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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1922
Page
4
The Rolfe school geometry class displayed artistic designs and bright colors to illustrate propositions. Miss Marcum exhibited Brazilian nut specimens from OLB Bowen, noting shells group sixteen to twenty four. Recent exams favored attendance and high grades. new library books arrived. Keith Evans returned after a diphtheria-related absence. several first graders were praised for perfect November attendance.
Lake Township Unit meets at the Joe Kizer home with about fifty members electing officers for the year. E. F P. Stallcup is president John Healy vice president and Mrs Win Beneke secretary. The Farm Credit Corporation reports loans now being made to farmers for livestock and grain. Notices to hog cholera serum permit holders urge sending old permits and vaccination counts to Dr. P Malcolm. Pocahontas farmers may receive free books through the Iowa Library Commission with fifty titles quarterly via the Farm Bureau office.
The Pocahontas county board canvassed the general election results with votes for Fourth District supervisor Wm Elsen and Jas Malloy, Fifth District S F Hiatt and M W Lin nan, and the Soldiers Bonus Law measure. They reconvened to approve Drainage District 118 work and adjourned to November 21 1922.
A bustling Havelock page records Mrs Petey Smith and son Ben visiting in West with Mr and Mrs Walter Hersom returning from a shore visit to Mrs CE White. Multiple calls and visits occur across Rolfe Pom ery and Emmetsburg as residents attend gatherings, sales, work, and a community bazaar with Christmas nearing.
Mr and Mrs Alcorn hosted relatives from Sioux Rapids Sunday. Mrs L Buck and Mrs H Lees shopped in Rolfe last Friday. Mr and Mrs Carl Carlson from Sac City visited at Wm Phillips home. Misses Icel Bull Lilian Watts Nina Smith attended a china display in Gilmore City Saturday. Mrs Lou Snyder from Tekema Wash was a Sunday visitor at Mamie Templeman home. Ed ODonnell from Rolfe called in town Wednesday. Bradgate ladies urged hemstitching and picot edge work to Mrs H F Thomas in Rolfe. Christmas is three weeks away. Elmer Weaver, former resident, was mentioned. Miss Zella Wallace shopped in Fort Dodge Saturday. Mrs W E Bowers entertained her Sunday school class Saturday afternoon with games prizes and a luncheon. Miss Clara Erickson, teaching near Clare, spent Sunday here.
Mrs. I. C. Hancher and Mrs. L. BE. Garlock hosted the M. Y. B. Club on Friday with Kensington and a luncheon. The Presbyterian Willing Workers bazaar and supper set for Saturday December 2 at 25 and 35 cents. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. F. C. DeWolf of Rolfe at A. G. Heathman home and Ivank Short returning to Indianola to help with corn picking. Born November 29 to Mx and Mrs. Studer a son Homer Mueller in Estherville.
Miss McGo and Miss Dut ton lead a county contest with ten entrants across dramatic and humorous categories. The event occurs Wednesday evening at the high school auditorium, with Thelma Hansen Lucile Grove Ruth Crowl in drama and Thelma Ward Leota Smith Gladys Diggs Warren Heathman Frank Tellier Berna Spencer Kathryn Jeffries in humor. The boys basketball team won 31 to 17 over Ware and will host Havelock on Thanksgiving night, plus junior and senior games with Bradgate Friday and Des Moines township at Rolfe next Tuesday. Des Moines township colors a strong squad this season.
Mrs. Ray McKim visited the first primary room. Marjorie and Roland Ferguson are new high school pupils this week. Primary handwork and sand tables foreshadow Thanksgiving. Fourth and fifth graders produced health booklets. Eighth graders created history booklets on Washington and studied Iowa congressional districts in civics.
Town district plans and maps discussed this week. examinations for upper grades ongoing in the lyceum program. Harrod Jubilee Singers entertained Thursday night to a well filled auditorium and appreciative audience. Our basketball team defeated Have lock 37 to 8 Friday night. Ware team scheduled to play Friday.
Pocahontas County Iowa public notice of a sheriff sale by special execution from the Pocahontas County District Court to satisfy a debt of ten thousand five hundred sixty four dollars and forty six cents plus costs to State Savings Bank Rolfe. The property is the southeast quarter of Section 18 in Township 93 Range 31 west. The sale is set for December 2, 1922 at 2 pm at the courthouse front door.
A catalog style sale lists 25 head milch cows with calves and yearlings, a 20 year old Ford bull, a wagon, John Deere and Osborne implements, Seesaw cultivators, planters, grain drill, mowers, power feed grinder, buggy, Deering binder, steel pounder drag, hay rake, breaking plow, hay corn, two sets Concord harness, fuel tank heater, hay and oats totals, plus household goods and other items.
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