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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1947
Page
4
Multiple short items note services and rentals including an electric floor waxer for rent at Pauls Radio Shop and Whitney Hardware selling two Kandeek hot water bottles. Local updates cover bank closures on Armistice Day, embroidry club gathering, visits between area residents, and families moving into new homes.
Community items include insurance references to Harry H. Lockin Agency and Tornado Insurance. Local social visits and church events are noted with the Fisher and Teerink families. Attendees travel to Des Moines and Eagle Grove for conventions and poultry shows. Local engagements include a wedding planned for Margaret Ann Cosgrove and Gus Ohlson. A rural service notice on Armistice Day and a car radio theft report wrap the page.
Iowa sportsmen were asked to help state biologists determine the ratio of old to young pheasants and quail in this year’s game bags. Mail the right leg of pheasants and the left wing of quail to Des Moines or give to local officers, with county identified, to aid a large study needing at least twenty thousand specimens for accuracy.
Family of Roy H. Dieterich thanks neighbors and friends for help and sympathy during illness and death. Appreciation also for floral offerings from neighbors and friends.
The 1947 ten day pheasant season opens November 11 at noon and runs to 4 p m November 20. Hours are noon to 4 p m daily with a bag limit of two cocks and no more than two cocks in possession. The Commission cites 35 percent below 1946 populations and tightens hen shooting bans to protect next year’s production. Conservation officers enforce the no hen rule strictly.
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Small baby bed for sale. inquire at Sentinel office. Lost hydraulic car jack between home and town by Herb Will. Spotted Poland China boars for sale by Lincoln Hahn and son. 1929 Model A Ford coach for sale by Keith Edwards and Roy Ohlson. Ducks and chickens for sale by Carl H. Johnson. Electric sweeper for rent at Pauls Radio Shop. 1947 Case combine for sale by Art Pearson, Aurelia Iowa. Chester white boar for sale by Claus Anderson. phone 1823 Aurelia. Ducks for sale two fifty alive three dollars dressed by Levi Lundquist. phone 1206. Lost Brittany Spaniel male dog white with brown spots. Rex Whitney. reward. Stray steer at residence six miles south of Aurelia. owner may claim for payment of ad by N. K. Rasmussen. Selling Rawleigh Products. phone 61F2 or write E Sunkenberg Sutherland.
Mrs. Carl Anderson hosted Dessert Bridge with guests Mrs. L. E. Christensen and Mrs. Howard Nelson Sr. Prizes went to Mrs. Walter Matzdorff, Mrs. Jack Grapenthen, and Mrs. A. H. Vogel. Halloween party at Congregational church drew about twenty six children. food drive collected later due to weather. Anniversary celebrations at the Scott home honored Mr. and Mrs. Howell and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Nelson with gifts. Rebekah circle met near Cherokee with 14 members. bazaar planned for November 20 at IOOF hall. Get-To-Gether and Embroidery clubs met for social afternoons with lunches served.
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