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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1927
Page
3
Community updates from Aurelia include shop ads at Home Grocery, local visits by residents to Sioux City Spencer and Chicago, and upcoming events. School operetta Aunt Drusilla's Garden at the Junior High and a moving picture with Pythian Sisters entertainments headline the week.
For Sale Ten bushels of early selected hand picked yellow seed corn Chas Sawwell. For Sale Gasoline tank 15 gallon capacity with connections for gasoline engine First offer of $5 gets it Call at Sentinel office. For Sale Single Comb White Leghorn and Rose Comb Red baby chicks at a reasonable price will hatch May 10 Mrs W H Heimsoth Galva phone 7116. Belgian stallion La Fleur de Or will make season's stand at Tie In barn in Aurelia Notify Wm Ruebsam for appointment or phone 138 Maple Valley Horse Association. Baby chicks New low prices Effective now for immediate delivery. Inspected and Act We heard the famous Sol nsist on the Twin Order your chicks.
Relatives of Martin Poulson Reen Petersor Alta awarded the contract to build an addition to Marathon Consolidated School for 23700 dollars. Work will start soon. J. M. Grimes of The Fire National Bank of Alta announced a second dividend of about ten percent worth 42000 dollars will be issued within ten days. D. E. Haddeen asked Des Moines Weather Bureau for information on a meteor seen in Northwest Iowa last Saturday evening.
J N Potter Cleghorn consolidated school superintendent seeks county superintendent job with application before the county board meeting on May 10. Postmaster Sullivan reports a Washington telegram ordering merge of Cherokee route five with two others creating a fifty mile Quimby route. carrier Phipps to remain in current post. Mrs Emily McConnell died at home on West Locust street at 85 years 3 months 6 days. longtime Cherokee county resident of 51 years.
William's drug store to Clarence Simmons, employed there some time, and Coach Boyd note financial limits. Cherokee high schoolers entered in the two mile relay at Drake last Friday were forced to stay home due to lack of transportation.
Ed Matzdorff and H. F. Stieg with Duane Anderson and Eric Sutherland from Buena Vista college visited Aurelia Monday on a booster trip. The Chamber of Commerce sponsors these trips to area communities. The article notes the summer school starts June 6 and all work is accredited by the state superintendent's office for a county certificate.
Construction on the East Hill highway project resumes with a steam shovel team moving across the hill toward the Loucks property. If weather holds, the section will progress quickly and traffic may divert from the old route soon. Diversion of the Little Sioux channel will take months, with possible temporary road closure later this season.
Notice is given that a writing purporting to be the last will of Sarah Mummert, deceased, was produced and read. The hearing on proof is fixed for May 24, 1927, in the district court of Cherokee County Iowa. F. J. Carpenter, Clerk, with seal, April 21, 1927. By Litta Carpenter, Deputy. J. F. Loughlin, Attorney. By Litta Carpenter, Deputy.
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