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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1915
Page
3
The LeMara city council declined to issue a license for a proposed skating rink. The report lists accompanying local items including marriages, postmaster appointment, quarantines, fires, and town developments across nearby towns.
Local carpentry and building firm J. M. Gay & Co. advertises professional services with a satisfaction guarantee and a contact phone number 73.
Cherokee papers report weddings including Clarence David Scott and Gladys Grace Dunn at the Christian parsonage. ceremonies, officials changes, and local events. Notable items include Dr. George Donohoe’s appointment in sane hospital, Northwest Iowa Retail Lumber Dealers electing F I Gardiner as president, a Warren Pingrey farm stock barn fire with seven horses lost, and a Cherokee home wedding of C A Booth’s family with Hazel Booth.
The Aurelia Gun Club hosts a Saturday shoot on March 20 honoring Fred Gilbert the famed trap shooter. Prizes include a DuPont loving cup for top score and a Stevens trophy for second, with a 100 target program and a strict 20 target handicap system.
Three large consolidated schools have been created by population vote in Iowa within a week. The movement increases land values, with district lands rising five to ten dollars per acre above similar lands outside. The Midland Schools editorial argues there is no strong argument against consolidation, only prejudice and conservatism.
N. Stuart of West Webster New York says Chamberlain's Tablets effectively aid stomach and liver disorders. He notes mild action and satisfactory results praised as represented, with the product for sale by JC Neon.
The Sentinel notes house sales and moves including J. C. Nelson selling to L. D. Nelson and moving in. Bauman family relocates to Fulton South Dakota. Sweet family leaves for Vesta Minnesota to farm. Summer weather, dust on Main Street, children play. Ernest Glawe moves from Worthington to Fraser farm. Neville family relocates to Aurelia to stay with Mrs. Neville's mother. Waddell and Eddy families move into town. Charley Rubberness and Lena Kolpin wed near Aurelia and plan farm life south of town.
March 22 sets a strong Sunday school program at Aurelia Congregational Church with three speakers H W Tuttle C E Tower and B J Rhodes. An afternoon Q A session invites attendees to discuss Sunday school work and address problems and questions.
Mark White returns from Aurelia while Julia Jenson visits from there. Carl A. Johnson buys the Newell photograph studio and moves to a new location. Dr. C S Grabin and family arrive from Boone to live west of Alta. Sievers depart for Mason City to join a bank. Nearly a city fire at Maden bakery prompts prompt response by the fire company and townspeople.
A majority of Lake avenue front-foot owners petitioned the council on Monday to pave Lake avenue from the north line of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul right of way to the lake with concrete. A second petition requests paving Fifth Street west from Lake avenue to Early street with plans to extend east to the Minneapolis and St. Louis tracks. The Civic Improvement Committee of the Commercial Club filed both petitions and the council voted to proceed with the work as rapidly as possible.
A fragment notes treatment usage for a child involving Chamberts Tablets for constipation. It records a personal account with brief, unclear phrasing about outcomes and method.
Friday night March 19 the Idle Hour hosts a grand musicale under Alf J. Hobbie of Storm Lake with Ethel E. Hobbie and their juvenile orchestra. Eight numbers feature the program with possible elocutionist if tickets sell well. Miss Leela Gay accompanies Mrs. Hobbie. Ten-member orchestra includes strong musical talent. Tickets go on sale soon.
Names listed across High School Gramer Room Intermediate Room Second Primary and First Primary reflect students without tardies or absences in the sixth school month ending March 5 1915. Notables include High School pupils Harry Crepps Clyde Mummert Ray Parrott Byron Sweet Albert Grashoff Bruce Holderness John Holderness Clayton Holderness Orphaess Johnston Harold Nelson George Nelson Martha Bischel Mildred Stark Pearl Waddell Martha Glawe Freda Jacobson Hazel Lamm Mamie Miller Helen Nelson Leota Waddell Adele Witt among others in all rooms including Maurice Eddy Ralph Fritz Don Johns George Puffett Ora Baker Hel mer Baumann Howard Deyloff Lewis Miller Garland Mahoney Edwin Mum mert Howard Nelson Ruby Coombe Delia Miller Clara Poulson Guy Bell Charles Everett Wesley Nelson Helen Carlberg Margaret Eddy Phebe Wolford Wendell Dawson Willie Johna Ellis Lewis Wayne Mahoney Inez Olmstead Mary Thompson Ernest Baumann Gwendolyn Coombs Charles Morrill Pearl Miller Byron Poulson Leslie Poulson Albert Stutz Pauline Stutz Henry Stutz Helen Bates Kermit Bischel Arie DeVries Albert Hansen Laura Hansen George Lamm Harold Poulson Hazel Royer Joy Royer Katie Hansen Conley McLaughlin Earl Mahoney Ronald Lewis Gena Poulson Henry Butler Monrad Paul Poulson Glenn Stutz Glenn Bell Floyd Lamm Raymond McLaughlin William Whitney.
J W Sexson of Montevallo Missouri praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He states customers are pleased and call for it again. Sold by J C Nelson.
The opera house announces the March 12 appearance of Panhandle Pete a musical comedy from Geo McManus New York World cartoons. Aimed to amuse crowds a competent comic cast a chorus of dancers fine costumes and strong song numbers promise a polished long-running show with popular prices.
Stock shipments include four cars of cattle to Chicago by O D Waddell and hogs to Sioux City with multiple cars by Waddell L H Daniela and Herman Pingle. Ole Oleson sent three cars of cattle to Chicago. Marcus News notes Fred Quirm sold his 320 acre Marcus area farm in O'Brien county to H KE Maseman Melvin Iowa for 51520. The deed had a 51 dollar recording tax under the new war tax law.
Johnson Brothers advertise a full line of electric supplies and offer to wire houses at a moment’s notice. They invite calls to inspect work and pledge a guarantee.
Ronald A Nichols will present The Man Worth While during the Epworth League lecture series at the M E Church Monday night March 15 marking date change from March 19. Nichols helped Harold Bell Wright and is known for energetic platform oratory with an uplifting, punchy message.
The wedding took place February 24 at the Gilmour home in Silver Creek township. Jessie Ellen Gilmour, a Ida Grove high school graduate and teacher, married Ralph Q. McIntosh, a successful young farmer. The ceremony drew family including Mrs. W H Johnston.
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