Commencement Events Next Week at Aurelia High
The Aurelia high school senior class schedules baccalaureate at Con gregational church on Sunday with Rev. Lloyd Scheerer delivering the sermon. The class play Where's Grandma will be shown Wednesday night at 8 at the high school auditorium. Commencement exercises and the class day program close the week Friday at 8 with attorney T. T. Diamond delivering the address. Final graduates listed include Kenneth Bischel and many peers.
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Aurelia High School
Aurelia
Congregational Church
Lloyd Scheerer
Methodist Church
T. T. Diamond
Northwest Iowa
Sheldon
Peterson State Park May Be Made Bigger
Ames based Des Moines Sunday Register reports Iowa officials plan to acquire land and enlarge parks including Wanata State Park to expand state forests. The effort aims to grow park acreage and increase federally funded work camps, potentially boosting local employment.
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Peterson State Park
Peterson Patriot
Ames
Des Moines Sunday Register
Peterson
Iowa
State Conservation Commission
Wanata State Park
George Parrott Bags Family of Opossums
George Parrott killed two old opossums and eleven young ones in a farmyard raid. The action stopped raids on his chicken house and revealed a mother opossum with a full pouch. The trio of adults and kits were found near the den in the farmyard grove.
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George Parrott Bags
Opossums
George Parrott
Ma Possum
School Exhibit Next Monday At Local School
The regular school exhibit will be held Monday afternoon and evening May 27. Rooms open 1 30 to 5 00 and 6 30 to 8 00 with a program by the high school Girls Glee Club and orchestra in the assembly room.
Commencement set for Peterson High School class of 1935
Peterson high school will graduate nine boys and three girls at commencement exercises on Thursday evening May 23. Also reported are early site activity for a new post office on Lake avenue and plans for a new packing plant east of Storm Lake with four bids received and a likely contract today.
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Peterson Patriot
Peterson High School
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune
Lake Avenue
Peterson Partiot
Helen Elizabeth van Zwol
Jacob van Zwol
Paullina
Ralph E. Wareham
H. Wareham
Peterson
Storm Lake
Pilot-Tribune
George Wagner
Railroad Street
Mark Morgan
Pitcher Farm Bureau Women to Meet Next Tuesday
Farm Bureau Women will meet at Mrs. August Petersons home on Tuesday afternoon May 28 for the regular monthly meeting. The program under Mrs. Oren Coombs and Mrs. Ed Lehnhardt includes parliamentary law by Archie Nelson. Roll call asks for reasons for belonging or not belonging. refreshments by Mrs. Clifford Ohlsen.
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Pitcher Farm Bureau
August Peterson
Oren Coombs
Ed Lehnhardt
Archie Nelson
Farm Bureau
Clifford Ohlsen
Memorial Day Program in Aurelia May 30 Ceremony
Memorial Day ceremonies will be held at the Aurelia cemetery on Thursday May 30 beginning at 9 80 to finish before noon. Rev Scheerer of the Aurelia Methodist church will deliver the memorial address as the procession forms at the church and proceeds to the cemetery. The program includes high school band readings and veterans services with Taps and a firing salute by World War veterans. The Aurelia All-Star softball team opens its season on Decoration Day hosting Sutherland Creamery at home with plans for additional games.
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Aurelia
Scheerey
Church Corner
Main Street
Frank Waddell
Lo Cemetery
Cemetery High School
Gettsburg
Lorkin
A. R
Mound
Sutherland Creamery
Kroll Opens New Funeral Home in Aurelia District
Irwin C. Kroll announces the opening of his new funeral home located one block north of the Methodist church. He converted the lower floor into a modern facility with embalming and casket display rooms and added a new funeral car with ambulance equipment. Kroll, a licensed embalmer trained at Cincinnati College of Embalm ing, previously worked in Pittsburg and at Cobb funeral home in Spencer. He invites the public to the opening day.
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Irwin C. Kroll
The
Sentinel
Methodist Church
Kroll
Cincinatti College of
Pittsburg
Penn
Aurelia
Cobb
Spencer
Whitney Sells Peterson Elevator to Farmers Elevator
R S Whitney of Aurelia sold his former Peterson elevator to the Farmers Elevator & Supply Co of Peterson. The $3000 sale closed Monday with possession at once. Farmers members met Saturday to decide on repairing the existing plant or building a new elevator, noting the new purchase provides a better location and closer access to city scales.
