Lake View Fatal Crash Teardown and Local Bond Approval
Walter Stokes of Lake View died and Richard Plucker was injured when their car plunged over a hill at Lake View Friday evening. Peterson township approved a road paving bond 111 to 94, countywide 2374 to 1606. A Sutherland group formed to secure a new bank. F J Hoskins appointed Bank Examiner in Washta and Meriden. Verda Esther Sweet wed Earl L Ehlers in a December wedding at the Sweet home.
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Sac Sun
Walter Stokes
Lake View
Richard Plucker
Peterson Patriot
Peterson Township
Clay County
Sutherland Courier
Knights of Pythias Hall
Sutherland
Washta Journal
F. J. Hoskins
Washta
Verda Esther
Earl L. Ehlers
Cleghorn
Congregational Church to Hold Annual Meeting With Lunch
Edwin Trigg pastor. Sunday School at 10. Morning Worship at 11. Afternoon annual meeting preceded by a covered dish luncheon. All members and friends invited.
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Congregational Church
Edwin Trigg
Diamond Township Girls Form First 4H Club
Diamond Township girls organized their first 4H club on December 30 at the H. H. Otto home with thirteen charter members led by Mrs. Vernon Anderson. Officers elected include Dorothy Linguist president and Berniece Rasche vice president. future meetings planned at Mrs. Anderson’s home with more members invited.
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Tusday
H. H. Otto
Vernon Anderson
Miriam Griffith
Irma Booth
Halcyon Warren
Cherokee Township
Prsident
Dorothy Linguist
Berniece Rasche
Elsie Peterson
Margueritte Haight
Louise Streed
Annie Freese
Berniece
Vera Rasche
Louise
Alice Streed
Elsie Freese
Joyce Pepper
Viola Marquardt
Dorothy Linquist
Erna Otto
Elsie
Helen Kreutz
Otto
Will Haight
Diamond Stars
Diamond
Basketball Schedule for January and February
Schedule lists games for Larrabee Quimby Marceus Cleghorn Grand Meadow Marcus Peterson Washta Galva and a county tournament at Aurelia from January 14 to February 28 with multiple home and away dates.
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Larrabee
Quimby
Marceus
Cleghorn
Grand Meadow
Marcus
Peterson
Washta
Galva
Aurelia
County press notes multiple thefts and arrests in region
Reports detail nearly 30 gallons of confiscated alcohol dumped by Sheriff Langwin, hog thefts of 25 to 380 head near Cherokee, a legal partnership formed by William Mulvaney and Mark Bancroft, and several robberies with sentences. John Mothkovich received up to 10 years at hard labor for robberies in northwest Iowa.
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Langwin
Myron Bushlow Farm
Cherokee
William Mulvaney
Cherokee County
Mark Bancroft
Marcus
Times
John Mothkovich
Standard Oil
Wll
Iowa
Anamosa
Iowa Public Service Company
Sioux City
Leo Schaeff
Albert van Roekel
Denison
Fort Murdison
Klinker
van Roekel
Dingman Reports Big Business at Post Office
Post Office receipts as a barometer of business show Aurelia firms with strong holiday season activity. Mr. Dingman notes this year’s postal receipts match last year, which already surpassed previous records, signaling encouragement amid declines in larger towns. He thanks local office staff for cooperation and notes early mailing prevented last minute rush and kept mail dispatch orderly.
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Aurelia
Dingman
Nackares
Aurelia Community Club Holds Large Christmas Party
The Aurelia Community Club and families gathered at the Community Theatre for a Monday evening Christmas party with cards games inter community singing and a gift distribution from a lighted tree. The event drew a large attendance and is described as one of the club’s mostproud social functions.
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Aurelia Community Club
Aurelia to Show Talking Picture at Community Theatre
Aurelia hosts a one night talkie at the Community Theatre next Saturday. An Omaha company provides the talking equipment to synchronize sound with the film Incact a natural history feature. A comedy will also be shown with two showings at 7 and 9 o clock. Admission 15 and 35 cents.
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Aurelia
Omaha
Methodist Church Notes and Schedule
Morning Service and Sunday School at 10:00. Communion to begin the New Year with the sermon "Some Appointments Christ makes with men." Evening service at 7:20 with subject "The Philosophy of Obedience." We welcome more attendance and invite you to join.
Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Meets January 1981
The annual meeting of the Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association will be held Saturday January 10 1981 at 2 00 p m in the Community Club rooms. All policy holders are urged to attend. George E Blanch president H H Lockin secretary.
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Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association
George E. Blanch
H. H. Lockin
Local Sate Column Yields Odd Weathered Try
A fragmented line from a local for sale column mentions a try at a sales item. Readable parts point to a casual note about a single attempt to sell or bid on something. The fragment leaves specifics unclear.
Society Notes From Mrs Ammons and Local Hostesses
Social calendar highlights Mrs C E Ammons hosts and guests attend 6 30 dinners and 500 games. Includes Mr and Mrs Wm Heimsoth Mrs Alfred Steinke Mr and Mrs Vic Steineke and others from Pierson Storm Lake Ravinia Aurelia Peterson and Meriden with prize winners and Christmas celebrations at Diamond school and at Glawe and Jordan homes.
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Wm. Heimsoth
Alfred Steinke
Vic Steineke
Pierson
M. Hines
Clayton Mitchell
Roy Matzdorff
Wm. Booth
Wm. Ruebsam Jr
LaMerne
Fred Kolpin
Wm. Ruebsam
Local Boy Reports New Neighbors With Vegetarian Father
Important Little Johnny bursts in with tales of a new family next door. He claims a mother, a father, and three children who he says are important due to one child noting the father is a vegetarian.
