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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1941
Page
7
Local Rolfe scene records Thanksgiving visits and social happenings. The notes name Vernon Harmon and Alice Berry from Spencer, Curtis Jones and Alfred Bergeson parties, and various townspeople visiting relatives in Plover Fort Dodge Ames and beyond. Several car incidents and memorial events also appear among the week’s community updates.
Mrs. Clara Keerles of Havelock spent last Monday in the Karl Young home. Mr and Mrs L R Davidson were guests Monday evening at the Paul Sargent home in Spencer. Several locals hosted or visited relatives across Ames Fort Dodge Des Moines Windom Humboldt and San Diego through weekend and Monday.
Pocahontas reports completion of the NCR 608 farm plan and final AAA tabulations. County officers urge timing seed purchases for fall when seeds are plentiful and cheap. Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association will release a list of hybrid corn, small grain, and forage seeds for sale to farmers.
Mr and Mrs T B Torkelson of Bode were guests in the R E Greens home Sunday. G B Shiner visited in the Dan Urquhart home at Rodman. Rev Schneck called on Mrs John Cordes in the Lutheran hospital at Fort Dodge. Methodist bazaar and chicken dinner on Wednesday Dec 3 serving starts 530 price supper 40c. Mr and Mrs F E Duroe of Terris spent weekend with Mrs Duroes sister Mrs Frank King. Louis Jones of Gilmore City visited Herb Jones and Curtis Jones Sunday. O B Fuller Jr and children spent Sunday in Ogden with Mrs Fuller’s sister Mrs Charles Leek. White elephant sale Saturday Dec 6 in the old Fashion Shop Keep the date. L R Davidson visited the Davidson home in Storm Lake Sunday. Four days left to get the gold toned enlarged photo free with Christmas photos during November at Strathman Studio Pocahontas. Mr and Mrs N P Olson spent Sunday with Mrs Olson’s mother Mrs John Nelson at Humboldt for her seventieth birthday.
Mrs N P Olson appeared on the Kitchen Cupboard program on KVFD Fort Dodge last Thursday at nine oclock. She demonstrated mixing and baking nine varieties of plain bran and sweet breads. Earlier she demonstrated dressing and cooking wild fowl.
Troop 1 members meet at 4 p m in the Legion Hall to map Christmas activities Roselyn Brock records U S dairy exports for the first half of the year showing substantial increases across cheese condensed milk evaporated milk and dry whole milk from 300 000 to 80 million pounds 8 to 43 million 35 to 150 million and 4 to 9 million respectively
The piece blends Edward Winslow style Thanksgiving lore with modern ads and commentary. It recounts Massasoit visiting with ninety followers, feasting on wild turkeys and geese, and notes the first Thanksgiving. It shifts to practical ads urging storm sash orders to save fuel, coal prices for Mayflower and Bonny Blue brands, and morale about coal supply. A warm morning coal heater case from Twin Lakes Colorado ends the snippet.
The Lemon family news notes Miss Harriett Damborg and Miss Josephine Hughes of Fort Dodge spent the weekend at J. C. Damborg's home. Thel Mrs Emma Lighter reports a letter from Mrs J K Lemon now in Rock Springs Wyoming with Rev and Mrs Ed Hathaway. Eloise remains a teacher at Warrensburg Missouri. Kathryn Johnson Elva’s daughter, 17, attends Frances Shimer School in Mt Carroll Illinois.
The Farm Bureau urges continued support for the road to market program while criticizing its administration. It also calls on farmers to vote next year for a state constitutional amendment prohibiting diversion of gasoline taxes to non highway uses.
Federal policy debates reference taxing methods for rural electrification lines versus public utilities and call for reinstating former federal restrictions on oleomargarine production and distribution.
In Klamath Falls Oregon the Link River forms the brief channel connecting Upper Klamath Lake to Lake Ewauna and the Klamath River. The town grew from this small waterway and features a mixed economy of agriculture industry and lumber with a bi monthly payroll that keeps pace with rapid growth.
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