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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1941
Page
5
Today marks the second vote period in a $1,000 prize campaign. Candidates are urged to report to the campaign manager on Saturday night as time speeds up. The next days between now and June 7th may decide the winners with hundreds of dollars in prizes.
Pearl Bishop daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer Bishop ranked highest in class and received honors at the Wyoming public school graduation Monday Attending were Mr and Mrs Bishop and Mrs Inda Triges mother of Mrs Bishop The event noted a concern about maintaining a decent living standard and mentioned a 500 000 asset reference.
Virgil M Hancher was inaugurated president of the State University of Iowa in a ceremony at the Iowa field house attended by 1400 people including students faculty and 250 official delegates. He received four honorary degrees and spoke on democracy defending against dictatorship while recalling his college roots at the university.
Rolfe hosts two days of free shows by Wyse under the Rolfe Business Men's Club with rides concessions and “The brightest midway on earth.” Hubert's Society Circus and other acts perform on the street at 2 p m and 8 p m both days with clowns trained dogs aerial acts and tight wire stunts. full details appear in page 38 advertisement.
Dr W W Beam will complete his 60th year as a resident of Rolfe this Saturday May 31. He is the oldest physician in Pocahontas County and among the longest practicing in the state. He arrived in Rolfe in 1881 at age 28 after completing the state university course for medicine and earned his medical degree in 1886. He recalls pioneer practice with impassable roads and prairie winds, meeting his first patient upon arrival, a railroad worker with internal cramps, and his first surgery a week later when his tools hadn’t yet arrived.
The article profiles Dr. W. W. Beam a longtime Rolfe physician with roots in German ancestry and a medical lineage from his father Dr. Wm. O. Beam. It notes his early surgical work including amputations the influence of World War II era infection risks and his civic and political involvement with the Republican party. It also cites 1940 U.S. cattle value totaling 3.1 billion dollars, above the 1930s average by about one billion.
Pocahontas County 4-H girls plan a June 3 rally at the county courthouse with a Good Citizen Good Neighbors theme. The event features a Pan American fiesta, officer installation, a morning symposium led by County Agent Max O. Naylor, a song festival, a picture contest, and a noon buffet lunch, expected to draw 150 to 200 attendees.
Miss Amy Ireland and Mrs. Edgar Cornell traveled Saturday to Des Moines for a day trip then visited Anita Sunday and Monday with Mrs. Nora Cleaver and her daughter Miss Geraldine. Cleaver, a chief operator and writer, is noted for extering and flower hobbies. They toured Atlantic iris gardens and stopped in Cherokee to see Mrs. Schiel.
Eight grade pupils at Rolfe junior high presented a program in the school auditorium on Friday morning. Certificates of high school admission were awarded to 24 graduates as parents and friends watched. The program featured songs, class history and prophecies led by students and Mr. Couch as valedictorian was presented.
Three of four Pocahontas county men named in call No 14 for induction into the United States Army are from Rolfe. They report to the board at Pocahontas at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday June 2 and then proceed to the induction station at Fort Des Moines. Named: Harry Keith Rickard 150, Rolfe. Fremond Jens Kristian Nielsen 169, Rolfe. Bernard Daniel Ferden 237, Rolfe. Paul Carl Elg 672, Pocahontas.
Red Cross notes garment quota turned in by volunteers including Mrs. Grant Jensen Johnson Brinkman Marchant Siefkin DeVaul Marine Soth and Mrs. Virgil Roberts. Urges more knitters as meeting to organize a knitting class is set for June 3 at the Central States building under Mrs. Morris Webb.
Earl Hall editor of the Mason City Globe Gazette will deliver the Memorial Day address at Cecil Cumming Post American Legion exercises. The program includes invocations, poems, Gettysburg Address and Flanders Field readings, flag drill, graves decoration, firing squad and taps. A junior dean suffered a broken nose from fumes at a home incident while his mother treated a clavicle injury.
Rolfe businesses and professional places will be closed all day Friday May 30 in observance of Memorial Day. Businessmen request patrons to note the closure and govern themselves accordingly.
Clyde Miller's famous rodeo will perform June 6 7 8 in Pocahontas under the Pocahontas County 4 H Club and Pocahontas Commercial Club auspices. About fifty cowboys and cowgirls compete against Brahma cattle Mexican longhorns and Oregon bred bronzes with acts including a Roman team jump over a car. The show features 12 pure white horses in a dance on horseback, six riders doing an old fashioned square dance, rodeo clowns and midget mules, and promised thrills and comedy with a strong American cowboy theme. The rodeo is billed as the world's largest traveling show and emphasizes high class clean entertainment.
Rev W C Clark of Fort Dodge urged Rolfe high graduates to steer life by will and effort in his address titled Setting Life's Sails. He urged faith in God's world, hard work, wise use of leisure, and service to others as keys to real success.
The Pocahontas County Sunday School convention met at the Plover Presbyterian Church on Thursday May 22 with the theme Christ the Way the Truth and the Life. Rev M E Dorr opened with Christian Education is a Way of Christian Living and delegates conducted group sessions led by Mrs Wm McKim and Rev R K Derry among others. An address titled Concerning the Heart of Christian Education was delivered by O G Herbrecht. A cafeteria lunch followed and Grace Eaton Weisenhaur was re elected secretary for the 26th year. Four Laurens Christian Sunday school members reported from the State Convention and Herbrecht spoke on Multiplying Our Christian Power in Iowa by Co operation.
The Charlton Grain Co Inc elevators are being upgraded with exterior re nailing and aluminum painting, interior refinishing, roofing refresh, and a new 30 ton scale at the M and St. L elevator. C N W elevator repairs also proceed. A L Smith construction of Webster City leads five men with seven Rolfe helpers. Scale installation started last week and should finish by Saturday.
Alvin Riches and his father spent time Tuesday afternoon with a golf themed joke. They report a Birdie but the bird is a black crow kept in a box they display to friends. The pair treat the crow as a household trophy and novelty.
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