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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
3
The Aurelia High School announces a Short Course for interested youths in Commercial Law Bookkeeping Agriculture and English starting Monday December Mth. A minimum of six entrants is required. Superintendent D C Alexander invites prospective students to visit soon to arrange textbooks and materials.
The club announces practice shoots on the first and third Wednesdays with the first on December 6. The top scorer will receive a framed bird dog picture on display at Fairchild Bros. hardware. Scores count toward a Winchester shotgun contest with eight events and 200 targets, using a distance handicap across yard marks.
A notice from H. E. Johnson asks all debtors at the meat market to call and settle accounts as he closes the business.
A long list details pupils in multiple rooms with no absences or tardies for the month ending November 24. It includes room rosters for Rooms I to IV, then lists high school students and mentions names like Florence Russell and Ralph Johnson. An inquest verdict from 1911 notes Joseph McCausland died accidentally in Cherokee Iowa. The Short Course plans a winter meeting with an institute, listing 1912 officers and committees.
Sunday visits by Mr and Mrs Thos Hall and Mr and Mrs Chas Gustafson outline a social weekend. H H Williams and family visited Cherokee friends Saturday. Ed Weise shipped stock to Chicago Sunday. Frank Nordstrom traveled to Cherokee Monday returning Tuesday evening. Miss Lucy Johns visiting at Wm Cockburn home. Ladies Aid to meet at Mrs S A Hickey Thursday December 7 to pack provisions for Des Moines orphans home. Most farmers expect to finish corn picking this week.
Wesley Bryant reported a horse stolen near Cleghorn on Saturday night. He and John Cowan Jr. pursued the gang with a wagon drawn by two mules, tracking into Minnesota after sightings along routes toward Round Lake and Harris. Reports from W. W. Coder and a northern school teacher aided the chase as residents were alerted.
Joe McCausland of Illinois Central was killed when a north freight train severed both legs and an arm while he signaled a car and stepped onto another track. He remained conscious long enough to describe the accident and died about two hours later after being taken to the depot. He had come from Ireland and left messages for friends and relatives.
A communion service is set for next Sunday morning with Rev. Jas Holden of Newell preaching both morning and evening. A special collection will support the Iowa Home missionary society. Midweek prayer follows at 7 30 on Wednesday. Youth clubs meet Saturday afternoon with the Girls club at the parsonage and the Boys club at 1 30 planning a weather dependent hike.
Local notes say Emmett Reicoff is improving and walking indoors. Ellen McKinnon recovering in Oakdale reports sleeping on a porch during a bitter cold wave with 3 degrees below zero. Community updates mention visitors, dances planned by local youths, new merchant Otto Bischel in Elkton, and Rev. Thomas Andrew visiting West Elk.
An enthusiastic district teachers meeting on Saturday featured papers by Miss Ruth Kennedy and Miss Margaret Ross, recitations by Miss Katherine Miller and Earl Fraser, and vocal solos by Misses McDonald Larson Leonard. An address by Reverend Hoffman urged school church cooperation and civic uplift as key to advancing young people. Poland China bears. Wm Reekoff Aurelia Iowa Route 2.
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