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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
4
Gus Johnson bought a new Maxwell automobile through the local garage last week. Victor Hermanson and Geo Nielsen purchased a tractor through the Mangun agency this week.
Henry Fitzgerald sells a Ford touring car to Geo Nielsen. Webb family mourns daughter and grandson in Livermore wreck. neighbors extend sympathy. Builders Hermanson & Stone erect Lo M. McKim farm home. Presbyterian church repairs delay service. Various residents travel to Minneapolis and Fort Dodge for fairs and cattle, farms add silos and tractors, and Dray services offered. Community updates on visits, purchases, and local business.
The Plover Red Cross chapter hosts a September 11 picnic to raise funds for materials for the front. Activities include a 4:40 band concert, street sports, a decorated auto parade, a chicken dinner, and a 29:30 baseball game with later band performances. Admission 35 cents for dinner. kiddie rides and restrooms provided.
Advertisements announce a church rally at Riverside church across the county line north of Rolfe and northeast of Plover. Events run Sept 7 to 9 with Rev. W H Lease, Rev. Chas Votter, Ware and Plover gospel teams. noon picnic, afternoon concert and addresses. Rev. W A Wolcott of Plover leads Riverside church.
Ruth Edna Webb born October 3, 1893 in Humboldt County moved with family to Pocahontas County later. She married Eugene Corcoran July 2, 1912 and lived in Gilmore. Survived by husband, parents, three brothers and sisters. two children predeceased her, including infant Tommy who died in the 1917 Livermore train wreck.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to friends for kindness during bereavement. Mentions Eugene Corcoran J Webb and family. Various local brief items note Joe Krejci at the Minneapolis fair, Mrs Herbert Shelgren visiting Fort Dodge, J B Nunnamaker moving to Rolfe and dray business transfer to John Parradee, Robert McEwen visiting Gilmore City, and Nicholas Romanoff being sent to Siberia sharpening views on former subjects in Russia.
Come to our store Tuesday September 11 and leave wraps to enjoy the Red Cross Picnic. We will give 5 percent of all cash sales that day to the Red Cross Fund. Specials listed for Saturday the 8th and Tuesday the 11th include canned goods and pegs at promotional prices.
A local examination board at Denison issued another call for 100 men. The article also notes a series of regional items including a thirteenth Iowa Infantry reunion in Knoxville and 16 Jones county youths drawn for the Rainbow division in France.
Mra L. H. Dean and her children from Rolfe visited Bradgate last week, joining local residents for a brief social call and fellowship.
Community news from Rolfe Iowa with social visits and local movements. Money raised by the Red Cross is earmarked for mata purchases for the local society. Marriage announcement for Miss Nichols and Earl Maupin, plus checks on school openings and Consolidated Schools staff and bus drivers.
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