Happenings from Nearby Towns Report Local Events
Brooke Father Son banquet at St Johns church south of Peterson drew about eighty attendees with an excellent time reported. Galva and Storm Lake notes cover a teen death from pneumonia and a county farm sale. Bullhead season rules and a theatre lease change are reported alongside local sports and bank plans.
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Peterson Patriot
Brooke
St. John's
Peterson
Galva Tribune
Leonard Schmidt
Ford Schmidt
Storm Lake Register
Lloyd Benedict
Storm Lake
Hills Resigns as County Agent after Eleven-Year Service
Glenn A. Ellis, county agent for Cherokee County for 11 years and re elected for a twelfth, has tendered his resignation to the Farm Bureau board. The resignation was accepted with regret. A committee of P. P. Kohns N. M. Nelson and H. C. Dewar will seek successors and have gone to Ames to confer with Farm Bureau leaders. Ellis plans to retire from county agent work around April 1 and may enter a different field. Citizens express broad admiration for Ellis and his wife amid the county’s regard for his service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherokee Times
Glenn A. Ellis
Cherokee County
Farm Bureau
Ellis
P. P. Kohns
N. M. Nelson
H. C. Dewar
Ames
Indiana
Alta News Items Reflect Local Politics and Events
Petitions filed to nominate Ed Gustalfson and E J Edwards for three year school board terms. Alta Commercial Club hosts farmers in annual smoker with about 150 farmers and 75 businesspeople. Cooperative Creamery buys Kelgie cup winning dairy herd for 225 per head totaling 2700. Rev R R Brown speaks at Dad and Lad banquet with Trinity Lutheran Brotherhood. Fire at Alex McCurdy home south of Alta damages basement, insured loss may reach several hundred dollars.
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C. G. Kislingbury
Alta Consolidated School District
Ed. Gustalfson
E. J. Edwards
Alta Commercial Club
Alta Trading Zone
Alta
Ray L. Cone
Alta Cooperative Creamery
Alta and Sons
H. C. Cain
Hartley
Iowa
R. R. Brown
World Radio
Omaha
Rev. Brown
Trinity Lutheran Brotherhood
Trinity Lutheran Church
Alta Rural Fire Department
Alex McCurdy
Card of Thanks for Fire Department Help
We express our thanks to neighbors and the Aurelia Fire Department for answering the call when our house caught fire. Mr. and Mrs. Will Dreyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurelia Fire Department
Will Dreyer
Congregational Church Schedule with Edwin Trigg
Congregational Church announces Sunday school at 10:00 morning service at 11:00 Christian Endeavor at 6:45. Rev. H Hendrickson will attend at 4.
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Christian Endeavor
Rev. H. Hendrickson
March Moving Time Brings Farm Relocations in Community
March moving season shows numerous farm transfers as residents relocate within the area. Mrs. F. Anderson moves from Mt. Olive to the Parrott farm east of Daniel Witt. Wm. Rutter leaves the farm for the Waldo house. C. H. Mongan takes the Beeghley small house. Jake Heller and Fred Oaks shift homes among local farms. Nels Waldstine and family move to the Coombs farm. Emil Pearson leaves for John Hansbruch's place. Mike Danielson and Maurice Eddy relocate between Eddy, Fraser, and Sump farms. Additional moves include Sam Mann, Ed Wogahn, Karl Mummert, C. M. Olson, H. W. Hansen, and others, altering farms around Aurelia and Alta.
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F. 1 Anderson
Mt. Olive
Parrott
Daniel Witt
Cherokee
C. H. Mongan
Beeghley
Arthur Will
Jake Heller
Ameanda Heiden
Fred Oaks
Stiles
Nels Waldstine
Zoma Coombs
Coombs
Aurelia
Caas
Pep i
Early
Wm. Anderlet
Holstein
Geuther
County Supervisors Approve Two Year Road Program
Cherokee county will share in a two year road program approved by the board. The plan covers 56 miles of local roads and 28 miles of county roads at an estimated 200000 dollars. Projects include four miles on road E in Spring township and six miles on road L in Silver and Diamond townships. Local roads in Afton and Diamond townships receive multiple miles near cemeteries churches and section lines. The 1931 local program adds two miles west from cemetery corner.
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Cherokee County
Board of Supervisors
A. E. Hickey
Spring Township
Silver
Diamond Townships
Afton Cemetery
Afton Township
Good Hope Church
Diamond Township
Cemetery Corner
Bank robber identified by beard growth in Iowa
Cherokee Iowa bank employees again identified James Hannon 36 Fort Dodge as one of the men who robbed the Quimby State Trust and Savings Bank on January 3. The beard difference helped earlier uncertainty. Hannon held on a John Doe indictment and captured by Fort Dodge police before being returned.
