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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1949
Page
2
Local Mt Olive news includes visits from Cherokee and Aurelia residents, prayers and meals at the Mt Olive Ladies Aid, and multiple social outings. Mentions of birthdays, church events, and family gatherings across Quimby Aurelia Storm Lake Spencer and West Bend illustrate community rhythms and farming season work ahead.
Ed Erickson was honored at a six thirty dinner at the W M Booth home with pink cake and decorations. Guests included Mrs Erickson, Mr and Mrs Larry Mansfield and Denny of Cherokee, Denny Holman of Indianapolis, and Mr and Mrs Robert Booth. Local callers and visits are noted with several names from Aurelia and Gilbert. The Friendship club held its annual picnic at Storm Lake. Chlordane and toxaphene application rates are given for spray or dust use with warnings on toxicity.
Bill Whitney outlines natural carriers of APF including tankage meat scraps fish by products and milk by products. Rath s 41 percent pig and hog concentrate provides 1000 pounds of 60 percent digester tankage per ton of feed with no grain or screenings.
Sealed bids for bonds of the New Aurelia Consolidated Independent School District in Chemnee and Buena Vista Counties Iowa are due by 8 o clock P M 1949. Bonds dated October 1 1949 mature in 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 in denominations 1000 dollars each. Bidders must specify rate of interest no bid below par plus accrued interest. A 700 dollar certified check guarantees bids. Bids reduced to writing on bidding blanks. Right to reject any or all bids reserved. Published July 25 1949 M C Paulson Secretary
Irene Zwemke reports Hanover area residents share news of travel to the Black Hills by Herman Glienke family and relatives from Denison. Additional notes mention Mrs. Emma Ressen’s major surgery, visits from Storm Lake and Peterson locals, a picnic, a cut foot requiring stitches, and a gathering at the Nielsen home near Rembrandt.
Ed Cott, ex extension horticulturist at Iowa State College, urges digging potatoes as soon as the vines begin to die. He notes yields drop after vines wither, with up to 10 percent shrinkage if left in the ground after death. Digging at the right time improves eating quality, storage, and reduces insect injury.
After two decades of play Knute Hamre of Decorah usually beat Rev. Alferd Bredesen now of Florida, but last week Bredesen finally won a checker match ending Hamre's long streak in the repeated rivalry.
Pal club met with nine members and one guest Eleanor Anderson on Friday afternoon. Mrs. Paul Jones led the business session and Mrs. Roy Stieneke directed entertainment. In 500 Mrs Harold Anderson won high and Mrs Paul Jones low. Lunch followed. Next meeting set for August 12 with Mrs Clifford Benson.
Iowa State College entomologist Harold Gunderson warns that late sweet corn is ripe for second brood corn borers. Start daily egg mass counts in the first week of August. begin treatments when 25 masses per 100 plants are found and repeat every five days until harvest.
Ann Laurayne Johnson eight of Wilton Junction received surgery to remove a nickel stuck in her throat marking the third hospitalization for her appetite. Earlier in Colfax doctors removed an open safety pin and later a bottle of furniture polish caused trouble.
In Hamburg a cow owned by Pearl Foster delivered a heifer calf within 28 hours then produced a bull calf. The unusual sequence highlights a double birth from a single cow.
A newborn colt on the Phillip Stormer farm near Coon Rapids measures 19 inches high and weighs 15 pounds at birth. The owner notes the striking appearance but modest size for a first-tall foal.
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