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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1934
Page
5
Rain disrupted a Rolfe Softball Association event on September 1 and 2. Bradgate beat Clare 3 to 2 in a tense first game as moisture affected the field. Roosevelt fell to Pla-Mor 3 to 2 behind solid pitching from Calligan and Sanding. A late rally gave Algona a comeback chance in a later game.
A string of upcoming events and meetings is announced for September. Progressives, Trinity Lutheran, Rotary era clubs, the America Legion Auxiliary, L D Club, Presbyterian Excelsior Society, Ladies Aid, Sorosis, Pikertown Night Owls, and Chapter FA P of 9 will host gatherings at private homes and church venues with patrons invited and dates ranging Sept 5 to Sept 17.
Rolfe High football opens season with a Sept. 13 crash at Rolfe City Park under floodlights. Eight lettermen Lanus K Rickard Shelgren Calligan Melson Phillips E Rickard Graeber trained on farms for the summer and show strong condition as fundamentals and scrimmage prep dominate practice time.
The list of reporters includes BR dhelgren Atherton Cornwell Hansen Cox Sandvig Rudolfson Ferden Otto Smith Boles Wiegert Wolf Shimon Kennedy and Siefert. Five home games are Humboldt Sept 18 Fort Dodge Reserves Sept 27 Albert City Oct 4 Livermore Oct 11 Pocahontas Oct 25. Season ticket price is £140.
The Rolfe Softball Association will complete its tournament this weekend after rain and wet grounds interrupted play. Friday features Class B Fonda vs Humboldt and Fort Dodge clubs in Class A, with Sunday schedule including multiple Class B and Class A games culminating in finals. Early results show tight, well-played games and strong pitching from northwest Iowa, with notable players from Spencer, Alta, and Emmetsburg joining the event.
Rolfe faced the Fort Dodge Top and Body Team from Plasteropolis last Friday and shut them out in a lopsided game. Johnson pitched well for Rolfe with good catching by Cramer, while Wells struggled issuing five bases on balls. Polock hit a home run as Rolfe piled up ten runs on eleven hits, aided by strong fielding and solid hitting throughout the lineup.
A correction clarifies prior reporting on the Gahm White automobile crash. The article notes glare and a U turn blocked vision, misreading pedestrians stepping from behind a vine covered tree as the cause, with Mr. and Mrs White not stepping into the street as previously stated. Mr and Mrs C J Moen were Ft Dodge visitors Wednesday.
Annual church event organized by the Sunday school plans a supper on Tuesday September 10 with fried chicken mashed potatoes harvard beets cabbage salad butter rolls jelly apple pie and coffee. Tickets 35 cents adults 20 cents children under ten. Proceeds aid the local church budget.
The St Margaret's church carnival endured unusually cool weather last week yet financials stayed strong thanks to advance ticket sales. Softball games drew crowds with McKnight's edging Point-Rolfe 3 1 and Rolfe defeating Clare 2 0. Parish profits neared eight hundred dollars with broad patronage noted.
Ben H. Freeman former Rolfe Auto Co. employee leases part of the Peter Johnson building on south Garfield street and opens a joint auto repair business with Frank Wheeler. His son Gilbert Freeman will assist in the new venture begun Saturday.
Miss Ruth Webb departed Friday for Council Bluffs to resume teaching duties at the Christian Orphans Home.
Rolfe schools start the new year with 349 pupils on the first day, nearing the 1932 high mark. Senior high enrolls 125, junior high 81, and elementary grades show gains. The campus presents fresh paint, new shades, and updated chairs as football, music, and declamatory activities begin. Junior High totals 80 students across grades six to eight.
A roster of Rolfe area teachers and their assigned schools is published. Names include Ruth Dawson Bradgate Helen Brinkman Albion Betty Melson Humboldt Mary Melson Milford Lucile Bowen Webb Annette Green Pierson Marie Harriger Meriden Robert Pollock Pioneer Grace McEwen Lincoln township Annabelle Brinkman Pierson Frances Vaughn Burt Elvina Peterson Ottumwa Blythe Day Bede Harriette Damsborg Faribault Minn Ramona Nelson Rawlins Wyo Clara Dawson Harriman Tenn Mildred King Phoenix Ariz Nellie Ratcliff San Bernardino Cal Marie Rudolfson Radcliffe Ruth Webb Council Bluffs Mary Short Mason City Arthur Hewlett Hampton Maybelle Ryen Rural Joyce Christensen Rural Helen Kennedy Rural Bernice Lomen Huxley Mary Pollock Oakville Martha Waughberg Irene D Nellie Peterson Sargeant Bluffs Gladys Howe Shenandoah Theo Gaskell Rural Aletta Grant Rural Sadie Peterson Ottosen Florence Peterson D M T Ivyl Grant Fonda Hattie Lehnus Pomeroy Lois Brinkman Morningside Sioux City Cora Belle Pollock Curlew Mable Young Ottosen Dorothy Tiernan Rural Kathleen Tiernan Piketown Blanch Witt Rural Martha Otto Rural.
The D M T schools opened on schedule under an efficient teaching corps. The team includes Florence Peterson and Ferrol Hughes for grades one to six, Lilian Nelson for seven and eight, Amy Romsford in Domestic Science and PE, Gertrude Hurley in English, Carl Bruns in Agriculture, Jerome Gehrt in Geometry and History, and Daniel Nicosen as Supt and janitor. Mrs LeRoy Miller and baby returned from Pocahontas. Mrs W S Butler, Mrs Etta Symes and Mr and Mrs Guy Butler attended an Eastern Star meeting in Laurens, with Rainbow Girls as the feature.
Rolfe Public Library adds titles including Heaven's My Destination Green Lights Goodbye Mr Chips Adventure World s Best Poems and more. New items span classics poetry biographies and children’s works with three magazines The Golden Book Atlantic Monthly and Modern Mechanics.
The Pocahontas Record-Democrat reports the listing of teachers for Garfield Township Powhatan and Roosevelt Townships for the coming school year. It names Daisy Wallace Gilmore City Kathleen Tiernan Rolfe Martha Otto Rolfe Mildred Baker Onda Ruth Johnson Havelock Mildred Hanisch Laurens Dorothy Tiernan Rolfe Theo Gaskell Rolfe Minnie Pascal Pocahontas and notes additional teachers Grace Meckinen Lincoln District No. 2 Mary Rutgers Lincoln District No. 5 teaching in the county.
The Cook family of Pennsylvania Dutch background held a reunion at Casper E. Grants home last Sunday in honor of George O. Lee of the Panama Zone. Forty two members gathered for a large dinner and gab fest after eight years apart, with many relatives named among attendees.
The Presbyterian Excelsior Society will meet next Wednesday afternoon September 11 in the church parlors. The program includes Hymns and Their Histories by Mrs J H Brinkman and Religious Pictures and Their Interpretation by Mrs C W Siefkin. A canned foods sale funds church furnace repairs and a lunch will follow. Lloyd Dillon visited Hubbard over the weekend.
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