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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1947
Page
2
A Rolfe high school senior class gathering Tuesday November 18 featured a hayride to Avery's hill four miles east for tobogganing. After returning to L. C. Olney home they had hot chili soup and chocolate cake prepared by Mrs. Leon Sinek and Mrs. Olney then sang danced and played records.
The Des Moines Two School presented The Magic Piper an operetta in three acts on Thursday night November 20. Directed by Mrs Phayne Heathman with assistants and an accompanist Mrs E L Meyer the cast included Geraldine Camper Janet Rutgers Maxine Nielson Joyce Spencer Richard Bennet Dixie Fish Beverly Morse Barbara Fisher Jack Lehonberger Carol Jean Lehnus and others in roles from Town Crier to Pied Piper. Act locations span Hamelin City Square inside the mountain and back to the square with band numbers and vocal performances. The Rev Emery N Petersen injured his ankle while descending basement stairs and will have his cast removed soon.
County 4-H leaders and assistant leaders met November 20 at the courthouse for an oyster feed hosted by club officers. The program included talks by George Poehnke and Melvin Barnhardt on leadership and judging, plus a blue ribbon demonstration by Larry Siddall and Dick Duthbert.
Gerald Adamson dropped a cigarette while driving in Osceola Sunday morning. He leaned to pick it up, causing his car to swerve into the only parked car on the street, owned by Ronald Beade, with damage estimated at $10 to Adamson's vehicle.
J. O. Wangberg, pastor, leads 11 a.m. communion service at Trinity Lutheran. Sunday school and Bible class at 10 a.m. New members will be received into the church this Sunday. Catechism class meets Saturday at 1 45 p.m.
Pastor W. F. Schneck leads Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. Choir practice follows. Women’s Association divisions set meetings: Division 1 on December 10, Division 2 at Mrs. A. R. Thornton’s, Division 3 at Mrs. Lena Vaughn’s, Division 4 at Mrs. Orvan Olerich’s.
Pastor H V Bartz leads church school at 10 15 a m worship at 11 15 a m youth fellowship 6 p m training 7 30 p m on church home relation Official board meeting this Sunday November 30 with noon covered dish dinner Choir rehearsal Thursday at 7 p m Circles of the W S C S meet December 3 No 1 with Mrs Addie Roberts No 2 with Mrs A G Sroufe No NT with Mrs C B Chapman.
Emery L. Petersen pastor leads a schedule of gatherings at Nain Lutheran Church. Thanksgiving Day service is set for 11 a.m. on November 27 followed by confirmation classes on November 29 with seniors at 2 p.m. and juniors at 3 p.m. On November 30 Sunday school and Bible class start at 10 a.m. with morning worship at 11 a.m.
The 1948 Farm Bureau campaign plans began with the county organization and maintenance committee meeting. Members include W. B. Campbell Gilmore City Rudy Poppen Palmer Elmer A Peterson Fonda Francis Alstott Laurens B W Lathrop Havelock Walter Woodin Rolfe and Edward Kinkade Laurens. Don Trenary serves as part time county organization director. Township captains have been chosen and will meet December 5 to select leaders for each township. a January 5 captains and leaders meeting follows, with a January 12 planning session. The drive will then solicit members in every township. Last year’s county membership surpassed 1550. the 1948 quota is 1650.
Four senior women from the State University of Town are chosen for the honorary cadet staff for the January 16 Military Ball. An honorary cadet colonel will be announced during the ball night. Candidates include Jean Dawson Des Moines Betty Dickinson Newton Janet Gutz Hampton and Margery McDonald Lakewood Ohio. George White's own story The Luck of George White appears in The American Weekly. Buy a Bond each month.
The Elmer Simonson family thanks friends and neighbors in Plover and Rolfe for their quick fire call response last Thursday that prevented spread from their farm house to outer buildings. S. Simonson family, 39-1.
Carl Lee Wheeler expresses gratitude to friends in Rolfe for the numerous get well cards sent while he was in the Navy Hospital at Pensacola Florida.
Hunters must obtain permits from the State Conservation Commission in Des Moines to hold pheasants after November 30 and ducks after November 29. Permits are free and not issued by locker plants. Without a permit, game may only be kept 10 days after season close. migratory waterfowl have different limits. A ship named after Alabama appears in the Navy list.
The Town Council of Rolfe Iowa will meet December 1 1947 at 8 PM in the Mayor's Office to consider issuing 22500 in Waterworks Revenue Bonds to fund extensions and improvements. Taxpayers may file objections by petition before the meeting. The town will also offer for sale the bonds with an attorney's opinion by FL N Rogers Des Moines. N J BIALER Town Clerk.
This week began with a car of Wyoming lump coal that went out quickly. Two cars of stoker coal arrived to fill a needed supply, followed by three more cars nearby. Conditions aren’t improving. three shippers just started deliveries simultaneously. A stray garbled line mentions a football play credit and hog feeding preparations amid the coal talk.
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