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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
2
The Aurelia Sentinel is published weekly on Thursdays and entered as second class matter in Aurelia Iowa. Subscriptions in foreign countries and yearly advance rates apply. The paper will not continue past expiration unless notified and continued delivery requires payment.
R W Whitney elevates W G Whitney as dealer for the Iron Fireman automatic coal burner. Officials tout coal as a rising automatic fuel with smooth heat and stable temperatures aided by electric controls and precise feeding to suit residential and commercial heating up to 500 horsepower.
Aurelia's first and second basketball squads lost at Peterson last Friday and again at Larrabee Tuesday. The first team showed some life in a 13 to 3 loss with 4 to 0 at halftime, while Larrabee outscored Aurelia 9 to 3 after the break. The second team fell 35 to 2 to Larrabee reserves. They next host Alta in conference play Friday.
Farmers in Aurelia area form The 4-Township Belgian Colt Club to raise quality horses. They purchased a purebred imported Belgian stallion from Holbert Horse Importing Co. of Greeley, Iowa. 41 shareholders. A A Woltman president. Roy Peterson vice president. Carl Stief secretary treasurer. Directors: Albert Larson, Ernest Tuttle, Eldon Tigges.
Edwin Trigg presides over Congregational Church events with church school at 10 a m and morning worship at 11 a m Junior and Senior Endeavor meet at 7 00 p m The church program occurs Thursday night at 7 30 featuring recitations songs by Sunday school members a Christ mas program and candy.
Diamond and Pitcher Farm Bureau women held their first training session in the new series at Mrs. Arthur Ohison home. Miss Pearl Sims led the lesson on Desirable buying practices stressing know your labels. Attendees discussed sizes and labels in canned goods and price versus value. A covered dish dinner followed with songs and music. Next lesson set for February 5 at Mrs. Arthur Hickey’s home.
In a Windsor Star anecdote a newly married couple on their honeymoon face snickers and knowing looks from fellow passengers after the groom’s demand to hide their marriage. A porter replies he told others they were “just good friends.”
A plain soda request sparks a flavor exchange as clerks list options and a customer rejects strawberry. A bystander taunts a boy walking a railroad track who answers he is on the president of the line's track, a joke about ambition and reach.
Buena Vista College choir of over 60 voices directed by Professor John Cloom will perform 10 numbers including Christmas carols on WHO Sunday afternoon December 20 from 6 30 to 7 o clock. Soloists Karl Holtman and Evelyn Walker will be featured with Professor Robert H Lee accompanying three numbers.
The notice lists basketball dates and venues from December 18 at Alta through February 26 at Linn Grove, including Jan 12 Sutherland away and Jan 20 Brooke and Immaculate Conception home games, with a county tournament Feb 18 19 20 and Sioux Rapids home Feb 22. A separate item reports car thefts at a Legion Hall dance with guns stolen from one car.
An old timer recalls a barnyard moment during an April shower when a knocked out vinegar barrel leaks rain through its bung hole and finally bursts. He notes the hired man witnessed the rain entering the bunghole while another watched it escape the ends, and he vouches his own disbelief at exaggeration.
The Third century Diocletian built a vast palace at Aspalatos that became a town in itself, later evolving into a cathedral mausoleum and baptistry, with a rich blend of antique Roman Asiatic Gothic and Renaissance styles across sixteen centuries. Canton Perry Ammons handles pumps windmills plumbing pipes and tanks.
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