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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
1
Notice that the Aurelia Sentinel does not stop at expiration. subscribers continuing to receive the paper may be obligated to pay for renewal. E C Lighter, proprietor, Aurelia, Iowa. Published Thursdays. second class mail. Subscriptions: $1.59 or $2.00.
A group of four male students from Piney Woods School in Pine Woods Mississippi perform plantation melodies, Negro spirituals, and dialect reading at the Methodist church Tuesday evening at 2 p m. The program features an open air Mississippi school with 300 students, and the quartet, all working their way through school as carpenters, a baker, and a dairyman, seeks a generous free will offering. Everyone is welcome.
Weed Field Day at Cherokee State Hospital on Tuesday October 1 features demonstrations of creeping Jennie management and fallowed plots. Visitors view experiments from 1936 1938 showing light effects shade experiments spray equipment and chlorate treatments with public address system for announcements.
The State Capitol News Letter notes a concentrated push by the State Board of Education for a central University of Iowa library in the 1941 43 biennium with expected requests near 500 000 annually after prior back and forth with Iowa State on a library and gymnasium funding. It also reports on draft boards 119 statewide and county populations, payroll figures 12 044 state workers and average salary 131 57, and Willkie’s Iowa visit affecting campaigns.
Plans by CCC enrollees under G H McMillian start on Ralph Robeson farm in Grand Meadow section 13 as part of a watershed demonstration. A 35 man crew has built sod dikes fences and a concrete flume. rotation includes contour farming to cut soil loss and fertility loss.
The candidate Willkie plans a railroad tour to reach voters directly, aiming to compensate for radio speaking weaknesses and boost his chances in the election by engagingpeople in person.
Local notes report Mr and Mrs McIntinley Menefee attending a funeral in Melcher Indiana and prepare for another funeral this week. Dexter McQuinn suffered severe burns rescuing horses from a fire that destroyed buildings and contents. Neighbors helped clear debris, and many visitors called over the weekend. Other items mention social visits, 4-H activities, Junior Farm Bureau, silo filling, corn shelling, and farm events around Aurelia Earlham and Cherokee areas.
C W McDonald animal husbandman at Iowa State College says western feeder lambs should begin grain as frost reduces pasture. Start with 10 pounds grain per 100 lambs then rise to 1 pound per head daily, 3 pounds per 100 lambs each day to reach 1 pound daily in 30 days. two weeks on feed is the minimum for dry lots. Supplements like linseed oilmeal or cottonseed meal may be mixed at one pound per 7 to 10 pounds grain.
A. R. Bryan plans a Gamble store in the former Bill Ayres building after renting it. Infantile paralysis concerns rise as the first local case emerges. the Goet fse home is quarantined after daughter Marlys, age seven, contracts the disease. H J Stoneberg wins again at the Clay county fair in Spencer following wins at Buena Vista Sac Moville fairs. The Ghost Chasers motorcycle club schedules a jamboree at Alta’s Buena Vista county fairgrounds for Sunday afternoon September 29.
At a recent convention police chiefs condemned sporadic enforcement. Experience shows accidents rise where regular attention is lacking as bad driving habits persist. Enforcement should aim to improve accident records by correcting habits, not merely to arrest people.
In Van Horne two sets of identical twins in second and third grades puzzle their teacher Miss Jennie Ferris. A chipped iron wedge cut Donald Lawson’s jugular vein in Waukon. Sumner residents struggle with a new switchboard and misrouted calls. Mildred Gray in Spencer suffers minor injuries when a tractor and bicycle collide. Skippy the Monticello dog, paralyzed hind legs, uses a custom harness cart built by owner Pat Jarrett. A 99 year old Shell Rock resident, Mrs. Annette Eastman, recalls her first plane ride as a notable moment.
A Harpers Ferry man Mike Foley reported his car ran in reverse and struck a brick building in Waukon. The next day a truck rolled down the same street causing additional property damage along the way.
Clarinda received four letters in one week from a daughter on the Isle of Cyprus with the last dated June 30. A Knoxville water plant improvement resolution delayed two weeks due to a missing filing stamp requiring a full rework and passage again.
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