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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
4
A stream of visitors and residents gather for events and family occasions across Spencer and nearby communities. People include Mrs. Booth Hines and Hines family, the Dagger and Wieland households, and visits from individuals such as Miss Joan Deyloff and Leo Elwood. Memorial day observances, hospital updates, and travel to Osakis lake reflect regional life.
Local residents report visits and trips this week with relatives and friends across Aurelia Cherokee Des Moines Sioux City Minneapolis Blairsburg Sioux Falls and Mankato. Highlights include enrollments in the A I B school and multiple family gatherings at parental homes.
The Aurelia community hosts numerous Memorial Day visits with relatives from Lake Okoboji to Sioux City. Weddings and engagements are announced, including Jeanne Mummert and Robert Rasmussen set to wed June 18 in Aurelia, and Eunice Bruce earning a bachelor of arts degree at Morningside College.
Local families from Emmetsburg Denison Alta Gilbert Beaconsfield and Des Moines, including Ed Kohlhagen Laura Whiting and Henry Bruce, spent Memorial Day weekend visiting relatives. Marriages announced for Mescal Reasoner and Dean Gilbert set for June 6 at Beaconsfield Methodist church.
Local classifieds offer items for sale including lard and a large safe, tomato and cabbage plants, tires, artificial insemination services for cows, and an Aurelia estate property with house, barn, and furniture. Listings include contact notes and occupancy availability.
Donna and Maxine Waldstein of Sioux Rapids visit relatives in Aurelia. Miss Viola Elson of Greybull Wyo and Miss Geradine Ellison of Hinton called Monday and Tuesday at Mrs Lola Mummert home.
Society notes describe an Embroidery club breakfast at the city park and a June 4 meeting at Mrs. Albert Fierk home. A nine o'clock breakfast at Nelson cafe honored Mrs. Frank Jordan of Mankato, Minnesota, followed by a visit to the Johnson home. Memorial Day family picnic drew guests from Sioux City and Cherokee, with Aurelia residents including the Howells, Lockins, Scotts, and Howells. The Get-To-Gether club met at Mrs. Eding’s home with Mrs. Vincent Bumann of Missouri as guest, and flowers were presented to the hostess.
Uncle Sam urges signing up for the Payroll Savings Plan to buy U S Savings Bonds. The message stresses personal financial strength and national economic security, encouraging workers to enroll through their payroll deductions.
Rosemore Farms in Maquoketa marked its 50th anniversary by auctioning 61 cattle for a total of $77,975. The top bid went to a heifer at $6,200.
Industrial Surveys reports margarine has become a household staple with about 31,889,000 families or over 80 percent of the nation buying margarine. The figure shows a rise from about 65 percent two years ago, though four states report almost no margarine sales.
Margaret of Scotland is credited with a leap year rule from 1288 that any bachelor who rejects a marriage proposal from a maiden of any estate may be fined according to his means. The tale links leap year to special marriage-hunting privileges for unmarried women.
A white leghorn hen roosted beneath a vehicle at Monti cello and rode to Springville. The next morning she paid her fare by laying an egg.
Arlene and Lady Andersen of Chaet ting er played house with gasoline and matches. When Arlene's clothing caught fire the seven year old girl may have saved her life by peeling off her blazing sweater. She has a chance of recovery.
Nationwide egg output reached 3.383 billion in September, up 3 percent from a year earlier and 21 percent above the 186-45 average. Output per hen in September was 10.7 eggs versus an average 9.7 eggs.
The article notes the average U S car is scrapped after about 90 000 miles of use in 12 years, contrasting with 1935 when scrappage occurred after about 8 000 miles and 8 3 years.
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