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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1949
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel published weekly in Aurelia Iowa lists subscription rates of 2 50 per year in advance and 3 00 for foreign nationwide mailing. It states the paper does not stop at expiration unless notified and continuing readers must pay.
Immanuel Elk Lutheran Church invites members to a Friday midsummer picnic on church grounds with supper and social evening. Sunday features 9:30 a.m. morning worship and 7:30 a.m. church school and Bible ethics. Pastor Carl W. Larson leads services.
Friday cradle roll party at 2 30 p m in church parlors for children and mothers invited. Saturday junior choir practice 1 30 p m. Church school teachers prayer service 9 33 a m. Church school and Bible classes 10 30 a m. Birthday bank and asides 4 a m morning worship.
The text states that in Babylonian times priests acted as loan brokers or bankers and charged an annual interest rate of 20 percent. This suggests a formal lending system where religious figures oversaw financial dealings with high annual rates.
Official proclamation declares male residents of Cherokee County must wear facial hair from August 16 to 21 1949 or obtain an Official Shaver's Permit. Celebrations police officials and barbers empowered to fine violators. list includes sheriffs, mayors of Aurelia Cherokee Cleghorn Larrabee Marcus Meriden Quimby Washta and others.
The notes describe a June 50th birthday celebration for Mrs Emil Carlson hosted by Mr and Mrs Oke Hanson with a coffee table gift and card play. Relatives gather for a family reunion and dinner in West Union Iowa and ministers E H Gillet Stanley Gillet and Robert Gillet attend church services. Pythian Sisters meet, vote on vacation, and hold memorial services for Edith Stiencke and Amelia Beegley with candlelight ceremony and attendees from K of P.
St. Pauls Lutheran Church announces Rev O A Braunschweig as vacancy pastor. No service or Sunday school on Sunday June 26. Members urged to attend Immanuels Mission Festival in Afton with Immanuel’s Ladies providing meals.
Mrs. Robert Snapp hosted the A C C gathering at Aurelia with thirty members present. Plans were completed for a Sunday picnic at Storm Lake with members bringing their own dishes and a lunch served. Next meeting set for July 6 with Mrs Grashoff.
The report notes multiple family picnics at Wescott park in Cherokee for the Hantsbarger Schnell and Demaree families, a funeral in Correctionville for a relative, a West Side Birthday Club surprise for Mrs. Ralph Kludas, and various visits and returns from Iowa and South Dakota including Newell, Fort Dodge, Cedar Falls, and Ethan with relatives and friends.
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