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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1948
Page
5
Community notices report weddings engagements and visitors among Aurelia and surrounding towns. Frigidaire models shown at a Sioux City convention. local baseball team set for tryouts in Aurelia. several residents travel to Rochester and Sumpter for family visits. continued illness and hospital stays noted.
Lloyd Godfrey traveled to Cedar Falls on business involving insurance services. The Daniels barn received a new asphalt roof recently in a local property update.
Fire insurance visits in Spencer as Mrs Lydia Simmers stays with son Clifford. Merritt Cram and family from Fort Dodge visit Bert Philpott. Des Moines visitors William Philpott's family at Bert Philpott home. R J Brinkman and Mrs Brinkman of George Iowa visiting Henry Brummer family. Funeral of Gerrit Hoeven at Alton. Red Cross totals $698 for county. Mission trip: Rev G W Sietsema Dr A H Eddy visit Minnie Shank and Maurice Eddy in Sioux City hospital. Five F F A members depart for Des Moines state convention. Clayton Johnson Larry Kolpin as Aurelia delegates. Leland Anderson Keith Langwin Larry Nelson join 125 piece F F A band. band to broadcast on WHO and perform in parade. Soys with W D Janey advisor.
Hospital inmate Mabel Johnson thanks friends who sent cards gifts and flowers noting the kindness will be long remembered.
Work on Independence light plant met a snag as Workman hit water about four feet under the surface this week delaying progress and raising questions about the site excavation and planning.
Local classified notices advertise items for sale including a lawn mower piano fries cows and seed corn and provide contact names and phones. Entries reference Bramon Cafe Mrs Emil Carlson Carl Magnuson Alta Iowa Storm Lake Ray Ruberg and Western Iowa Artificial Breeders Association with varying locations and numbers.
Mrs Minnie Lau celebrated her birthday with a Get-to-Gether club afternoon at her home followed by a pot luck supper. Mrs Leslie Card hosted another session with sewing and a lunch. Congregational missionary circles plan May 13 meetings at several homes. N R club renamed the Jolly Janes after a April 29 gathering with twelve members and one guest. prizes awarded. A dinner and reunion brought old friends to the Grover Bell home with local attendees from Linn Grove, Sioux Rapids, Storm Lake, Sibley, and Los Angeles visitors.
A grass fire last week proved fatal for 74 year old Hawkeye resident Del bert James Knox. He suffered fatal burns when his pants leg caught fire and died later at a West Union hospital.
Harry Bloodgood marks four decades as a rural letter carrier at Paullina post office. He began in April 1908 on a 24 mile horse route and bought his first car in 1910, a Fuller. Since then he has used 26 automobiles in service.
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