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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1941
Page
4
The Rolfe School hosted Venita Rich McBurney an impersonator and artist who presented a program featuring sketches marionette acts and character impersonations including an Italian woman two Dutch speakers a Mexican desert and a radio personality. The event coincided with Fire Prevention Week and students heard demonstrations on fire safety.
Ninety new fiction titles funded by the Des Moines Two school district enrich library collections approved by the Iowa Pupil's Reading Circle. Fifteen are on the preferred list. Shirley Heathman handles checkout as interest in reading grows among junior and senior high students.
Fourth grade pupils Jimmie Fox Caribel Michalek and Gary Smith achieved perfect spelling papers. Fifth grade honorees include Donna Capesius Keith Hewlett Yvonne Os vig Laurel Lebron Mary Meisen bach Genevieve Mcjorowicz Burl Lehnus Glenn Fox and Richard Zeman.
Nearly 90 Pocahontas county farmers and businessmen attended the pork producers banquet in the Plover Methodist church basement on Thursday evening October 9. Dr. K. W. Stouder Iowa State College ext backed a plan to boost pig production for 1942. He cited 57 usable pigs per 100 born and outlined feeding practices including a balanced ration and self fed supplements.
Joan Schonberger and Marilyn Struthers report that first and second grade pupils will decorate their room and host a Halloween party. On Friday they plan a toy day inviting children to bring any toy to school.
Last week at Plover school several birthdays occurred Donna Twigg Bobby and James. The third grade performed The Three Bears for younger students. Phyllis Enge and Shirley Bell led spelling averages of 100 in the first six weeks. Dick Fisher had an appendectomy on October six and returned home October twelve. The baseball team lost to West Bend at West Bend on Friday October ten. The junior class will present Running Wild on November seven with a large cast and a negress skit planned as a curtain raiser.
Lieutenant Densman leads 32 US Marines on a grueling 40 mile hike from Lin ton Hall to Quantico. The unit maintained a fast pace, then slowed for meals, finishing in 12 hours 20 minutes to topple the Nazi record by seven and a half hours with every man standing.
About 25 Iowa 4-H club girls will receive trip awards to the national club Congress in Chicago this December. Outstanding club records were submitted from Pocahontas county including memory books by Vergene Lewis Laurens Mary Margaret Brinkman Rolfe June Hudek Pocahontas Beryl White Beverly DeWolf Rolfe and Evelyn Carlson Have lock. The books cover 4 to 7 years of records with notable entries from home furnishing studies. A state contest will soon pick two girls to attend the national 4-H club camp in Washington DC. Winifred Brinkman Rolfe previously won this trip two years ago.
Dr. R. H. Porter of the Seed Laboratory at Iowa State College tells County Agent Max C. Naylor that farmers should send seed samples now for faster test results. Red clover, timothy, flax and small grains can be sent any time. soon soybeans, sorghum and corn tests will be accepted. Contact the county agent or the Seed Laboratory in Ames for purity and germination details.
Treasury reports total sales of Defense Savings Bonds at 1 604 billion dollars as of September 30, with monthly issuance averaging about 800 million. September receipts reach 232.327 million. Series E bonds account for 571.216 million more than a third of all three series.
The nine county Prairie Gold Area Council budget is 8200 dollars with no quota. Fort Dodge chest no longer funds the area. Kossuth raised 1800 in one day. Webster 825 outside Fort Dodge. Drives target Humboldt October 28 Pocahontas 29 Calhoun 30 and Green November 4. An Early Bird breakfast precedes. Morris Webb selects team captains and workers report October 29 at Riches cafe.
In a defensive struggle Rockwell City earned a 19 to 0 victory over Rolfe. Key plays included interceptions by Hendricks and Carson, a 47 yard return for a touchdown by Reynolds, and solid work from McIntire and G Smith on offense. Discipline issues led to penalties and sidelined players in the fourth quarter.
Pocahontas county farmers can gain up to a third more profit from hogs while aiding national defense by following good swine sanitation. With strong pork prices, Max Q. Naylor urges strict fall-season precautions to give each pig a strong start, reducing time to market as roundworm remains a chief barrier to young pigs.
Farmers who planted trees last spring or plan to this fall can boost survival by gopher control measures. Pocket gophers probe for roots stored for winter, feeding on alfalfa and clover. In young orchards they cut roots along rows. They can be controlled with strychnine on parsnips Irish turnips rutabagas or carrots potatoes.
Report on drastic decline of wild ducks due to reckless drainage and predators. Only about 40 million of the original population survive as eggs and fish impact the birds. Discusses conservation efforts and actions proposed in The American Weekly distributed with Chicago Herald-American.
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