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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
4
Westfield items record visitors from Sionx City Sioux City and Akron plus health and weather affecting gardens. Community gatherings include a club dance a corn and whener feast and a Sunday school picnic with proceeds. Dated mentions refer to August 1909 with a funeral for Mrs Anna Lund and a family note from J P Lund and family.
Appciat Correspondence records Elk Point business, residents at Westfield and Yankton. Roberts & Abbott Co engineers begin surveying for the South Dakota Interurban railway. Akron Iowa School opens Sept 13 with Louis Havemann and Anna Kidd as staff. Ordinance 59 bans drunkards and Keeley patients from saloons, penalties up to $100 fine or 30 days. Passed Aug 18 1969.
Special correspondence from Union Creek reports Elmer and John Hultgren drove to Sioux City and back last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Win, Mrs. Jricson, Mrs. Alfred Ericson, Mrs. Al Olulanson, Ella, and Mrs. Chas Olson visited Otto Lieff Tuesday afternoon. Milder Johnson left Monday for northern and western South Dakota counties to look at real estate investments. A large crowd attended the Luther League social at Sig Fredell’s last week, with a good time had by all. The literary meeting is planned for next Wednesday at the old church. Regular service is noted next Sunday forenoon at the Dutchersh church. Rev. Nelsen will conduct Swedish service at four o’clock in the German Lutheran church at Akron.
Appleton City Tribune reports Academy has purchased a Baldwin Concert Grand Piano for its auditorium, the largest piano made praised for tone and construction. The article notes Baldwin’s Paris Grand Prix honors and confirms the store now offers about twenty Baldwin pianos direct from the factory with guaranteed parts and low prices, inviting readers to view bargains. It also covers local notes on a young couple’s marriage voyage and a Sioux City license to wed, plus a Hawarden fire that destroyed W. W. Steele’s livery barn but left horses safe.
Local mentions report residents traveling to Sioux City and Rock Valley, a Home-coming celebration attracting attendees, and a new building project by Beck & Burrill. A comedy drama "The Girl and the Stampede" comes to Akron, with ticket sales at Cobb’s. Bridge fund drive near completion and a surprise for the Murphey couple as they prepare to move. A disorderly incident involving Frank Burr ends with a fine and bond.
A Utah church company of elders from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints will conduct open-air gospel meetings in the city this weekend. Gatherings are set for 3:30 P M Saturday and 8 P M both Saturday and Sunday on the street. The group aims to inform residents about their Gospel Plan and practices and invites all to attend with a collection to be taken. Elders W B Swapp and H J Kotter are arranging the events in town.
The Iowa Legislature spends 5000 yearly to educate the public on health and tuberculosis. Dr. A. E. Kepford receives 1800 for lectures and literature. The speaker urges open windows, fresh air, sunlight, and dry, moss-free surroundings to combat disease for wives and children.
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