Local notes and arrivals from Peniigs and area
Local items report shipments, sales, and visits including new bat teries and insurance services from Guarantee Oil Co and Eclipse Lumber Co. Residents such as Mrs. Les Holderness, the Whitney family, and visitors from Sioux Falls Dysart Aurelia Quimby and Los Angeles are mentioned with hospital stays, plane trips, and real estate moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Automobile Insurance
Harry H. Lockin Insurance Agency
W. G. Whitney
Eclipse Lumber Co
Deushel
Wm. Whitney
Dysart
Eddie Nelson
Aurelia
Mike Mathis
Quimby
Bates Hospital
W.G. Whitney
Lockin Agency
Guarantee Oil Co
Local Notices and Social News From Aurelia Area
Mrs. Jennie Lawson of Rock Island Illinois died April 9 after a stroke. Congregational Missionary group meets April 30 at Mrs. Fae Fraser’s home with Mrs. Chas. McCurdy leading. Delores Kaskey to wed Charles Wharton in June. engagement announced by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kaskey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Larson
John Chilgren
Russell Chilgren
Albert City
E. C. Lighter
Selene
Lawson
Templeman
Aurelia
Congregational
Fae Fraser
Trigg
Tharpe
Chas. McCurdy
R. C. Glawe
Clarence Kaskey
Delores
Charles Wharton
George Wharton
Dyslin Anniversary Surrounded by Family and Friends
Mr. and Mrs. Gahlen Dyslin celebrated twenty years of marriage with relatives and friends gathering at their home and a large dinner at Lorilla Anderson’s. The couple received a purse of money and other gifts from attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gahlen Dyslin
Lorilla Anderson
Cherokee
Fred Tigges
Larry
Carolynne Kolpin
LeMars
Harold Anderson
Sandra
Tommy
Peterson
John Booth
John Méiséenhelder
Aurelia
W. M
Aurelia High Team Second in County Meet
Looking back through ten, twenty, thirty, and forty years ago, Aurelia items note the high school track team taking second in a county meet at Cherokee, local births and marriages, property changes, and obituaries including F M Taggart and Mrs Conrad Mummert.
Old Ledger Sheets Show 1880 Costs
N I DeVore of Minneapolis visits Aurelia family, reads 1880 ledgers of E L DeVore. Entries show a 12 foot wood windmill and accessories sold for 156.20 dollars to Conrad Mummert, reflecting early farm development costs. A later page notes six twine self binding harvesters costing 3825 dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. I. DeVore
Minneapolis
Katie Mae McDeid
Br. L. DeVore
E. L. DeVore
Maloney
Aurelia
Conrad Mummert
Espy McDeid
DeVore
For Sale and Wanted Classified Snippet
FOR SALE Some good baled straw No 1 Chris Hinkeldey 41f FOR SALE Richland soy beans These are seed beans B C Beunger Aurelia Iowa 8-6 FOR SALE 7 room house partly andeees in Aurelia Anna B Jones vuerokee WANED Middle aged woman for house work and companionship Mrs Sig Matzdorfz 8-3 FOUND Four keys and small wrench on wire loop Inquire at The sentinel GUNSMITHING All makes and models of rifles and shotguns repaired reblued and refinished Work guaran teed Leslie Wadsworth at Gamble Store Storm Lake 5-4
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. C. Beunger
Aurelia
Iowa
Anna B. Jones
Vuerokee
Sig Matzdorfz
the Sentinel
Leslie Wadsworth
Gamble
Storm Lake
Friends of Scouting Finance Campaign Planned for May 20
A Cherokee meeting set the annual Friends of Scouting financing campaign for May 20. District finance chairman P. Quiren of Marcus named community chairmen Aurelia Harold Nelson Quimby Rev Weaver Cleghorn Fred Ducommon Washta Paul Carlton Larra bee Elmer Jacobson Marcus Lowell Nelson Rev C W Samuel son Cherokee Edgar Stiles Albert Hughes Archie Nelson Harold Grigg and Charles I F Oberman. The Prairie Gold Area Council budget for 1947 is 31500.00 serving nineteen counties with headquarters in Fort Dodge. Field Scout Executive Robert Dorr reported growing Cherokee district participation and boy counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Hotel
