Fragmentary note from local sale listing
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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1924
Page
3
A fragmented OCR shows an incomplete sale item with vague details including distances and directions. No clear purchaser, price, or location can be confirmed from the readable text.
The community notes highlight Kislingbury Rey Rowlands as a well known figure in Alta with service in France during World War I and Miss Haxby daughter of Mr and Mrs William Haxby of Brooke township and graduate of Alta High School who taught at Fairview Consolidated School last year. Iowa corn production in 1924 is projected to drop 200 percent from last year due to weather, with harvested acres around 10.888 million and a 72 percent normal yield per acre indicating about 32.0 bushels per acre.
The Ku Klux Klan held an outdoor gathering in Fuhrman's pasture near the Little Sioux river with about 1500 attendees. A Des Moines preacher spoke before rain halted the program, while an electrically lit cross and two crosses burned as visitors from several counties arrived.
A family group including Mr and Mrs W, H Bischel and daughter Lamerne left last Friday for summer resorts in Minnesota. They planned a first stop at Green Likke and a Tuesday card noted they were moving on further north to additional destinations.
A poetic fellowship invites the public to a series of services celebrating verse and community. Readers are urged to join gathered readings and communal programs featured by local coordinators and organizers.
A general belief linked members of the American Legion to a rifle firing incident is being investigated. The Legion report states rifles were in cases and only blank ammunition is available, noting the rifles are obsolete models not chambered for 30-30 cartridges. Ab Larson Bros referenced.
Crowds packed Aurelia this summer to hear Paddy Stills perform with the Watdhioo all stars. August Borgwaldt of Elkton sold his 160 acre farm twelve miles northeast of Aurelia to John Brummer for 175 dollars per acre. Chas Olson rents the Lage wenty Years Ago Carpenters and will begin a Whinery project soon near Jackson, with Mr. Jackson to provide feed as the journey ends in Clay County.
The Cherokee chief states no game law is in effect and pamphlets outlining the new code will be issued later. The old and new hunting rules will be issued by the recorder instead of the usual channels, reflecting a transitional period.
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