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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1902
Page
5
A long fragment chronicles various Akron area items including arrivals at stores, sales, and weather. It notes Mrs. Janna BR Jeffers moving, a new men’s shirt line, Dr. Stintz delivering a Philippine mission address, and local illnesses such as Geo B Powell’s appendicitis. It mentions a fire blaze, harvest trains, and upcoming church talks plus a community benefit dance and church services.
Agent Searls reports that Superintendent Beardsley received welcome news that Akron will get a new passenger depot favored by Milwaukee’s board of managers. The design includes two large waiting rooms, an alley passage, a commodious office with a single ticket window, a sizable baggage room, and a brick platform surrounding the building. The existing depot will be remodeled into a freight house on the current site. work start date unknown, target occupancy by next fall.
George Schafer and Margaret Burnight wed in a ceremony at St Patrick's Catholic church officiated by Father B Gullivan. The couple, popular in local circles, began housekeeping at Reed Street Gardner Cottage. The bride wore pink silk. a wedding breakfast followed with family and friends present.
Funeral services were held at the family home for a woman linked to a 1892 incident in Akron. Her daughter and three sons are noted in the fragment. Interment was made in Akron cemetery.
The notes document student enrollments across primary and grammar levels, mentioning Agnes McGie Ay, Wilbur Scott leaving the second primary, Miss Ayis Williams as a second intermediate and advanced primary visitor, Vivian Plaughness of Sioux City visiting the high school, and Bee Douglas in the grammar room. The First Primary had a half holiday Monday and the First Intermediate a half holiday Thursday.
Charley Hilliker suffers a severe hand accident at his shop while feeding two middle fingers into a planning mill. The third finger was severed at the second joint and the second finger dangled by a strip of flesh. Dr. Bilis dressed the wound and hopes to save the second finger. Charley appeals for sympathy.
Pure Blue Stem Seed Wheat offered at seventy five cents per bushel by Fisups and Suavawrar Co.
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