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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1923
Page
1
The readable fragments describe a meeting and school age groups including seniors juniors and yearlings but lack clear details or names. Some words hint at a reporting of items from Alta News but the text is garbled and cannot confirm events, dates, places, or organizations.
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune reports district meeting attendance of about 300 members from the Eleventh district and town departments. item notes corn district activity and a legislative bill fine of 350 dollars. Also mentions John AL Anderson injury, Ida Storm Lake reference, and road improvements by county between Merrill and Hinton with gravel roads near Peterson and connections to O'Brien and Cherokee.
The Cherokee County Farm sponsors a countywide corn judging contest for all entered schools. Teams from Marcus, Cherokee near districts and other townships compete in the event at the Aurelia high school building with judging conducted by the First Bank of this place.
A note from Pastor Geo C. Safford invites the community to join the Federated Church for joyful services. The message emphasizes warm welcome and the belief that attending will do attendees good through worship and fellowship.
Louis M. Johns of Marcus, president of the Cherokee County Farm Bureau, spoke at the regular monthly Community Club gathering on farm bookkeeping profits and crop shifts. The audience was small due to a concurrent banquet for five townships and town residents. The talk covered numerous agriculture issues and was praised as the best yet. Officers were elected to the executive committee: Hi. Likin, Gr. Wharton, Al/3 Maltby, and S. M. Whitney, joining the existing officers. Rapps sell Burgess batteries.
Cherokee reports the A T Montgomery hardware firm sold to First National bank as receiver. F E Muraine elected commander of Treptow Post American Legion. Mrs Ed Rice injured by auto driven by Harley Niles. no fault found. Lloyd Love sentenced for bootlegging to six months in jail and fined for nuisance. possible additional six months if fines unpaid.
The Woodbury county board awarded C. F. Lytle Construction the Sioux City to Correctionville road paving contract for 509177 dollars. Lytle underbid by 23000 dollars and must begin by April 1 1924 and finish by November 1 1924 for a 16.2 mile segment. The completed project will extend 86 miles from Sioux City to Cushing.
Community notices list sale dates for residents. Leo Kolpin and Richard Bell announce December dates, Fouts December 27, Peter Bloms January 22, Pierre Benson February 6, with requests to provide exact dates for publication.
AURELIA NEWS reports Johnson Bros have arranged to handle Maxwell automobiles. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Jornia. Byron Reed and family arrived with household goods and moved into their recently purchased residence from H H Lockin. Henry Pruitt departed for Kentucky and R A Gustafson returned from Boston and other eastern points.
Cherokee Chief Donald Patterson boasts of his Tamworth fat barrow winning first at the Sioux City fair and again at the Chicago International Livestock Show. The same barrow beat all Tamworths there, shown by Igwa. After Sioux City, the barrow sold to Prof. Anderson of Ames who praised it as the best seen in years and planned to enter it internationally.
Afton township Farm Bureau held a business meeting at the Center school house Thursday evening to elect officers for the ensuing year. Dexter McQuinn was named President with Arthur Whiting as Vice President and A. W. Melton as Secretary. Cooperators named include Frank Kolpin, Floyd Anderson, Forrest Ware, Wm. Hantabarger, Frank Smith, W. N. Sleezer, G. L. McKinnon, J. M. Parrott, and W. R. Montgomery.
Notice to ice customers that all unpaid accounts by December 15 will be placed with a collector. It requests settlement of all accounts before that date and is signed by BP Farrow. The text includes stray OCR fragments about a coffee demonstration at Carlberg and other garbled items.
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