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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1966
Page
2
The report chronicles a rain soaked football game between Rockwell City and the local team as Harold Calligan keeps up play by play despite wet conditions. A humorous aside features a rabbi and priest bantering about fishing lines and rocks. The piece ends noting an annual Nah Bey court of boys presenting awards.
Abel DeVaul Glenn Kaiser and John Young earned a 15 minute airplane ride Saturday afternoon as a prize for securing the required number of Tribune subscriptions in a recent contest. Harold C. Johnson, 24, died from injuries in a car crash the previous Sunday. his funeral was in Armstrong after his nephew’s death. Mrs. Jennie Bowen was honored by the Presbyterian choir with a corsage for forty years in Rolfe.
Glenda Hopkins chosen to replace Carol Reeves as junior high cheerleader after Reeves transfers to another school. New daughter Nancy Lee born October 10 to Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Rude in Fort Dodge Lutheran Hospital. Ada Marie George and Glyde Smiths named pep queen and king at Rolfe High School Homecoming. Charles B Bowen dies at Spirit Lake from a heart attack while fishing. John C Gunderson, 67, Rolfe area farmer, dies at Mercy Hospital Fort Dodge. Mr and Mrs J Edward Lee vacation in Ames, picking corn with Mrs Lee’s mother. R Nicoson of Rock Rapids to serve on Iowa power matters sub-committee appointed by Gov. Hoegh. Jeanette Hauck named queen of first annual American Institute of Business in Des Moines. Joel Ives earns FFA member of the month for Pilot Creek Chapter FFA work.
Thirty years ago Rolfe High students woke the town with Friday floats and cheers, a scene described as a bright sign of youth stoking community spirit. George Fokken harvested hundreds of bushels of 1986 corn at 93 cents, planted five months earlier. A honeysuckle bush at the G A Foust home bloomed unusually late in October. The Mallard Creamery was burglarized again, losing 3456 pounds of butter valued at 1200 dollars in a second theft within 80 days.
1926 item notes Ralph Showers James Phillips and Morris Larson as Cherokee visitors Saturday. The brief dispatch lists these individuals as prominent attendees during a weekend event in Cherokee.
The County Board of the W C T U met at Mrs W P Wheeler home with members from Pocahontas Gilmore City and Rolfe. Mrs E L Hollis arrived from Marengo to attend St Margaret Church dedicatory exercises and visit friends. Hostesses next week will be Mrs BW Jeffries, Mrs Peter Christensen and Mrs Jud Mehaffey. Local pheasants noted in a lighthearted aside. Ram supporters urged.
Iowa's harvest is ahead of 1965 and with favorable weather in the next 25 days should be nearly finished by the November 12 opening, the State Conservation Commission states. Two thirds of corn is usually harvested by this date. corn is Iowa's top crop and must be cribbed before winter.
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