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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1949
Page
2
A school notes column highlights a student who names the year’s best movie as A Song is Born and lists Ava Gardner and Robert Mitchum as favorite screen stars. The student, Dale, is noted for singing many songs with a playful hint that one tune may be heard if encountered unexpectedly.
The piece surveys senior and sixth grade activities at a school. Seniors face six weekly English themes and exams after a Cherokee visit, while agriculture trips and literature themes like Life in Revolutionary Times are noted. A junior-senior banquet and Sadie Hawkins event are mentioned, plus class reports on magnetism experiments and a practice teacher’s speech.
The class held a regular business meeting on Monday and elected new officers for April: president Dick Sietsema, vice president Roseland Bengtson, secretary Mona Ell, treasurer Jane Gustafson, and librarian Phyllis Hicks. Dee Ann Ducommun's mother visited Thursday and Dee Ann treated the class to ice cream bars for her birthday.
Kindergarten News reports playful classroom activities and student achievements with bright, simple prose. It highlights cooperative projects, letters learned, and community helpers visiting the class to inspire learning inside the school.
A class of seven will be examined and confirmed Sunday morning at St. John's Lutheran church. Services begin at 10 45. Named members include Marlin Roth Richard Ressen Lloyd Weiland Laura Weiland Arliss Friedrich Marlys Mohn and Darlene Huseman.
A. W. Rudnick of Iowa State College endorses new legislation to penalize marketers selling cream older than four days. Purdue tests show butter quality sharply declines after day four, with off flavors increasing each day, reinforcing the push by the Iowa State Dairy Association to amend laws and improve statewide butter standards.
The opening of the major gamefishing season at 12:01 AM on April 15 makes catfishing legal in Iowa inland waters. The eight fish per day limit, sixteen possession, and twelve inch minimum apply, with frogs banned until May 12. Anglers are urged to buy a 1949 fishing license. Night crawlers and angle worms likely top bait.
Mrs Frank Wheelock was surprised on her birthday April 1 at 729 W Cherry Cherokee with a two course luncheon by Mrs Will Hahn Mrs Clinton Furguson and Miss Frances Hahn. Many neighbors called offering congratulations and gifts. The Mt Olive community hosted church and social visits including evangelists Rev Nygren and a long list of visitors from nearby towns.
Fishing hunting and combination licenses mailed to more than 1500 license agents for the 1949 season May be bought April 1 1949 to April 1 1950 at county recorder offices conservation officers sporting goods stores boat liveries banks and similar outlets Residents licenses and details follow in the notice.
The text explains that hunting and fishing licenses cost $1.50 each and $2.50 for combination licenses. Revenue supports the Division of Fish and Game of the State Conservation Commission and does not come from general tax revenue.
For 51 years Aaron Nelson near Red Oak has rented the same farm. Ownership has passed to the daughter of the original owner, the late W. H. Stafford. There has never been a written lease. Iowa State College economists advise pushing early spring pigs for a late summer market.
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