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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1931
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel announces subscription terms with rates per year in advance and outside Cherokee county. It warns papers do not stop at expiration unless notified and continuing readers owe for another period.
The Sac Sun argues that merchants should buy all ad space in their home paper to keep business local, warning that reliance on city and mail-order advertising would erode the newspaper’s role as a community representative.
Rev and Mrs A L Liming and family spent vacation time in northern Iowa with relatives. Sioux City visitors included W S Landgsay, Marjorie Weise and A B Lindsay and son Bilue. A community party at the Ranksecker home in Liver last Friday featured games and ice cream.
The Buena Vista County Fair in Alta showcased two days of rapid harness racing and a day of running events with top purses claimed by Perry Rutledge Art Adams and 8 L anwin stables. Nokomis team won first prize and will go to the Iowa State fair.
Miss Ruth Melton and Vernon Goodrich of Cleghorn wed in Des Moines and plan to move there until October then to Florida. Cherokee County Bankers hold annual event Sept 1 at Cherokee rifle range. Seventy five rural teachers held a preliminary meeting at the courthouse with plans for the year. October 15 set as tentative date for new Masonic temple opening with Grand Master Charles S. Percival a speaker. Old First National Bank assets taken by Central Trust and Savings. deposits to be available Monday. Joy Cunningham sues Cherokee Realty and Amusement Co for 5000 over loss of a finger from a bathing house accident at Spring Lake. Watch subscription date.
Mrs Louise Huseman and family spent Friday at the William Huseman home near Schaller. Attendees at Miss Rosalie Bischel funeral in Aurelia included Mrs John Holtz and daughter Neuma Mrs Reinhart Grieme and son Burdette Mrs Harold Hustedt and Miss Alice Holtz. Visits extended to relatives of the Specketer and Hinkeldey families with multiple dinners and gatherings in Hanover and nearby communities.
A lightning strike caused a fire that destroyed a corn crib and horse barn at the Mt. Olive farm owned by Mr. and Mrs. Anton Hanson. A large new barn nearby was spared mainly due to heavy rain. Aurelia fire department arrived quickly despite wind knocking out telephone lines. Hay, tools, harness and lumber were lost, but the corn crib was saved.
A passage imagines if Aurelia residents bought all goods locally how thriving shops would be. It notes pressing cleaning furniture clothing dry goods hardware and printing would boost business if purchases stayed in town, then suggests trying the for sale column to make it real.
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