Local News Highlights From Akron and Surroundings
Akron area notes a flood of items from shop promotions to visits by residents and visitors. News includes new wallpaper and records at Cobb & Greenleaf, shoe sales at Dudley’s, plumbing and heating services, motor and farm equipment updates, and multiple local social visits to Sioux City and Hawarden.
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America
Beckman & Paulsen
Bunting
Cobb & Greenleaf
Inez Cobb
Sioux City
Dudley ’S
Lee Boyd Bradley
N. Gabel
Jd. EB. Peery
B. P. Paulsen
Vermillion
L. A. Douglass and
Gil‘bert
Orgundie
Voile
Dudley
L. J. Conger
Sloe
Edith Root
Dudley's
Old and New Councils Meet in April 1920
The old council met Monday evening April 1920 to wind up business and install the newly elected mayor and council. Mayor G H Wooton led as roll call showed Shoulbert Swanson Cunningham and Thorson present with Morse absent. Bills totaling many items were approved and the council canvassed March 29 1920 election results naming Yeaton as mayor and Bennett Shoulberg Burnight Mattison Palm as councilmen. The new mayor Yeaton appointed officers and standing committees and the council adjourned to continue business next week.
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G. H. Wooton
Prescnt
Shoulbert
Swanson
Cunningham
Thorson
Morse
Klaver Bros
Hardware
March
Frank Simeon
Akron Cash Grocery
Westinghouse Electricify. Co
A. J. Wallin
Standard Oil Co
J. G. Mowers
H. G. Warner
Ford Supplies
Miller Milling Co
J. J. Ralfs
H. B. Smith
H. Shoulverg
Geo. Mattison, Jr
T. L. Burnight
Elmer Greenleaf
F. Wakeman
M. M. Talbott
M. W. Redmond
Akron
A. S. Yeaton
Lester Bennett
H. Shoulberg
Western Electrica
Martin Sanvold
Farmers Grain Co
Yerton
Chas. P. Vargasan
Mershal
J. GC. Mowers
Palm
Burnight
Shoulberg
Mattison
Bennett
Board of Equalization
Yeaton
Edgington Leads Spokane Bank to Record Growth and Anniversary
The Spokane Security State Bank on Monroe Street celebrates its anniversary after a rapid rise in deposits from 147 295 in 1916 to 841 199 by February this year. Earl W Edgington, 21 years in banking with 15 on the North Side, is praised for leadership and growth. state bank official Laula H Moore congratulates him on exceptional progress and increasing deposits.
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Spokane
Wash
Spokesman-Review
Tela
Earl W. Edgington
Akron
Security State Bank
Nias
Monroe Street
Apokane
EK. W. Edgington
Edgington
North Side
Farmers and Mechanics Bank
Flo
Farmers Loan and Trust Company
Iowa
Chierly
Farmers and Mechanica Bank
A. D. Davis
Davis
Laula H. Moore
State Bank
Loss of Forrest McMullen Brings Huron Sadness
Mrs. Aug Ericson of Huron reports the death of her nephew Forrest McMullen at 27 in a Custer hospital from tuberculosis after World War service with Co. E 308th Infantry 77th Division. He fought with the Lost Battalion in Meuse Argonne and endured six weeks as a German POW at Le Chateau Belgium, with several relatives surviving. He married Abigail Corley in 1917 and was active in American Legion, Masons, and Knights of Pythias. His death ends a life begun in Eli Point Dakota Territory and lived in Huron since age three.
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Aug. Ericson
Register-Tribune
Huron
Forrest McMullen
A. 2.1
France
le Chateau
Belgium
McMullen
Custer, & C
McMuller
Custer
Eli Point
Biy
Terry McMullen
Hugh
Montana
Bart
el Pause
Texas
Nevin Jamison
Abigail Corley
Redfield
American Legion
Lodge of Masons
Knights of Pythias
Camp Lewis
Washington
Co. E
308Th Infantry
Argonne
Meath
Whittlesby
Germany
Private McMullen Returns Home After War Prison
Private McMullen, captured by Germans with several others, endured a camp at the Chateau Kellum where conditions worsened and disease likely caused his death. He was freed four days after the armistice, rejoined Allied forces, and was honorably discharged, returning home May 26, 1919.
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McMullen
Kellum
McMallen
Heart of the Hills at Empress Theatre adapts Pax story
Mary Pickford stars in Heart of the Hills at the Empress Theatre, showing Thursday and Friday April 1 and 2. The plot centers on Jason Honeycutt who shoots his father to save his sweetheart’s mother, as the widow Hawn’s marriage to Steve Honeycutt faces bitter opposition from the children. The production, Pickford’s latest from her studios, blends pathos and humor and is hailed by theatre management as a pleasing addition to her international successes.
