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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1949
Page
4
Local residents and visitors frequent Avoca and Dundee Minnesota with stops at Whitney Hardware and various homes. The column lists numerous family visits, shopping lines, insurance services, and community events including Memorial Day and upcoming sewing and teaching courses in Storm Lake.
Mrs. George McCurdy and Mrs. Chas McCurdy attended a June 3 breakfast in honor of Mrs. Sara Wall. Families hosted visits in Sioux City and St Peter Minnesota. Karen Kaskey underwent a tonsillectomy at the new Memorial hospital at Alta. Judges and locals shared meals and guests while many traveled west and to Canada for fishing and visits.
Local classified ads offer housework, corn sales, rentals, and farming services. Items include a white faced steer, an oak china closet, a walnut dining suite, a steel elevator, disc sharpening, chickens and lard for sale, with contact names and phone numbers in Aurelia and nearby towns.
The Afton Farm Bureau plans its monthly meeting on Monday night June 13 at 8 p.m. in the Afton Community building. The program features movies and the Farm Bureau Little German band with lunch to follow.
Trinity Lutheran Church Alta Iowa announces VBS closes Friday with a noon picnic in the south park and a choir program at 8 p.m. Free will offerings will be received. Also notes postponed Women's Missionary Society June 17 and anniversary communion service with Rev J O Lindstrom. Luther League camp opens Sunday at Lake Okoboji. Bible study Wednesday 8 p.m. Choir rehearsal Thursday 8 p.m.
Verdene Henken of Waukon was killed when the tractor he drove rolled over into a ditch. Rescue efforts came too late as he died almost instantly at the scene.
Mrs. Robert Forman of Bellevue spoke with her husband via a collect call arranged by a Minneapolis amateur radio operator. Col. Forman, stationed in Germany, requested connection to his home phone at Bellevue and the operator facilitated the pleasant contact.
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