20 Nov 1969
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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1969
Page
1
Wednesday night Virgil Ryen played a perfect 29 in cribbage with Phil Johson, matching a recent feat by Jim Wilcox. The Plover bazaar harvest supper was postponed due to seven inches of snow.
A note from Thursday November 1 1949 records Guy E Eccles Jr purchasing a property in a private transaction. Details of the buyer and the sale are limited in the available text.
Miss Mary Beth Brinkman a home economics sophomore from Rolfe is named among 60 new members of the Town State College women glee club. The selection follows a vote by high school pupils who also name James Taylor as a popular member.
Football star was elected king and Lorene George queen of the Rolfe annual homecoming festivities. A M Simonson attended a county meeting of postmasters at the Poca post office Monday evening. Maurice Larson of the U S N is on patrol in the Philippine Islands, son of Mrs L W Larson. E S Colebaugh of Des Moines visited daughter Mrs Edward Duffy and joined pheasant hunting.
Forty years ago on Thursday November 21 1929 the seventh and eighth grades organized a commission government with Donald Davidson as mayor and commissioners Bernice Hughes Harold Hohhweiler Harold Heard Billy Brinkman and Arlene Cook. Lorraine Morrison's bari tone voice aired on WSUI Tuesday noon. Emil Samuelson of Pierre South Dakota offers a carload of horses at auction in Rolfe today. The Presbyterian young people held a hard times party.
A column recounts charity event dress codes and a fire photo credit, then a reader letter criticizes bicycle safety in Pocahontas urging stricter bicycle laws, licensing, lights, and sidewalk safety with parental enforcement. The letter urges town council testing and licensing for cyclists to enforce road rules.
Fifty years ago on Thursday November 20 1919 Drs W W Beam and T R Campbell traveled to Pocaontas County for a meeting of the Pocaontas County Medical Society. Edgar Cornell loses his Hampshire herd boar died suddenly. Bert Lothian and wife visited Mrs J B Lothian and Lothian buys horses and mules loading two cars for market. C M Webb spoke at a Rexall dealers convention in Des Moines earning $1 a minute.
A community note urges gratitude on Thanksgiving. It cites urban hardships and war abroad, praises Rolfe and neighboring fire departments for quick response to a major elevator fire, and acknowledges firefighters for 30 hours of on duty coverage to prevent further emergencies.
Mrs Don Balgren and two daughters of Iowa Falls visited in the Gerald Harland home over Sunday dinner with Mrs Balgren being Harland’s niece. Mr and Mrs Guy Kerns and Mr and Mrs Lester Thorson called in the Glenn Gaskill home. Theresa Davis of Sacramento California arrived Friday and will stay until December 1 visiting friends and staying with the Russell Winkle family. Mr and Mrs Robert Truelsen and his father Jim Truelsen were Sunday supper guests at the Robert Bowker home.
Humboldt residents Mrs George Beckord and her aunt Mrs Richard Buck attended the funeral of Mrs Rocky Miller, sister-in-law of the Buck family, in Princeton Minnesota, on Friday November 7.
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