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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
3
A five year old boy at the William Gist home was nearly scalped when his head became caught on a manure spreader. Doctors Beam and Fuller White treated the scalp wound and stitched it successfully. The boy, from Newton, was visiting grandparents Mr and Mrs William Gist. fever followed but he is now recovering and is expected to fully recover.
The local board lists young men who reached twenty one since the June 5 registration at Pocahontas. Names include Leo Durance Hurley Delbert Clapton Vader Orville Hersom Clarence Snyder Raymond McGowan and others. The highest registration number in this class is 181 with 182 as the first new number. Patriots will register others must.
Court in session at Pocahontas with Judge Coyle presiding. Equity cases only this week. Petit jury called for September 10 at nine. No jury if local farmers cannot serve. Record shows largest county docket: six state cases 133 old civil 282 new civil and 32 probate. Among new cases 192 involve Big Cedar drainage ditch appeals amid ongoing dispute with northern landowners. The joint board narrowly refused to exclude them, leading to court action.
Fred Ernst from Pocahontas county collides head on with Geo Fokken of Roosevelt township near the Frank Shimon corner. Mrs Fokken sustains injuries and one Fokken child needs a surgeon after the crash. Ernst is dazed and taken to safety. no bones are broken and recovery expected for all involved. Guy Smith and sisters Clara and Nellie plan a Minnesota outing including a state fair visit.
Frank E. Seaman died after being pinned by a tractor wheel on the Mrs. J. P. Dolliver farm east of Bradgate on Tuesday morning September 3 1918. He had rented the Dolliver place and was plowing with a three bottom plow when the tractor allegedly tipped and rolled onto his leg and head. He was found alive about six o clock that morning but died shortly after and doctors said timely discovery might have saved him. Seaman was a well known local farmer with many friends and his loss was a severe blow to the community.
The War Board orders newspapers to drop unpaid subscribers. To continue The Arrow, readers must pay in advance or forfeit delivery. The paper may charge five cents for extra copies, and editors joke the order will improve business.
A funeral is held today from the home near Bradgate with interment at Clinton cemetery in Rolfe. The notice notes the family’s request for mourners and details of the services.
Prayer meeting is scheduled for Thursday at eight o clock. Next Sunday morning the topic will be The Black Christ and in the evening Sinning Against Light. A Christian Endeavor social for all young people is set for Friday in the basement. The Autumn Communion Service will be the last Sunday morning. Baptism and reception of members will occur. Business Men's Bible Class starts next Sunday morning with a study of the Book of Revelation.
The Lees City Methodist Episcopal Church schedules the fourth quarterly conference to close the year with officer elections. Bishop Matt Heyrhes will preside and Dr. O. M. Bond will preach Sunday evening. Members urged to pay benevolence pledges and attend the remaining Sundays.
Supt. Ernest D. Bloom argues WWI era wages and costs threaten schooling. He cites Wilsons call for sustained education from elementary to university, warns of damage from early school withdrawal, and urges parental support for continued attendance and national readiness. He references England and the need for educated citizens postwar.
Amelia Hewlett and Willie Struthers were married in Emmetsburg on August 29 and spend their honeymoon with relatives in St. Paul this week. Both hail from Des Moines township and are praised as sturdy, homebound youths. They plan to farm the W. F. Struther property in Des Moines township and are greeted with best wishes.
A call to parents to fulfill civic duty by sending children to school to uphold national standards and honor the Liberty Enlightening the World statue at New York Harbor. The message emphasizes education as the means to realize the nation’s ideals and statutes.
The thirty fourth West Iowa Conference in Shambaugh Iowa led by Bishop Wm Pierce featured sermons by Evangelist H C Hubbard from Illinois. The meetings included Sunday services and a district camp with apparent spiritual renewal as penitents sought pardon and puritan revival.
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