| This time capsule
was found in 2006 in the rubble of the cornerstone of Rolfe's
three-story school building. It most likely had been there since
1917, when the facility was built. It is a pale blue, metal box
with spots of rust and measures six inches wide, four-and-a-half
inches high, and 11 inches long and has a loose top.
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| The box and another left by the class of 1928
were opened by directors of the Pocahontas Area Community School
District at a
public ceremony on July 8, 2006, at the Rolfe Community
Center. The only contents of the 1917 box were fragile,
damaged legal documents related to the bond election to build
the school and yellowed copies of the Rolfe Arrow newspaper from
August 17 and 31 and November 16, 1916.
Several years ago, the Rolfe Arrow was microfilmed, and the editions of the paper found
in the time capsule should be available on microfilm at the
Pocahontas Public Library and the
State Historical Society of
Iowa offices in Des Moines.
We will be posting highlights only
from those papers and will begin with material from the August
31 edition. The files will be low resolution JPEG files for
screen viewing; however, they are not created to print well.
Please contact RHS web site editor
Helen Gunderson if you have questions, suggestions, or
requests.
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1917 CAPSULE
INDEX
Posting
completed on August 11, 2006. |
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Legal documents |
August 2, 1916, school board meeting
August 3, 1916,
certification of public notice of school
bond election (257 kb) |
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Rolfe Arrow
August 31, 1916 |
Front page
articles (887 kb)
- An assessment of the condition of the
old school and a consultant's
recommendations for a new school.
- Vote fails to consolidate Roosevelt and
Garfield Township country schools with the
Independent School District of Rolfe.
- The Hub store in Gilmore City was robbed
by silk thieves.
- A cartoon about the women's suffrage
movement and presidential candidate Charles
Evans Hughes.
- Miscellaneous other.
List required textbooks (262 kb) |
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Legal documents |
Auditor's
certification of taxable and assessed values
of the school district for 1914 and 1915 (142
kb)
August 31, 1916, ballot for bond election
August 31, 1916, judge's
certification of election returns (211 kb) |
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Rolfe Arrow
September 7, 1916 |
Masthead with illustration of new school
(180 kb)
School bond election
coverage (182 kb)
Floor plans for new school building
Article about families divided by politics
(168 kb)
Car
advertisement (169 kb)
School days
advertisement (131 kb) |
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Legal documents |
September 26, 1916,
minutes of special school board meeting "for
the purpose of selling $65,000 issue of school
bonds" (154 kb)
October 5, 1916,
affidavit of publication of notice of bond
election (243 kb) |
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Rolfe Arrow
November 16, 1916 |
Report about board letting contract for new
school (365 kb)
Story about Rolfe's winning football team
(82 kb) |
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