Westfield club notices and local obituaries blend of events
Mt. View resident Roy Wilkison died last week leaving a widow and two daughters. Westfield Tuesday Club met at Congregational Church with 12 members. year’s reading included Europe since 1815. PTA card party box social planned for December 4 with prizes and box lunch auction. Catholic Daughters Christmas party December 6 includes dinner and gift exchange. St Catherine’s Guild meets December 2 with 50c gift exchange. Thanksgiving in Omaha for Harringtons.
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Calif
Albert Harrington
Westfield
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Mackey
Commission For the Blind
Mental Health Institute
Iris Mulfinger
Great Britain
Europe
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Daughters of America
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Wayne Weigel
Omaha
Nebr
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Orel Banks
Daryl
Charlene Banks
The Other Twentieth Century Man Religion Aid Appeal
A churchman describes the "twentieth century man" in dire poverty abroad, detailing a life of hunger sickness debt and illiteracy. U.S. faiths unite each fall in the Religious Overseas Aid Appeal through Share Our Substance Bishops Thanksgiving Clothing Collection and the United Jewish Appeal. Also a petrified log unearthed on Welcome Jones farm northwest of Mallard may be a buried rock-like obstruction planned for burial after years of trouble.
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Asia
U. S
Roumania
Latin America
United Jewish Appeal
Welcome Jones
Mallard
Joneses
November Calendar and School News at Akron High
The November calendar lists events including the North Central Association Visitation and Evaluation from November 29 to December 1 and a December 8 basketball game against George. Linette Helseth, daughter of Arnold and the late, attends Brule Creek Lutheran, is an organist and Glee member, with plans to visit the Holy Land, Norway, and Sweden. Candy Striper program adds Vickie Kerr and Julie Root to hospital work. FSA notes cover a sea life film, feudalism class projects, and a December swimming party. The Akron basketball season opener ended 59 to 44 against Jefferson, with Linnette Helseth’s classmates and a long list of students on weightlifting and honor rolls across grades 8–12.
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Linette
Elaine Helseth
Arnold Helseth
Akron
Sandra
Deanna
Brule Creek Lutheran Church
Luther League
lLinette
Turkey
Richard Chamberlain
Shelley Fabares
Holy Land
Norway
Sweden
Abraham Lincoln
Sunmobile solar car showcased in GM Previews of Progress
Akron Community High students will view Sunmobile a 15 inch solar powered model car as part of General Motors Previews of Progress on December 9 at 10 00 am The show uses a 300 watt lamp to simulate the sun and demonstrates sun powered energy as part of a broader science demonstration including a roaring jet engine and gyroscopic guidance on an air bearing platform The program aims to spark interest in science and engineering and has reached nearly 35 million people since 1946 through seven touring teams
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Akron
General Motors
Bruce Burton
United States
Canada
Early Eldon rock collection highlights Indian plows
Tom Reardon of Eldon displays four stone Indian plows found in the Eldon area. He notes Eldon is among few U.S. spots whereEarly Americans used such primitive implements. Janice Eckel, 13, wins Big Pumpkin contest honors in Des Moines.
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Eldon Barber
Eldon
Reardon
United States
Janice Eckel
Garden Club
Des Moines
Janice
Way Back Yonder Akron Register Tribune Recalled Items
Twenty years ago a fatal crash near Akron injured two boys Keith Morehead eight and Bernard Peck ten as their bicycles were pushed uphill by an oncoming car driven by Radmacher. Other items note births marriages deaths and community notices from 1945 including J Henry Willer Sr. and John F. Ownen obituaries plus local weddings and relocations. A cold Thanksgiving contrasted with later mild weather in 1945.
