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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1968
Page
2
High school music students and instructors were guests of the Rolfe Music Mothers at a May 1 appreciation party in the school lunchroom after the Swing Show. Foremen and wives attended. Mrs. Russell Jordan expressed thanks and refreshments featured apple blossoms and pink tapers.
Mrs Myrtle Stoufe was admitted to Mercy Hospital in Fort Dodge as an observation patient. Andy Metz was admitted to Mercy Hospital as a medical patient and released the next day. Mrs Fred Hendrickson was released from Pocahontas Community Hospital where she had been a medical patient. Mrs Orpha Hilton remains a patient at Pocahontas Community Hospital.
About 100 people visited Sunset Hill Manor for an Open House on Sunday afternoon May 12. Hosts included Mr. and Mrs. Lester Thorson and Mr. and Mrs. Wm Fisher with administrator Mrs. Mary Shipler. Cookies coffee and punch were served. Several callers brought flowers for residents.
The Amvets Auxiliary will meet May 23 in the Iowa Electric Light and Power recreation room for a 12 30 potluck. The Home Study Club hosts a May 17 luncheon at the Uptown Cafe. A bridal shower for Miss Ann Clear, fiancée of Larry Buttner, is set May 27 at 8 00 pm in United Presbyterian Church Parlors. Pocahontas County American Legion Auxiliary meets May 20 at 2 pm in Fonda Congregational Church. Spring Valley Fart painting by Mrs D W Mott of Hampton is displayed in Secretary Freeman’s Washington office with eleven other paintings by American farmers and wives.
Bond chairmen Louis J. Elbert and Dale E. Boyd report Pocahontas County sales of Series E and H Savings Bonds and Freedom Shares totaling 31109 for March. The three month total reaches 162347 toward the 1968 goal. Van Buren leads the state with 45 percent, Scott follows at 43 percent.
Sales in Iowa for March reached 7,310,755 dollars. This advances the state’s three month total, building toward the spring period and reflecting continued consumer activity across the region.
Patricia Ann Henderson granddaughter of Mrs Anna Vaughn of Rolfe Iowa was named year at the Greek Week Leadership Banquet at the University of Iowa Miss Henderson daughter of Don and Mrs Henderson of Council Bluffs has served as Kappa Kappa Gamma president and scholarship chair and held Panhellenic council and student senate roles She majors in elementary education set to graduate in June and with five other girls will teach in Kuwait this August.
The chairmen said the sale of the first Series E bond and Freedom Shares began 27 years ago on May first. They noted 1968 quotas of 26,216,064 dollars for 24 percent and urged citizens to buy an extra bond during the anniversary month to boost servicemen morale.
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