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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1927
Page
5
A reflective note on community pride and timing in local business with a sheriff s sale as a cautionary measure. The piece argues staying ahead matters more than rapid gains and laments wasted funds on promoting a town.
Local reunions and visits mark the Rolfe area with Delco-Light plant installation at a farm home southeast of Rolfe, Pythian Sisters meetings planned, and a Woman's Club reception for teachers. Nearby fishing trips to northern Minnesota, hot summer, corn crops improving, and local weather noted.
Pocahontas County wins first in Beef Demonstration at the Iowa State Fair with Marjory Vaughn and Walter Campney cutting prime beef carcass. supervised by Rolfe butcher R. W. Wilkin. Community notes praise county youth and plans metal signs for Protective Association. A $100 reward offered for thieves targeting association members.
Government survey finds about 600 barberry bushes in Pocahontas county removed in August using crushed rock and lime at a cost borne by the government. Large stands near the Des Moines River and smaller patches elsewhere were eradicated to curb black stem rust on grains. Cooperation from residents aided the program as it aims to expand to surrounding counties. Also, Oscar Snyder and relatives attended a funeral in Perry, Iowa, during a visit from Sioux Falls and Marshall, Minnesota.
Dr and Mrs Jerald J Bruce of Omaha will practice medicine and surgery in Rolfe. They rented the C A Grant home site and the Knights of Pythias front rooms for an office. Bruce, a Nebraska State University medical graduate and former interne at Nebraska University Hospital, plans to open about September 15.
Rolfe residents report visits from Marshalltown Plover Dent Minn Chicago and Ft. Dodge. Families gather for birthdays outings and reunions as Heathmans Groves Hanchers Canons Foval and others travel for weddings trips and schooling at Iowa City Laurens and the University of Iowa.
The Rolfe Woman's Club at its first meeting of the year leased a room under the First National Bank and will convert it into a permanent public rest room. Committees will furnish and decorate and supervise the space. chairs and cots will let mothers rest and care for children. a public library may follow. The club seeks community cooperation for the project.
Lyman Beers 55, a Gilmore City real estate dealer and former proprietor of the Gilmore Mercantile Co., lies in critical condition at home after a paralysis stroke Thursday night. He had been at the Humboldt county fair Wednesday and was found unconscious on the bathroom floor about 11 p.m. He leaves four children Glenn an attorney at Waterloo Elizabeth a college student in Chicago and Sterling working at Gilmore City Exchange Bank.
George Peck died at his Fort Dodge home on August 31 1927 born 1847 in Kankakee Illinois. He moved with his parents to Grundy county at age six and married Myra Pritchard in 1868. The family lived in Grundy Humboldt and Pocahontas counties before settling in Fort Dodge. Survived by Edith Jesse Struthers Mrs Hazel Crosby Rolla Peck and others. Funeral Friday September 2 with burial in Clinton Garfield Cemetery Rolfe.
A notice urges poultry raisers to cull and dip chickens to prevent winter losses from overcrowding. It recommends selling older hens and those with poor color, and provides a dipping method using warm sodium fluoride water to treat birds without submerging the head.
Mrs. C B Bowen and Misses Lucile Bowen and Ruby Wilson arranged a two weeks visit with the Bowen family in Fort Dodge starting Tuesday, staying at the parental home.
Des Moines Township sets a free two day festival on September 22 and 23 featuring a morning parade with prize floats, field sports, an afternoon baseball game, plus evening band concert and movies. Special entertainment for ladies and affordable lunches by the Woman's Club accompany exhibits of farm and culinary goods and fancy work.
Clover Loveridge became Mrs Grant T Johnson at a Wednesday ceremony at Mrs Geo Schnug’s Newton home. The couple, attended only by close family, reception followed with a three course dinner. The bride taught in Newton and studied at Moody Institute. The groom, a respected farmer, will reside at the J A Johnson home before their own house is ready. The Arrow also notes Rolfe’s free Fall Festival Sept 22-23 with music by Tiny’s Toe-Teasers, a kittenball tournament, band concerts, street parades, and a football game day planned at City Park.
F. M. Ritchey has sold his Rolfe garage and business to Alonzo A. Firkin who takes possession Oct. 1. Chas W. Roberts joins Firkin in running the shop. The Firkins have lived on the G. A. Dawson farm northwest of Rolfe for years. Roberts previously ran a garage in Plover. Ritchey will be a general salesman for Johnson & Lawrence Co. of Fort Dodge, and the family will move there. Rolfe residents regret the departure. Art Michalek oversees business while attending the State Fair in Minneapolis. Ted Rising and his friend visited from Eagle Grove with Ted’s parents Chas. and Mrs. Rising last Sunday.
The Pocahontas Democrat lists the fall teachers for Garfield Roosevelt and Powhatan schools with assignments by number. It notes additional county teachers Beatrice Bruce Mary Rutgers Vera Murray and mentions social visits and an upcoming Woman's Club reception for teachers and parents at the K of P hall on Sept 15.
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