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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
2
The Register-Tribune announces subscription rates: four years for $2, six months for $1, and eight months for 600. Published every Tuesday and Thursday in Akron, Iowa. Entered as second class mail matter at Akron post office on Sept. 26, 1901.
Lonnie Thornton and other locals visit relatives in Sioux City while Anne Lyle vacationing in Minnesota. The community reports travel, family visits, church and club events, and the death of Ned Spaulding of Westfield with funeral in Sioux City. He leaves wife, son Edmund, granddaughter Mary Ann, and two brothers Miles and Dike.
Union Creek News reports morning services on August 13 at 11 with Sunday school at 10 and a Ladies Aid meeting at Luther hosted by Mrs Hugo Granstrom and Mrs Ed Heeren. A Silver Tea is set for August 18 from 2 to 5 at Miss Hannah Sellberg's home, hosted by Sisters Allie Gassman Esther Larson and Miss Sellberg with an afternoon program. Hannah Oakes of Elk Point, ill, died August 4 in a Sioux City hospital. funeral Monday at First Lutheran Elk Point, burial in Union Creek cemetery. daughter of early settlers.
Milnerville residents mourn Ned Spaulding in Westfield with funeral services led by Rev. Pullman. Mrs. Howard Milner sustains painful scalds, Bonnie Milner aids her mother. Social updates include visits, illnesses, travel, and a range of local statuses and small events. Pattern tracing carbon paper advertised at the Register-Tribune office.
Miss Oakes remembered with affection as neighbors share condolences. Lester Seely and Kenneth Hull return from Kansas City business trip. Dorothy Klemmer visits the Sommervold home. Henry and boys Fickbohm visit Peterson home near Alcester. Imogene Johnson visiting her aunt Esther Hultgren in South Sioux City. C A Hamilton celebrates forty fifth wedding anniversary and his birthday with family from Canton and Sioux.
Mr and Mrs C J Johnson and daughter Leona and Bernard Harwig returned home Friday from a week's visit with Ernest Johnson and Henry Harwig near Sandstone Minnesota They praised the country and noted farming concentrates on grain and corn in that area.
The community features dairying and cattle grazing in native pastures amid a flurry of family visits and moves. Mrs H Harwig recovers from a fall after relocation. Friends and relatives frequent Sioux City, Akron, Beresford and LeMars towns for dinners, reunions, and congratulations as several families plan moves to California and welcomed a new daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dolan.
Advertisers urge readers to patronize Akron businesses to save money by spending dollars locally. The notice promotes keeping commerce at home and hints at the benefits of supporting area merchants through local purchases.
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