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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1938
Page
5
HAPPENINGS OF NEARBY TOWNS. Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune reports Judge James DeLand will retire January 1 after more than 20 years on the fourteenth district bench. He was guest of honor at a county Christmas party in the courthouse main hall.
Marcus town will be represented by Gust Alesch of Plymouth County and Fred Ritchie of Cherokee County in the 1989 Iowa Legislature. Alesch, a veteran Democrat and committee chair, begins his fourth term. Ritchie, a Republican farmer from Marcus, starts his first term. The Methodist church school presents a Christmas program that Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Readings, songs, and performances by Primary Dept and others will lead to a public Christmas service.
Farmers in Cherokee County will pay one sixth of a cent per bushel for sealing corn under the government warehouse act. A preliminary sealing fee of $3.00 is charged and refundable after completion. Many local farmers have applied to seal both new and old corn, with an estimate of over one million bushels to be sealed. Wedding stationery at Sentinel.
Vocational agriculture classes mixed several hundred pounds of mineral supplement and about 14 tons of protein and mineral blends on Friday December 16. Costs were $1.60 per hundred pounds for mineral and $2.01 per cwt for protein blends. The mix supports hog projects with self fed minerals where skim milk is available and a 5 percent fortified Trinity mix where it is not. The aim is to learn what constitutes a good mineral program and how balanced feeding improves sow and young pig growth and maintenance.
Cherokee Times reports a decree naming Don F. Phipps as sheriff after a court contest. The election court found ballots preserved properly and Tilton’s contest was resolved with Phipps winning by a small margin. Costs of 62.20 were taxed to Tilton.
Christmas Eve program at Congregational church features songs by the congregation and Betty Grienke, recitations by Jane Coombs and Dan Coombs, various classes performing Christmas themed exercises, a piano solo by Helen Paulson, and a story of birth of Jesus by Margaret Johnsons class.
Local basketball doubleheader ends with Aurelia teams losing to Alta squads. First game 17 to 7 and second 20 to 10 as Alta leads 8 to 1 at halftime in the opener and 10 to 6 at intermission in the second. Also notes Sioux City shopping trip and a college student returning home for Christmas.
Ten years ago Highway 71 from Spencer to Spirit Lake was slated as one of the first state paved roads in Iowa. In the First National Bank corn show amateur class Theo Nordstrom Jr. won for five cars yellow and five years white. George McCurdy won for five cars other varieties, Vernon Peterson took best individual ear. Frank Kohn elected president of Cherokee County Farm Bureau for a second term. Twenty years ago Dess McDeid sold his meat market to Darby and Wagstoll of Manson. Boy Scouts raised over one hundred dollars for Belgian relief. Ludwig Hilmo, assistant cashier at Farmers National Bank, died at Hotel Lock after influenza. Thirty years ago Sturz Brothers began enlarging their skating rink south of the depot. Miss Emma Betcher of Aurelia and Gustav Kruse of Alta married recently and will live east of town.
The Aurelia school primary grades will present a Christmas operetta titled When Christmas Comes at the school auditorium Thursday evening at 7 45. The girls glee club will sing carols and effort is made to maintain a high standard. An admission charge of 10c and 15c will be collected.
Aurelia students and faculty will enjoy a two week Christmas break. School closes at the end of the current week and resumes Monday January 9. Faculty plan to spend the holidays with family or at home.
Santa will come to Aurelia next Saturday afternoon to meet children and hand out free candies and nuts from bulging sacks. He plans to arrive about 3:00 PM and will switch from reindeer to motor car for the trip south from the north pole.
Local bank officials Mr. Christensen and Mr. Bischel spoke to a part-time agriculture class, informing students about credit for young men aiming to start farms. Christensen addressed them December 15 and Bischel December 21, with informal talks and ensuing discussions.
Three Western Union college students at LeMars were killed when their car was struck by the Hawkeye Limited south of the city Monday night. The dead are Neva Phelps Cozad Nebraska Mildred Menke Odessa Minnesota and Claude Miller Callaway Nebraska. Injured are Vincent Buss LeMars Maury Nelson Hastings Nebraska and James Mead Colo Iowa all six unconscious at hospital.
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