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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1939
Page
2
A flurry of social items records Mrs Bradley entertaining the R B C club with guests including Mrs Jo Barnes and prize winners. A Tiernan family dinner draws Fort Dodge visitors. K S K, Bon Ton Bridge, Women's Club and Methodist Aid chapters meet with notes on officers, programs, and guests. A textile note cites historical spindle hours.
Rev H A Sinning Th D pastor leads Sunday service at 40 o clock with Sunday school at 11 and classes for all. Christian Endeavor meets at 6 45 in the evening. Choir practices Thursday at 7 30. The Excelsior society gathers October 11 in the church basement with Mrs A Vaughn chairing the division serving.
Pastor James N Lund leads morning worship at 11 00 with Sunday school at 10 15 Friends invited. Mission meetings move from Callender church from Thursday to Sunday. Rolfe Ladies Aid rescheduled to Thursday Oct 19 at Franklin Majorowicz home hosted by Meta Petersen. Confirmation classes set for Saturday at 4 p m at the parsonage.
Trinity Lutheran reports Sunday program with J. O. Wangberg preaching at 3:00 p m based on John 10 238 28 at Fort Dodge high school auditorium Rev Pang Fu head of Lutheran church in China to speak. Catechism class Saturday 9 30 a m at church Missionary society meets Wednesday Oct 11 with Mrs E P Lomen. God calls Christians to spread the earth.
Rev. E J Plummer from Hartley will begin his pastorate next Tuesday at the Methodist Church. Goods are invited for Good Will Industries during the last week of October. The King s Heralds meet Saturday at 2 30. dues 25 cents for Honor Roll. Sunday school promotion exercises October 8 at 10 80, with new year attendance goal.
Mrs Nels Ryen and her son Gaylord returned home Saturday from a visit to northern Minnesota near the Canadian line. They met relatives they had not seen for 52 years and found Minnesota friends royally entertained them.
Rolfe residents R. E. Green Anette and Edward Green Miss Flaherty of Pocahontas Mrs Lucile Learned and Hap py went to Buffalo Center Friday to attend the Northwood Buffalo Center game. The Northwood team is coached by Don Green. Mr and Mrs Ed Wieland and Ed ward, and Mr and Mrs Louie Buck spent Sunday at Ormsby Minn.
New Jersey state hospital spent about 25000 dollars on lie detector apparatus and training to detect deception among the insane. Criminologist Jacques Bril says patients feigning sanity reveal truth through skin conductance changes recorded by a device he touts as 100 percent accurate in skilled hands. Michigan authorities show interest in the method.
Louise Knightly runs milk deliveries for over 200 area families in Methuen Lawrence and North Andover. She began while in high school and continued after graduating in 1935 with help from her brother and a helper on the first route.
McAlester Oklahoma state penitentiary reports inmates taking University of Oklahoma correspondence courses show higher scholastic averages than other prisons. Instructor Dick Moon notes 70 percent of courses started are completed and 69 percent graded A while only 4 percent earn F. About 600 prisoners are enrolled in a 3,200 inmate population. Classes meet five nights weekly for two hours.
The Louisiana department of conservation announces success in its garfish control campaign. Fishermen report abundant catches of edible fish in former gar hotspots, with traps set in infested areas last summer. This spring over 100 black bass have responded to lures in a two acre region, totaling more than 50 pounds of bass per acre, aiding game fish by reducing gar predation and scavenging.
Two alleged state breakers were flown from Jersey to Southampton in what is believed to be the first use of an airplane as a Black Maria in the British Isles.
Unable to determine readable facts from fragmentary OCR. The note references a company and a person described as a brother but lacks clear names, actions, dates, or places to summarize accurately.
Rollin Ives of Pocahontas celebrates at the state fair after earning a red ribbon medal in a competitive event. The young participant represents unity and local health initiative efforts recognized at the state showcase.
Mrs. L. W. Ives thanks friends for gifts and cards received on her birthday September 26. The kindness will help her pass many lonely hours.
Card thanks friends and neighbors for help after the recent death of husband and father, signed by Mrs Joe Weishaar and children.
The program lists October 6 and 7 with 3 Mesquiteers and Jacqueline Wells in Kansas Terrors plus Rita Johnson and Tom Neal in They All Came Out. October 8 to 10 shows Honey Moon in Bali starring F MacMurray Made Carroll Osa Massen and Allan Jones.
Erwin Obrecht and crew erect steel grain bins for Charl ton Grain to store shelled corn. A 1000 bi bin and a portable 1000 bi crib are offered. Advertises automatic stoker coal heat and slanted notes on distant criticism. Hay rack priced at $32 this week.
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