Watermelon Day and community notices in Akron
Local news notes August events and social visits in Akron Iowa including Watermelon Day on Thursday August 21 with free offerings, two new midget golf courses planned, and multiple reports of visits, travels, and farm activity. neighbors respond to a recent fire and a brief police/road discussion referenced in letters to the editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strobel’s Millinery
Akron
Garland Els
Hawarden
Mankato Commercial College
Mankato
Minn
Albin Anderson
Sweden
A. D. Anderson
Arthur Waar
Chevrolet
Bernard Klauer
Russell Ross
Bleschler Post
Legion Hall
Expert Finger Waving Appointment Contact Note
A terse instruction lists contact for appointments as 141 above I and K Cash Store. It includes names Mrs B E Klaugr and appears to be a partial historical notice with limited readable details. The source provides minimal context beyond the name and address cue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. & K. Cash Store
B.E. Klaugr
LOCAL SCHOOLS PREPARE FOR SEPTEMBER OPENING
Akron area schools list grade by grade texts and courses for the upcoming year. Superintendent Forest Greenwood asks past pupils with used copies to contact him to help place materials for returning students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elson
Hamilton
Lippencatt
Speller
Frye
Hamittan
Lippencott
Tanner
Betz
Wihuff
Wentworth Smith
World Progress
West
Peabody Hunt
Benetisah
Halleck
Gray & Jenkins
New
Oaks
Guitteau
Beach
Slaught & Lennes
Hallack
Millikan -Gale
For Rent Light Housekeeping Rooms for School Girls
For rent light housekeeping rooms suitable for school girls call phone 242. For sale a Hereford bull three years old from Wm Van Wyhe phone 32 P4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. van Wyhe
Russell Sorenson
Public School
South
Plymouth county fair plans revived for fall organization
The Sentinel reports dormant plans for a Plymouth county fair are alive with progress. With only part of the county canvassed, over half the stock is already sold, showing broad public interest in establishing a county fair this year. Plans aim to finish the canvass next month and buy a site for development this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WW. G. Adams
K. F. Cobb
Big Sioux
Atlantic
Plymouth County
the Sentinel
Farmers Notice on Wagon Boxes and Tires
Farmers notice advertising wagon boxes for 25 dollars and a local implement dealer. Includes mention of new and second hand tires and a quality printing offer from The Register-Tribune for right price job printing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Register-Tribune
Portland Girls Win Health Girl Contest 4-H event
The county held health examinations for top 4 H club girls selected by a Kingsley doctor and three specialists at Mars Clinic. Antonia Buys Phylis Morton Marton Bainbridge and Dorothy Schneider were named finalists. Miss Stenger gave health talks stressing foods and dental care to improve health habits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mise Katherine Stenger
Kingsley
Antonia Buys
Liberty
Phylis Morton
Union Township
Marton Bainbridge
E- Mars
Plymouth County
Stenger
Hauling Service Ad and Birth Notice in Akron Iowa
Notice lists hauling service contact Roy Por in Akron Iowa with phone 241.52 and a wagon boxes sale at 25 dollars from Aiter Implement Co. Also reports birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Milton Ericson northwest of town on August 10, 1930 as announced in local Farmers notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Gladiolus
W. L. Mitchell
Moir
Harvey Sylvester
Madison
S. D
G. 1
Searls
DeSmet
Riversioux Park
Jim Pound
J. ‘Rathbun
Lioux City
Carl Malmstrom
Baptist Ladies’ Association
Victor Anderson
Floyd Rossow
Tohrville
Verne Rossow
Frank Bruoce
Sioux City
W. H. Morse
Freedom Lodge
Oscar Eastman
Sioux Fails
J. M. Rozell
B. L. Miller
Myron and
Harriett
Kiron
Jos. Miller
Jets—Gamble
Le“Mars
Perry
Sioux
H. Brunssen
Randolph
Adolph Hitzemann
Mae. Johnson
Pete
Graffi
Frank
Burke
Clair Mc
Orkell
M. W. Smith
Lake
Montgomery
Swift
Kerr
John ‘Nelson
Harry
Boston
Maas
Edith ‘Nelson
Milwaukee
Milton Ericson
Graivel Fordale and Vanderbeek Inconclusive Notice
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Graivel Fordale and Perry Vanderbeek with garbled phrases about light and heavy tasks and hauling. No clear event, place, date, or outcome is discernible from the readable text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Vanderbeek
American Legion Auxiliary Sale and Lunch Stand at Hospital
The American Legion Auxiliary will hold a sale and inspection with a lunch stand at the government hospital in Knoxville Iowa on August 21. Rugs and baskets will be among the articles offered by World War veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Waterlo
Government Hospital
Knoxville
Towa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ocal News
Avery ‘Small
Algo
Clyde Kinser
Wakonda
S.D
Registeer-Tribune
Turkey
Fred Melns
del. Harkness
Neal's
G. H. Wooton
W. J. Bennett
Cobb & Greenleaf
Iowa
D.C. Bellwood
AITER
Molr
Portland
Roy
Por
Akron Creamery Company
Otto Co. Larsen
Akron: Jeweler
Naw Management
Allan Banks
Gohens
Kellyss
Scotland
Winnie Lightner
Chester Morris
Neary’s
Klemme
St. Louis
America
Kryl
Legion Auxiliary Notes
Oxfords
Mystic Flour
Lipton
Freestone
Alberta
Bart
Northwestern Bell Telephone. Company
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