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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1941
Page
3
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Community notes recount a birthday celebration for Mrs. Herman Bumann with relatives from Storm Lake Aurelia and Albert City attending. A infant son of Prof. and Mrs. A J Ludwig was baptized as Duane Arnold with multiple sponsors. Several visits and family gatherings are listed across Aurelia Schaller Alta Marti nsburg and surrounding towns.
Aurelia beat the Sioux Falls Canaries 9 to 1 as Gene Byrd allowed nine hits and suffered through early trouble before closing strong. Connors and Woodruff led Aurelia with multiple hits, while Woodruff and Glaze aided with extra-base drives and stolen bases in a high-scoring affair.
Aurelia's Hunnicut holds the top batting mark at .417 after 15 hits in 36 at bats. He has two home runs, one triple, five doubles and seven singles. Connors rises to second with .3878, and Manager Woodruff stands third at .867.
Aurelia faced Watertown in a 14 4 loss and later defeated Watertown 9 4. They beat Rock Valley 10 3 and 5 1, and defeated Hawarden 5 5. Storm Lake led 10 6 with Aurelia 4 10 Sioux Falls 1 and 2 1 Audubon.
Vernon churches announce Sunday services and events. White leads Church Mount Olive with Sunday school at 10 and worship at 11, B Y P at 7 80. Congregational Church has church school at 10, worship at 11, Town Pilgrim Fellowship and Junior Society at 7. St Pauls Lutheran notes no services due to Mission festival at Afton Lutheran.
The bulletin lists church events led by Pastor L H Preul including church school at 10:00 and Epworth League meetings at 6:00 with Gene Peterson as president. An Epworth picnic and lesson are planned at Clay Dawson's pasture by Maple River at 6:00, with transport from the church at 5:30. A summer institute runs July 7 to 18 at the West Okoboji campgrounds with C C McCaw presenting Ten Nights in the Bar Room. A Lake Okoboji Bible conference is scheduled July 27 to August 3. The note closes urging summer attendance and loyalty to all services.
Young men registering for possible military training on July 1 will answer ten simple questions. The filing card asks name, residence, mailing address, telephone, age, birth place, occupation, contact person, employer, and place of employment. A registration certificate will follow after order numbers are determined by a lottery.
Taylor County Sheriff Ivan Wells described a puzzling call from a woman who would not identify herself. She asked if her husband was in jail and muttered that he did not come home last night after being told new occupants had moved into the jail.
George Snyder son of Rev and Mrs J J Snyder preached the morning sermon at the Traer Methodist church in observance of Father’s Day emphasizing the occasion with the congregation.
People fled under an elm near the Town county courthouse as a lightning bolt struck. C. E. Teeter was knocked toward his knees and a woman lost her hat and hatpin, which flew onto the sidewalk.
Aurelia top Audubon 2 1 in front of season high crowd. Bill Jammeron pitched brilliantly against his former team holding Audubon to three hits. Errors opened scoring as both teams tallied on miscues, with the game remaining scoreless through many innings.
In a tight contest Aurelia moved ahead after the seventh as Day doubled and Jammer scored on a high infield fly. Audubon tied in the eighth on two errors and a walk. Day led Aurelia with two doubles and four RBIs, delivering the big hit output.
Junior Farm Bureau members attended a young peoples party at Okoboji over the weekend. Local social events include a 10th wedding anniversary surprise for Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jackson with a mock wedding and a blue salad bowl as a gift. Several townsfolk visited relatives in Minnesota and Iowa, with multiple Sunday visits and dinners. The region reports graveled dirt roads, a child injury from a fall, and a death of Mrs. Frank Dreyer. Farmers plow corn for the third time as harvest progresses.
June 27 Bancroft at Ringsted Ia celebration. June 29 Champlin Refiners Enid Okla here. June 30 Champlin Refiners Manning Ia night. July 3 Tekehmah Nebr there night. July 4 Storm Lake Sheldon celebration afternoon. July 4 Storm Lake there night. July 5 Perry there tentative. July 6 New Ulm Minn there night tentative. July 13 Council Cluffs Boosters here. July 27 Council Bluffs there. July 27 Harlan there night.
Ralph Peterson of Aurelia led with 16 steers at 1255 pounds selling around 10.50 per cwt. George Hardin of Aurelia followed with 22 steers at 1278 pounds at 10.76 per cwt.
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