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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1928
Page
5
A dense notice lists upcoming events across several groups including Rolfe football games October 12 and 19, Woman's Club programs, YMC bridge club, matinee productions, and church services. It notes weekly worship at 10:00, Sunday School at 2:15, and evening services, along with plans for Quarterly Communion and new church officers and music manager.
Pastor W A Wilkinson invites all to worship at Merodist Episcopal Church with morning and evening services and Sunday school. Epworth League youth groups meet, Ladies Aid hosts a luncheon, and the farm labor note urges farmers to contact the County Farm Bureau for labor needs.
The Home Management course opened last week in Pocahontas County as one of the best new offerings. Residents praise it over Millinery and Clothing courses and expect Miss Esther Pond to lead sessions during the week of November 12 to 16 with a demonstration lineup of kitchen devices for attendees.
At a courthouse meeting of Pocahontas Farm Bureau officers and members the plan for the year was approved. Girls will join Food and Poultry Clubs while boys enter Baby Beef Gilt Litter Dairy Calf and Poultry Clubs. About $9 000 of livestock sales are planned. Paul Lothian and C F Moore were named to the County Club Committee. The County Agent will mark every litter of pigs entered in the Litter Club. Officials stressed honest club work with correct ages ownership and care.
Iowa advances toward complete diphtheria immunization by 1930 with state Health Department leadership and county cooperation. Rolfe Board of Education supports school and preschool immunization plans, with literature to be distributed later.
The County Federation of Women's Clubs gathered at Rolfe on Friday Oct 5 with delegates from Plover Havelock Laurens Varina Fonda Palmer Gilmore City and Rolfe. A luncheon followed in the church hall and the group moved to the school auditorium for music by the Plover Orchestra. Dr Effie Mc Collum Jones substituted for a speaker and spoke on Law Enforcement. The next meeting is set for Havelock on Nov 1 with the Public Welfare Department in charge.
Circle No 2 of the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church will serve a twenty five cent supper at 5 30 p m Wednesday Oct 17 in the parlors of the church to which all are invited The menu includes hot meat loaf creamed potatoes cabbage salad Parkerhouse rolls jelly pickles fruit pudding with butter sauce coffee
Four new members Helen Brinkman Dorothy Cleal Mary Pollock and Doris White were initiated at the Watopa Camp Fire ceremony in the school gym. The rite included sensory trials and a humorous skeleton embrace ending with jello dessert and dishwashing duties. Negative remark from Mary Pollock noted.
The 4 H Live Stock Club of this locality shipped baby beeves to Chicago Tuesday. Art Vaughn accompanied the lot to the city, with many calves going to Nagle Packing Co. of New York City. Seventeen head weighed 17 380 pounds total, averaging 1022 pounds, bringing total money 3003 25 dollars at an average price of 17 28 per hundredweight.
In a prize exhibit mix up the sweepstakes ear of corn was awarded to Clarence F. Boyce of Rolfe. The ear, Reed's Yellow Dent, is nearly perfect with kernels to the tip and a fully filled butt, showing no cob. Boyce, a noted corn raiser, is praised for producing this fine specimen.
Ideal two week spell with dry warm conditions boosts corn growth toward cribbing. Some corn reportedly cribbed while others ready, reflecting near perfect weather for harvest timing.
The Des Moines Township Farm Bureau will hold an open meeting at the school on Monday October 15 at eight o'clock. A program with music follows the business session and Representative Byron G Allen will discuss the Gilchrist state constitutional amendment affecting senate representation and rural districts. A member of the Agricultural Equality Voters League will address farmers' economic concerns. Mr and Mrs Henry Nelson and Gwendolyn traveled to Bondurant to visit Mrs Nelsons sister and other relatives over the weekend.
At Waterloo two high scoring teams vied to represent Iowa at Memphis Tennessee. Butler county scored 91 points while Pocahontas county posted 90 and both beat last year’s winner. The Pocahontas team members were Carl Hertz and Marjory Vaughn, with a season record of 33 wins and 1 loss to Butler. They earn a Short Course trip at Ames, an International Live Stock Exposition trip to Chicago, and 15 dollars in cash. Attendees from Pocahontas included Arthur Vaughn Randall Melson Thos Edge C G Watson C A Julian L W Kennedy and others.
The Woman's Group of the Farm Bureau held the first training school in Pocahontas County. The Fourth Group from Powhatan Des Moines and Garfield townships, led by Mrs Ow G Aven of Des Moines, gathered twelve women for a profitable day. They learned an efficiency shortcut a fireless cooker that saves initial cost fuel time and energy and enjoyed a good meal cooked in it.
At a Pocahontas County Farm Bureau meeting at the courthouse last week five major lines of work were adopted: Organization Marketing Junior Club Work Home Project Work and Economical Live Stock Production. Specialists will be brought in to lead these efforts and township meetings will be held to promote cooperation with other farm organizations. The bureau will continue work with farmers co operatives and the State Elevator Association and assist shipping associations. Plans include aiding farmers to buy or sell seeds and livestock and to hold discussions on marketing topics at meetings. Home furnishing work for ladies begins next August with five livestock feeding schools in January and legume meetings in February. Emphasis will be on clean ground hog production and other minor lines. A reformer is one who would like to reform the other fellow first.
Myerly of the Towa Agricultural Equality Voters League demands a public explanation from Herbert Hoover regarding his alleged request to President Coolidge to veto the McNary-Haugen bill. He cites Brookhart’s Des Moines speech and Akerson's denial, urging transparency and accusing silence of deceptive intent.
Mrs. Ida B. Wise-Smith will address a mass meeting at the Ft. Dodge Useh school auditorium Sunday evening Oct. 4 at 7 30 p m She will discuss prohibition a key issue in the campaign She is national vice president of the Woman s Christian Temperance Union and has long led Iowa W C T U affairs
Rev J O Wangberg leads Trinity Lutheran Church with Sunday School Bible Class Morning Worship Luther League Evening Service Catechism Class Saturday 11 am and Wednesday prayer meeting No preaching next Sunday Woman’s Missionary Federation meeting at Bode on Oct 18 Mrs H C Busnes visited Far Dodge Thursday
Eleven women attended Mise Louise Ryen and Mrs. John Madsen at Mrs. C. W. Carpenter's home on October 5 for Millinery Work and hat remodel. Officers elected include President Mrs. G. D. Struthers and Vice President Mrs. C. W. Carpenter. Next meeting October 12 at Mrs. Clarence Wates to begin Home Management with a first lesson on Phe Malsue at a Fireerss.
The Voca hontas County Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Association held its annual meeting in Pocahontas Tuesday. Officers were re-elected and the secretary treasurer reported solid business with losses paid and an assessed surplus. Insurance written to Oct 1 1928 reached 2 274000 11 percent, capital rises to about 16.5 million, expenses total 2716.81, and new director Fred Hauswirth joined the board amid steady growth.
Lester Thorson and Florence Snook, both of Des Moines township, united in marriage at the Lutheran parsonage in Fort Dodge on September 29 1928 with Rev Berge officiating. The couple, graduates of Des Moines Tech, will start life together while relatives and friends visit from Cedar Falls Waterloo and Newton. A seven o'clock dinner was held Sunday in their honor with immediate family present.
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