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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1931
Page
5
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Coming events list details Auxiliary wreath making at Mrs. T. D. Jones home for Memorial Day. Garfield Township Farm Bureau at J. C. Truelsen’s. Golf Club Auxiliary meeting at Mrs. Robert Hunter’s. Dr. and Mrs. Lester reception at Presbyterian church parlors. Methodist Ladies Aid Society regular meeting. Woman's Club luncheon at Mrs. Gunderson's. Pocahontas County Dairy Tour from Allen & Watson farm. D M T Farm Union meeting at D M T school.
Town daily papers report Rolfe students earning honors at colleges. Jeanie McEwen among twelve juniors admitted to 1931 Mortar Board for character, leadership and scholarship. Ralph Wilkinson won first in Iowa State freshman speech finals. Betty Melson named president of Eta Sigma Phi at Morningside. Olive Lucille Bryan elected treasurer. Betty also named president of Freshman Hall.
Farewell reception for Dr and Mrs J P Lester at the Presbyterian church parlors Friday May 29 starting at eight o clock. Congregation members and families invited and expected to attend under the Excelsior Society auspices. Date change noted.
The Bradgate Consolidated high school class of 1931 held the baccalaureate service May 17 at the Methodist church with Dr. John Pickens Lester delivering the address on Is Life Worth Living. Commencement exercises May 21 awarded diplomas to eight girls and six boys. graduates listed include Nola Benge Beulah Christensen Dorothy Cran Marvel Daily Harold E Dayton Paul Dickey Lucille Hemmerson Jeanette Ellsworth Walter Halsrude Harley Knutsen Eilen Larsen Ronald Lees Lester Naeve Edith Walcott. E. L. Kunkle has been superintendent for the past two years after leading Havelock schools.
Solemn Kipfer administrator of Anna Kipfer estate sues Iowa Public Service Co in Fort Dodge for 58180 damages claiming a live high line wire caused her death in front of the Kipfer home near Gilmore City in July 1980 as she rushed to help motorists. A separate suit by Cora Winne seeks 520000 against the same company for injuries from a falling electrolier in Lake City in September 1929.
Commencement exercises for Rolfe High School were held in the auditorium with the Class of 1931 in caps and gowns. Prof. G. W. Walters of Iowa State Teachers College spoke on the value of education, praising public schools and rural schooling.
Garfield Township 4-H Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy White on May 23 with 17 members present. Barbara Melson presided as president and led talks on care of feet and shoes and the value of music in 4-H. Bernice Rickless spoke and the afternoon ended with bias tape making under Mrs. H. D. Brinkman, followed by refreshments served by Mrs. White.
On Friday May 29 at 2 30 p m the Rolfe Golf Club Auxiliary will meet at Mrs Robert Hunter s home. Plans for the season will be perfected and members who expect to compete in golf or bridge should attend.
A brief note reports traveling housekeeping schools succeeding in France. It adds that the giant sequoia species native to California also existed in Europe during prehistoric times.
Congressman F. C. Gilchrist to deliver Memorial Day address as Rolfe sets a hybrid holiday schedule. Stores and related shops open Friday evening to serve shoppers, close at noon Memorial Day. lumber yards banks and print shop stay closed all day Saturday. Memorial events begin 1 30 p m at the Cecil Cumming Memorial Tree with a parade to the cemetery at 2 p m.
Local merchants announce closing all day Memorial Day Saturday May 30. Businesses urged to complete buying and selling Friday or Monday with closures from Fullerton Lumber Co. Charlton Grain Co. Davis Brothers & Potter Arrow Print Shop State Savings Bank Shimon & Ivey Mill.
Edgar S Kuhns, longtime Stockton resident and Iowa farm owner, died May 18 1931 in Freeport hospital after a paralytic stroke. Born June 1 1959, he married Celia Kindle in 1885 and leaves three children, six grandchildren, a great grandchild, a brother and a sister. Funeral held May 15 at Stockton Methodist Church with Dr Thomas K Griffith officiating. Interment in Ladies Union Cemetery.
Fletcher Kettle a senior at Morningside College triggered excitement in Des Moines during the Iowa college conference prelims by clocking a 100 yard dash in 9.9 seconds though wind disqualified the time. He also won his heat in the 220 yard dash with 22.3 seconds.
Congress man F. C. Gilchrist will speak in Rolfe in the forenoon with an invocation, an address, and music. The program includes Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, poems, flag drill by schoolgirls, and graves decorating by Campfire Girls and Boy Scouts. If weather requires, events move to the school auditorium.
Graduation for 100 eighth graders from rural Pocahontas county schools will be held Friday May 29 at 2 00 pm in the high school gymnasium Pocahontas The Northeast county leads the procession Marie Hosier Garfield 3 tops with 95 3 percent The list shows ten Honor Roll students with scores from 95 3 to 90 5 percent The article also includes unrelated lines about whale eyesight and bootlegger gospel truth.
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