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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1956
Page
3
Highway Patrol Chief David Herrick urges universal caution beyond school zones. Drivers must stop for halted school buses with extended stop arms and lights, even when meeting buses in rural areas. He warns rural intersections lack patrols but are as dangerous as urban crossings.
Miss Nellie Smith and Art Mikaleck married at Alta Methodist parsonage by Rev. T. E. Hoon. They plan to reside with the bride’s mother, Mrs. Geo. I. Smith, after leaving Rolfe.
Delegates from this section of the United States will take a special train from Omaha to attend the meeting of the Supreme Chapter. Mrs. Hauck expects to return via the Canadian route to St. Paul. She will be away about two weeks and anticipates a pleasant journey.
The Malcolm couple marked 45 years of marriage at their Rolfe home last Thursday September 14 with a family gathering except for daughter May who was in Beach North Dakota. Friends and relatives noted a pleasant week including a Humboldt county fair trip by several locals and a new arrival, Chief Again Price, returning from Sioux City and Lincoln Nebraska. Dr. Florence Fuller visited from Fort Dodge and plans to stay with her parents. Jas. Fox will set up a new farm home in Des Moines township rented for five years by Perry Amick. Gussie Bruce left for Stillwater Oklahoma to visit Judge Wilcox. Pumpkin pies and baked chicken will be welcomed in her absence.
Johnie Elis discharged to home after two hospital visits last week. Ulcer removal from eye and medical tests noted. Hawarden and Humboldt families visit Mrs. Naeve and relatives in California planned. Marilyn Zeman to Fort Dodge for testing before later operation. Jerry Curry to Cedar Falls for I.S.T.C. attendance with family trips described.
Mary Francis Bradley was born September 10 at St. Ann's hospital Algona weighing eight pounds eight ounces. She has two sisters and two brothers. Parents are Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Bradley. Mary Francis was born on her mother's birthday.
The D.M.T. boys traveled to Havelock on September 11 and fell 10 to 8 with Hud son taking the loss after 5 2 innings. Plover defeated them on September 13 with Sindergard as the winning pitcher. The play committee and staff note ongoing class work across history science English and math as freshmen study Phoenician and Mesopotamian civilizations and astronomy and the solar system.
The seventh and eighth grades report progress in arithmetic with percents and decimals, waltzing to square dances, and art projects including drawing and water printing. Spelling 100s include Carol Bennett and others. Iowa History trip to Des Moines set for September 28.
In the third grade students attended the fair last week and brought back souvenirs. They practice cursive writing and spelling accuracy with most earning 100 percent on a Friday test. The fourth grade studies insects and diseases with plans to observe a fly and a mosquito under the microscope.
Local notes report visits by Mrs Addie Roberts and Mrs Nettie Hewlett in Graettinger and Rolfe. Elwyn Burns heads to Morningside College Sioux City for a second year, after summer work at Laurens Twindraulic Co. Pfc Richard A Higgins serves in Germany with the 532nd Field Artillery Observation Battalion. Several family visits and moves are noted along with a property estate notice for Edgar E Wilcox.
The article reports a reputed haunting of the Bloody Tower in London with the ghost of Anne Boleyn, one of Henry VIII’s wives, said to walk the historic site.
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