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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1931
Page
2
Rolfe and nearby towns report a busy week of visitors and calls with many locals attending events. Meetings for the American Legion Auxiliary and various clubs fill the October calendar, while weather brings rains and mild warmth. corn yields and community news connect residents across Pocahontas and surrounding areas.
Rev. C Paul Carlson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, notes Sunday services including Morning Worship Sunday School Bible Class and Evening Worship. The pas tor elect installation is Thursday Oct 15 at eight o clock with Dr Bailey Estherville preaching and presbytery ministers present. The Excelsior Society C Division meets Oct 14 2 30 p m in church parlors to honor Rolfe’s fiftieth founding anniversary. All are invited.
Trinity Lutheran Church posts morning worship at 10:00 a.m. Luther League at 10:45 a.m. Mid-Week Prayer Meeting at 8:00 p.m. Catechism class Saturday October 10 at 2:00 p.m. Sunday school and Luther League will be the only services this Sunday. The note praises last Sunday's large audiences and urges church as a better place.
Rev L H Kjoller previews schedule for Nain Lutheran Church with Danish morning service first Sunday monthly and English services other times including morning worship at 10 and evening service at 11. prayer meeting Thursday at 8. All invited.
FE C Volz of Iowa State College says most hybrid teas and baby ramblers need winter care. Protect by mounding earth eight to ten inches, adding a dry leaf mulch, or burying entire plants in a soil and manure trench. Climbers can be taken down and covered with dirt or straw.
The Excelsior Society of the Presbyterian church plans a Rolfe Jubilee program on Wednesday October 14 at 2 30 p m in the church parlors with a fifteen cent lunch to follow. The event honors Rolfe’s early days with readings songs and heirloom exhibits inviting all community members to participate.
Seed of Hubam, a white sweet clover, should be harvested after a killing frost per H D Hughes of Iowa State College. Two methods exist: cut with a grain binder then thresh after drying, or use a homemade seed beater that leaves the plant in the ground for soil-building crops.
Agricultural Engineering Department at Town State College in Ames offers detailed information about a reel designed to harvest seed from Hubam and biennial sweet clover. The device is built to hold substantial seed and strike clover firmly to loosen seed effectively.
Plover residents join Knapp family for Wallace Knapp birthday at Jas Anderson home. Hilton and Hanisch families visit in Pocahontas and Laurens for family events. Burl Houck returns from Cedar Falls for a weekend visit. J M Bush visits Rolfe forenoon business.
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