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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1938
Page
2
The Aurelia Sentinel published weekly on Thursdays announces E. C. Lightner as proprietor and lists subscription rates of $1.50 to $2.00. The paper is entered as second class matter at the Aurelia, Iowa post office.
The body of Mary Etta Nattress Wilhelm born January 18 1879 in Aurelia Iowa and died October 24 1938 at Pisgah Iowa was laid to rest at the Aurelia cemetery Wednesday with Rev L H Yreul presiding. Surviving are her husband three sons Lloyd Charles Tru and Yvonne four grandchildren four sisters and two brothers plus many relatives. She had lived in Modale the last 14 years and was active in church and community service.
Church school 10:00 led by George Lamm. morning worship 11:00. Epworth League 7:00 p.m. Delores Peterson president. Choir rehearsal Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Morningside College Com Hunt Friday and Saturday. W F M S meets Wednesday November 9. Epworth League Leaders Sunday evening Laddell Rapp and Lyle Nielson. Sheldon District Conference Tuesday November 1 Marcus 9:30 a.m. Ladies Aid Town Circle Friday November 4 with Mrs H H Lockin assisted by Mrs Irwin Kroll and Mrs Carl Larson. Annual Pan Cake Supper Thursday November 3 at 5:30 p.m. price 15 and 30 cents. Anniversary Supper Friday November 18. Sub-District Epworth League Rally Monday November 7 7:80 p.m. Cherokee. Kings Harolds meet Sunday. Betty Anderson in charge.
Church schedule lists Edwin Trigg as pastor at Congregational Church with services at 10 and 11 o clock and Endeavor groups at 7. St Pauls Lutheran Church led by William Walter with Sunday school at 9 45 and English worship at 10 45. Also a note mentions Silk Como as Italy's silk center rivaling Lyon and Paterson with mulberry trees widespread.
Sequoyah devised an 85 character Cherokee alphabet after contact with whites, transforming Cherokee literacy. Born circa 1770 in Tennessee, he died in the Southwest around 1843. Known as George Guess, Sequoyah’s name means guessed it and the script aided mission printing and education.
The Suez Canal, begun by De Lesseps in 1859 and opened in 1869, remains open to the world and blockade free. It spans about 100 miles with a sea level design, and its passing ships numbered 5,877 in 1936, totaling 32,379,000 tons. The canal shortened the England to India route by 6,000 miles and had an estimated total cost of 150 million dollars by 1925.
The article describes aboriginal cliff dwellings and cave sites at Mesa Verde National Park. It notes earliest cliff houses date to AD 1066 by tree-ring dating, with basket makers as the first agricultural Indians of the Southwest. It mentions uncertain origins and possible displacement from Mesa Verde around AD 1276 to 1299.
Ecologists describe fires as the major force shaping North Carolina pine forests. Natural succession would yield oak and hickory then beach and poplar, but periodic fires erase the invaders and keep pines dominant, delaying a sub climax. Without fires, Carolina sandhills would evolve toward rich oak and beach forests within two thousand years.
Rebecca means cord with a noose in Hebrew and the term carries the sense of a binding snare. Florence A. Cowles cites this in the Cleveland Plain Dealer while recounting Rebecca’s well at Mesopotamia meeting and her selection as Isaac’s wife by Abraham’s servant.
The article notes cockfighting as an ancient sport known to Greeks and Romans and later spread by Charlemagne’s soldiers. It mentions Chinese interest in game birds and Fernando Cortez introducing cockfighting to Mexico where it thrives. The English breed a famed gamerock.
A town council backed campaign targets rats in Aurelia and surrounding farms. The extermination drive covered every business and residence and even the city dump ground in an effort to wipe out the pest.
In a domestic scene the mistress confronts the maid who says she checked the milk at half past nine, but the milk boiled over. The exchange highlights tensions in a household routine.
A comic dialogue from the Houston Post shows a wife debating the cost of her mink coat with her husband. The groom jokes about church aisle and hymn as a plain clothes officer notes a gunman who is now in stripes.
Frank Two cuffs and a collar.
Aurelia high school's football team extended their undefeated streak to 23 victories by defeating Peterson 14 to 0 on Peterson grounds. Rapp broke through for a 38 yard score in the first quarter, with subsequent Aur elia scores set up by a Peterson fumble and a Robar to Rapp pass. The Bulldogs added a second quarter safety and continued strong defense into the final period.
The Aurelia team fumbled and lost their chance for another touchdown as they travel to Paullina for Thursday's afternoon matchup.
Workmen laying an aqueduct in 1594 uncovered the buried city of Pompeii beneath vineyards. It took almost two decades before systematic excavations began. Pompeii was buried under volcanic ash by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
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