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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1937
Page
5
Multiple Iowa towns report varied events from the weekend. Peterson welcomes visitors with new school buses from Indianapolis. other notes cover Can ning company plans, rip rapping on Lake Shore, and a historic house demolition near Linn Grove.
A practical suggestion urges residents to spend locally for value and potential return. It contrasts spending at home with spending out of town, noting you may recoup a dollar locally through goods, work, or services, while out of town you cannot expect a refund for items or labor sold.
The Elk Baptist church hosted the marriage of Miss Ellen Hansen and Walter A Moeller of Dysart Iowa on Sunday morning July 11. The service featured garden flowers and was held in a serene setting.
Mrs. Henry Wehking wife of Rev Henry Wehking of Sioux City is hospitalized at Sacred Heart after an automobile crash Wednesday night three miles south of Le Mars. She sustained a fractured collarbone and other injuries. The Holdcraft Transfer Co truck from Sioux City left the road into a ditch but the driver was unharmed.
St Pauls Lutheran Church invites visitors to Sunday school at 10 and divine worship at 10 45 in English. A Piney Woods quartet concert, colored, will perform Friday at 8 pm to benefit Piney Woods school. Free will offering requested.
Chas Heimn and Dr R M Sorensen of Cherokee discussed a year round county nurse for Cherokee county. Total annual cost 2700 dollars with 1800 salary 600 travel 300 supplies. State would cover 1360 dollars with county taxation covering the remainder. Petitions to the board of supervisors are planned to seek favorable action after further investigation.
C H Kannenberg advertises an auction this Saturday in Sentinel. The residence and household goods sell at 1 30 pm and the hollow tile building on Main street occupied by Bachman machine shop sells at 7 80 pm. They plan to move to California where Carl will carpentry.
C C Culbertson of Iowa State College notes yeast protein feeds are effective but pricey for pig diets. He says tankage can supplement oats at about 0.2 pound per pig daily, with similar results at lower cost. Minerals are advised to prevent deficiencies, but not forced.
A sheriff reports a possible gang stole hogs from the Carl Plagman farm in Brooke township, taking about eight animals and loading them into a light truck. Similar thefts have occurred at Eastman farm near Rembrandt and Glen Geisinger farm north of Storm Lake, with three to four men involved and pasture locations far from home.
Plans are set for a large caravan of cars from northwest Iowa Minnesota and South Dakota to the Okoboji Bible Conference July 25 to August 1 with Pilgrimage Day on Sunday Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf of Chicago will speak at 10 30 a m and 2 30 p m and Dr W Kurtz of the National Preaching Mission will preach Sunday evening The event marks the opening of the conference on the Methodist camp grounds at West Okoboji Lake and is expected to draw over five thousand attendees.
Pitcher township Farm Bureau members host their annual summer picnic Thursday evening at Aurelia City Park. County Agent C H Thompson and Rev L H Preul will speak on weed eradication. Walter J Peterson leads with Ralph Peterson and Ed Lehnhardt coordinating. Aurelia High School band and 4 H girls provide entertainment. ice cream and cake served afterward.
Nineteen boy scouts and leaders returned Monday morning after four and a half days at Gull Point on West Okoboji. Members urged to exchange old stock certificates at the elevator office. Managers Peterson and Partiot noted the exchange need.
Rex Garrett and Oscar Anderson were named delegates from L A Wescott Post No 2253 to the national VFW convention in Buffalo New York. Miss Pearl Simms leaves for St Cloud Minnesota to take a home demonstration agent post there. Zitterell Mills workers begin tearing down the old public power plant to make a $40 000 structure for $50 000 worth of equipment. Marguerite Danielson, daughter of Deputy Sheriff Dan E F Danielson, is named officer of the guard in a new I O C F council. Larry Caskey, 20, promoted to manager of Council Oak grocery, effective August 1. Bill Dunn leaves to enter the insurance business.
Miss Ruth Cessna of Iowa State College advises using a pressure cooker when canning beans. Choose green tender snap beans, wash, cut, boil five minutes, pack hot with salt, process at 10 pounds pressure or use water bath timing by jar size.
Ten years ago Lydia Meinking and Salem Snyder wed in Storm Lake and will live on a farm near Aurelia. Svelyn Rose and Albert Hansen married in Cherokee. A four team kittenball league formed in Aurelia with named squads. Clarence Diereks moved to Storm Lake for a bank job. Twenty years ago Florence Sexton and Alvin Ammnon wed in Cherokee. Thirty years ago Aurelia market prices are listed with hogs and corn. Pearl McAndrew and Arthur Kenny married in Cherokee.
A quartet of colored lads from Piney Woods school in Mississippi will perform at St. Paul's Lutheran church in Aurelia Friday night July 28 at 8 o clock. The group comes from a school founded by Lawrence C Jones a Marshalltown native and Iowa graduate who started the Piney Woods school to aid poor colored youths. The event offers free admission with a free will offering for Piney Woods and features a long history of graduates entering society prepared for worthy lives. Plumber windmill and pump services are offered by P V Clover.
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