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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1947
Page
3
Local residents travel weekly to Fort Dodge and Iowa City for homecomings and family events. The column lists visitors, engagements, hospital stays, and social calls across Algona, Des Moines, Laurens, Webster City, Laurens, and surrounding areas with names such as Strathman Studio Pocahontas and families including the Browns and Brewers.
Mark Damborg underwent an emergency appendectomy at 5 00 p m Monday at St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids He had spent the weekend with his grandmother Mrs Sarah Decker in Clarence on the return trip home he fell ill and the operation was required He is reported to be getting along very well.
In Rolfe and surrounding towns residents hosted and visited relatives and friends over the weekend. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. John Gunderson and others from Shell Lake Wisconsin, Vera DeVaul and Vera DeVaul's daughter, and family members from Mason City and Des Moines. Emphasis on hospital and hospital stays, births, and events. Local family outings include Iowa State/football mentions and a lodge dinner attended by about 50 Masons with Eastern Star hospitality.
Pocahontas County Farm Bureau reports soybeans 65 percent completed on Monday. Cornpicking not slated to begin until about October 2. Fall plowing underway with moisture received Saturday night.
D M T high school students and faculty took a wiener roast on courthouse grounds in Pocahontas after a Monday night party. They rode the school bus with Jim Taylor driving and Mrs Garlock and Mrs Taylor supervising. The report notes an upgraded homemaking kitchen cabinet and fluorescent lighting in manual training rooms. A new L C Smith typewriter was purchased, and the junior class plans a three act comedy Just Ducky with a new maroon velour curtain.
The Extension Service of Iowa State College the Buena Vista Farm Bureau and the Kingan Co packing plant sponsor a swine carcass demonstration on Friday October 17 at 10 30 am at the Storm Lake packing plant. E L Quaife extension swine specialist assists showing hog carcasses at three weights and explaining lard yield and pork cut suitability across weights.
The girls county organization meeting takes place in the courthouse on Friday October 17. The 4 H club committee convenes at 10 a.m. An afternoon session at 1 p.m. includes all 4 H girls county officers local leaders and older girls.
The Pocahontas County American Legion will hold a stag meeting in Gilmore City on Monday October 20. Attendance is requested from members and veterans.
A White Elephant is a household article no longer useful and not worn out. Save such items for the White Elephant Sale on October 25 in the Fuller building.
Climax Mill and Feed Co moved steel grain bins from the M. and J. R. Hakes produce station to the M. and St. L. property north of the mill. The bins are being used to store soybeans.
Dr and Mrs G G Butler are on an eastern tour visiting relatives in New York Vermont New Hampshire and Massachusetts. They drove to Iowa City Friday to attend the Iowa Indiana home coming game and left after the contest.
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