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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1950
Page
3
Special Correspondent Harry Bernhardt notes visits in Estherville and Akron while families from Sioux City and Remsen gather for birthdays reunions and church events. Local and National Guard members head to Fort Leonard Wood. guests attend birthdays, hospital rehab and pie sales as trains of visitors fill Westfield and surrounding towns.
A social page notes multiple visits across Iowa and neighboring states. Des Moines guests Paul Lilly and wife stayed with Arch and Mrs Lilly. Sioux City visitors Bernard Beaubien and family at Phil Beaubien Sr. home. Rita and Jimmy Cody visit Cy Knapp Jr. relatives. A Riverview auto race trip drew Philip Beaubien Sr. and Jr. couples. Jefferson and Sioux City families join Jonas Wester and Ray Allen households for Sunday visits. A picnic dinner capped a day of socializing. Mrs. Harry Porsch hears of her mother Joseph Wetrosky’s death in Pierson, Iowa.
The twentieth annual Knapp family reunion was held July 30, 1950, at the homestead on Highway 12, thirteen miles north of Sioux City. Seventy-seven members attended with seventeen guests as gifts were given to the farthest travelers. New officers were elected: President Keith Knapp, Vice President Violet Miller, Secretary-Treasurer Marel Bennett. Oldest attendee was N. R. Knapp. youngest Fay Elizabeth Stout.
A note of thanks extends to numerous individuals who assisted with harvesting and farm chores during illness at Akron Hospital and after returning home. The list includes Harry Johnson Frank Johnson Frenchy Gale John Huetman Dale Jack Gapp Ralph Latham Art Hasenbank Billy Searls Carl Hasenbank Carl Hitzman Martin Wene John I Dirks Bob Dunham Harry Hillvieks Art Friske Bernard McMahon Hugh Dowling Otto Oster-Lul John Milbrodt and several women who helped with dinner. The message, from Mr and Mrs Paul Friske, also thanks Jimmie and Baby and notes appreciation from Register-Tribune advertisers. A Want-Ad is suggested for results.
Community notices list Mass times at St Patrick's Akron on Sundays with varying 8 00 and 9 30 start times and confessions schedule. pastor named Father Ernst. Also includes multiple local sale and notice items such as used gas range, lost dog, compressor for sale, spray painting, fertilizer needs, and a thank you note for a golden wedding anniversary.
Heavy double-duty Win charger tower and high grade piano plus many farm items and household goods advertised for sale in Akron. Listings include used Westinghouse electric range refrigerators tractors No. 62 combines windrower and more from Adams Implement Frozen Foods Center and others. Phone numbers and local dealer names shown.
A farm supply ad lists oats mineralized salt pig feeds including 45 percent farm belt in meal or pellets, a new feed plant for custom mixing in about 30 days, and critique of hog balancer formulations. It also promotes a garden sprayer priced at 5.95, phenothiazine for worms, mange oil, buttermilk by keg or barrel, and Nutrona dog food in 25 pound bags or 5 pound boxes.
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