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Akron Watermelon Day Highlights Busy Local News
Activities across Adaville and nearby towns include visitors, weddings, and social gatherings. Notable items cover Benton and Hawkins nuptials at Adaville, a coroner's inquiry into a James shooting cleared of charges, and preparations for Watermelon Day in Akron with school enrollment and community events noted. Names include Hawkins Benton Gabel Boekelman Hollingshead Tindall Brown and others shaping a bustling local calendar.
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Adaville
Dreoszen
John
Forno
Milnerville
Dwight
Wallace
Brown
H. F. Decesten
Charles Hilliker
Akron
Stanley’ King
Jorville Stinton
Des Moines
Allen “Fagan
Gorge
Gabol
Cloyd
Frank Gabol
Frances
Eva
Chicago
Elmer Brown
Gona
Kenneth
Merlin
Edith’ Brown
Thas. Dreeszen and Sons
Marvin and
Virgil
Frank Gabel
Ralph
Clark
U.B. Chhurch
H. A. Johnson
Richard Milner
Lawrence Frisch
Agnes Mary
Sioux City
Hollingshead
Elmer
Brown and Son
Milton Gabel
Evelyn
Grace Tindall
Eva Horman
Alcester
E. I. Conner
Africa
Leona
Dorothy
Lucken
Benton-Hawkins
United Brethren Parsonage
Hazel J. Hawkins
Hannah Hawkins
Community
John W. Benton
T. H. Benton
Cedar Falls
Iowa
N& A. Flosjlingshead
Harry Hawkins
State Teachers’ College
Cedar Palls
Illinois
Benton
Lottie
Vera Fletcher
Clinton, Miny
Walter Young
Will Sorensen
Ted Sorensen
Stone Park
Ed Erickson
Auto
Lois Gabel
Verna Braun
Dorothy Taylor
Chatsworth
Tony Boekelman
Lloyd’s
Lloyd Carlson
Oscar Carlson
Sloan, Myr
Chris. Boekehnan
Salem
Tony Bockelman
Victor Johnson
Olof Anderson
Hartley and
Arnold’s Park
Ralph Baker
James
This County
Paul Walling
Anthon
LeMars
Baker