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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
1
Aurelia Iowa weekly paper The Aurelia Sentinel notes publisher E C Lighter as proprietor and that the publication is issued every Thursday and filed as second class matter at the Aurelia post office.
Notice states advance annual rates and that the paper will not stop at expiration without notice. Subscribers who continue to receive the paper after expiration must pay for the same.
Buena Vista College reveals its 1940 football slate with home games against Sioux Falls Wartburg Southern Normal and away tests at Western Union Yankton Upper Iowa Dubuque and Kearney Teachers. Homecoming highlighted on October 19 against Wartburg College.
With the Aurelia team nearing the end of the season, several players have left or plan to depart for other pursuits. The band of players is praised as gentlemen who integrated into community life and will be missed. Some may return next year to reinforce the club. Players and destinations include Ralph Brown to Morningside for studies, Ronald Miller to Upper Iowa at Fayette, and George Caswell to Upper Iowa at Fayette.
Classified ad notes four farms for sale by H. H. Lockin. Two 160 acre farms, one 120 acre farm, and one 240 acre farm are described as high class and well improved. Farms not given away as Christmas presents but priced to sell. Contact H. H. Lockin.
For sale listing includes 1 row pull type IHC corn picker 2 row pull type IHC corn picker 2 row mounted type IHC corn picker 10-20 McCormick Deering tractor used 2 bottom 4 inch plow used 3 bottom 14 inch plow Clover Leaf spreader one roan mare colt coming two years old one roan gelding coming five years old one smooth mouthed team cheap used oil burner heater large Norge oil burners all sizes Kroll Patterson Aurelia Iowa.
James "Bones" Hamilton of Logan heads to Creighton at Omaha James Crimmings of Grafton shifts to Auburn coaching Wayne Henricks returns home to Rockwell City Glen Lietthauer leaves Fort Dodge for a former home Gene Ford farms near West Bend Wattie Holm stays in Storm Lake Ervil Rapp, a hometown club player Other local men this year include John Christensen Kenneth Nelson and Hopkins all connected to college football or basketball programs
Bancroft defeats Aurelians 2 0 in a pitcher’s duel at the Pomeroy celebration. Hatten allowed 4 hits for Bancroft while Miller gave up seven for Aurelia. Bancroft tallied both runs in the third on two hits and an error. Holm led Aurelia with a double and a single.
A group of women formed a Stopf- Verein fifteen years ago to mend socks for the Lutheran Children's Home at Waverly. Since then they have darned an estimated 93,600 socks to keep the children warm and clotheshappy.
Chicago man Earl Lavette was grateful for Labor Day festivities that kept him from being aboard an airliner that crashed near Lavettesville Virginia. He spent the holiday visiting his parents in Clarion.
Iowa voters weigh Willkie Roosevelts appeal while polls show mixed support for governor Valentine and Wilson. Campaign tactics, foreclosures by Valentine’s firm, and smoking policy for women prisoners spark statewide discussion as guards prepare for October mobilization.
Rudolph Ricardo Mitchell and Alvina Mae Wahpecanah sought a Tama marriage license 14 months after tribal ban repeal. After years without licenses the Mesquakie custom remains that a couple is married when they begin living together.
A 50 pound pig was found at the bottom of a corn crib on the Lund Gren farm near Boxholm. The pig had apparently been imprisoned in the crib since it had been filled. It had plenty to eat but lacked moisture except for what came through from snow or rain. The animal had burrowed its way up through the bottom of the worn crib to near the top.
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