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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1939
Page
4
The item notes Easter Sunday falls on April 9 and urges readers to order Easter suits. It lists local personalities visiting, including Mrs. Rasmussen recovering at her mother’s, Frank Leopold visiting from Marathon, and several others from Quimby Alta Granville and Hawarden. It also mentions a Garden Club meeting on March 7 and new telephone directories coming in March with notices to report changes.
Residents visit and travel updates across Alta I A to Norway Iowa and Des Moines. The Legion Auxiliary plans a March 7 meeting at Margaret Scott home with Delva Fassler leading Community Service. A special subscription offer for Aurelia Sentinel and Sioux City Journal extends another week.
Word arrived of Bert E. Lloyd death at Glen dale California. He once edited The Aurelia Sentinel before selling the paper to A. 8. Crab thirty years ago and later published papers at Arlington and another South Dakota town before moving to California.
Mrs Walter Whitney visited Cherokee hosting the P C club at Mrs Port Sleezers home. The Whitneys and Leland Loucks traveled 4000 miles visiting Baton Rouge New Orleans St Rock s corpus christi brownsville matamoros san antonio and Alva Oklahoma before returning home on a two week southern trip.
Residents relocate homes and farms around Aurelia and Diamond township. Families move between farms and houses near Aurelia Will buys cows and starts improvements while others sell farms and rent out land. Names include Buma Kruse Bates McGuire Reilly Hasenwinkel Pingel Jackson Johnson Coombs McCurdy Honsbruch Thevenin and others.
The marriage of Marvin Anderson and Eunice Adolphson took place Friday at Alta with Raymond Nelson and wife as attendants. After a Des Moines visit the couple will reside on a farm north of Alta after March first. The groom is Quentin Anderson's brother and the Elk residents recently welcomed electricity as power was turned on Tuesday.
Community groups host farewell events for Dorothy Thevenin and Gwen Jackson amid card parties, dances, and bridge clubs. Relatives and neighbors join celebrations, present gifts, and share meals while honoring long friendships and upcoming moves.
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