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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
4
Union Creek reports a calm Sunday with cool weather and a busy social scene. Miss Maud Reeves camps on the Sioux neck while residents discuss the Sunday school festival, a future harvest, and farm work such as plowing and bailing. Local visits include Reeves from Sioux City and Mrs Nolan from Chicago.
Misses Nellie Hassan Nellie Erickson Kate Dyer Alice Ryan and Maud Fox drove from Elk Point Thursday to spend the day with Grace Main returning in the evening for a brief visit. Miss Maggie Martin of Bancroft Nebraska visits cousins Camilla and Loretta Martin. Mrs Frank McDonald and Jack Estrick of Elk Point called between trains. Mrs Grove Lilly spent Sunday in Bronx City. Mise Blanché Hasson from Tk Point joined Grace Main Sunday. Section Foreman Rubineek moved to Clarence Bordwell's tenant house. Dr Little rented the former Gosting house. Chas Gosting sick with muscular rheumatism. Av Barber cut one of his hands.
Special Correspondence from Milinerville records a string of local visits and travel, with the Casson brothers hauling wheat to Jefferson and Will Harding arriving from the south. Several residents, including Mrs Belle Massey, Anna Buckley, and Mr and Mrs Price, feature in visits and business. The piece notes repeated showers hindering grain stacking and threshing, plus a restrained home benevolence fund aid.
A troubled newspaper notes ongoing readership, warns of discontinuation if payment is not received promptly. The issue mentions publisher attention and a baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Rheinbeck Peters southeast of town on Thursday, August da.
An advertisement touts Mead's Tonic Kidney cure as a remedy for kidney trouble and notes it is available for purchase at Mead's City Drug Store.
A long, fragmentary Kansas-Nebraska era notice describes a base ball game between Elk Point and Akron, with remarks on sportsmanship and rain delays. It also advertises the thirteenth annual Old Settlers reunion and picnic of Union County South Dakota, at Larson's Grove August 26, with program, prizes, speeches by Wixson Ramum Lawrence and McInerny, music, refreshments, and entertainment for all.
Akron residents and visitors are noted in scattered items: Alva Seamands travels to Bik Point, M. Hilliker on a Wakonda business trip, J. Br Jeffers and W.G. Liltibridge visit Sioux City, Chas A. Jones becomes Os Free special agent, and Vermillion residents Polevoy and Prof. Peli. Burgess & Smith plan fall stock buys. Louis Ball leaves Yankton for Hudson. A ten year old injures his forearm. Alaska letter from John T. Sullivan dated Valdez 1902.
Notice to stockmen invites those planning cattle exhibits at the Iowa State Fair on August 22 at 10:30 to write Hon. 8, B. Packard in Marshalltown, Superintendent of the Cattle Department, to reserve stalls. The cattle exhibit is expected to be large. early space reservations are advised.
A fragmentary account recalls Bethel as the biblical site where Jacob dreamt of a heavenly ladder and vowed devotion. The piece notes ruin, neglect, and absence of monuments since Crusader days, mentioning a pillar stone linked to Jacob and a claim the original stone traveled through Ireland, Scotland, and finally Westminster Abbey.
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