Cherokee
Friends of Scounting
Bk. P. Quiren
Marcus
Aurelia
Harold Nelson
Quimby
Weaver
Cleghorn
Fred Ducommon
Washta
Paul Carlton
Larrabee
Elmer Jacobson
Lowell Nelson
C. W. Samuelson
Edgar Stiles
Albert Hughes
Archie Nelson
Harold Grigg
Charles IF. Oberman
Friends of Scouting
Prairie Gold Area Council
Northwest Town
Fort Dodge
Robert Dorr
Sac City
Dorr
Real Estate Transfers Quit Claim Deeds In Aurelia Ida County
Real estate transfers list quit claim deeds and single user transfers in Ida County Iowa. Buddenhagen Anna Jr to W A Allen price one dollar includes sections 1 12 92 39. Clarence R Montgomery to Blanche Gilbert et al price one dollar includes SE4 SW41 Sec 7 93 39. Clarence Otto by guardian to Katherine Otto et al price one dollar includes multiple parcels in Sec 15 90 89 and Sec 10 89 39. Henry T Sansen and wife to Carroll Sansen price one dollar Lots 11 12 Block 15 First Addition Aurelia. Herbert H Pelton to Larsine Nielsen price three thousand five hundred includes south 10.8 feet of west 72 feet of lot 3 Sixth Addition Aurelia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buddenhagen
Anna, Jr
W. A. Allen
SEA
Montgomery
Clarence R
Blanche Gilbert
Otto
Clarence
Gdn
Katherine Otto
SEA of NE
Ida County
Sansen
Henry T
Carroll Sansen
Aurelia
Pelton
Herbert H
Larsine Nielsen
Salt shaker collector Hoards 350 Sets in Harlan
Mrs. H. D. Eshelman of Harlan amasses salt and pepper shakers and now owns more than 350 sets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Eshelman
Harlan
Donna Nordstrom Wins In Oratory Despite Illness
Donna Nordstrom daughter of Mr and Mrs Wendell Nordstrom and member of the Silver Creek Methodist Youth Fellowship delivered her original prize winning oration on World Service at First Methodist Schaller. She won the Sioux City district elimination contest at Cushing earning 16 dollars and qualification for the conference contest at Storm Lake. The national contest offers a four year college scholarship. Despite eight weeks on crutches and a foot abscess she returned to school after surgery in Sioux Valley hospital Cherokee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donna
Wendell Nordstrom
Silver Creek
Sioux City
Cushing
Storm Lake
The
Methodist Church
Sioux Valley
Cherokee
Also Mentioned on This Page
MR. Motorist
Rathbun Auto Repair
Donald C. Rathbun
Tornado Insurance
W. G. Whitney Elevator
Les Holderness
Sioux Falls
S. Dak
Flannigan
Ronald Stieneke
Rosa Palmer
Bert Philpott
Lloyd Godfrey
Iowa City
LaVonne
University Hospital
Vernon Bengtson
Long Beach
Calif
A. M. Bengtson
Mathias Hansen
Hansen
Arlene Coombs
Los Angeles
A. A. Dingman
R. M. Flory
Pomona
Emma Flory
J. M. Whitney
Henry Hansen
Whitney
Mr. Whitney
J. H. Teerink
Larson’s Store
Seersucker
Aurelia, Iowa
East Afton & Elk
W. M. Booth
Sentinel
Louis C. Bengtson
Sioux Valley Hospital
First Trust & Savings Bank
Dale Larson
Keith Wieland
Byron Preul
George Wharton Jr
Troy
Sherwood Ohlson
G. F. Dise
Will Swanson
John Mummert
Mummert
Fred Jordan
Dise
F. M. Taggart
Dale C. Beeghley
Leta J. Bradley
Sioux Rapids
Ben Wieland
Clay W. Dawson
Terrill
Lelia M. Leonard
Dan Whitney
M. E. Parsonage
C. H. Young
Northern Telephone Co
Andrew
Aurelia Theatre
Him
Deanna Durbin
Charles Laughton and
Franchot Tone
Brazil
Evelyn Keyes
Keenan Wynn and
Ann Miller
Chris Hinkeldey
Amana Home Freezer
Dormeyer
Temple Radio and
General Plastic
Miracle Electric Heater
Donna Nordstrom
O. B. East
East
Mrs
Carl Ammons
A. A. Woltman, Auctioneer
Farmers National Bank
LSOLL
Robin Hood
Swanson’s
Chios
Manchester
Grahams, Ib
Rochester Tall
Zic
Christensen Bros
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