A Thousand Times Better to Light One Candle
A Milepost quote credits the Chinese with lighting one candle over cursing darkness. It highlights humanity’s long climb from the dark ages toward enlightenment and progress.
09 Nov 1950
Page 1
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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1950
Page
1
A Milepost quote credits the Chinese with lighting one candle over cursing darkness. It highlights humanity’s long climb from the dark ages toward enlightenment and progress.
Banquet tickets are available at county banks and the extension office for the Pocahontas Cattle Feeders Banquet to be held Monday November 13 at 7 pm in the Lanrens Masonic hall. National speaker H M Conway and Wm Darbyshire will discuss livestock and soil conservation. Dinner is by the Dr Hovenden Memorial hospital auxiliary. Reservations should be made by November 10 with Fred Ludwig Harold Crowell or E J Rosenberger.
Kindergarten children wore masks and bobbed for apples while Mrs. Nicoson and first graders visited each other. Second to seventh graders studied money, reading groups finished books, and science tracing fires. High school classes discussed Aeneas and Rome, while renovations improved classroom lighting and ventilation.
Estherville Norman Thompson family Cylinder Harold Berkland family Burt Gaylor Oleson Fenton Thomas Cody Grover Clifford Pringle family Fenton Kenneth Campbell Armstrong are listed. The clipped notice lists households with surnames and towns among local residents.
October 9 1950 council meeting with Mayor Witt and four members present discusses extending sewer lines on Lincoln River and Railroad Streets. Defers definite action. motion to have town cover manholes and intersection costs passes 4 to 0. Prior minutes approved. Bills listed include M. and St. L. Railway 1.97 and Central States Electric 114.99.
A list of payments to various utilities and firms appears in the city records. The finance committee approved the bills as presented after a motion by Cox and a second by Schonberger. The treasurer's report was read and further motions were made by Firkins and Rick.
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