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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1913
Page
1
Fragmented notice reads display ad rates 10 cents per inch and yearly contracts. Mentions debts and cards of thanks priced at 50 cents. Contains garbled names and stray terms.
Silver Township reports a quiet period with no sickness deaths or marriages. Howard Pelton recovers from surgery and may resume duties soon. Harrison Dukes sold a fine black pair of horses to a Sioux City buyer. Edwin Gearke builds a large silo and Geo Blanch completes another. Mrs Dukes of Aurelia visits Mt Olive with family. Mt Olive hosts a song sermon and a lawn social planned by the Young People for September 19 with ice cream and cake to follow.
Ordinance No 44 establishes the mayor’s pay at one dollar for each town council meeting and awards other permissible fees by law. It repeals conflicting ordinances and is adopted by the Aurelia town council.
Zaperry Mias Vira Corneliussen returns from Europe while parents stay in Chicago. C. E. Cameron leaves for Huron to attend the Minnesota State Fair with some of his horses entered. F. D. Hathway sells his Alta variety store to BE. E. Lory of Norwalk takes over and moves his family. Chas Theorin, longtime cemetery caretaker, is arrested in Sioux City for insanity and placed in Cherokee. People's Co operative store names Allie Cox as manager and Henry C. Olson as assistant manager to oversee grocery and operations.
The Aurelia schools report rising enrollment with primary 29, intermediate 34, grammar 31, and high school 52. Three extra seats were added to the high school assembly room for the growing student body. The high school formed a baseball team with Neil Whitney as captain and Oran Parrott as business manager.
We expect to move to Portland soon and will sell items at our own prices Saturday September 20 at 2 30 p m on Main street at the Striker building. Driving team aged 6 and 10 years, a Wilks trotter, a gentle bay horse, saddlebags, buggy, road runabout, piano wagon, harnesses, robes, blankets, organ set including Story Clark Newman Bros Mason Hamlin, heating stoves, laundry stove, cook stove, and assorted furniture.
Des Moines Iowa company seeks a limited number of first class men to travel in ten states, furnish good references, and take subscriptions for its endeavor.
Hester Seton and her mother visit Calliope Delmore at the hillside Delmore house. Conversations reveal past romances, family ties, and tensions as they discuss Calliope, Carrol Fenton, Isabel, and Newton Deane amid a hot day and a root beer interlude.
Calliope Delmore, immobile for years, defies her weakness and hurries to help Carrol Fenton after his phaeton crashes on the road. He asks forgiveness as she offers him root beer and hope, and the two share a moment of renewed connection amid the accident scene.
Announcements include Monday morning school start for Mrming side attendees and a wool vest sale at G. J. Lewis's highlighting new features. Ice cream social by German Evangelical church on Henry Bischel Sr. lawn raised $30 with $15 for church funds. Gladys Allen returns from Europe and will study household economics in Madison Wisconsin. Dr Bondy reports hot spell subsiding and bungalow purchase in Modesto. Jag Krout and family plan to move to Portland Oregon with interim visits and piano tuning work remaining in Storm Lake and Sioux City arrangements.
Ed Lally, Con Meyers, and Don Meyer were fined for obstructing the highway and refusing to give half the road to a passing cyclist near the Lee Holmes farm southwest of town. The incident led to $10 for Ed Lally, $5 for Don Meyer, plus costs, as the court reiterated the rule requiring slower rigs to yield half the road when possible.
The District Court of Cherokee County Iowa has appointed W H Bischel as executor of Thorval Samuelson deceased. Creditors must file claims with the Clerk sworn and within time. debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Aurelia Iowa September 16 1913.
An old Kentucky cemetery tombstone for Sarah Cole known as Aunt Sally recalls rumors about her marriage. Townsfolk say Uncle John's memorial was erected on May 21 with the inscription Sleep on Aunt Bally, is the resurrection morn and that he later married Milas V. Davis on June 1.
A fragmented morning scene shows a speaker asking if people have done their share to brighten others lives. The crowd responds with self reflection as a playful goal to spread cheer, though the text is garbled and difficult to parse.
Washington reports note a rare reversal on a St Louis postmaster appointment and broader policy debates. The piece covers civil service tests for postmasters, Sugar Trust influence on tariff talks, Lincoln highway proposals, and state efforts for better roads amid calls for reform and speculation about administration aims.
A witty dialogue shows a broker boasting about gains after a big drop while another asks for directions to a cheap five cent food counter. The exchange appears in New York Weekly.
A lighthearted note titled Just Like a Woman features dialogue between Adam and Eve about leaving the garden amid a wardrobe shortage, attributed to Roston Record. The fragment conveys a playful biblical parody with familiar characters and a humorous twist.
A garbled reminiscence recalls a past editor of a humorous magazine described as a playful, uncommon joke about a festival. The fragment hints at editorial heritage and entertainment presses in a casual, humorous tone.
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