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Iowa
James Hannon
Fort Dodge
Quimby State Trust and Savings Bank
Hannon
John Doe
Grand Jury
Lent message at St. Pauls Lutheran Church
E F Webking, pastor invites parishioners to Lent services at St Pauls Lutheran Church with English services next Sunday urging attendance to hear what Christ has done and still does for you.
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Christ
County Adopts Truck Limits By County Supervisors Sioux City News
County officials approve spring embargo rules to protect roads with a three ton load limit including the vehicle. The action, taken at a Sioux City meeting called by E. W. Dunn, directs counties to notify neighbors and district offices about embargoes and to publish embargo details in newspapers.
County Officials Schedule Meeting on Embargo Law
Cherokee county supervisors will meet at 1 o'clock Friday in the courthouse to discuss the spring break up embargo on road weights. Arthur Mahn, 24, confessed to larceny and forging instruments after being captured in Primghar while trying to pass checks. Federal agents may move to padlock the Canton case following a raid by federal state and county authorities. A new entrance route into Cherokee for primary highway No. 5 is being surveyed by Caple and two engineers, re-routing the line near Bluff street and Second street.
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Cherokee County
Cherokee County Board of Supervisors
Court House
R G. Rodman
Arthur Mahn
Mahn
Primghar
Canton
L. H. Langwin
Cherokee
Caple
James McDonald
Tlinois Central
Bluff Street
Second Street
I. C
Sioux Falls
Aurelia Junior Dominates Alta Declamatory Contest
Aurelia high school will be represented in the state declamatory second round after Esther Nelson won first in the dramatic class at the Alta preliminary contest. Frances Person earned a second in humorous and Mahlon Reckoff a second in oratorical. Alfa won two Arete.
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Aurelia High School
Esther Nelson
Alta
Aurelia
Frances Person
Mahlon Reckoff
Alfa
Health work conducted in Cherokee County schools
Miss Kathryn Glerum of the American Red Cross and Miss Lula Rose Orr visited Cherokee County Red Cross branches to promote public health nursing. Edith Holmstrom was secured for sixteen weeks to survey and support county schools, with Christmas Seal funds covering 606.00 and Red Cross branches donating 375.00 for a special nursing fund. Contributions came from Aurelia, Larrabee, Meriden, Cherokee, and Quimby.
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Kathryn Glerum
American Read Cross
Iowa
Lula Rose Orr
Cherokee County Red Cross
Edith M. Holmstrom
Tuberculosis Association
Cherokee County
Cherokee City
Miss Holmstrom
Miss Orr
The
Red Cross
Aurelia
Larrabee
Meriden
Whmysua
Ten Years Ago in Local News Recap
Highlights from a past issue note Ione Nelson won in dramatic declamation Helmer Baumann led in oratory Melvin Kurtz topped humor Paddy Siglin left for Detroit after Portland Coast League season updates on local business hires and a 1920s marriage at the bride's home plus a sale at Larson's Store offering stamped pillow cases with free fringe for $1.29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
Ione Nelson
Helmer Baumann
Melvin Kurtz
Paddy Siglin
Detroit Ball
Portland
Larson
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Dan Fuller
Marcus
O. G. Lehman
D. Robinson
Sibley
W. Kleinhesselink
Rainbow Theatre
Galva
M. Kane
St. Vincents Hospital
Sioux City
Ussets
Kane
Battle Creek
Arthur
Ida Grove
Ida
Leo Brunson
Rembrandt
Carroll
Peter Nelson
L. High County
Commercial Trust and Savings Bank of
Lake Avenue
Fifth Street
J. C. Nelson
Chester Trelden
Ray Green
Lamont
Chicago
Grow
Farmers National Bank
Aurela, Iowa
Hills
A. A. Daniels
Garvin, Minnesota
Daniels
Curry
Minnesota
Meitsa
Edward Daniels
Alta Advertiser
E. W. Dunn
Lyon
Osceola
Sioux
O’brien
Woodbury
Iowa State Highway Commission
State Highway Commission
County Seat News
Dr. Hess
F. E. Pratt
Nelson's Cafe
Sentinel
H. H. Hansen
Utica Clothing Co
Des Moines
Aliie Farr
Parker
South Dakota
A. L. Belew
Miss Opal Menefee
Mr. Leland Cave
Dially
Mist National Bank
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