Shortage of corn yield reported in area and local life events
An unusual corn shortage is noted in the area. Raymond Smith Jr. returns from over two years of army service at Schofield Barracks near Honolulu. Marriage licenses issued in Sioux City include Clifford Lamour of Akron and Opal Ferris of near Jefferson SC, and John Popken of Akron with Esther Marriman of Truman MN. Frank Sayles sustains head injuries when his coat tangled in a gas engine flywheel. a doctor treated him. December 1926 brings three inches of snow ending a mild November. Local stores take on holiday looks. Dr G H Wooton published a train trip account from Omaha to Texas and Louisiana with Mr and Mrs C G Brady and Boyson Ross, sponsored by Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Co. George Knecht, November 27, 1925. A daughter born to Floyd and Mrs. Nelson of Westfield on November 30, 1926. Auction ads from Lester Raish, Frank Jacobs and Eilert Ludwigs. Ceiling plaster damages dining room at Chas Kanage home. Died Mrs. William Siemon, 55, a pioneer Akron resident, November 28, 1925. survived by husband, two sons, two daughters, ten grandchildren, five brothers, two sisters. Funeral at St Patrick’s Catholic Church and burial in the church cemetery.
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G. H. Wooton
C. G. Brady
Boyson Ross
Texas
Louisiana
Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Co
Omaha
George Knecht
Floyd Nelson
Westfield
Lester Raish
Frank Jacobs
Eilert Ludwigs
Chas
Kanage
William Siemon
Plymouth County
Cedar County
Iowa
Henry Hitzemann
Akron
Wm. Simeon
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Church
Resignation at Wintersteen's Jeweler Shop
Fifty years ago N C Campbell resigned as jeweler at Wintersteen's store to move to Wausa Nebraska, with John Gommels of Manson Iowa succeeding him. Thanksgiving day was described as rough yet making home fireside pleasant for Mr and Mrs John Pendleton.
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N. C. Campbell
Wintersteen’s
Wausa
Nebr
John Gommels
Manson
Iowa
John Pendleton
Akron News Briefs Reflect Local Life and Events
Old residents observed a Bath wedding anniversary on November 29 1916 at their home. Bert Rolfe lost a hand in a corn husker accident near Richland and was taken to Ak ron Hospital. Louis Springer went to Beloit Kansas after his father’s death. C P Vargason resigned as nightwatchman with L Bar ington succeeding him. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs P Culhane on November 27 1915. Threshing and corn picking neared completion. F L Kirton sold his grocery and confectionery business to Harry Cohen of Sioux City. E P and J B Klauer learned of their mother’s death in Dubuque Iowa and attended the funeral there. Akron town team beat Hudson 41 to 9 in opera house basketball. A H S girls lost at Hawarden 138 to 9. Editor and Mrs Wesley M Smith of Lennox South Carolina visited relatives for Thanksgiving.
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Chauncey Maynard
Here
Richland
Akron Hospital
Louis Springer
Beloit
Kansas
C. P. Vargason
L. Barington
Dick Richters
Culhane
F. L. Kirton
Harry Cohen
Sioux City
E. P
J. B. Klauer
Dubuque
Iowa
Opera House
Akron
Hudson
A.H.S
Hawarden
Wesley M. Smith
Lennox
S. C
M. W. Smith
Akron Opera House praised at Woodmen banquet in 1905
Sixty years ago American Insurance Co of Des Moines offered Akron the opera house for sale at contract price. A Modern Woodmen banquet and jubilee at the opera house drew praise. Akron public school enrolled 297 pupils in the month ending November 3, 1905. John Hoyt and T C Squires bought land in Blue Blanket valley SD. Henry Jurgenson cited November 4, 1905. A son born to E P Klauer on November 28 1905. A son born to Hiram Holm on November 28 1905.
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Akron
Woodmen of America
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Akron Public School
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T. C. Squires
Blue Blanket Valley
South Dakota
Henry Jurgenson
E. P. Klauer
Hiram Holm
Iowa Drivers Asked to Check Licenses for Expiration Dates
Iowa state highway patrol asks drivers to examine licenses for renewal within a month of their birth date. Regular licenses now cost $5 for a two year period, up from $3. Chauffeur licenses have also increased.
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Towa
Iowa State Highway Patrol
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