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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
3
Mrs. Floyd Dailey is named deputy county auditor succeeding her husband who left for Des Moines to enter military service. Mrs. B G C Voss resigns as Y W C A secretary and Miss Margaret Barnes is appointed to fill the vacancy beginning today.
Woodmen of the World lodge organized in Peterson with forty members. Morris Gendreau formerly of Washta dies in a southern training camp. Fred Indorf dies at Holstein after a long illness. Emmett Evans lands in France for foreign service. C F Abbott leaves Larrabee to pursue business in Minnesota. Florence Spooner and Clifford Beasley marry at Storm Lake. Henry Roelke sells land west of Galva at 8300 per acre to Alvin Fick. Amel Forsland to Sioux City for blood transfusion. third transfusion for Ames Forsland. Lawrence Galvin sells 160 acres near Galva for 250 per acre. L B McAmis and Bessie Norton marry in this vicinity. John Mohrer buys farm near Sibley for 100 per acre. Y M C A secretary N H Johnson resigns. to become assistant state county work secretary. Red Cross sale at Aurelia nets 19,235.97. white calf brings 12,976. Aurelia Red Cross sale praised. Aurelia leads in county auctions.
Mayor G. R. Wharton warns a $50 fine for anyone found tampering with or removing fire apparatus including tools wrenches lanterns and other equipment without proper authorization. posted November 2.
Salt Lake Tribune notes Bees star Paddy Siglin along with Larry Chappell and Walter Leverenz headed for U S military service. Siglin is praised as the league’s best second baseman and a clutch hitter, with plans to join the Letterman hospital unit in San Francisco. Also an automotive security lock ad for Ford owners.
The legislature authorized governors to appoint Councils of Defense and War Service Councils to enforce war measures. Cherokee county organized a War Service Council to aid the Defense Council and exemption board, with Laula A. Wineke as president, James A. Henderson as vice president, Rev. F. S. Jory as secretary treasurer, and Walter P. McCullah as another officer.
Governor Harding approves the War Service Council and appoints John T. Hogan as Marshall. J H Lowry W A Sanford E D Huxford J A Bammer and A D Bushlow serve on the council. Citizens urged to cooperate and report to any council member on matters within its jurisdiction.
The Provost Marshal General issued a ruling allowing new registrants to enlist in the Navy upon receiving release from their local draft boards. Previously they were deemed ineligible, though they are not yet classified and thus not in the current quota. Registrants may obtain a Teleane from draft boards on request. Staley Buys Out Jordan Bros Auto Repair
Civic note in the Sentinel records donations to the Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund. This week receipts show A. L. Neville as a donor, continuing previously reported contributions.
The Advertiser reports a July Chautauqua in Alta lasting five days from the 4th to the 8th. Alta erects an 80 foot flagpole in the square, set in cement, to be dedicated with a flag raising the next afternoon. News covers marriages of Minnie Olson to C V Larnon in Denver and Maude Knight to R C Brogmus in Minneapolis, plus C E Cameron's Democratic nomination for State Senator. The community notes the death of George Holmes, born 1840 in Philadelphia, after pleural pneumonia ending peacefully.
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