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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
2
The Register Sunburn in Akron Iowa lists subscription rates: 4 years two dollars, 6 months one dollar, 3 months sixty cents. Published every Tuesday and Thursday. enters post office as second class mail matter since September 26, 1901.
Joy Harrington visits family with an Omaha friend while John Beaubien trains with the Cowboys in Sioux City. Numerous regional moves include relatives in Nebraska and South Dakota, golf and museum outings, and planning for future schooling and employment. Local clubs host meetings, charitable events, and Labor Day visits as residents attend roving family and community engagements.
Picnic at Elk Point and visits planned as Bardwell Lilly travels to LeMars. Raymond Conway to visit from New Ulm for Labor Day, while schools reopen September 4 with a full teaching staff including L. L. Jordan and Ada Mae Woodruff. Bus routes insured. Miss Glenn Tyler to teach at Hancock No.3. Miss Elizabeth Beaulieu begins river school. local events include American Legion parade hosts and social visits around Milnerville with residents attending Stockyards Park contests.
Mrs M F Flynn of Westfield spent Thursday with Mrs T Clarey. Friends visit Mr and Mrs Roger Rush of Sioux City who spent the weekend with the Ogdens. Trailer city moved near Adaville to grade Road M. Guests included O A Falk of Lewton and Paul Falk with Deloris Marie of Jackson Minn. Jeanette McInnis and brother John visited L F Taylor home. Daryl Taylor visited Will Welch at Laverne Minn and attended the Rock County fair. Several guests dined with Art Rozell Sr and Mrs J Uthe and others enjoyed visits at Marcus and Madison. H F club met. five o clock luncheon served. Neil Robertson and Duncan Robertson visited L F Taylor. Doris Jean Herbst of Storden Minn visited. Lloyd Morehead family had a picnic at Stone Park and Willow Morehead home. Shower honored Louis Herbst newlyweds.
Milnerville’s Mrs. Florence Banks sold well finished yearlings at the Sioux City market amid high sales. The Farm Bureau picnic featured sports and speakers with George Kovarna’s lightweight win and Bob Browne leading the heavier classes, both from Liberty and Perry townships. Plymouth county rural teachers meet in LeMars for a general check-up with supplies and study guides. Miss Olive Fugate leaves teaching for marriage. Mrs Coral Austin, former Milnerville teacher, was visiting near Jefferson.
Ebba Willis, a well known farmer northwest of Akron, purchased a 156 acre farm for 10920 dollars from the Federal Land Bank of Omaha. The four mile southwest Alcester property was bought through P L Mader of Sioux Falls, a land bank salesman. The bank records show it has sold 781 farms and ranches this year across Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and Wyoming.
Sioux City Journal notes on the Tuesday market show Orin Harris shipping 24 head of cattle averaging 1 111 pounds selling at 9 25 per hundredweight. Willer Bros of Akron offered 20 head at 1 194 pounds selling at 9 00. Gus Alesch of Marcus shipped 118 head including 107 yearlings averaging 925 pounds selling at 9 00.
Bert Thomason farm hand was jailed in LeMars after pleading guilty to a series of chicken thefts. He implicated Mrs Delaney, wife of Edward Delaney, who may face prosecution only if she does not leave the state, reportedly returning to Kentucky. Jean Johnson of Osceola sues Chet and Mary Schmitz in Plymouth county for 1000 dollars for injuries from a June 27 1939 auto crash with 60 mph driving plus 369 dollars for truck repairs. Maynard Johnson assigns his interest to Jean. Plymouth county sues Edward Ealey to eject him as a public charge, with Judge Rodman upholding county supervisors action.
A historical marker was placed on the site of the old Fort Brule north of Elk Point on the William Bihlmeyer farm. Fort Brule was built in 1862 to guard against Indian raids, abandoned in 1868 and dismantled in 1873. The marker, a Sioux Falls granite slab six feet high, was dedicated Monday August 28 by E B Stoddard, E E Collins, and Prof. W H Over.
A five foot concrete base supports a granite block erected by the Old Settlers Association of Union County South Dakota. The front features a lead pencil reproduction of a stockade and barracks once exhibited and now in the State University museum. The inscription notes Fort Brule was built in 1892 by soldiers and settlers to protect against hostile Indians. Also advertising a custom grinding service and Lucken Service Station in Akron with phone number 194.
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