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Peterson
R. S. Whitney
Aurelia
Peterson Elevator
Farmers Elevator & Supply Go
Whitney Elevator
Cherokee County Taxpayers Contribute to 1935 Old Age Tax
Des Moines reports total 1,167,087 dollars in old age assistance taxes remitted to the State Treasurer by Iowa county treasurers and employers as of May 15 1935. Cherokee County contributed 8532 dollars to the state pension fund. Nationwide 39.96 percent of 1,460,929 taxable citizens paid the 1935 tax. Cherokee County's rate was 38.86 percent among 10,979 taxable residents.
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Des Moines
Leo J. Wegman
Iowa
Byron G. Aton
Lown
Cherokee County
Poppy Day Observed in Aurelia by American Legion Auxiliary
Saturday May 26th will mark Poppy Day in Aurelia with Grashall MceManus Unit members distributing memorial poppies. Mrs Elizabeth Mather will head the Auxiliary committee directing volunteers for the effort while Clyde L Shaner supplied poppies from Cherokee hospital. Proceeds aid disabled veterans and orphans, funding welfare work of the Legion and Auxiliary. Rain canceled the kittenball opener against the Negro Ghosts of Sioux City Sunday.
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Aurelia
Grashall-MceManus
American Legion Auxiliary
Elizabeth Mather
Cherokee Hospital
Clyde L. Shaner
Legion and Auxiliary
Jural
Looking Back Into the Past Ten Years Ago
Director AL AL Dingman of the Aurelia band announces the first street convert will be given June 6. A thief gained entry to the athletic art music fund desk and stole 26 dollars from Superintendent GC. J. Day. Commencement exercises were held. Graduates include Clarence Johnson Herbert Har old Gwendolyn Coombs Ardyce Mick ey Grace Plautz Grace Kuma Thes ter Blimech Gladyce Malthy Pern Holmes Ulla Weimsath Merle Lockin. W.G. Whitney reports large new coal shes built east of the elevator.
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AL AL Dingman
Aurelia Band
Athletic Art Music Fund
GC. J. Day
Clarence Johnson
Herbert Harold
Gwendolyn Coombs
Ardyce Mickey
Grace Plautz
Grace Kuma
Thester Blimech
Gladyce Malthy
Pern Holmes
Edith Johnson
Maud Morgan
Pearl Siglin
Leta Butterfield
Harriwil Wall
Littie Diereks
Coral Nelson
Grave Lewis
Sadie Parrott
Harold Wrooks
Parnell Mahoney
Dwight Gilchyisk
Confirmation Service at Lutheran Church Names Youth
Confirmation to be observed by Lutheran Church on Sunday morning in a special service. Names Merlyn Honsbruedy Arleen Kolpin Richard Kolpin Richard Tolzin Gladys Tuttle Verla Tut te Lawrence Westphal and Leon Westphal. The pastor Rev. Wine Walter will officiate. public invited. Insurance services listed by Luekin Agency.
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Lutheran Church
Merlyn Honsbruedy
Arleen Kolpin
Richard Kolpin
Richard Tolzin
Gladys Tuttle
Verla Tutte
Lawrence Westphal
Leon Westphal
Wine Walter
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kenneth Bischel
Phyllis M. Blanch
Opal A. Erickson
Clifford W. Bruce
Rayma L. Card
Dale 0. Clover
H. Joy Dailey
Gladys L. Fassler
Dorothy JL. Fierk
Minnie la Georke
Beulah M. Harrison
Lois E. Hultgren
Lillian M. Johnson
Margaret M. Johnson
Gladys M. Larson
Dorothy I. Lighter
Myrtle A. Nelson
Vivian Paulson
Georgia M. Robar
Loma I. Robinson
Doris M. Stiencke
Russell L. Tutt
Clair R. Whitney
Perry & McDeid
Priscilla Wayne
Lucille Simmons
Con
Venient and Business-Like
Farmers National Bank
Orchestra
Princess Tip-toe
Golden Nightingale
Madame Lazare
Minnie la Gearko
Goldore
Joyce Nelson
Rose Goldore
Shirley Leeds
Jackie Goldore
Doris Stieneke
Olga
Lottie Wilson
Rosemary Hazel Johnson
Janet
Mileanor Clark
Mary Lucille Simmons
F. B
Scheerer
Funeral Home
R.S. Whetney
Parmer CO
Cherore Unty
TE Pension Fund
Legion Auxiliary
Sioux City
Pacific Coast States
Lutheran
Luekin Agency
the First Trust & Savings Bank
Owa
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