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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1944
Page
2
The piece urges Iowans to exceed the $202,000,000 quota for the Fifth War Loan to back troops overseas. It highlights invasion as motivation, calls for personal sacrifice on food and fuel, and notes soil loss of $150,000,000 from floods while asserting farmers will persevere.
Funeral services for Mrs. Will Honsbruch were held in Aurelia’s Lutheran church with many from Afton and Spring Township attending. Friends visited relatives in Red Wing Minnesota. The Zwicks celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a gathering and cake. Flooding and rains affected fields and basements but caused no major damage. 4-H rally day planned in Cherokee. Miss Arlene Tuttle, daughter of E C and Mrs. Tuttle, recently graduated from the School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs.
Irene Zwemke reports a farewell gathering at the Arthur Dreier home for Henry Glienke prior to his military induction. Guests included the Glienke and Hinkeldey families and friends. Refreshments followed card play. Additional notes mention weekend visits and a birth announcement at Alta Hospital.
This column urges courtesy in driving by dimming headlights at night to avoid blinding oncoming drivers and pedestrians. It cites safer following distances and city requests for dimming within urban limits to protect all road users.
Iowa anglers anticipate strong opening day fishing as the bass and crappie seasons start June 15. The ban lifts on largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappies and other species to protect nesting fish, with high water levels aiding early catches and smallmouth fishing expected to rise as streams clear.
A woman on the way to Kentucky reported a lost purse near Glenwood. Two boys found it just as a motorist arrived and took it to Red Oak. Sheriff Zeph Morgan wired the recovery to the major and later returned the bag with cash traveler's checks ration books gasoline stamps and personal belongings.
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Strong to higher bid on Monday and Tuesday as cattle hogs and lambs moved briskly. Slaughter steers and yearlings sold $12.50 to $16.85 with fat cattle top, hogs steady to up a dime, lambs up 85 cents, and Cherokee county shippers posting multiple lots with notable prices.
Edgar Johnson and Donald visited Sioux City while many locals hosted relatives and attended weddings, showers, and a park picnic. Several families, including the Gregg, Crippen, Borgeson, Hahn, Simmons, and Mummert households, hosted guests and traveled to Cherokee and Hartley for events and hospital calls.
A petition to establish a district to surface one mile of road between sections 14 and 15 in township 165 range 90, with grave, will be heard by the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors on June 26 1944 at 1 30 PM in the courthouse Cherokee Iowa. Named property owners include Katherine Otto et al Henry W Hinkelday An War OCNUIKC William H and Inez C Bischel. County Auditor H M Montgomery issued the notice on June 14 1944.
Notice announces a hearing to establish a proposed secondary road district 6 44 to surface multiple road segments in Sections 7 18 17 18 23 26 Township 90 Range 40 41 42 with gravel and other details. Listed are landowners officials and trustees including Luther Miller Florence M Barlow George W Chairman Minnie Montagne Axel Johnson Henry Montagne Anders R Johnson Lars J Mark Grace McGregor Robert McMurrin Katherine Campbell et al.
Mr and Mrs Ed Gustafson of Alta and Mr and Mrs Enoch Nelson visited the Lars Mark home on Sunday in the Oscar Gustafson residence context.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Radke and daughter were Sunday supper guests in the Ernest Newman home near Storm Lake. Various local residents visited relatives and attended church and festival events in Aurelia Alta and surrounding areas. Watch your subscription date.
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