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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1927
Page
4
The text argues honesty as the best policy and stresses grinding effort over complacency. It quotes GX Grant on the impossibility of a biteer meeting a victim's gaze. It urges Rolfe residents to act for local improvement, highlighting self help as key to community development.
The Pocahontas County Sunday Association met September 21 at the uterian church with Walter Hutton and O G Juht guiding discussions on Express Activities. The program featured talks by young people and was praised for county school cooperation, with officers elected and plans for district conventions and the Older Boys and Girls Center at Marshalltown discussed. Financial aid and attendance were urged for the county program and the meeting noted upcoming events and institute dates.
Rolfe’s Fall Festival last Thursday and Friday featured good weather and strong attendance. The two-day program opened with a Rolfe Municipal Band concert and included a street parade with many local businesses and groups, judged floats, kittenball games, a livestock exhibit judged by Castenhola and Stemm of Chicago, and numerous shows and contests.
Chas Stebbins of Gilmore City was elected Pocahontas County sheriff to fill the vacancy from the death of Robert H Winegarden. He received a majority with three votes on the county board, praised for marshals work in Gilmore City and described as faithful and even tempered.
Bruce, aged about eighty four, suffered hour after hour of violent convulsions Wednesday forenoon. Opiates were used to halt them, but he remained under heavy sedation this morning. His eight months bedridden state has left him frail and unlikely to recover.
Sheriff Robert Winegarden reports Blackie the Angus calf owned by Miss Marjory Vaughn won the grand championship and the Chicago Livestock Exchange silver cup. The 900 pound calf sold for $153 to local butcher R. W. Wilkin, who aims to share gains with Rolfe residents. Other festival baby beeves went to Chicago for a commission free sale. Virgil Vaughn’s Hereford led with $16.50 while Layton boys’ calves brought $15.50.
A Pocahontas County community notes the surprise engagement of Vera Nelson to Orvan B. Olerich with a decorative lake scene and wedding cards. Separately, sheriff Robert H. Winegarden dies at 50 after heart disease, leaving a wife, daughter Eva, three brothers, and a sister. county officers publish heartfelt appreciation and recall his 10 years of service. Funeral services are held in Pocahontas.
Victor Olson twenty five unmarried was fatally injured Friday noon when caught in a tractor belt drawn into the flywheel on his parents farm four miles south of Ottosen. He died at Mercy Hospital Fort Dodge Friday 8 p.m. after being rushed by ambulance. Delegation of Masons from Rolfe attended a Pocahontas lodge meeting with Grand Master present. Forest Grant and wife visited Fort Dodge relatives and attended a lumbermen meeting.
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