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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1905
Page
3
Readable fragments mention local rate and Blona but the lines are garbled. The item appears to be a short public notice or notice fragment with unclear names and dates. No coherent event or outcome can be confirmed from the provided snippet.
An American traveler describes an isolated Bolivian village lodging atop the Andes at 13,000 feet. The so called hotel features mud walls, no porterage or dining chairs, a dining service that defies expectation, and a dining room where a dry goods box serves as furniture. The atmosphere is peasant rustic and bizarre, with unpalatable dishes and a starkly functional lodging.
A public meeting at the band hall set committees for July 4th festivities. A committee led by Strouse Dingman and Parker raised over $200 in subscriptions. Officials and numerous committees were named for parade, speakers, printing, games, fireworks, food, and program coordination. Local banks and national ranks details noted, with corrections to a social event planned at the Diamond ME church.
Alumni of Aurelia High School organized an Alumni Association and held a Noonday evening banquet at Hobd Lockla to honor the class of 1905. The event featured lavender and champagne decorations, a three course dinner, a program of instrumental and vocal numbers, and a class yell devised during the evening. Forty members attended, with a brief business meeting to join the association, and a list of attendees includes Edith Bughnell, Mrs. J.C. Nelson, Pearle Howell, Emma Howell, Ellen Johnson, and others spanning classes from 1896 to 1905.
The Illinois Central will sell excursion tickets from Aurelia to Sioux City on Thursday, June U, for a morning train at 0. The rate is $1.75, valid only on that train one way and returning on the 5:30 p.m. train the same day. Proceeds support the Modern Woodmen of America. A program features ex governor SR Van Sant of Minnesota delivering the main address, plus a parade and various Woodman and athletic contests.
Sioux City Journals notes a special announcement at the Ollapadrida card club meeting after a euchre contest. Miss Lydia Thompson’s party reveals the June 14 marriage of hostess Florence Thompson Lysaght of Cherokee to W. H. Lysaght. Also lists uncalled letters at Aurelia post office and local ad copy for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
The Northwestern Veterans Association plans an excursion from all points within 106 miles to LeMars Iowa for June 14 to 16. Illinois Central will sell round trip tickets at one and one third fare, with sales limited to June 16 for return. The notice also mentions irrelevant health remedies and a local sales detail.
A long list of classroom names appears before a local notice urging readers to hurry for summer dress goods at Andrew Johnson's. The Quimby Monitor notes its new Cherokee county paper, Cyril Mahoney travels to Elk River for a cell and to visit M. L. Herrick. P.D. Wine, Henry Machel, and C. Stutz repair cement walks on Second street and cement crossings will be laid between several homes. Aurelia residents report a rough Sturm Lake excursion with no bites. Decoration day allows open hours at the Harker building for dishes and pans, key obtainable at BE A. Bondy’s drug store.
The Illinois Central offers a low fare excursion from Aurelia Iowa to Chicago and return on June 17 for 5.00, valid for return by June 26 with constraints. Tickets admit no sleepers or stopovers and must be issued by Joint Agent at 172 Michigan Avenue. Reservations via Gray, Webb & Co. and agent LCR Duluqiue, Iowa.
An assortment of old notices mentions sidewalk work offers from G H Grandstaff, small ads for Parker & Lashell goods including belts, and a note on a post parcels service between France, Algeria and the United States. It also covers global trade data on Japanese silk, Formosa exports and imports, and historic military losses. A San Francisco customs scene flags a passenger’s feather, and Riverside County, California, gains a prize for an irrigation exhibit showing a valley canal and orange grove, with irrigation scheme details.
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