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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1929
Page
5
Plover residents attended the Pig Crop Special and a Havelock celebration. Visitors included Ben Everson from Bayard Nebraska and Dr. G A Everson. Dozens of local families and clubs shared dinners, church meetings, and school activities. A high school baseball game in Have lock ended with Have lock winning by a good margin.
The Presbyterians will serve a 35 cent supper in the church basement Monday evening October 14. Menu includes mashed potatoes chicken gravy escalloped chicken cabbage salad peas carrots jelly pickles pumpkin pie coffee. Proceeds support missions. field garden and kitchen products will be sold. Everyone invited.
Mrs. G A Everson will host a Home Dyeing lesson for the town ladies on Friday afternoon October 11 at her home. The class, part of the Home Furnishing Project by the Pocahontas County Farm Bureau, begins at 1 30 your time. Ladies are invited to attend and bring a small sauce pan old white muslin needle white thread and three yards of wrapping cord. The Patriot editor suggests bringing change to help pay for the dye used.
We express sincere appreciation to the Plover community for floral offerings symbolizing sympathy in the loss of one who was very dear to us. My, and Mrs. W. J. Johnson.
A concise aphorism notes that broad effort toward productive tasks yields prosperity for all. The saying emphasizes collective diligence and intelligent action as drivers of communal success.
The local school grade pupils staged a large audience program last Friday evening earning praise for polished performances by all ages. Performances included dances, health drill, plays, songs, and a long motion picture, with strong remarks on youth theater and public speaking for future years.
A school auditorium promotes a highly priced film as both entertainment and education, urging patrons to support the showing as a worthwhile community event.
The last rites for J. J. Johnson were conducted in Humboldt with many relatives and friends present. He had lived with his daughter in Paton and had visited his son in Plover. Ill for some time, he underwent surgery in Fort Dodge for gall stones but died from cancers. Interment followed at Humboldt Cemetery.
Miss Ida Twigg of Plover and Mr. Frank Lynes of Great Falls Mont were married last week in Spokane Washington. The bride, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Twigg east of Plover, is well known in the community. She trained at the local school and later visited sisters in the western states before meeting her husband, a young business man from Great Falls.
The church announces Sunday and Monday events for Harvest Home with morning and evening worships led by Rev. W. H. Cassell. Donations of garden and orchard goods are welcome for decorations and a church supper and prize sale to raise funds.
Iowa unveils 850 000 new license plates from Anamosa reform school. Plates feature blue background and white letters with easy readability. Distribution assigns plates alphabetically to nine counties, announced by Secretary of State Ed Smith.
An unclear report mentions a person named Graeber and references a new case in the western area. It notes worry over a fever and a person titled John C. Gur jent before a mourished authority, with scarce readable facts and no clear outcome.
Evoked by fragmentary text, the note hints at a rebel home event and a game handover. Names, dates, or places are unreadable, leaving only vague references to a local disruption and an informal gathering connected to a game.
A fragmented report notes doctors warning about an early threat to Nisawi bread production. Unclear details suggest health concerns may affect supply and local markets.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Crete and Ike in an uncertain context with mixed initials and words. No clear event or identifiable entities emerge to form a coherent news item.
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