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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1949
Page
4
Miss Clara Fry of Promise City opened a dresser drawer to find a live three foot bull snake coiled inside. A neighbor shot the snake and no one was hurt except the reptile, though Miss Fry suffered a nervous shock from the encounter.
A bottling company truck in Gowrie caught fire. The driver actioned several bottles of pop, shook them, and by holding a finger over the bottle end released spray to extinguish the flames.
Community notes cover Bert Nielsen at Alta Memorial Hospital Miss Mae Lutt and Mrs. Ida Parrott visits Mrs. Mary Hines and family. several trips to Boone and Cherokee. Visits from Rev L H Preul and Bishop Dana Dawson. Births include a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. David Trogue and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Carl John. Cpl Oliver Scott returns from Japan on 60 day furlough.
Des Moines residents Mr. and Mrs. William Philpott visited with Bert Philpott’s family from Saturday to Monday. Herbert Kolpin, Herbert Troxel, Harlan Kolpin, and Bill Troxel traveled to Omaha on Tuesday for commercial Extension school. Miss Sadie Georke broke her left arm Tuesday noon. she was treated at Alta Memorial hospital with X rays and a cast. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sprinkle of Ames visited George and Mrs. Scott. Suzanne Sprinkle joined them after two weeks with relatives.
For sale items include wild hay about 590 bales listed by Russell Chilgren, purebred Hampshire boars offered by George A. Johnson of Aurelia, dressed white Pekin ducks via James Covey, a small house with lot and a large modern home with double garage, 280 acre improved farms in Afton Township, plus Minnesota farms in Medicine County priced from 50 to 165 dollars per acre. Also booth visit at Clay County Fair by Robbins Hatchery offering gifts with chick orders. Contact E Reckoff or C W Harding Canby Minnesota.
John Lockin Vernon Kaskey Kenneth Beeghley and Joe Coombs of Aurelia and Dorothy Ann Bengtson of Cherokee visit Wayne Nebraska for Wayne State Teachers College enrollment. Their relatives tour Calome South Dakota Gayville and Aurelia area. Others attend church dedication and visit Rochester Minnesota for medical clinic. Robert Forbes assists at Sentinel during Selene Lighter's clinic week.
The Clay County Fair will host three days of harness racing from September 12 to 17 with entries including notable horses such as Tennessee Jimmy Des Moines Star Bales Good Luck Liniment and Thomas Hanover. Dusenberry starting gate will aid fair races speeding starts. Also reported are two strokes suffered by Mr and Mrs Ora Conard at New Virginia with both showing signs of recovery.
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