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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel informs subscribers that the paper will not stop at expiration unless they are notified 80 in advance. Those who continue to accept the paper after expiration are obligated to pay for the continued service.
Rev Carl Holmberg leaves Grant Center Lutheran Boxholm to become pastor of Trinity and Immanuel Elk Lutherans starting the first Sunday in November. Geral Wethrell of Cherokee opens a body and tender shop in Alta. Miss Muriel Pedersen, daughter of Mrs Polovina, weds Howard Royalty of Sioux City on July 28. Cadet Robert L Burman of Alta earns National Sons of the American Revolution medal at Des Moines training camp. Miss Nina Lease of Sioux City marries George Sweeney of Alta in Sioux City on July 27.
A Chariton hardware dealer notes odd buying surges like shafts wagon box sides and harness hooks amid a playful Gala Day at Strawberry Point where a tipsy rider bought two tickets for a keg ride. Two Belle Plaine youths bicycle mishap leads to a deep cut. Lost Nation family recalls a bee swarm scare with four year old Susan Gilroy narrowly escaping stings.
Miss Lorraine Johnson resigns as third grade teacher to join Onawa schools. Harold Sweet resigns as Sioux Rapids high coach to take a post at Manson. R B Anderson dies in Sioux City hospital. Flex tile flooring to be installed in Peterson school corridors. Storm Lake and Webster City merchants buy Harold Smith stock. Ruth Osborn and Lowell Nelson wed in Marcus. Mrs John Nordstrom dies in Galva after months of illness.
Iowa farmers cut intertilled crop acreage by 5 percent in 1940 while maintaining gains in soil conserving crops. About 75 percent of farmers and 80 percent of cropland were in the AAA program, but nonparticipation rose due to higher corn prices and rents. Nonparticipants on poorer land kept to 1929-33 plans. better land farmers increased corn and soil-depleting crops. Southern Iowa remained the region with the most nonparticipants.
Miss Ruby Griener of Blairsburg Iowa is named the new home demonstration agent for Cherokee and Plymouth counties. She succeeds Eleanor Rathke who resigned August 1 and will shortly marry William Miller of Rochester New York. Griener has farm roots and five years 4 H club work. A 1938 Iowa State College graduate she taught home economics and English at Klemme High School for two years.
Iowa State College poultry head H L Wilcke reports in Farm Science Reporter that sterilized ground egg shells can replace oyster shells as a calcium source for hens and chicks. Experiments show equal growth and bone health, with no egg-eating habit observed over two years. Price parity or advantage favors use of egg shells if costs are similar.
Clarence Dirks and Harold Westphal, both associated with the Anamosa Farmers Creamery Co, were locked in a freezing room as the temperature dropped to 6 degrees below zero. After about 15 minutes Manager Hazel Smith freed them. Westphal claimed he did not know the door combination.
Two Iowa State agronomists report on 13 haymaking methods in Farm Science Reporter. Findings show swath curing loses color and leaves. windrow curing with partial or full wilt gives best color and leaf content. Moisture tests guide safe barn storage. rain affects quality unless windrowed with side delivery rake for quicker drying.
Notice of a petition filed by Cherokee County for creating a gravel surface district to cover specified two to three mile road segments in township 92 range 39. Hearing set before the Board of Supervisors in Cherokee Court House at 10 a.m. August 21, 1940 with listed landowners and signatories.
Lois Mayhew a 19 year old from Albert City and Spencer has lived with a missing arm since age eight after a fall led to a shoulder amputation. She irons cooks washes for her family and herself embroiders and attends junior college in Bakersfield California. She drives a car and would receive a driver's license with an automatic hand signal.
A lost dog named Wimpy wears a tag reading I am Wimpy and I am lost Call Leslie K Hull Waverly Iowa. The note asks responders to contact the owner for reunification.
Notice filed in the county office states a proposed road district between sections 1 2 11 12 13 14 in township 39 range 92. Roads to be gravel surfaced. Names listed as property owners include Buddenhagen Honsbruch Kolpin Pingel and others. Hearing before the Board of Supervisors is set for August 5 1940 before County Auditor H. M. Montgomery.
Notice lists proposed road segments and parcels in Diamond Buena Vista County and Two. ranges 39 89 90 with roads between multiple sections. Names of local officials and residents accompany the notice as required for the August 21, 1940 hearing.
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