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Johnny
Horse shoe found in tree reveals 654 rings in Grand Rapids park
A traveler once fixed a horseshoe to a tree now in John Biel park Grand Rapids. The oak was cut recently and a wooden core near the shoe showed 654 yearly growth rings. Investigation noted the strange artifact within the trunk.
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John Biel Park
Grand Rapids
Local notices from Alta recount visits burns and weddings
Mr and Mrs Oliver Sansen host a week long visit at the Sansen home. Harvey Kohlstedt sustains severe facial burn after igniting a shotgun shell with a match. Elmer and Mrs Anderson celebrate fifteenth anniversary with about 40 guests. Oscar Peterson and Harry Thayer plan extended motor trip to the west coast starting Monday. News arrives of Carleton L LePage marrying Miss Clemence Walther in Chicago on November 26.
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Oliver Sansen
C .J. Sansen
Harvey Kohlstedt
Harvey Ad
Elmer Anderson
Oscar Peterson
Harry Thayer
Storm Lake
Alta
Carleton L. LePage
Leon LePage
Clemence Walther
Chicago
LePage
William J. Walther
Warwick Avenue
Former Aurelia Girl Wins Essay Contest
Gretchen Thompson, daughter of Mr and Mrs J M Thompson 127 North Twelfth Street Aurelia, won first honors in Oklahoma state junior high essay contest by the Chamber of Commerce. She received twenty five dollars for the piece titled Its Christmas Time in Oklahoma Lets Make Everybody Happy How.
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Chickasha
Oklahoma
Gretchen
Newcomb Newcomb wedding secret revealed in Battle Creek
W Crate Newcomb and Mildred Lindlief married October 1 1930 at the Presbyterian Manse Battle Creek Iowa. Bride daughter of Frank Lindlief Brooke township. groom son of Lulu G Newcomb Alta high school graduate class of 23. They will reside twenty miles west of Fort Pierre SD on highway 14 after March 1931.
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Sentinel
W. Crate Newcomb
Mildred Lindlief
Battle Creek
Iowa
Frank Lindlief
Brooke Township
Brooke Consolidated School
Buena Vista College
Lulu G. Newcomb
Bunea Vista
Alta
Aurelia Postoffice To Move To New Building
Postmaster Dingman announces official authorization from the Postoffice Department to relocate the Aurelia postoffice to the Rice Bros. building, formerly the Eddy building. The move, likely at the start of the year, includes a vault, improved space, hot water heat, water connections, and a heated lobby.
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Dingman
Postoffice Department
Washington, D. C
Aurelia Postoffice
Rice Bros
Eddy
Beggars in London Granted Licenses Before Elizabeth
A historic list from 1417 records over 1,000 beggars and poor in London wards. Licensed beggars wore tin badges bearing the city arms and had duty to assist in patrolling and driving out foreign beggars.
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Queen Elizabeth
London
City of
Dieting Through the Ages in a 1614 Self-Experiment
The article notes an early diet interest with Sanctorius who built a chair and steel rod device to weigh his meals. A movable weight balanced his body and food so he could stop eating when the chair dipped, marking a historic approach to mindful intake.
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Sanctorius
Craze farmer slays wife then dies after fire
Storm Lake Register reports a 35 year old Mrs. Kiefer was shot by her husband at a farm home three miles southeast of Storm Lake. He then set fire to the barn and died, possibly by poison or self immolation. Two relatives witnessed the shooting as the man fired through a north living room window. The blast shattered the window and struck Mrs. Kiefer in the neck region.
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Storm Lake
Alta Lady Dies After Bull Attack Near Alta
Mrs. A Zaffka died Monday evening at her home southeast of Alta following an attack by an infuriated bull while driving cattle in a pasture. Her son aided her to the house where she died before medical help arrived on the Taylor farm. Watch your subscription date.
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Alta Advertiser
A. Zaffka
Alta
Advertiser
Ten Years Ago Aurelia Roundup Notes and Marriages
Look back at local items recalling business sales and relocations. CG Duffus sells stock to Carl berg Bros who take possession. Helmer Carlberg and Ruby Incersol wed in Aurelia. Public sales planned for Templeman and Will Hickey farms. Also notes of deaths and moves involving Aurelia residents.
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George Garber
CG. D. Duffus
Harry G
Helmer L. Carbng
Carlberg Bros
Julius Clymens
Aurelia
Floyd
Columbus
Ohio
C. A. Lawson
Minnesota
Templeman Farm
O. E. Yocum
Galva
Illinois
California
Mgr
Helmer Carlberg
Ruby Evelyn Incersol
Boone
Iowa
Ira
Mann
Will Hickey
Beeghley Family Trip to Sioux City Ends
Mrs. C. M. Beeghley, Ray and Fern traveled to Sioux City Sunday. The boys returned home Monday morning while Mrs. Beeghley and Fern stayed several days at the R. H. Maltby home.
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Aurela, Iowa
County Seat News
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W. H. Welch
C. E. Ammons
Ray Hines
Hines
John Coulson
Buren Anderson
Wm. Helmsoth
Ed Lenhardt
Clarence Kaskey
Oran Coombs
Ariene Glawe
Geneva Nelson
Margaret Eddy
Ava Barkley
Norma Berg
Alma and
Diamond School No
Henry Montgomery
Tewreses Montgomery
W. R. Montgomery
Allen Benson
Ravinia
South Dakota
Art Rosmus
Meriden
Maurice Eddy
Fred Jordan
Gene Ammons
L. E. Christensen
Howard Deyloff
Jordan
John Mummert
Poinesetta
Sentinal
Wright
F. E. Pratt
Beggars
Alta Lady
Will Meyer
Precersen
Linna Scott
N. G. Scott
George Whites
Mary Bedke
Hanover
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