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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
2
Special correspondence from Westfield covers visits, births, illnesses, and community events in Akron Iowa during a late July period. Many residents are listed with relatives and neighbors visiting or returning, with notes on church picnics, club meetings, furloughs, and a local fatality in the Waterbury case.
Special correspondence notes Roy Fry of New Jersey hospital died early this week. His funeral was in Wessington Springs with Milnerville relatives in attendance. Other local items report residents at Sioux City parties, Marines enlistment, cattle markets, farm visits, and widespread threshing readiness as stockers and feeders remain cheap.
Miss Genevieve Allen to wed Thomas Flannery at Trinity Lutheran Sioux City this Saturday. Relatives from Plymouth attend. sisters to assist. Dale Hunter recovering on crutches after a foot injury. Dale Hunter’s grandson Lee Cooper in an army hospital in the South Seas region. Akron mourns Dick Bohlken a loading river area.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Wilcox and Mrs Robt Knockson attended the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs C A Hamilton in Alcester. Local families hosted dinners and visits over the weekend with gatherings in Sioux City Vermillion and Sioux Falls, and several groups spent Sunday at relatives homes and local swimming outings.
Neighbors gathered Wednesday afternoon in the church basement to help celebrate a birthday. The evening was social with lunch brought by guests and served afterward. Sister Albertine Gassman returned Tuesday to Omaha after a several week visit with relatives and friends in the community.
A whispered remark at a bus depot drew attention when an aglolar stated, I like the shy, demure type myself. You know, the kind you have to whistle at twice. The comment, noted in the Wislita Kansas Democrat, reflects a casual but troubling view on women overheard in a public setting.
Miss Betty Busch of Hawarden visited in the Leslie Klem home. Mr. and Mrs. John Koch drove to Coleridge Nebraska on Sunday and stayed with the Dirks family. Pvt. George Milbrodt arrived from Camp Roberts California for a furlough to visit relatives. The Preston Pearls 4-H club met with Miss Darlene Cassen Tuesday afternoon. A large number from the community attended the funeral of Dick Bokhlen in Akron last Friday. Sympathy is extended to the mourners. The Preston township Indies' Aid adds community update.
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