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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
9
The Rolfe column lists visits and trips by residents, school openings, club meetings, and upcoming events. It mentions Mrs. J J Young hosting welfare talks, the A L D Club, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and the Kensington ladies. Local families travel to Des Moines Chicago Perry Waterloo and Des Moines while others move houses and purchase businesses.
Mrs. Carl Harris left Wednesday for Council Bluffs to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rapp traveled to Des Moines with their daughter to seek throat specialists. Mr. and Mrs. Chas Ham went to Council Bluffs and Omaha to visit family. Visitors at the A. G. and H. A. Hille homes this week include Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Plack and children of Sanborn, Mrs. C. Deutcher and children of Sanborn, and Norman Hille of Alta. The James M. Smith agency reports the sale of Saul Ritchey’s 246 2 acre Des Moines township farm to A. V. Everett of Rolfe at a good price. Ed Quinsland hosted a visit from half-brother Andrew Dahl and two friends from Slater, who came by auto to the Lakes. Regular Eastern Star meeting set for Friday evening. Mercy Hospital in Des Moines reports A. W. Smith is improving after appendicitis but will be laid up for some time. This week’s weather featured rapid changes from hot to cool, with heavy opening heat Monday and a cool Tuesday, followed by a frost mark near Tuesday night.
Mrs M J Galleger of Geneva describes a year of acute indigestion and constipation and notes a recommended remedy. The fragment suggests a testimonial style health tip common in periodicals.
A bank urges residents to boost town prosperity by depositing idle money. The ad portrays the bank as the financial heart of the community and asks new depositors to contribute to local growth and stability.
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