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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1926
Page
3
A garbled excerpt lists a commencement event with names such as Professor Clarence B. Wassam and Whitney Blanch. It hints at an evening program featuring music and remarks, celebrating the start of a new phase in life.
Memorial program outlines a 9:00 or 10:00 start for a memorial observance. A procession forms two blocks east of the church and moves promptly to the cemetery. The Aurelia band, the president of the Day, the mayor and city officials, and World War veterans participate in a memorial service with taps, a firing salute, and monument decoration.
Unreadable OCR fragment mentions attendees and bring your own materials with a jar and chain reference. Details are missing to identify event, date, place, or organizers.
Francis J. Halford and Arthur V. Molyneux from Cherokee receive internes' appointments to the Queen's Hospital in Honolulu while students at the University of Pennsylvania. The farm bureau picnic is set for June 16 at Riverside Park. Cherokee High graduates 58 seniors including ten commercial and seven normal training students. In a triangular track meet at Storm Lake, Cherokee leads with 66 points, Alta 45, Storm Lake 24, as grading begins on a 12 acre tract south of East Main Street for an athletic park and track.
Attention is called to the class play Second Childhood by the 1926 class at the school auditorium Friday evening. The strong three act farce is directed by Della Sayres Gray of Des Moines and the students have rehearsed to give a good presentation.
Aurelia plans a late May celebration for its White Way lights with a musical program by the Men's Chorus and High School Girls Glee Club on Main Street. Free hot dogs and coffee will be served, Mayor T. B. Parker to give an opening address, and the town expects a large Saturday night crowd.
Regular services will be held next Sunday at the Congregational Church with morning sermon titled A Snail's Pace Is Better Than No Pace and evening talk Elements of Influence. All are cordially invited to attend.
Pastor G. R. Gilbert outlines next Sunday's morning sermon The Quiet ness of God and an evening message titled Christian and Hopeful He urges worshipful spirit to seek help from a higher power beyond man
American Legion Smith Post 498 will lead the Memorial Day service on Sunday before noon May 30 at 2 30. Wayne Anderson son of Mr Mrs Jeff Anderson of Alta recently bought a Woolstock Iowa barber shop after attending barber school in Sioux City. P N Swanson a former Alta resident died in Larrabee after tooth trouble developed into lockjaw. Over two hundred attended the Pomegranate lodge 408 Masonic banquet at the American Legion building. Laura Dreier daughter of Mr and Mrs August Dreier married Roy Christensen son of Jacob Christensen at St John Lutheran Hanover.
The Rev E F Webking leads St Pauls Lutheran Church in a German language service next Sunday for Pentecost and the Holy Sacrament of the Altar. A special contribution is taken for the work of the Lord and Sunday School meets at the usual hour.
Ames Abe jokes about human eating habits comparing them to donkey ears that wag when hearing forbidden things. The quip critiques self restraint and public order with a rural cadence.
The Aurelia high school track team won the county meet at Meriden last Saturday, bringing home all four trophy cups for meet, mile, half mile and medley relay titles. Aurelia led with 584 points. Quimby was second with 474, Cleghorn third with 274, Washta 143, Larrabee 133, Meriden 104, and Marcus 42-83. Bell led Aurelia scorers with 25 points, followed by Whitney 74, McLaughlin and Holderness 63 each, Morgan 6, Hickey 43, Peterson 2, and Mongan and Crow 1 each.
Ten years ago President Wilson nominated A A Dingman for postmaster as Sioux City papers carried the Washington dispatch. C B Duetcher prepared to move his household to Alta this week. S A Nystedt bought the W P Miller residence and will move back from Hot Springs after Mrs Nystedt’s health recuperation. C J Crepps recovers after an operation in Rochester Minnesota. Twenty years ago potato prices ranged 25 to 86 cents per bushel as Frank Wharton returns from eight months abroad and W P Dawson announces candidacy for state representative.
The Woman's Club of Aurelia hosted a seven o'clock banquet for husbands and gentleman friends at the Methodist church parlors. About 62 attended the meal featuring creamed potatoes buttered peas rolls American beauty salad strawberry ice cream white cake salted nuts mints and coffee. Afterward a toast program on baseball included toastmistress Mrs. Arthur Fraser and speakers Mrs. Richard Glawe Dan Dukes Mrs. E Kiernan and Rev. J L Ralston. Selections were by the ladies quartet. Show at 9 at the American Theatre Saturday night.
Meyer of Quimby won the pole vault with Shoemaker of Larrabee second and Pet ergon of Aurelia third as a meet record of ten feet seven inches was established.
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