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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1952
Page
3
A long list of social visits spans Larrabee Alta Cherokee Marcus and Spencer with gatherings at Lorenz Roth Lou Pfaff and other homes. Hospitalization updates include Robert Pingel after finger surgery and Beth Peterson undergoing Alta hospital care.
Amby Myers and his orchestra will provide music for dancing at the Aurelia Firemen’s Ball Friday November 21. The event also features a movie at the Aurelia theater The Lion and the Horse with Steve Cochran Roy Teal and Sherry Jackson. Tickets admit a couple to the dance and the entire family to the movie. Proceeds fund fire department operations and equipment purchases.
This Saturday November 15 is the last day to receive a free chest X ray this year. A mobile unit will be on Main street from 1 to 4 pm and 5 to 8 pm. Registration is required and the X ray takes only a short time. Results are read and notified to you or your doctor. Funded partly by Christmas Seals and tax money.
Rev. Reuben Ford of Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church in Minneapolis will speak at a four day evangelist conference at Trinity Lutheran Church in Alta starting Sunday November 16. Two Sunday services at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. with the evening service aimed at youth. Monday Tuesday and Wednesday services at 8 p.m. with chalk talks under the Share Christ Today theme inviting the public.
The Peregrine White circle of the Congregational church will serve lunches and short orders at the Nelson cafe next Wednesday November 19. Serving starts at 5 p.m.
Workmen will begin installing a new X-ray and fluoroscopic unit in Dr. Alfred Beck ham's Aurelia offices this week. The machine weighs over a half ton and represents the latest model, enabling both X-ray imaging and fluoroscopic examinations of internal organs.
Funeral services for Mrs N K Nelson of Alta mother of Mrs Wayne Gaston of Aurelia were conducted November 3 at Elk Baptist Church with Rev L H Smith officiating. The 65 year old widow died November 1 after a short illness born 1887 at Hampton Iowa she wed February 23 1911. The family lived on a farm north of Alta for 35 years retiring to Alta in 1946. Survivors include husband five children Ruth Goss Bernadine Gaston Woodrow Nelson Alvin Nelson Floyd Nelson and fourteen grandchildren.
A county fund drive will begin to finance a 4-H activities building south of Cherokee on recently purchased ground. Township chairmen are invited to solicit pledges and donations. The Country Ramblers Girls 4-H club will canvass Pitcher township’s southern half contacting residents for support.
The 1952 pheasant season, delayed one week by the State Conservation Commission due to drought fire hazard, will open at noon next Tuesday, November 18, and run to December 12. Shooting is daily from noon to 4 30 p m with a daily bag and possession limit of three cock birds.
The Carlson and Strampe Texaco Service station opens this Saturday November 15 with free coffee and doughnuts from 9 am to 5 pm. A 9 pm prize drawing will award 30 free prizes. Built by Brown Oil Co of Cherokee, the station showcases modern service bay features.
Multiple brief items record visits and gatherings around Cherokee including Docking of a telephone office employee injured, Dale Larson moving to St Paul as an Electrical Research company engineer, Pfc James Bork's 30 day Korea furlough, and numerous Sunday dinners and hosting at homes of Quentin Anderson, the Parrotts Balaton and other local families with mentions of guests from Marcus Alta Sioux City Moberly and Lanesboro.
On Saturday November 15 the final day to enter Aurelia’s Big Ear of Corn contest arrives. Twenty five merchants run individual contests with prizes totaling $10 per top three finishers. Winners may enter the Sweepstakes for bigger prizes including merchandise certificates, cash, and farm goods. Proceeds from auctioned corn on November 29 go to the Aurelia Public Library fund. Lars Jensen donated an extra bushel to start the Drive.
Legion meetings on the first and third Wednesday monthly are followed by a checker tournament with a prize of three consecutive night wins. Arvid Anderson leads with one victory as Legionnaires vie for the prize. An oyster stew event invites all Legionnaires next Thursday, Nov 20.
AC Robert Howell of Williams AFB Arizona spent the weekend with his parents in Williams. He flew a jet from Arizona to Des Moines and back with his parents meeting him Friday night. He departed Des Moines Sunday morning for the return trip to Arizona. Pvt Harold Brownmiller Jr US 55250691 serves with the Heavy Mortar Co 8th Inf Reg at Groton Germany APO 39 PM New York.
The final Aurelia adult education classes for the year were held Wednesday night. A meeting of the entire adult education group has been called for November 26 to discuss plans for next year's classes.
The sale of Rapp Electric Service to B. R. Buxton of Aurelia was announced this week with immediate possession. Mr. Buxton also runs Buxton Plumbing Shop and plans to keep the shop at its present location until detailed plans are finalized.
The Sioux Valley conference holds its first annual basketball jamboree in Paullina on Monday November 17 with North teams Milford Hartley Sanborn Primghar and South teams Alta Aurelia Sutherland Paullina. Each team plays one 10 minute quarter with a total points winner. Schedule lists Alta vs Sanborn 7pm Sutherland vs Milford 7:40pm Aurelia vs Hartley 8:20pm Paullina vs Primghar 9pm. Admission 60 cents adults 30 cents students.
Aurelia trailed 26-0 before scoring three in the fourth quarter, including two in the final 54 seconds, to lose 26-20 to Albert City Hurricanes. Senior eight Aurelia players closed out the season as coach Bill Hodlam’s squad finished 5–3–1 and second in the Sioux Valley conference.
Announcement of the marriage of Jean Eddy daughter of Mr and Mrs Maurice Eddy Aurelia to Jack Schroeder Calumet. The ceremony occurred Saturday morning November 8 at the Catholic church in Sutherland. The bride is an Aurelia high school graduate and has taught near Sutherland this fall.
Aurelia high school's senior class will air Monday at 4 45 p m on KAYL Storm Lake. The program features a transcription of interviews recorded during a Storm Lake visit with students questioned about plans favorite subjects and pastimes.
Volunteers are sought this Sunday morning from 8 to 8 30 at the vacant lot south of the school house to prepare land for a winter ice skating rink. Eric Carlson donated the land and the Aurelia Fire Department committee led by Art L Johnson will flood and shape the site. Bring a shovel or rake. tractors and a grader will assist with heavy work.
The first PTA chorus rehearsal is Monday night at 7 at the schoolhouse with all singers welcome. At 8 the PTA meeting will feature a Truth or Consequence quiz on local school issues and a report on the fall program by Mrs. Henry Anderson and Mrs. Meinking.
Larson's Store and nearby apartments in Aurelia are sold to Henry Hanson of near Cherokee and Oke Hanson of Aurelia. They plan to remodel and open a Clover Farm grocery. possession on December 1. Mrs. Larson will retire after 34 years with the store and move to retirement. The Hansons will live in an apartment. the Oke Hanson family will run the Ernest Benson farm north of town.
Aurelia Consolidated school joins national observance of Education Week from Monday through Saturday November 15. Activities highlight Children in Today's World with themes on Their Churches Homes Heritage Schools Country Opportunity and Future. The program promotes school improvement and cooperation among home and community with NA and American Legion and NCPT.
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