leona and Pauline daughters four brothers and three sisters. Funeral Wednesday at St Margaret as Rolfe with interment Clinton Garfield cemetery.
Aimed at Gilmore City growth two new service stations rise on Primary No. 10. Frank Rosik builds a new barber shop on the old fire site. Herman Ganseth's northeast farm home is remodeled. The Bankers Life Co refurbishes the house and barn west of town formerly owned by Guy Daniels.
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