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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1940
Page
4
Siouix City callers Mr and Mrs H H Lockin visited Friday. Several residents attended events and saw relatives across Ruthven Peter son Marshall town Des Moines Grinnell Spencer Fort Dodge and other towns. Family gatherings and travels include nursing school grad and weekend visits by various locals.
Sunday visits by Hogeboom and Linde. births at Hawarden and local families hosting guests. Community events include Congregational Ladies Aid on May 23 and a memorial for J. S. Pingrey. Local road work, fox pelts reward, field reseeding, and a Cedar Valley classified ad success noted.
Misses Mary Kroll and Esther Nelson, teachers at Spencer, stayed with relatives here over the weekend. Earlyne Shugart of Fort Dodge visited sister Mrs. Glenn Bretthauer for about a week. Several women attended a 7:30 dinner and school of instruction at Py-thian Sisters Temple in Sutherland Tuesday. May 14, Espy McDeid and Charley Hale visited Mountain Lake Minnesota. Hale plans to stay with the McDeids next week. Mrs. Roy Ohlson Ellen and Mrs. Clifford Ohlson of Aurelia and Mrs. Lawrence Boothby of Cleghorn joined the May music festival at Cornell College Mt. Vernon to hear the Chicago Little Symphony and Bach excerpts. En route they met Miss Betty Chison at Ames and spent time at Grinnell. Saturday morning they stopped at the home of Dr. and Mrs. B. E. Files of Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Files is a niece of Mrs. Clifford Chison. They returned home Saturday evening.
The final Rebekahs card party was held in FY hall on Friday May 10 with Miss Mabel Johnson winning high in bridge and Mrs. John Mummert second. Mrs. Robert Whiting topped five hundred and Mrs. Myra Beeghley was second. Mrs. Ralph Peterson won the door prize and lunch closed the afternoon. A family reunion followed at Mrs. John Geuther's home with several out of town guests.
Espy McDeid listed with contact Phone 99 urging readers to watch their subscription date for service updates on pumps windmills and plumbing topics.
A. N. Tilton of Cherokee runs for renomination on the Democratic ticket in the June primary. He has served as sheriff for eight years since winning in the landslide election and defending his candidacy in subsequent contests.
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