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Shoe
Register-Tribune
H. Shoutberg
Elk Point
Cobb & Greenleaf
Akron
Cobb & Greenleaf’s
Henry Barrington
Sioux City
Bunting
S. Chas
Mary Pickford
Little Mountain
Fimpress Theatre
Garrett
Wentworth
Ella A. Kent
J. C. Wade
M. McElhaney
Jesse M
Sandusky
Ohio
Cassville
Wis
J. F. Kennedy
Long Beach
Cal
Chas, Maxson, Jr
Peoria
C. H. Maxson
Raymond Nelson
Wm. Zierath
Verne Swift
Worthington
Minn
Dudley
Dudley's
Shoe Hospital
Leo A. Douglass
Chicago
America
Latusea
Beckman & Paulsen's
Hugh Maxwell
LeMars
Lionel Eustace
Paul Wendt
S. Hamilton
Beekman & Paulsen
Chas. Perrin
Desiah Wallin
Empress
Clifford Farrin
Silverberg & Co
L. H. Martin
August Fredell
Vina
Blanche Wallin
Charlie Chaplin
Empress Theatre
J. B. Cunningham
Blanche
W. J. Bennett
Verna
Beckman & Paulsen‘s
M. J. Waterman
Sanitary Plumbing & Heating Co
T. J. Reeves
Hawarden
A. L. Bennett
Farmers’ Live Stock Shipping Association
Henry Wittig
Isaac Harris
Akron Public Schools
James W. Allen
Ellendale
N. D
E. Douglass
Jessie Williama
O. A. Bader
Jason Honeycutt
Heart of the Hills
John Pax
Mary D Pickford
Hawn
Steve Honeycutt
Honeycutt
Miss Pickford
Impress Theatre
First Christian Church Akron Rally Ad
The First Christian Church invites a School Rally “Over the Top with 200” at 10 a.m. Preaching at 11 a.m. A confidential chat with the people of Akron at 7 p.m. and preaching at 8 p.m. If the moving picture machine is installed, a first actress of a series on The Life of Christi will be shown Sunday evening. The Life of Christ by Bida is promised as the first scenes. Good roads and favorable weather helped last Sunday. Jerome E Emanuel, Pastor.
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West Union Creek
Ethel Kerr
Roy Crocker
Troy Mills
Iowa
A. Chambers
Mr.Crocker
Christian Church
Edison
Nebromens
Geo. Mattison
A. D L. Innett
A. G. A. Palm
Sioux City
Akron
Vicinity
Christi
Christ
Bida
Jerome E. Emanuel
Methodist Church Notes January conversions reported
Centenary secretary reports 74 117 conversions for January as Methodism strides to better the world. Anticipation builds for Lent with Sunday services at 11 a.m. baptism welcomes applicants, Epworth League at 7 p.m. Regular church services at 7 p.m. welcome all, choir to provide music.
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Epworth League
M. E. Spahr
Lutheran Church Sunday Programs Schedule
St Paul Sunday school and Bible class next Sunday morning at 10:00 in So St Paul church. English services follow at 11:06. Sunday school and English services in No St Paul church at 2:30 next Sunday afternoon. Busy Bee meets with Mrs L Haven Brula Creek next Wednesday afternoon. Young People's League to present program next Sunday evening at 7:30. Ladies Aid and Helping Hands meet with Mrs Ole Abraham next Thursday afternoon. Confirmation class at church next Saturday morning at 10. Pastor A J Berglaker.
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St. Paul
St. Paul Church
No. St. Paul Church
Busy Bee
L. Haven
Brula Creek
Young People’s League
Ladies’ Aid Society
Helping Hands
Ole Abraham
A. J. Berglaker
Auto Electric Service Station
Auto Electric Service Station advertises local agents for Delco farming plants and accessories. Contact by telephone 329 for service and parts.
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Auto
Delco
Also Mentioned on This Page
Delane
Glenn Kanago
Evie Johnson
Reliance
Chas O
Kanago
Auto Electric Service Station
Plymouth County
Delco Farm Lighting Service
Portland
Preston
Johnson
Weatfield
Sioux
Liberty
Perry
Hancock
I. Halverson
Mgr
C. E. Day
Vsit
Lake View
Early
Evelyn Galford
Clear Lake
Becker & Nali
American Legion Post
Opera House
Browne
Lotus Concert Co
H. S. Lyceum
Akron Opera House
Edna Wheeler- Ballard
Esther Essig
Mare Bennett
Edith Stontenburg
State Normal
Madison
Pierre Streeter
Kansas City
Curtis
Clara
Nettie Fletcher
Merrill
Lee
Omaha
C. M. Hilliker
Joe Waterbury
Waterloo
Virgie Waterbury
Waterbury
Jin
W. J. Brunner
Dr. Brunner
Loft-center
Dudley’s
Akron Plumbing Co
Wey
Wm. Simeon
Immanuel Luther League
G. Emil Johnson
F. H. Edminster
Iowa Telephone Co
Des Moines
the Christian Church
Roy Port
W. E. Semple
George Markley
Cubs
Lester Raish
W. H. Leflingwell
Prentice
Wooton
Weat
Hawkeye Truck Co
L. C. Hitzeman
Fire Dept
First Christian Church
Methodist Church
the Lutheran Church
DR. Hays
W. L. Mitchell, Jr
Aebron, Ia
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