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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
3
A reception for the Des Moines township school teachers will be held at the school house on Friday evening September 8. The program is sponsored by the Woman's club and the community is invited.
Des Moines Township Consolidated school starts Monday August 28 with grade enrollment at 91 and high school at 38 led by thirteen seniors the largest senior class recently. New teachers join the faculty and several new high school courses are added, including eighth grade in high school and a range of subjects across grades. Election of officers follows with seniors Carol Smith as president and a slate of officers for juniors sophomores and freshmen.
The report mixes classroom notes on living and non living things habitats, pet animals, plants, and objects. It mentions a school aquarium with Snowball and Goldilocks fish, Indian studies with slides, and art making canoes, wigwams, and chiefs. New kindergarten pupils are listed along with a sheriff sale notice for Pocahontas County Iowa dated October 2, 1939.
Legal notice from Pocahontas County Iowa Sheriff Hubert Kapsch by deputy C W Gilchrist dated August 25 1989 for SE3 of the Northwest Quarter NW Pocahontas County to satisfy a writ of execution plus costs with adjudicated property and sale to cover costs and debts
A special execution issued for The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States authorizes the sale of the N1 2 of Section 13 Township 92 Range 31 West in Pocahontas County Iowa to satisfy the writ and costs. The listing names Edward Bering Hitchcock and Myrna S Hitchcock as defendants and notes the sale date time and location along with a local age story fragment and wash wringer anecdote.
Fragmented OCR text describes a rock on a highway that was knocked down by an earth covered crash site. The rock dragged into the roadway and damaged a car belonging to Will Boysen. Also mentions visitors at the Hilger home and several relatives from Illinois and Iowa, with references to travel delays and local business affairs.
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