Rolfe High Six Man Team Wins Practice Game 20 to 7
Pep meeting highlights include un rehearsed talks and movie showings with cultural glimpses. Rolfe school enforces three-subject weekly rule for athletes while stressing scholastic standards. Six man football practice game ends 20 to 7 for town team. Laurens at Rolfe Oct 10期待.
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Sport News
Rolfe High
Bill McIntire
Ray Boles
Virgil Cox
Bobby Watts
George Marine
Don Sanding
James McIntire
Roy Smith
Junior Smith
Gerald Thompson
Carl Lanos
Dale Rickard
Laurens
Rolfe
Why Pupils Study in High School
The article explores motives for student work in high schools. It notes good students study as a habit and aim for top grades, while many capable pupils study mainly out of habit and routine. It discusses mediocre students who study to maintain averages, implying varied incentives across groups.
Gilmore City visitors attend high school activities
Carroll Kohl and Leslie Landmeser visited the Gilmore City high school last Wednesday. Gerald Thompson and Jack Patterson brought the movie projector to D M T for four reels already shown locally. Reels included Djibouti the Last Resort Eden and Southern Arabia Norwegian Sketches and The Barnyard Five. Wava Emery returns to school after illness. Senior class officers were Rollin Ives president Ruth Green vice president Eloise Brinkman secretary treasurer. Senior ring chosen. Junior officers named Gerald Thompson president Don Cornwall vice president Jack Patterson secretary.
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Carroll
Kohl
Leslie Landmesser
Gilmore City
Tessie
Gerald Thompson
Jack Patterson
Djibouti
Eden
Southern Arabia
Wava Emery
Rollin Ives
Ruth Green
Eloise Brinkman
Don Cornwall
Dream Home Plans And Week Of Home Economics
Advanced home economics girls work on dream home plans and family illustrations for scrapbooks. Third year students focus on old and new refinishing, while junior typists practice for business life amid typewriter sounds and Mr. Smith’s feedback.
Health Engineering Expands to 29 Iowa Counties
A. H. Wieters of the Iowa State Department of Health announced a quarterly bulletin detailing local health engineering expansion to 29 counties since 1986. Engineers operate from eight district and county units, inspect water, sewerage, nuisances and milk safety, and push rural sanitation and school programs.
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Iowa
A. H. Wieters
Iowa Sate
Department of Health
State Health Department
Wieters
State Department
Allamakee
Black Hawk
Delaware
Dubuque
Jackson
Calhoun
Webster
Polk
Hamilton
Boone
Woodbury
Washington
Des Moines
Boards of Health
Lime Pays Own Way for Iowa Farmers and Lime Act
Iowa farmers can use the Limestone Law to buy lime through county boards of supervisors. Extension agronomist Paul Burson says lime investment returns 2 to 3 dollars for every dollar spent, with options for cash deposits or five yearly installments.
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Iowa
Iowa County
County Boards of Supervisors
Paul Burson
Iowa State College Extension Agronomist
Burson
Death of Harry Ham prompts rural obituary notice
Former Rolfe resident Harry Ham died at his Antler Saskatchewan home on September 22 1939 aged 77. Born July 17 1862 in Somerset England he crossed to America at age 12 with his parents and settled near Des Moines township Pocahontas County Iowa. He married Maria Price in 1883 and had four children Clarence Marion Ethel Edna, all living. Funeral held near Antler with Rev Herriott officiating. He was nicknamed Grandpa and remembered for annual birthday parties and portrait as a husky pioneer family man. He is survived by two sons two daughters grandchildren great grandchildren and siblings Harriet Seaman George Ham and Charles Ham.
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Harry Ham
Somerset
England
Antler
Saskatchewan
Canada
Henry
Caroline Ham
America
Des Moines Township
Pocahontas County
Iowa
Des Moines River
Maria Price
Dakota City
Clarence Ham
Saskatachewan
Marion Ham
Rolfe
Ethel Carlson
St. Paul
Minn
Edna Roush
Herriott
United Church of
Charles Ham
Clarence
Ham
L. F. Riggs
Sioux City Hospital
O. E. Lehnus
Guy Barker
New England States
New York Fair
George Shaw
Plover
C. E. Miller
J. B. Sheldon
Havelock
Conrad
Gladbrook
Viola Hess
Luella
George
Willis
Clear Lake
J. H. Gembler
Fort, Dodge
Archie S. Stoner
Pocahontas
A. W. Hess
P. J. Eckholt
Waterloo
W. John Pollock
Lost Island
Lorraine
Wilna Henderson
Elizabeth Northrup
Wallace Bruner
Norma Ferguson
Ames
Iowa State College
Albert Glasco
Fort Dodge
C. Jones
Susan
George Roush
Des Moines
Raymond Dixon
Baby
F. B. Dixon
Emmetsburg
Fred Kerns
Ernest Hanisch
Reed Seaman
H. F. Knapp
John Pa
Imogene
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Obrecht Socials
Rachel ‘Wiegman
Jeanette Hauck
Lorene
Donald Sinek
Ee Fil
Marcom
Mary Margaret Brinkman
Don Shimon
Jean Graham
Jean Mathers
Norway
State Athletic Board
Rolfe School
Webb’s Drug Store
Climax
Shimon Feed Mill
Antler, Can
Lampe
Dorothy
Fred
Horvuth
Horouth
Plato Center
Alta
Vene Baker
Ty. R. Jones
Miss Stone
Peterson
Presbyterian Church
C. E. Hancher
Minneapolis
The
Arrow
Fred Winn
J. H. Brinkman
United States
Carolinas
Georgia
Virginia
Rolfe Creamery
John Pouelsen
Soren Christenson
Gay Gibson
Oxford
Glentex
Sloppy Joe’s
Parker- Wilder
the Fashion Shop
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