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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1940
Page
3
Local notes recap anniversaries and events from a decade ago including church building anniversary plans, high school football win, marriages, and notable deaths. Also mentions business trades, highway work, and community happenings in Aurelia and surrounding area.
Missouri Synod church officials from the district will meet at Immanuel Lutheran church in Afton township on Monday December 2. Rev. O A Braunschweig announces a paper by Rev. William Walter of Aurelia and an essay by R Kabelitz of Fenton Iowa. Rev. Stock of Cherokee will speak on Church Decorum.
The Afton League of Four Leaf Clover met at Mrs Edna Clows home on November 28 1940. They drew names and appointed committees for the Christmas meeting with Celesta Allen Lois Lydell on the program and Kathleen Grashoff Joan Mummert on games. Material on next years work was handed out and a lunch was served.
John Galvin was reelected chairman of the Pitcher township Farm Bureau at a Monday night meeting in the local Methodist church parlors. Raymond Nelson was again vice chairman and Clifford Ohlson secretary-treasurer. About 40 members attended the event featuring a film and talk by County Agent C H Thompson on Alaska's Millions and the 1941 farm outlook. Aurelia high school girls' sextette sang two numbers, and lunch was served after the program.
A fair sized crowd attended the high school operetta H. M. S. Pinafore presented by the boys and girls glee clubs last Friday evening in the auditorium. Receipts totaled 45.95 with net proceeds to aid music purchases and state contest expenses. The English nautical tale set on a ship’s quarterdeck was ably staged under Miss Annabelle Bowen with Ralph Pingel Dean Gilbert Harold Anderson George Wharton Max Ammons Kathleen Grashoff Arlene Nelson and Charlene Ohlson in major roles.
The Aurelia school hosts a local declamatory contest Monday at 7 45 PM in the high school auditorium. From 30 entrants, 14 advanced after last Friday’s elimination. Winners advance to state preliminaries in Alta on December 6 with teams Alta Brooke Sioux Rapids and Aurelia competing. Gold and silver medals awarded in the final county contest.
Aurelia business men are reminded of a meeting at the Community Club room Friday at 8 o clock called by President A H Vogel to plan a holiday program. All business men urged to attend.
Aurelia farmer Harold Nelson was elected to the Northwest Iowa Farm Business Management association board at its annual Storm Lake meeting. Dave Nelson was named president, Paul Collins vice president, and Dr W E Simonsen secretary-treasurer. ISU professors Vieg and Allbaugh spoke on democracy and farm family security as 150 attendees, including Harold Nelson and the protean Petersons, gathered at the Storm Lake Methodist church.
We express appreciation to friends and neighbors for acts of kindness sympathy and floral contributions following the death of our father and husband Herman Hermanson of Waterville Iowa Mr and Mrs Melvin Hermanson and Lloyd Mrs Herman Hermanson
C O Libby moves his closing out sale to Monday December 2 at the old Snyder farm located 34 miles north and one mile east of Aurelia. The sale begins at 1 PM and a full list of property is published on the back page.
Joseph M Lockin of Lanai Hawaiian Islands spoke at the Congregational Brotherhood gathering last Thursday. He and his wife Mrs. Lockin plan to return to Lanai by driving to the Pacific coast and taking a car shipped from the east. Lockin has directed operations for the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. on Lanai since last March after earlier work in Honolulu. The island, 17 by 12 miles, is Pineapple Co. owned and devoted to pineapple culture and cattle raising. Mrs. Lockin has lived on Lanai since their marriage three years ago.
Coach Nitzke's basketball squad drums up a first game against Meriden Tuesday at 7 30 p m with Aurelia seconds and Meriden reserves on the local floor. After a week of practice the likely first team includes Hamann Fassler Anderson Pingel Larson Coombs Booth Wharton Nelson and Anderson. Season tickets priced 1 25 for adults 76 cents for students.
Miss Edna Mahaney deputy treasurer and license clerk announces the 1941 license plates go on sale Monday December 2 with a new system. Special numbers cannot be reserved after December 1 and plates will be written with blanks for stamping later. New plates use black on white and delinquency penalties begin February 1 with a 5 percent penalty minimum of $1.
Don Birdsell of Waukon was pinned between a truck and parked cars when the truck left in gear was cranked. One leg was broken in the accident.
A 1941 Iowa legislature preview notes topics discussed at a recent meeting of lawmakers, including the need for a new state office building, defense roles, and a review of 1939 economy gains. Potential bills cover education funding, roads, civil service reforms, beer tax reallocations, and prisoner feeding costs.
Aurelia fire department answered a call from the I. J. Torrey farm two and a half miles west of Mt Olive church Saturday evening at six. Robert Torrey, while drawing gasoline from a barrel outside the cement block garage, spilled fuel and ignited from a nearby lantern. The fire spread through the window frames and door frames and burned wood supports under the tin roof before the car could be moved.
Firemen's annual dances drew large crowds last Friday at the Community Theater with Paul Moor head and his band. An old time dance at Odd Fellows hall featured Spoor's orchestra of Cherokee. Total receipts reached 3831.50 down from last year due to bad weather and fewer advance ticket sales. door receipts improved. Funds benefit fire department use.
Victims of the automobile crash last week are improving and to be released from Bates hospital soon. Three Jackson children were discharged last Friday, the fourth with a broken collar bone released Sunday. Mrs. Little remains unconscious until Monday. Mr. Jackson has a fractured neck and wears a neck cast. The two families plan to return to Humboldt and then continue to Chenoa, Illinois after recovery.
Packets of Christmas seals were mailed to 190 Aurelia families opening the annual sale. Mrs. Albert Fierk says the town joins the nationwide TB fight. The seals fund outreach and stamps for mailings, with return options and courtesy boxes at local stores.
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