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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1929
Page
4
Friday Sept 6 Rolfe Woman's club will meet at Mrs. nday Sept 9 American Legion will meet at Mrs. MM le a Vaul. Tuesday Sept 10 event at home of cdé. Sept 12 City Lutheran Ladies Aid at Mrs E B Thompson home. Sunday Sept 15 Harvest Festival Service at Methodist at 11:00 AM. Tuesday Sept 18 Eastern Star regular meeting.
Mrs Elmer A Telfer of Rolfe dies at ages forty one in Fort Dodge Iowa after long illness. She was born August 28 1888 in Humboldt County and married Elmer A Telfer. Surviving children Clifford Verle Andrew Jack Betty Jane Ard Robert and Donna Jean. Funeral held at Rolfe Presbyterian Church with Rev J P Lester leading and a quartet providing music. Interment at Marble Valley Cemetery Gilmore City. Community offers sympathy to widower and family.
Mrs Ignatz Aigner born December 8 in Bohemia came to Adel Iowa in 1878 with neighbors. She married Ignatz Aigner in 1879 near Rozelle and lived on farms near Adel before moving to Roosevelt township in 1882. She died February 1913 leaving a daughter Mrs Biederman and five great grandchildren along with a sister Mrs Anna Lek. Funeral held at St Fares Catholic church Rolfe with Rev Joseph Kegan officiating.
The Oregon Trail pageant by local talent, free to the public at the Fall Festival, was rained out Tuesday and postponed to Friday evening weather permitting. Rolfe Community Band will assist the cast with audience about 4 000 expected, and director Wilkin will resume with the heroine as the show goes on if weather allows.
James Stover pleads guilty to assault with intent and receives ten years in Port Madison. Hank Johnson fined 500 dollars and jailed six months after a liquor find. Rolfe Fall Festival clashes with rainmaker demonstrations. exhibits include standout horticulture and livestock categories with multiple winners listed for Hereford, Guernsey, Holstein, and Brown Swiss classes. Streets races and kitten ball games draw crowds as Pocahontas defeats Rutland 5 to 2.
The 1929 Big Four District Fair at Fonda runs Tuesday to Friday with entries on Tuesday and full exhibits thereafter. Highlights include livestock poultry crops dairy calves baby beeves and swine plus boys and girls club displays, horse racing team pulling auto races and nightly shows with Garfield Township Farm Bureau Pomeroy Concert Band and Theatres-Duffield fireworks. County Agent C R Bowers assists in making it the best ever with free acts daily and two-, three-, five-, and seven mile races by pros.
Mr and Mrs Carl Harris and A P Cox of Alta visited the Karl Fisher home last Friday continuing local social ties and community rounds.
Rolfe Golf Club members are invited to travel to Manson on Sunday September 15 for club play in a return visit after a prior trip ended with a closed course. At the Iowa State Fair four H clubs demonstrated poultry, crops and livestock with Pocahontas and Dickinson counties posting top scores, Dickinson narrowly winning state honors.
The D M T Woman's Club invites teachers patrons and young people to a special program at the high school assembly room Friday evening September 6 at eight o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend.
For three weeks the area baked in dry weather with a Tuesday evening wind and a 95 degree high Monday. Most corn was past damage but yield may fall by five bushels per acre. Frost now feared but much of the corn stands above risk. Pastures, depleted by drought, should revive as conditions change. Frock costs rise day by day.
In a rain delayed game Pocahontas beat Rolfe 7 6 in extra innings after Rolfe built a 6 0 lead slipping on a late charge. Arch Mather homered for Rolfe with Berry pitching for Pocahontas both teams shown strong effort. Despite rain the pageant and dance faced cancellations but the Woman's Club ran a successful stand and plans for a rescheduled event. Senator Dan Turner of Corning hoped to speak on taxation but weather stopped him from addressing Pocahontas County.
Laurens community celebrated Labor Day with displays at the Masonic Temple including 4-H Club and Home Furnishing exhibits. The Boys' Pig Club showed twenty four pigs and six baby beef entries won by local youth. Two baseball games featured Laurens defeating Fonda and Rodman, while planes performed stunt routines and the street offered acts, pony races and contests. The Laurens Municipal Band, led by Emil Oleson, provided music all day.
William Fe Mandicott of Albert City a bachelor was killed when his northbound side road car failed to stop at an intersection and collided with a larger car driven by William J. Marieth of Rockford HK. Marieth and his sisters Frances Chase and Clara Chase suffered serious injuries. Marieth car caught fire and was destroyed. The incident occurred five miles west of Laurens at 9 30 a m Sunday.
The Arrow paper faced a week end disruption as the press failed near Wailing of the edition required aceterene welding. Rolfe list completed later, causing rural route subscribers to receive Arrow two days after Rolfe routes. Printing machinery breaks occasionally.
Dx H C Lawson of Omaha Neb forms a partnership with Dr EB W Wilson to cover medical calls day and night. Lawson is a University of Nebraska graduate with three years study in Bars deaux France, bringing advanced training to the community.
The Squires family reports a letter from their daughter Fae mailed in Ari Ona was found missing after being dropped near a pump. The envelope was recovered but its contents were taken and the envelope discarded in the street. The letter had value to the family and should be mailed to H. K. Squires immediately.
Rolfe reports another wave of young women leaving to teach in Iowa schools. Names listed include Elvina Peterson Ottumwa Elaine Ivey Rembrandt Funice Twee West Bend Marjory Howe Lytton Gladys Howe Shenandoah Erma Wilkinson Perry Annetta Green Pierson Charlotte Cumming Scranton Lucille Bowen Terril Martha Wangberg Grundy Center Leona Gibbons West Bend Paul Brinkman Avon S D Gladys Grant Sioux City Ivyl Grant Webb Cernadetlle Pollock Plover Ruth Webb Dolliver.
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