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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
1
Local residents share holiday meals and visits with family and friends. Pfc Dale Dise from Ft Lewis spends ten days with his parents in the area. Several teachers and veterans attend Christmas gatherings with kin in various towns. An American Legion Auxiliary meeting is announced for January 2.
A. E. Krout from Sioux Falls South Dakota visited Saturday evening to spend Sunday and Christmas at his home in the area. Lloyd C. Ruby Hale from Great Lakes Illinois spent Sunday with his wife and daughter at Mrs Anna Anderson’s home.
Names and travels fill holiday notes from Storm Lake Ames and Sioux City. Percy Russell visited his mother Mrs. Gertrude Russell after Sunday noon, while Doris Jeanne Renaud and Fae Hines arrived to spend vacation time with family. A birth announcement records Cathleen Anne Grote in Des Moines. Several families from Storm Lake Worthington and Mountain Lake exchanged seasonal greetings and trips.
Automobile Insurance reports the death of Mrs Charley Gilchrist on Wednesday December 20. The Gilchrists recently moved from their farm near Gann Valley South Dakota to a new home in Miller South Dakota. Mr and Mrs Raymond Kruse and family of Leeds Iowa spent Sunday and Christmas day with their parents Gust Kruse and Sam Johnson. Don Calderwood A C R M Navy Air Corps arrived Christmas Eve from Boston to spend a 30 day leave with his wife Violet Hansbruch. Cpl Arthur G Johnson arrived Christmas afternoon from Jefferson Barracks Missouri to spend a 21 day rotation furlough with his mother Ella Johnson and sister Mabel. Art has been away 32 months with 27 months in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
Banks will close all day Monday January 1 for New Year’s Day. Christmas Day visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Jack Thomson and Mrs. Frits Mueller with children from Cherokee, and Mr. and Mrs. Verne White and children of Omaha at Ervil Rapp home. Additional guests: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Neuman of Storm Lake at C. H. Kaskey home. Cadet Nurse Ruth Wogahn of Sioux City visiting her parents.
Rockwell City residents Mr and Mrs Arthur C Anderson and daughter Anne visited E C Lighter home while Mrs Andersons former Aurelia coach background noted. Charles Wharton sends a recorded Christmas message from the Army Air Force, now with an A P O in San Francisco. the Whartons listen via phonograph.
Pythian Sisters held Guest Night at K of P Hall on December 21 with games and lunch for about fifty ladies. Neighborhood Birthday Club celebrated Mrs. Bert Nielsen's birthday December 26 with a social hour and lunch. Pinochle Club met December 21 at Mrs. Ivar Carlson's home for lunch. high score to Mrs. Mongan, low to Mrs. Sansen, traveling prize to Mrs. Mongan. gift exchange closed the afternoon.
Classified ad snippet lists SPENCER MUSIC SUPPLY offering music goods and instruments. It notes Purebred Poland China Spring and Fall Boars for sale three miles east of Aurelia, plus contact Forrest Hultgren Alta Iowa and bank ads for farm loans from Farmers National Bank Aurelia. Also requests buyers for old horses to be butchered for mink feed with contact Lester Lohr Aurelia or Peterson 6055.
The Sioux City market posted a largely uneven session with most classes holding or rising slightly from last week. Fat steers near $17.00 were scarce, with sales $10.00 to $16.00. fat heifers $9.00 to $14.25, cows $6.00 to $13.00, bulls strong, stockers slow near steady, and feeders scarce at $9.75 to $13.00. sheep fat lambs $11.75 to $15.00, slaughter yearlings $10.60 to $12.75, feeding lambs scarce. Cherokee county shipments include Roy Rice, Peter Dunn, and others with steers and heifers priced up to $18.75 for a heifer lot.
The Aurelia Iowa council met December 12 1944 with Mayor presiding. Members Brummer Maltby Wieland attended. Shank Kaskey absent. Minutes of November 6 approved. Treasurer and Clerk reports approved. Various bills across funds listed and approved for payment. Meeting adjourned.
The text references the Star Spangled Banner waving at Baltimore Maryland alongside a Fort Henry display. It presents garbled lines about information, advertising, and a Sentinel notice with unclear intent.
The notice lists church activities with Morning Worship at 11 00 and a Watch Night Service at 11 00 p m in the Congregational Church. Mrs Nels Carlson is superintendent of the church school. The Naomi Circle of the W S C S will meet Thursday January 4 at Mrs Verna Lockin s home with Mrs Mae Holderness as associate hostess.
Edwin Trigg is pastor of the Congregational Church. Sunday December 81 church school at 10 a.m. worship at 11 a.m. Junior and Senior Pilgrim Fellowship at 7 p.m. Union Watch Night Service at 11 p.m. Rev. E Stanworth to give address. All invited.
Divine worship next Sunday December 31 at 10 45 am and Monday New Year Day at 10 45 am. We invite you to worship with us. Visitors welcome at all our services.
Mt Olive Baptist Church invites all worshippers to Bible School Sundays at 10:00 A.M. Morning Worship at 11:00 A.M. Evening Devotions with sermon at 8:00 P.M. Thursdays Prayer and Praise Cottage meetings at 8:00 P.M. Pastor E H Gillet encourages attendance with the slogan Come and See.
Trinity Lutheran Church Alta Iowa invites the whole membership and friends to New Year services. Sunday School and Bible Classes at 9 a.m. Morning Worship at 11 a.m. New Year’s Eve Watch Service 9 to 12. Week of Prayer Service January 8 at 7:30 p.m. Ladies Aid January 4 at 2:15 p.m. Nominating committee meets 3:30 p.m. Choir rehearsal at 8 p.m.
Pastor Philip Holmberg leads morning worship at 9 45 with Sunday School at 10 45. Ladies Aid gathers January 4 at 2 30 at Arlo Nelson home. Bible study invites Bring your Bible. Congregation annual meeting set for January 9 at 10 a.m.
Fragments recount the oldest printing shop west of the Rockies, noting its 1822 founding in Wyoming and claiming its age predates regional development. The text blends broken phrases about islands and a distant United States context.
The report describes a bumper bumping into a parked car on Stevens Street in Iowa Falls. The parked car owned by Glenn H. Ryan was found half-way down the bluff, broken tree damage estimated. A classified ad notes this as a potential sale item.
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