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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
10
The piece warns drivers against boasting after escaping tight spots and urges careful driving at intersections schools and crossroads to prevent accidents. It stresses anticipation of danger and staying cautious rather than seeking thrills from near misses.
Magellan, famed explorer, was killed by natives in Open town in the Cobn region of the Philippines. The event halted his expedition and marked a pivotal clash between early European explorers and local inhabitants.
Professor R A Moyer of Town State college calculates travel costs to show that driving at 70 mph saves time worth only $1.40 per hour. He notes gasoline oil tires and repairs add about two cents per mile and warns risk of accidents. Tests for the Iowa engineering experiment station support the findings presented to the highway research board in Washington DC.
Community notes recount visits and gatherings around Afton area. Mr and Mrs Gilbert Clow spend Sunday in C C Montgomery home near Sutherland. Families visit Rembrandt and Alta homes. Four Leaf Clover girls host mothers for a Christmas party at Vera Crane home. Earl Zwick and Isa belle visit Ernest Swanson near Alta. Cheerio club Christmas party at Zarr home west of Cherokee. Raymond Zwick visits Sleezer. Floyd Sexton attends sale at Art Wetherell near Peterson. Will Bames anniversary noted in Cherokee. Music in Elamy Times reflects early civilizational culture. Egyptians and Greeks used harps flutes trumpets and drums.
Senator Guy M. Gillette of Cherokee will sponsor a 5 million dollar bill in the senate to fund insect and weed control. Nebraska and Missouri members will back the effort in the house. The measure seeks funds to combat grasshoppers chinch bugs and similar infestations and to curb bindweed spread. The plan emerged from Omaha talks with state officials and included participants from many states and two foreign countries.
Aurelia and Goodhope M E Church schedule lists Sunday school at 10 30 morning worship 11 30 Epworth league 7 00 evening worship 7 30 Goodhope morning worship 9 30 and Christmas program rehearsals and choir program details for December 24 28 with various solo and choir offerings and ministerial benediction names. The World Service Christmas offering is urged for all contributors.
Walter Umlor, a peach grower near Sparta, planted 25 acres with popcorn of which 15 acres lay between fruit trees. He sold the crop for 1 988 dollars last fall. While other farms saw girdled trees, Umlor’s remained unharmed. He left corn stalks to winter, mice nested there and fed on the corn, sparing the trees.
Dudley Steele the state chairman of the American Legion aviation committee quotes figures for 1935 showing more people were kicked to death by mules than died in airplane accidents in Sacramento California.
Public notice announces a sheriff sale in Cherokee County Iowa on January 4 1937 at 10 AM at the courthouse. It follows a 1936 district court judgment for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York City against multiple defendants including Fred C Tigges Anna Tigges and several banks and executrix Maude Sanford. Property includes parts of sections 13 and 24 in township 93 39 W containing 240 acres.
Okeee county Iowa and Maude T Sanford executrix of W A Sanford deceased claim to the described property to satisfy an execution plus costs. Sheriff A N Tilton of Cherokee County notes the action dated December 8 1996 with a December 38th 1986 office date in Cherokee.
A garbled text suggests Reykjavik's name derives from springs and Quaker influence, noting hot springs as prevalent in Iceland. The fragment contains unclear phrasing about the city's origin and meanings.
About 10 tons of good alfalfa in the barn and 1200 to 1300 bushels of corn in the crib. A full line of farm machinery including a new Farmall F-12 International tractor and corn plow. Auctioneers Leenard Larson and T. Anderson.
A pithy remark frames a man's reputation as a poor advertisement for himself. Uncle Eben quips that constant talking about bad business reflects poorly on the speaker.
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