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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1948
Page
5
Local items list services and ads from Aurelia Iowa. Car and coal deliveries, insurance agencies, and hardware store offerings appear alongside town notices. A public card party, school staff updates, and a Farm Bureau meeting on furniture arrangement are also mentioned with dates and venues.
Harold Larson of Cedar Falls arrives home Tuesday night to visit until Sunday with his parents Mr and Mrs C O Larson. Womans club to meet Friday March 12 at Mrs Russell Flory home. roll call Shrines Visited. members to bring filled purses for overseas. A Aurelia softball team to be organized this summer. Businessmen may contact Lou Pfaff to purchase a suit with their name on the uniform.
The Iowa Public Service Company will raise rates modestly with April meter readings amid rising costs. District Manager A. M. Larsen cites inflation and higher fuel, coal, taxes, and payroll as drivers, noting past savings reduced rates but now expenses climb faster than income. The firm plans $8.8 million for new equipment and says the first 50 kilowatt hours will be exempt from the increase.
Company official Mr. Larsen announces small increases for residential and commercial customers. Residential charges rise for usage above 50 kilowatt hours by 1 to 25 cents monthly, while commercial bills over 75 kilowatt hours rise 1 to 90 cents monthly. Overall effect around 2 percent. He notes prior 20 year electricity cost cuts of about 50 percent and regrets the change while pledging service quality amid inflation.
Iowa State College agricultural economist R C Bentley predicts meat prices and supplies will not remain cheap or plentiful this year. He notes a 20 percent drop in commodity prices from mid January to mid February, large meat stocks, and rising consumer demand could tighten supplies before fall. Slaughter rates show hogs up 13 percent and cattle up 17 percent year to year, while sheep and lambs fall. Overall livestock on farms is the lowest since 1939 with declines across cattle hogs and sheep since 1945 1944 and 1942 peaks respectively.
Dick Korneisel of Odeboldt distrusts vacations after 63 years in business. He ran a dry cleaning plant 40 years solo and had only one day off last year, when a light stroke briefly halted his work.
The notice lists per bushel prices for Medium Clover 24.00 Alfalfa Seed 11.40 Hybrid Seed Corn 5.00 plus other bar gains. Readers are urged to request a catalog and samples by mailing to Hall Roberts' Son Postville Iowa with a 51-4 date line.
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