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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1941
Page
7
Dense social notes describe visitors and gatherings across Rolfe Fort Dodge Pocahontas and nearby towns. Families host relatives attend church functions travel for picnics and town events. Multiple weddings memorials and illnesses mentioned with several trips to Estherville Sioux City Ames and Chicago.
Weekend visits and gatherings show a flurry of guests from Emmetsburg Mallard Laurens and Pocahontas. Lists of visitors include Graeher Jones Tutt Brinkman Ricklefs Grethen and Shumway connected households share meals and attend funerals while new births and local moves are noted.
Funeral services for Mrs Amos Mason to be held at 2 PM at the family home near Gilmore City. She died Tuesday morning after a three year illness and is remembered as Jennie Roberts, daughter of the late Clarence Roberts and his wife. Rev J S Schroeder of the Gilmore City Baptist church will conduct the rites.
Thirteen Pocahontas county young men will report to the county draft board on Tuesday Oct 14 and go to the induction station at Fort Des Moines. The call lists 12 named individuals with home towns including Palmer Laurens Rolfe and Havelock and notes their draft numbers. A separate item reports Jack Watery of Le Mars showing a potato grown through a steak bone.
A vivid sketch of Victoria British Columbia as a metropolitan capital set on Vancouver Island. The piece highlights its English character gardens climate and harbor views with notes on Parliament Buildings coal fields and distant markets across the Pacific. It contrasts isolation with charm and governance from the island capital.
Mr and Mrs Frank Shimon Jr and party wrap up a month long trip covering 5100 miles. They spent a week in Washington DC with Lea Shimon in the Surgeon General office and visited New York Alabama Georgia Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas Missouri. They viewed cotton fields and oil fields and met Iowa veterans and visited state prisons.
Leo Powers was injured when a barbed wire fence caused a tractor and post to pin him. Deep gashes were cut in his leg and other parts of his body.
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