D. M. T. School Plans Music Night and Honors
D M T announces a May 16 music night in the assembly under Miss Louise Neal with orchestra and glee clubs performing. Educational tests showed top students in biology reading English science and history. Upcoming events include picnics at Twin Lakes May 28 and May 21 class activities with seniors’ tea and graduations.
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Louise Neal
D. M.T
Donald Maasham
Junior Peterson
Gerald Hamilton
Shirley Fisher
Mabel Coyle
Agnes Thompson
Anna Mae Struthers
Wilda Kilbourn
Lorna Hamilton
Twin Lakes
Hewlett
Presbyterian Church In
West Bend
Henry Olson
Buena Vista College
Storm Lake
Marjorie Peterson
Ardeth Boyd
Robert Koenig
Donald Maasdam
Elroy Ripperger
Donald Spencer
Ronald Spencer
Loren Thompson
Orval Heathman
Betty Mae DeVaul
Lawrence Hovland
Charles Joens
Jerry Kilbourn
Donna Peterson
Robert Lehnus
Verne Peterson
Arnold Zeman
Evelyn Peterson
James Spencer
Delores Schrier
Betty Ann Struthers
Miss Hurley
R. O. H. Club
Rolfe School News Highlights May Test Period and Upgrades
High school students tackled state standardized tests on May 5 and 6. The tennis court was repaired and is now used daily by tennis enthusiasts. The school added a new set of Americana encyclopedias to the reference collection.
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State University of Iowa
Poisoning Best Way to Get Rid of Rats
Harold Gunderson states farm rat populations scale with visible signs from 100 to over 500 in a farm. He promotes poison as a cheap control method, highlighting barium carbonate’s broad toxicity and red squill’s targeting of rats and mice. Red squill costs about 50 cents a pound in one pound lots from drug stores.
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Harold Gunderson
Gunderson
Injury follows tangled street grader incident
Delaine Irwin three years old of Grand Meadow injured when entangled in a grader used by his father Ivan Irwin while dragging a lane. He suffered a broken leg and two broken toes on the other foot. In a separate event three hundred Charter Oak children enjoyed sleigh rides drawn by Eskimo dogs last week.
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Delaine
Ivan Irwin
Grand Meadow
Charter Oak
Guest Night Draws Hundreds at Pocahontas County Farm Bureau
More than a hundred Pocahontas County farmers attended the Farm Bureau Guest Night on Friday May 9 in Pocahontas. Speakers Harold Shoemaker and Roger Fleming urged parity and coordinated agricultural programs while home project women staged a Fiesta scene. Prizes were awarded for membership gains and a Professor Quiz program accompanied door prize drawings won by Mrs. G W E Johnson Mrs Chris DeYoung Mrs Jerry DeYoung and Mrs Bill Schott.
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Pocahontas County
Pocahontas
Fleming
Shoemaker
Home Project
Donald Trenary
Iowa Farm Bureau
Wm. Schott
J. V. Poduska
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Tom Raynes
Don Trenary
G. W. E. Johnson
Laurens
Chris de- Young
Jerry de- Young
Bill Schott
Secluded Stone House Near Guthrie Center
A 30 year old native stone house near Guthrie Center stands out from neighboring homes. It is built with river mud mortar and has hazel brush lathe with a mud plaster interior, reflecting a simple rustic style.
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Guthrie Center
Son saved by father from 30 foot well
Billy Ray of Chillicothe Missouri fell into a 30 foot well at Lineville. His father climbed the jagged rock wall and pulled him from about 10 feet of water inside the well.
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Billy Ray
Chillicothe
Lineville
Pocket gopher control seminar favors poison bait methods
A tomologist from Ames spoke at a pocket gopher control demonstration in Pocahontas County on Monday May 5. He urged large scale use of poison bait as quicker and cheaper than trapping, outlining preparation of carrot and potato baits mixed with strychnine and distribution guidelines for treating active runways. God Bless America love it or leave it.
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Harold Gunderson
Ames
Pocahontas County
St Olaf Choir to Broadcast for Norwegians May 15
The St Olaf college choir of Northfield Minnesota will broadcast a special program for Norway on May 15 from 9 to 9 30 p m as a prelude to May 17 independence celebrations. Dr Orland o Ingvoldstad of the Norwegian Relief says over 500 communities nationwide will stage fund raising events for Norway. Under conductor F Melius Christiansen the St Olaf Lutheran Choir will be heard in St Paul and Minneapolis on station WLOL.
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St. Olaf College Choir
Northfield
Minn
Norway
Orlando Ingvoldstad
Norwegian Relief
F. Melius Christiansen
St. Olaf College Lutheran Choir
St. Paul
Minneapolis
WLOL
Learning about old schools from Mrs Rose White Buchanan
Mrs Rose White Buchanan of Grinnell told third grade pupils at Cooper school about how schools operated in earlier times. She recalled teaching there seventy years ago and described classroom life.
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Rose White Buchanan
Grinnell
Cooper School
Tragic Wagon Plunge Near Greenfield Claims Twoaboard
Marcus Lilly and his son Dean attempted to cross a shallow stream when a heavy log toppled the wagon sending it into water twelve feet deep. The two men managed to reach safety.
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Marcus Lilly
Dean
Greenfield
Latin American page continues with performances
The page continues a Latin American section noting Lucile White’s acting in the pan tomime and Beryl White singing Dreaming and Dear Land of.
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Lucile White
Beryl White
Homemaker Wheel and Civic Lessons Highlight Garfield Event
A Garfield township program showcased seven home factors and eight family life spokes, with Mrs. Arlo Ives presenting education and Mrs. Max Naylor carrying the Farm Bureau flag. A candlelighting ceremony linked local leaders from township to county levels, while the Garfield chorus performed Flowing River and a review summarized year’s work.
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Sibelius
Education
Arlo Ives
Iowa State College Extension Servic
Max Naylor
Farm Bureau
Ben Weeks
County Home Project Committee
Andrew Ives
Ives
Garfield Township
Robert Wiegert
Fred Nelson
Lucile White
Notice of Appointment of Executor in Margaret Wax Estate
In the District Court of Iowa Pocahontas County probate case 2607 the executor of Margaret Wax deceased is appointed. All debts are to be paid and all claims presented as required by law, dated May 18 1941.
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District Court
State OF
Iowa
Pocahontas County
Margaret Wax
Pocahonta County
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Kellogg
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Cherrios
Rosedale
THE
Rolfe Cafe
ST. Olaf Choir
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Torrale
Howe
Man
Marshall
Swan Lake
Bellville Fair
E Township
Garfield
Sherman
Adolph Schuly
Associated Women of the World
American Farm Bureau Federation
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