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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
2
The piece notes Iowa reduced its debt by 83 percent from 1940 to 1943, with total gross debt falling from $3.526 billion to about $2.909 billion by June 1943. It discusses state finances, WAC movements from Des Moines hotels, and wartime campus use affecting venue options for 1944 state events.
In 1917 J R Sherman of Clarinda witnessed an early county auto crash at a coroner’s hearing. He received a court warrant for 31.00, misplaced it for 27 years, and it was finally cashed at the Page County treasurer’s office last week after being long cancelled.
Mr and Mrs John Leber were honored Tuesday evening December 7 on their thirty first wedding anniversary. Friends brought a picnic supper and a cake funded by Mrs Leroy Goettsch. The event included visiting and bingo with prizes and a luncheon. The group presented a picture to the couple and they thanked everyone.
A series of small town visits and gatherings highlights this week. Elmer Huseman visitors near Hanover, and Miss Dorothy Anne Bengtson plus the Carlson couple join Friday supper guests near Cherokee. Church and Farm Bureau events are noted with lunches and calls on ill relatives.
Mrs Wm Booth reports locals visiting Sioux City and Denison as well as travel to San Francisco from Bethesda. The Holmans and Booths gather at home for dinners with neighbors including the Kolpins and Amendts.
Prices shift as a 28 000 head two day hog run ends and a chipping date rule starts. Cattle and sheep trades show mixed results with fat cattle steady to higher and lambs up, Cherokee county shippers report varied steers and hogs with several customers paying above 15 dollars per hundredweight.
Mrs 0 C Hickey writes of gatherings with the Hickey and Kench families plus Mrs Hopper and Mrs Ohl, while the Ohlson couple visited Sioux City. Methodist youth attended Messiah in Cherokee. Nord family from Minnesota visited Petersons. The Byrne family called in Correctionville with neighbors Brune and Todd. Sell Swap Rent Buy via Want Ad.
Miss Lola Schuelke and family from Fort Dodge visited the Henry Schuelke home on Sunday. Local residents hosted birthday club activities at the Robert Carlson home with a birthday gift and lunch. Army service brings Werner Radke Richard Hartman and Wilmer Winterhof to enlistment with details of Navy assignments for Wilmer and family visits noted.
Mrs. Henry Everhart left Sunday for Los Angeles and Riverside California to visit her mother Mrs Bugh and three sisters. Mrs Ray Jones entertained the M E Circle at her home. Little Douglas Whitney of Aurelia stayed with his grandparents. The L F C girls and leaders hosted a luncheon at Jean Mummert’s home. Mrs Harry Carlson and Larry of Peterson stayed in the Zwick home. Mrs Troy Mummert returned from Sioux Valley hospital. Mrs McKinley Menefee and Marisne visited Crookston relatives. Mr and Mrs Raymond Zwick visited Nordstroms in Diamond township. Nordstrom was hurt when he fell on a fork handle. Advertise your business in The Aurelia Sentinel.
Illinois Central Railroad received the National Safety Council’s Distinguished Service to Safety award for lowering its employee casualty ratio from 9.18 in 1942 to 6.88 in the first ten months of the current year, despite more workers and hours. Ned H. Dearborn presented the honor in Chicago to Stanley E. LeGrande, a Mattoon millman designated as a safety ace.
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