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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
7
Local mention covers bulk Klauer Swanson Co garden seeds and a promotional push as spring rain approaches. It also lists visits, weddings, travel plans, railroad drainage issues, a bank robbery probe, a notorious glass-smasher, and a centenarian birthday story from Downers Grove with family histories and Civil War service context.
The remains of Thomas Robinson died in Sioux City were brought to Akron for funeral services. A Civil War veteran born May 7 1838 in Canada, he served in the Ninety-fifth Illinois and Forty-seventh Illinois regiments before homesteading in Union county Dakota Territory. He never married and is survived by relatives in Canada. interred at Riverside cemetery after a large Akron M B church service.
Walter Ross living near Akron files in district court against the heirs of the late Duncan Ross, claiming an oral agreement gave him the Walmesley farm of 384 acres when the elder Ross died. He moved on in 1898, paid two dollars an acre, cared for horses and cattle, and supported other farms under the agreement. He seeks the farm as his inheritance and is represented by Wright Call Sargent of Sioux City and Struble Struble of LeMars. the dispute follows prior probate and two Plymouth county trials and a pending Iowa supreme court decision.
A Farm Corps bulletin from the Ames Experiment Station reports ten years of testing 70 oat varieties and asserts Iowa yields can rise from 29.5 to at least 40 bushels per acre with better varieties and seed care. It warns of limited 1907 crop stocks and urges adoption of approved cultivation methods, available from Prof. Chas B. Curtiss. Hear the College Glee Club at the opera house on April 8.
The notice lists daily rail departures for the Great Midwest and St. Paul line with trains for northbound and southbound routes. It includes passenger trains No. 101 and No. 108 departing north, Nos 93 and 71 freight departures, and southbound services No. 132 and No. 106 passenger trains with additional Sunday only services.
Dated notes record a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Folan on April 6 1898 a new lodge organization in Akron and a marriage for Herbert McCaustland and Minnie Robinson on March 31 1899 McCaustland now runs a real estate business at Bucklip Kansas Jack Anderson injured eye by a steel splinter while working on a railroad and required treatment at Sioux City A town council meeting appointed A J Peters as weighmaster H Barrett as street commissioner engineer in waterworks AG Palm marshal J Gibson Mrs Rose Lillibridge died April 5 1898 in Sioux Valley Township South Dakota aged eighty two she had lived in the area since 1870.
Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers one way colonist tickets on sale daily to Seattle Pacoma Spokane Portland Victoria Vancouver San Francisco Los Angeles and other Pacific coast points. 885 from Chicago with low west of Chicago rates 7 for a double berth in a tourist sleeper from Chicago. Local agent provides fare routes and train service details.
Bible school at 10 a m preaching at 10 a m senior Endeavor at 7 p m Sunday evening sermon at o clock W T Ravouleve
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