East Afton and Elk Community Notes
Mr and Mrs Kluckohn of Galva and Gus Carlson were dinner guests Sunday in the Dave Johnson home. Lois Booth visited from Aurelia for a weekend with her parents. Miss Lorene Rice and Afton No. 6 pupils presented a Christmas program to parents and friends. County Superintendent Brooker spoke after the program. Mrs. Buddenhagen received gifts at a shower last week. Continuous social activity included visits among local families and a party hosted by Mrs Ray Hines in Aurelia Friday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Stiencke
Aurelia
Henry Stiencke
Lorene Rice
Afton No. 6
Brooker
Georgia Robar
Iowa City
Homer Robar
Roy Matzdorff
George Kolpin
Quentin Anderson
Ray Hines
W. M. Booth
Orville Erickson
Alfred Stiencke
John Booth
Elaine
Gus Carlson
M. Hines
Schubert Serenade from the Swan Songs
The article notes Schubert set Ludwig Rellstab's poems to music including the Serenade as No 4 of the Swan Songs. It mentions Beethoven declined to set them due to ill health but advised sending them to Schubert after Beethoven's death. It lists Schubert's birth and death dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schubert
Ludwig Rellstab
Rellstab
Beethoven
Lead Burning Process Described For Clean Joints
Lead burning joins two or more lead pieces by melting edges to form a fused joint. Emphasizes abso lutely clean surfaces as essential to good workmanship.
Christmas gathering and community news from Afton vicinity
Members of Cheerio club and families held their annual Christmas party at the Al Woltman home with over fifty present. Ruth Montgomery of Sutherland visited Aurelia High School with her sister, Dorothy. A newborn seven and a half pound daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Menefee in Cherokee. Various visits, club meetings, and Soastine parties noted among Afton and Spring township residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheerio Club
al Woltman
Ruth Montgomery
Sutherland
Minneapolis
Gilbert Crow
Aurelia High School
Dorothy
McKinley Menefee
Sioux Valley Hospital
Cherokee
Earl Zwick
Isabelle
Brady
Lurella Anderson
Louie Melton
Gladys Lansen
Robert Anderson
Aurelia
Out of Afton
Martha Anderson
Afton
Spring
Spring Township Hills
Chas, Beam
Sleezer
George Zwick
Laurine
A. Zwick
Steamboat Demonstration Shows Early Pyroscophe Return
Claude François Dorothée Marquise d’Abbans and the Pyroscophe demonstrated a steamboat on the River Seange near Lyons in 1783, years before Fitch Symington or Fulton built jet powered ships. He produced workable craft as early as 1776, but the world was not ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Francois Dorothee
Marquise d'Abbans
Gove
Seang
Lyons
France
Fitch, Symington
Fulton
The disputatious person as an unlikely friend
The passage argues that a disputatious person disrupts harmony and fails to be a true friend. It emphasizes caring for argument over brotherly comfort and valuing own wisdom, urging friends to overlook many views to preserve friendship.
Aurel ia Consolidated School Notes Senior Class
A detailed school note recounts senior and underclass activities across English literature tests on Marlowe and Jonson, outside reading Pride and Prejudice, science and economics lessons, class plays, and Christmas plans. A lengthy obituary for Friedrich Menke covers his origins in Hanover, emigration to Illinois and Iowa, family, church ties, and funeral details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Miss Lewis
Jane Austin
Hanover News Christmas and church notices
Local notices report births and visits including a daughter born Friday December 17 and Harold Fredrich visiting relatives in Brookings. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services planned at Hanover and Alta with German and English sermons. St John Hanover voters meeting set for December 30 and church board session December 29 with year end services on December 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Hustedt
Wm. Menke
Sophia Schuelke
Fred Menke
Grandfather Menke
Fred Hustedt
St. John’s Church of
Hanover
O. Bahr
Kurt Horn
Galva
Iowa
Henry Menke
Henry Daul
Tinley Park
Illinois
Fred Trimble
Decatur
Louise Otto
Seward
Nebraska
Richard Heimbruck
Manson
Fred Roth
Harold Fredrich
Brookings
South Dakota
Wm. Fredrich
Albert Moschell
Higgins
Texas
Carl Bumann
Albert Fett
Carl Fett
Albert Wendell
Henry Roth
Alta
Id Lehnhardt
Arthur Otto
St. John’s Congregation of
The Dogfish Shark Use and Harvest Reach
The dogfish is a small three foot shark found on both North Atlantic shores to Cuba. Its flesh is eaten, the liver yields oil, and the tough skin is dried for wood polishing. Rare hauls report up to twenty thousand nine hundred dogfish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Atlantic
Cuba
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East Afton & Elk
Wm, Booth
Owatt
Iowa Public Service Company
Aurelia Consolidated School
Spain
Portugal
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Finland
Baltic States
Europe
Balkan Countries
Thelma Harden
Faye Nordstrom
Nordstrom
Preul
Poulson
Betty
Lois
Harold
Joe
Lola
Verona
Sherm
Laurine Zwick
Robert Patten
Phyllis Engdahl
Dareld Gerjets
Bill Jackson
Dale Peterson
Loraine Preul
Lloyd Hermanson
Gene Kline
Roger Glawe
Robert Howell
Geraldine Klumpp
Mildred Paulson
Joanne Deyloff
Ralph Sauter
Lee Coupe
Norma Nelson
Betty Phillips
Patty Clark
Wanda Jean Cornwall
Betty Lou Gerrets
Ruby Niles
Harriett Ohlson
Elizabeth Ann Eddy
Clayton Johnson
Jeanette Langwin
James Nelson
June Marie Converse
Margaret Pruitt
June Gerrets
Georgiane Lauridsen
Harold Rice
Friedrich Menke Fiedrich Menke
Harndorf
Kingdom of Hanover
America
Tinly Park
Katharine Otto
Schwalme
Germany
Ilinois
Cherokee County
Kansas
Menke
St. John’s Lutheran Church
St. John’s of Hanover
Irene Zwemke
Frank F. Faber, Mer
Olumbia
W. E. Simonsen
Arthur Brown
C. K. Simonsen
Dr. Winfred Moulton Dent
Aurelia, Iowa
W. G. Port
A. H. Eddy
Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association of
Geo. E. Blanch
H. H. Lockin
W. F. Hickey
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