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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1931
Page
2
Local notes detail visits and business from Fairmont Minnesota to Rolfe and surrounding towns. Residents attend concerts, church meetings, families travel for illness and funerals, and a car collision near Des Moines leads to minor injuries.
The Methodist Episcopal Church announces Rev T S Bassett as the new pastor. He will occupy the pulpit both morning and evening next Sunday, inviting congregants to become acquainted with the new minister as the church thanks the outgoing pastor W A Wilkinson and his family for three years of service.
Rev J O Wangberg leads Trinity Lutheran Church with morning worship at 10 45 a m in Norwegian and a sermon on What Does God Require of Those Who Will Enter Into Life Mark 10 17 27 special choir music Nor language service no evening worship Luther League program at Ottosen and choir rehearsal Friday 8 p m All welcome to attend and participate in services
All services next Sunday move to the church inviting all. Rev. C Paul Carlson begins work with morning and evening sermons. Carlson traveled through Rolfe toward the Fort Dodge Presbytery meeting at Lytton where he was received into the Presbytery and his Rolfe call approved. Installation set for Sunday October 15. California Oregon and Washington population rose 170 percent in twenty five years.
A mass meeting in Gilmore City on September 28 approved a slate of resolutions by H S VanAlstine chairing with G F Neel and J P Russell. The group urged higher farm product prices, support for agricultural credit, opposition to short selling, freight rate hikes, broader taxation, and federal credit aid for agriculture.
Rev L H Kjoller to lead morning worship at 10 00 a m and evening service at 11 00 a m on first and third Sundays all members and the public are invited to attend services as scheduled unless changes are announced
Iowa plant pathologist R H Porter from Iowa State College urges farmers to select seed corn early after hot dry fall weather and September rains. Pick well dented ears from vigorous standing stalks free from smut and dry rot, and dry quickly to reduce moisture to 15 percent or lower. Store seed where dry and away from mice with temperatures not below -5 F.
The report shows that automobile manufacturers in the country sold 4,600,000 cars during the year 1930.
Extension Service plant pathologist R H Porter says rains create moisture ideal for spraying to kill Canada thistle quack grass and horse nettle. A mix of 1.5 pounds chlorate per gallon water with a backpack sprayer can eliminate weed trouble with little corn damage, and a barrel sprayer works where stalks have been shocked or cut.
An early steam engine designed by a French inventor ran on Paris streets at a high speed until it overturned ending its career.
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