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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
2
The Presidio prison publishes election year humor with two inmate candidates for president and vice president. One platform calls for open houses in every prison twice yearly and an all-out scrap drive with steel cells and gates contributed. The article notes broader state issues like old age assistance, education funding, and labor trends as context.
Sunday evening supper guests at the Lester Grieme home included John and Don Grieme and families, Adolf Grieme and family, Elmer Grieme and family, and Wilmer Menke with Fred Menke. Friday dinner honored Donald Grieme with Adolf Grieme and families, Albert and Henry Grienke, and Henry Holtz. Arnold Koth of the Coast Guard returned home from Maryland on a seven day furlough for a visit with his parents. Watch your subscription date.
Local social notes list numerous visits from Cherokee Aurelia Storm Lake and Quimby residents plus Navy and Great Lakes leave updates. Highlights include Gunner William Hanson on four day shore leave from Norfolk Virginia and Pvt Leonard Anderson on leave from the Great Lakes Training Camp.
The meeting at Lucille Will's home elected Viola Noble county officer candidate and Elizabeth Eddy with Harriet Chison as voting delegates. Rally Day plans were discussed. Jeannette Langwin spoke on vegetables and Lucille Will demonstrated custard. Lunch followed. A special May 81 meeting for 4 H girls is announced in the park. Reporter J Sangwin.
Slaughter steers and yearlings rose sharply into a new high, with price spreads from 12.50 to 16.40 and odds at 16.75. Fed heifers 12.00 to 15.50, mixed stockers 16.00, cows 7.00 to 13.25, and bulls to 13.25. Hog prices mostly steady to mixed, lambs steady with limited top, Cherokee county shippers report varied gains across 29 to 51 head with weights up to 1429 pounds and prices 11.15 to 16.25.
Donald Grieme recently returned from the Aleutian Islands visited W M Booth family. Infant son of Mr and Mrs Ronald Meyer funeral at Elk Cemetery. Pete Pierson and Ruth Holderness of Cherokee visited Glen Dyslin home. Sioux City callers visited Booth and Kolpin households. Larry Kolpin, 8th grade honor student, among ten county graduates.
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Friday evening fifty friends gathered at the Henry Otto home to bid farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Otto as they relocate to Custer South Dakota. Ben Otto high score in 500, Hans Kreutz low. a two course lunch and a money gift accompanied best wishes for happiness.
A 36 inch tire tool hidden inside a tractor tire owned by Robert A A Bath of Odebolt was uncovered during repair. Bath says he does not know how it got there, but deep impressions in the casing and tube show the tool had been inside the tire for some time.
Mrs. F. H. McFadden is chosen as a member and named foreman of Audubon county May term grand jury. It marks the first time a woman has served on the county grand jury.
F. E. Crandall of Red Oak left the Charles Finley residence after 32 years as a steady patron of the hotel cafe. The move ends a long record and makes it easier for him to maintain another record he has kept.
Iowa suntan fans are urged to tan in moderation this spring. Five to ten minute exposures are suggested for dark-haired individuals, with shorter times for blondes, to avoid skin damage and reduce cancer risk.
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