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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1931
Page
4
Fort Dodge visitor E D Hilton and numerous locals host, visit, and travel between Plover Badger and surrounding towns. Students, teachers, and families attend commencements, weddings, funerals, and homemaker travels. five car livestock shipments to Chicago mark a busy regional week with social gatherings, church events, and community notices.
On Saturday May 30 at 10 00 a m the Plover school auditorium hosts a Memorial Day program featuring Sanders Orchestra an invocation a Beatrice Bruner recitation Ilene Everson vocal solo Ila Fisher reading and Rev W H Rothwell address The Star Spangled Banner concludes the program All children ages five to twelve who are children of a veteran or American Legion Auxiliary member should meet at the lodge hall over the bank at 9 30 and march to the school with ex servicemen Girls are asked to wear white if possible.
A large crowd attended Plover Consolidated Schools commencement in the school auditorium last Friday evening. The high school orchestra, girls sextette, and vocal soloists performed in final appearances. Rev Walter Rothwell gave the invocation and Mrs Effie McCullum Jones delivered an uplifting address on education. Bertha Fisher was salutatorian and Grant Sanders valedictorian.
The senior class presented The Passing of the Third Floor Back in the school auditorium last Thursday. The serious drama delivered moral lessons on character and honesty as a mysterious passer-by influences each resident, maid, and landlady to confront sin and seek virtue.
Mr and Mrs George Steinbron and family of Mallard attended the program at the Presbyterian church last Sunday evening.
On Memorial Day May 30 business places in Plover will close at 10:00 a m and stay closed until Monday morning. Free movies are planned for Monday evening.
Mrs Andrew M Climpson nee Cora Grimes born near Russell Iowa November 6 1870 died May 21 at her home near Plover Iowa aged 60 6 15. She taught in Farnhamville and Plover schools and married December 25 1896 to Andrew M Climpson. Survived by husband three daughters Mrs Emil Johansen Laurens Mrs Ward Strong Plover and June a student at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls. parents G W Grimes and Mrs G W Grimes Farnhamville a brother Ella Grimes Farnhamville sister Olive Grimes Haviland Kansas and other relatives. Funeral Sunday at Plover Methodist Church. Interment Powhatan cemetery.
The A. G. Heathman residence is under quarantine after son Allen Heathman age twenty in a mild case. A culture from Iowa City confirmed the disease and exposure prompted preventive treatment. Family members exposed camp in a tent away from the house. no serious outcomes expected.
Plover high school pupils scored in state tests with the district placing first in Class D, seventh in state Class D, sixth district wide, and thirty eighth overall. Algona led the district with first place and Livermore second. Four students advance to Iowa City on June 1 for state exams: Marjory McKim general science Raymond Cassell Paul Mekkelson in economics and Lawrence Garlock in modern history.
Rev. Walter Rothwell Rev S T Grove and Mrs Ida Forney rode to Laurens with Ralph Wilkinson of Sibley on an airplane owned by Morrell Packing Co Sioux Falls South Dakota providing free rides to customers and friends. Grove enjoyed his first flying experience and the views of rivers valleys farms and villages below.
News notes dairy farming spreads through eastern Texas once dominated by cotton. The shift marks a regional agricultural transformation as farming expands into the traditional cotton stronghold.
Mrs. A. M. Climpson died after being found unconscious in the garage at her Andrew Climpson home. She had been despondent since the death of her son Richard and later her daughter Ruth Janssen. An obituary will be published elsewhere on the page.
The Arrow reports Harry McFadden lost a sack of sugar on the way home from the store. T. R. Jones found the sack and The Arrow located the owner the same evening, proving advertising pays.
Rev Walter Rothwell leads Sunday worship Sunday School and Bible study at 10:00 and 11:00. Sermon on The Church as a Temple. Weekly Bible class Tuesdays at 8:00 p m studying Acts Chapter 2. Orchestra and choir rehearsals Friday. Children’s day planned for second Sunday in June. 143rd General Assembly in Pittsburgh May 28 to June 3 will be broadcast on KDKA radio with multiple speakers and moderator sermon times.
Plover Methodist Church schedules services next Sunday with Rev Seward of Laurens delivering the morning sermon and Mrs Bounds of Mallard speaking in the evening. All are invited and welcomed to attend.
Humboldt County government cost the county about 1.606 million dollars in 1930 with schools absorbing roughly 316 thousand and aid to the poor among the major expenditures. The report was issued by County Treasurer T. B. Byrne.
The passage notes that America's domestic animals originate from the Old World and mentions over 300 Ohio settlements accessible by railroad or river routes from Cincinnati. It also states Colombia is the only South American country touching both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Mothers of Presbyterian families presented a Bible mothers pageant at the church with Ida Forney as Truth and Henry Fitzgerald as Imagination. Ushers included Paul Kerns and E Grove. piano was Fred McLaughlin. numerous mothers and children performed in a Mothers Day program praised for its strong showing.
A May 8 letter from the United States Legation in Managua thanks Richard for relief aid approaching $20,000 raised via Will Rogers and the American Red Cross. It details personal loss in the disaster, the legation building destruction, and ongoing relief work with debris clearance and public utilities tasks, while noting travel plans and family updates.
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