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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1942
Page
3
The consolidated Havelock school opened for the term on Monday August 31 under Lloyd Godfrey with a flag raising ceremony. Enrollment covered kindergarten through high school, new faculty assignments noted, and curriculum shifts emphasize math science and physical education.
Lois Carpenter stays Thursday to Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Hart at Bradgate. Numerous relatives and friends visit and host in Bradgate, West Bend, Albert City, Manson, Carroll, Ottosen, Gilmore City, Emmetsburg, Plover, Rolfe, and Ames. Several weddings anniversaries and dinners mark a busy weekend of calls and gatherings across county towns.
About 40 relatives and friends gathered at the Methodist church for a farewell party planned for Mrs. John Whitman and her children who intended to join John Whitman in Utah. Word arrived that his transfer made their attendance impossible, but the event proceeded with a program and refreshments.
Havelock Methodist Church announces Young People Day next Sunday with a sermon titled Keep on Climbing. Pastor John Drake Wolcott invites students from area schools and travelers for college or university, plus sailors and soldiers, to attend morning worship at 11 and Sunday school at 10.
Pocahontas public school will open for the new school year on September 7 with flag raising and dedication of the new honor roll of graduates in service at 10 o'clock. Congressman F C Gilchrist of Laurens will speak. Faculty includes J R Grant superintendent and district staff from various towns including Rosemary Black Iowa City principal S L Dunn Pocahontas vocational agriculture Laurie Keefe Hampton vocational homemaking Sophia Heereh Pella English and speech Truman Manship Pocahontas coach Lois Rembolt Grand Island Neb commercial Mary McCollister Lone Tree mathematics and music Leona Frederickson Audubon and Dorothy Begg LeMars junior high Lucille Frahm LeMars sixth grade Florence Hash Corwith fifth grade Mary Lou Wasson Blairsburg fourth grade Ethel Magner Estelline S D third grade Catherine Thomson Lawton second grade Helen Hoch stetler Dexter first grade.
A 3 by 6 foot service flag with 47 stars is now shown at Sacred Heart church, arranged as a cross and a V. Special services honored parish members in service with over 400 receiving Holy Communion at the mass. Mrs. Gerald Sorenson left for Cheyenne Wyoming to join her husband stationed at Fort Francis.
Sacred Heart School will resume the 1942 scholastic year on September 7 with a faculty led by Sister M. Miralda as principal and teachers covering grades 1 through 8. The athletic program will be directed by Rev. Harry Dailey and D. A. Mitchell under Pastor Rev. G. F. Wessling.
The superintendent will conduct courses in religion in the high school and the grades. The Rev. Harry Dailey will teach economic geography and religion.
The August term of the district court in Pocahontas county convened Monday with Judge F M Hudson presiding. Twenty one cases are listed for trial, including twelve law cases and one probate case.
Mr and Mrs Herman Joens announce the birth of their daughter born in August. The event adds a new member to the Joens family.
Mrs. W. E. Gower presided over a Friday night gathering of about 14 Pocahontas county nurses. The group read the proposed constitution and by laws which will be voted on at the next meeting.
Mr and Mrs Henry Broderson celebrated their golden wedding with an open house for relatives and friends. The couple married August 28 1892 in Pottawattamie county Iowa and have grown to 18 grandchildren and a family including Will Cordes Peterson Lindeman and Craig. A son Karl died earlier this summer from accidental burns.
Mrs. F M Hudson hosted a Friday afternoon tea from 3 to 5 oclock to honor girls who will be and have been students at the State University and their mothers. Edward Alig is a Mercy hospital patient Fort Dodge undergoing an appendectomy and was visited by his parents and relatives.
Mrs Ivan Maurer will substitute in the Rolfe kindergarten and first grade for several weeks. Enrollment by grades totals 111 in grades and 28 in high school with required courses in English economics world history industrial arts general science. Electives include typing bookkeeping shorthand commercial arithmetic and speech. Physical education is mandatory for boys. Facility upgrades include refinished floors painted halls new sidewalks shrubbery and trees. Superintendent DeBoer and spouses host a faculty picnic at Rolfe park Thursday evening.
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