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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1947
Page
3
Local notes list social visits Christmas and New Year gatherings across Garner Aurelia and surrounding towns. Mentions Embroidery club meeting with Mrs Espy McDeid, visits by Rev and Mrs Stanworth, Mr and Mrs Philpott from Des Moines, Lloyd Ruby from New Hampton, and other family and friends over the holiday period. References farm record books from Garner's Farm Record.
Local notes list Aurelia residents visiting relatives, holiday preparations, and community happenings. The Aurelia Women’s club will meet Friday January 10 at the home of Mrs Ralph Peterson amid other social and family updates from the area.
Miss Dorothea Western of Maywood visited at the Daniels home along with Lt. Clarence E. Johnson of Brooklyn on his trip to Houston for shore duty. Lloyd Hermanson returned from Sioux Valley Hospital after a Christmas foot injury. Staff Sgt Melvin Williams and wife visited from San Antonio and will reunite with family as he reports to Camp Stoneman for overseas duty.
Robert Robinson of Cherokee reported his car blacked out while approaching the Perry Creek bridge. He braked but the vehicle went through the bridge and into the river causing about 400 dollars in damage. he escaped with a ducking.
Australia provides seventy million rabbit skins annually and supplies most rabbit furs for felt hats. Three to four skins are used per hat since rabbit fur is the chief fur in hat manufacture.
Uncle Sam urges Americans to start saving now with the Payroll Savings Plan. By contributing as little as 3.75 dollars weekly, a nest egg in United States Savings Bonds could reach 2,163.45 dollars in a year and provide a ready reserve for emergencies.
Mrs. A A Davis reports a string of holiday get togethers. George Wharton and family hosted a Christmas dinner with aunt Mrs M P White and Lizzie Marks from Storm Lake as guests. The Wharton brothers spent their first home Christmas in three years. New Year dinners featured Grover Bell and family with guests Betty Lou Bell Gilbert Bell Peggy Fagerlund and Clyde Davis. A Tuesday sewing circle hosted a pot luck with Ray Lewis and Mrs J C Sheldon as visitors. N R Club held a Christmas party with prize winners Mrs George Parrott Mrs Emil Rydstrom and Mrs Wilson Perry. Other gatherings included pinochle at Arvid Andersons New Year’s Eve and a Christmas family dinner for the Sleezer clan with San Rafael visitors.
A famed Broadway producer, inept in music, told a conductor to have the orchestra play on one string. In Wyoming, the governor visiting a state penitentiary bungled a speech, trying to address inmates as citizens and convicts before settling on a vague greeting.
A drunk sits at a restaurant table and orders clam chowder. A limping waiter takes his order and heads to the kitchen. The patron jokes that if the waiter has to go downstairs for it he would skip the dish.
In Milwaukee the Bucks locker room lit up as a joke answered the question What's a plutocrat. A player quipped A guy who can get his hair cut the day before payday turning heads and fueling humorous exchange among teammates.
In Van Buren County a Duroc Jersey sow on a home farm was slaughtered. The carcass yielded 585 pounds of meat and 200 pounds of lard as residents respond to shortages with home processing.
Mrs. Norman Render of Clarinda receives word her book Nurse-Patient Relationships in Psychiatry earned second place in a global nursing education competition. Her husband heads the state hospital at Clarinda.
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