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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1925
Page
3
Assessor Garl J Herold reports Aurelia will reach about 725 residents when the current census is completed around April 1, up from 708 in 1920. The town has seen steady growth without a postwar boom and anticipates continued orderly development.
The Federated Church announces Sunday morning sermon on the text I Aim the Vine featuring Pastor Geo C Safford. Sunday school at 11 45. Fanny Crosley Memorial Home benefit half offering. Pageant causes Young People's meeting to be omitted. Everyone is invited.
Readable fragments indicate a local notice advertising regular fish fry events at a place named Kaat Grogery on Thursdays and Fridays with a casual, informal tone.
The article outlines postal rate increases effective April 15 to fund higher salaries for post office workers. First class rates stay the same for letters, but most other items rise, with specifics on registered, second class, parcel post, special handling, insured values, return receipts, and C D D charges.
Pastor G. R. Gilbert announces next Sundays theme Fishing from the wrong side of the boat. Evening theme The Japanese Apes aims to urge attendees toward the upward path with a warning against downward slips. Come.
Mrs A L DeVore of Aurelia visited her daughter Mrs Jesse McDeid and family. Samuel Crawford Mayes died March 4 at age 74 10 29 of cerebral hemorrhage. Alta Independents boast 19 wins in 22 basketball games. Alta Farm Bureau arranged purchase of Faultless oil from Hawkeye Oil. Viola Peterson of Alta, Meanton Nadler of Alta wed in Cherokee in a quiet ceremony.
Thieves stole twenty head of fat hogs from Wm. Mummert living northwest of Aurelia during the past week. The time of the theft is unknown as Mummert was busy with a sale and had not counted the hogs. It is suspected they were hauled away in trucks.
Ten Years Ago Aurelia residents raise 87 to send Mrs Ashlock’s remains to Kentucky after a birth mother’s death. Eva V Foust and Aaron Vanderhoff wed at Henry Foust home Elk township. Allen Neville family to move into new Diamond township farm. Twenty Years Ago Wilbur Sweet reports farming near Vesta Minnesota. W F Keister marries Isabel White at Alta Presbyterian parsonage. Bundy and Whinery elected school directors. Charles E Faulkender and Berth F Neville wed March 16 in Diamond township.
Harriet Elidah wins first in dramatic class at Wilson auditorium while Cherokee earns right to host the district contest in two weeks. Mary Syres of Union near LeMars takes second in dramatic. Clark Cornman Alta first in oratorial. Carl Youngstron Akron second. James Kelly LeMars first and Gladys Sutton Linn Grove second in humorous. Judges: Supt. Chandler Sheldon Supt. Smyth Correctionville Supt. Lynch Odeboldt.
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