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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1942
Page
2
The Rolfe Woman's Club held a Red Cross sewing session and business meeting on Friday November 13. Mrs Alta Hewlett appointed a committee to plan a December 4 Christmas program at Mrs W B Butler's home.
The Tuesday club plans a November 21 sale with extra clothing, shoes, dishes, cookware, toys, and more donated for welfare work in Rolfe. Call welfare chairman Mrs. J. R. McIntire at 21 or bring items to her or the Fashion Shop on November 21 morning. Proceeds fund winter welfare needs in Rolfe.
An Iowa section note from Oskaloosa recounts a visiting candidate being dismissed by a Quaker wife. She tells him her husband already saw him and disliked his looks, so the candidate should not tarry longer. The anecdote highlights blunt, humorous local temper.
Projects Town Press reports that a recent meeting in Iowa City endorsed two statewide efforts. The state conservation salvage program is directed by Mrs. Frederick Weitz of Des Moines and the Drake University Institute of Pan-American Relations enters its second year under Dean Luther W. Stalnaker.
State Senator Ralph E. Benson of Jefferson joins a group of Iowa livestock producers on a fact finding trip to Chicago and eastern seaboard cities. They study war impact on marketing conditions price ceilings consumer meat grade preferences slaughtering methods and cattle and dressed beef grading.
The Methodist Church led by Pastor C. R. Buckwalter hosts a bazaar and chicken supper in the dining rooms on Saturday evening November 21. Sunday events include church school at 10 15 a m and morning worship at 11 15 a m with the sermon Keep At It Epworth League meets at 6 30 p m. A union Thanksgiving service at the Presbyterian church on Wednesday evening November 25 at 8 p m will feature a large choir. Choir rehearsal is Thursday at 8 p m.
Pastor W F Schneck lists Sunday schedule with morning worship and choir practices. The annual missionary praise service is set for November 29 with speaker Mrs M M McCleary of Fairfield, a longtime Africa missionary. Attend with a friend.
Pastor J. O. Wangberg leads a 10 40 a m Holy Communion and 11 15 a m sermon with theme from 25 1 13. Sunday school at 10 00 a m, catechism class Saturday 1 45 pm, junior choir 3 00 pm. Thanksgiving service 10 30 a m Nov 26. Ladies Aid bake sale and bazaar on Nov 21.
Card of thanks from the Hart family for the kindness shown during their recent bereavement. Mrs. T. J. Hart and Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Hart and Jerry express gratitude for acts of sympathy.
William R. Fisher thanks neighbors and friends for cards flowers and visits during his incapacitating accident.
A Fort Bliss letter by Cpl L E Garlock was miscredited as Cpl Garlock in last week’s issue. The note explains that a single letter in a title can change meaning.
County extension director Max O. Naylor urges balanced winter swine rations for non pasture hogs. Include 10 percent high quality legume hay, limited corn, and protein rich supplements like tankage or fish meal for young pigs and suckling sows, plus a mineral mix to ensure calcium phosphorus and iodine.
Sidney Telford 86 of the British Navy visits his mother Mrs Fred Telford of Denison after a 32 year separation. Both had long kept letters but never met until now. Sidney sails from the liner Queen Mary undergoing repairs in an American dry dock. He lives in Keswick Cumberland England.
Princeton political science professor Harley L. Lutz will address a joint luncheon of the Iowa Taxpayers Association and the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce at Hotel Fort Des Moines Friday November 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event titled Financial Fallacies and War Finance promises an audience with a noted authority on public affairs.
Treas. Charles E. Watts presents receipts and disbursements for the Pocahontas County War Chest from May 1 to November 14 1942. Town balances show Rolfe on deposit $642.84 with broader county receipts totaling $10 661.02 and disbursements of $3 970.11 for United Service Navy relief and Chinese relief among others.
The Iowa State Health Department warns that crowded maternity wards risk spreading illnesses to new mothers and infants. Hospital administrators report hallways outside nurseries packed with visitors, hindering care as births trend toward an all time high with 34,886 births in the first nine months, up from 34,107 a year earlier.
The notice invites boys about 12 years old or nearing that age to join Boy Scouts, with a deadline of Tuesday November 24. Each new Scout must bring his father. Rev. C. R. Buckwalter is named as a new assistant scout leader and Roger Chapman leads the Wolf Patrol with Joe Fer den as assistant.
Instructions outline how to store games beyond season end by requesting an application from a locker operator, mailing to the State Conservation Commission in Des Moines, and details permit holds for migratory waterfowl until January 22, 1943 and other game until June 30, 1943 with no fee.
Seven roadside hunters, halted during a routine patrol in north Polk and Story counties, were arrested for illegal pheasants in possession. Conservation Officer Bill Rooker reported the group urged opening the season earlier and expanding to Polk as well as Story county. Two violators escaped, and the day was described as a hot one for arrests.
William and Ivan Peterson announce a public sale at their location on Tuesday December 1. The advertisement will run in the Arrow next week.
A quirky local ad notes creosoted posts in stock of various sizes while lamenting shortages of ham eggs wire and other supplies. The playful dialogue contrasts absent building materials with the promise of bonds for tomorrow's home and a recent but now depleted shipment of slat cribs.
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