Local Happenings And Hardware Store Notes
Aurelia area notes a busy week with Carl Larson selling Ivory and green water pails at Aurelia Hardware Co and local visits from L P Nelson and Wesley, Ed Rice at the Tiggeman home in Cherokee, and Mrs Ruth Welch returning from Morningside College for Easter. Home Grocery features fresh produce and a large suit pattern display at Pete's Style Shop. Community updates include farm supplies, shoe repairs, printing and painting services, and Be Kind to Animal Week promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl R. Larson
Aurelia Hardware Co
L. P. Nelson
Son Wesley
Sioux City
Ed Rice
Chris Tiggeman
Cherokee
Mummert Hardware Co
Ruth Welch
Pete
William Whitney
Ames
Local ad notes and community updates from Mapleton area
One pound spool of acid core solder 49c. Aurelia Hardware Co. All kinds of insurance. Home Grocery advertises chick feeds and garden tools. Short visit by Day of Lake View to W. A. Lewis home. Rev. Edwin Trigg and family visit Sutherland. Mrs Van Meter funeral in Mapleton. Tracy Porter moves to Dick Mongan farm near town. Ed W. Price tailoring salesman at Pete's Style Shop on Saturday April 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurelia Hardware Co
Lockin
Mummert Hardware Co
C. FE
Lake View
W. A. Lewis
Edwin Trigg
Sutherland
Tom Jackson
W. H. Welch
van Meter
M. E
Mapleton
Iowa
Tracy Porter
Dick Mongan
Frank Waddell
Ed W. Price & Co
Pete
East Afton and Elk Social Highlights Local Gathering
Mrs. Ed Kohlhagen entertained many ladies at her country home with Five Hundred on four tables. Mabel Johnson won the traveling prize and a vegetable contest, with a two course lunch featuring colonial dressed dolls. Separate reports note preliminary and final declamatory contests at Elk No. 3 and Elk No. 4, with multiple winners across humorous, dramatic and oratorical categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Kohlhagen
Clayton Mitchell
Mabel Johnson
Allen _Neville
Kohlhagen
Walter Radke
Russell Parrott
Elk No. 8
Roger Matzdorff
Jack Petlon
Melvina
Evelyn Westphal
Melvin Stief
Robbie Petlon
Elk No. 4
Marianne Chandler
Howard Deyloff
Wilbert Mattson
Helen Booth
la- Merne Ruebsam
Madalynne Booth
Grace Mattson
Leland Mattson
Shirley Sansen
Amy Mattson
Elaine Booth
Naomi Stanley
Miss Chandler
Ray Hines
Aurelia
Herman Schmidt
Berncice
Carl Ammons
Howard Haight
Sioux City
Evelyn Miller
Claude Stewart
Storm Lake
Allen Neville
Detroit grad asks which career yields longer life professor
A Detroit graduate asks the Press whether a blacksmith or a college professor offers a longer, healthier life. The editor replies that a professor has the better odds since he teaches rather than shoes mules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Community Club and church groups hold spring events
Bridge clubs hosted contests with high score prizes won by Mrs. A. E. Krout and Dr. W. Moulton. P. L. E. F. club shared social time and lunch with Mrs. Leonard Jackson. Pythian Sisters held a temple meeting with new member Mrs. Herbert Grienke and inspection by Pearl Wirth. Multiple ladies groups conducted showers, luncheons, and bridge or 500 games at the Community Club and church halls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Lockin
Bridge Club
A. E. Krout
W. Moulton
John Holderness
Leonard Jackson
Harold Cornwall
E. T. Hall
Herbert Grienke
Pearl Wirth
Lodge
Mary Hines
Community Club
George Parrott
C. H. Kaskey
R. B. Harrison
Zoma Coombs
Leon Sanborn
Roy Demarest
Fred Fassler
Mt Olive News Social Gatherings And Meetings
Ernest Learn of Cherokee called Wednesday at the Edgar Johnson home. Good Hope chair practice met Tuesday at Cliff Simmons home. Ladies Aid met at Mrs Dukes home Wednesday afternoon. A covered dish luncheon followed a devotional and business session with fourteen attending. The young people’s Sunday School class enjoyed a party at the Victor Frank home Friday evening with games and lunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forney Dukes
Mt. Olive
Cherokee
Claude Jones
Carl J. Johnson
Lutheran Ladies Aid
Jim Stewart
Fred
Quimby
Lincoln Hahn
Saylor Ennis
Hartley
Darrel Ennis
Ernest Learn
Edgar Johnson
Good Hope
Cliff Simmons
Ladies Aid
B. H. Dukes
Victor Frank
Farm Bureau Meeting Held in Pitcher Township Home
Residents attended a Farm Bureau gathering at the Charles Nelson home near Aurelia on Friday afternoon. Farmers report field work started late last week and is delayed by wet fields as seeding continues this week. Mrs Harold Allen and her baby son returned home Sunday after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Charles Barnard in Cherokee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Pitcher Township
Chas. Nelson
Aurelia
Harold Allen
Chas. Barnard
Cherokee
Second Holdup Gang Strikes Chicago Retired Skipper
Gus Chapin, 67, a former Lake Michigan ship skipper, was robbed on the West Side. Three men robbed him of $20, then forced him into an alley where they took his watch glasses knife and chewing tobacco. He was slugged after protesting a prior robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Gus Chaplin
Lake Michigan
Chapin
West Side
Snake Causes 100 Deaths on Bombay Ferry
A snake dropped from a tree onto a ferry near Kolhapur in a flooded river. Passengers rushed to one side, the boat capsized, and about 100 people drowned. The water level was high near the tree at the time of the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
India
Kolhapur
For Sale Classifieds Including Plants and Livestock
For Sale One horse and some mildh cows listed by Eric A. Carlson. Genuine Mastodon strawberry plants at one dollar per 100 and other varieties including Dunlap Red Gold and Blademore at 75 cents per 100 or five dollars per 1000 from Kolb's Garden Storm Lake. Includes vegetable plants and misc listings. 8-4 Storm Lake newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric A. Carlson
Kolb
Storm Lake
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Tom Hamilton
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C. L. Raper
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Mr. Cromer
Cedar Falls
U. S
Geo. C. Bischel
Dewey Silvernail
F. A. Perry
Galva Rendering Works
Galva
Sweet Clover
Home Grocery Dry Goods Department
M. Hansen
Percy Clover
le Mars
Percy
George Clover
Ronald Rice
Meriden
Elwyn M. Thomas
E. F. Webking
Lutheran Hospital
F. Green
Cedar Rapids
Geraldine
Roda Nelson
Frank Sexton
Jimmie
Sadie Gibson
Wm. Strief
Marcus
Cherokee County
The
Humane Society
F. A. Daniels
Helper
Upper Main Street
Paulson-Finkbine Lbr. Co
East Afton and Elk
C. E. Ammons
M. E. Church
A. C. Will
Wilbur Sweet
China
Eurella Waddell
Lucille Wieland
Fern Parrott
Clay Dawson
Ray Jones
Loucks
Lutheran Ladies Aid Society
Wm. Hansbruch
E. Trigg
Lee Robinson
Karl Mummert
T. Jackson
Good Hope Ladies Aid
Virgine Samuelson
Clarence Ohlson
Sioux Valley Hospital
Alfred Simpson
MT. Olive News
Briardale
No. Missouri
Kellogg’s
Larson’s Store
Aurelia, Iowa
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