Local notices and social notes from Akron area
Local items announce Christmas goods at Whitfields Wade's and City Bakery. Mrs J C Mollen hosts a Ladies Aid tea. Harry Clark visits Portage Wisconsin. John Gear returns to Aspens D D cattle buying. Royal Neighbors election December 11. Santa Claus gifts at Bazsar. Kimball buys residence from Johnson Bros for 1200. Various residents travel or visit relatives. church parsonage plans and temperance address noted. Snow comments and forecast of better weather. Bespoke bakery goods and bonbons promoted at local shops. A social club dance at Akron opera house with stormy weather. Miss Farnham millinery engagement and Miss Allen’s departure noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Clark
Portage
Wisconsin
Acool
John Gear
Aspens
D D
Sioux City
Royal Neighbors of America
Oracle
Santa Claus
Ladies’ Aid
Bazsar
Kimball
Johnson Bros
Marion Bary
Akron Opera House
Ice Tone
Des Moines
Smallpox Outbreak Near Akron Causes Quarantine
Four smallpox cases traced to a Bryson family near Akron prompt strict quarantine and vaccination drives. A fifth case at the Strobehn home northeast of town is quarantined, linked to a worker previously released from a pest house. No widespread fear. local efforts focus on vaccination and containment while other town news covers a farm accident, threshing crews in North Dakota, charity drives, band formation, and a new Akron business partnership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Ellis
J. F. Bryson
Akron
Mr. Bryson
Ortco
HH. Dilley
Fitzgerald
Bryson
Sioux City
Walter Hares
T. J. Webb
McKilhaney
Searls Family Honored On Twentieth Akron Anniversary
A large gathering from Akron and vicinity met at Mr. and Mrs. J C Mellen’s home then visited EH J Searls to mark twenty years in Akron. Festivities included two rockers and a silver card tray. Searls began telegraphy in Winnebago Illinois and held depot, agent, and operator posts across Marcus Iowa Fort Thompson Dakota Territory Sioux Falls and Akron. He is the longest serving agent on this division of the C M St P line and highly regarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
J. C. Mellen
EH. J. Searls
Searls
Jessie
Searle
Burton
Milwaukee Railroad
Dell Rapids
S. D
Huarvey
Fullerton
Westfield
George
Winnebago
Ilinois
Marcus
Iowa
Harvey Dwight
Grain ‘Commission
Torwilliger & Dwight
Sioux City
Illinois Central
LeMars
Fort Thompson
Dakota Territory
White Swan
Washington
Little Big Horn
Sioux Falls
Hare
Bay View Program Deliberations On Venice Literature
Akron B C prepares for a Tuesday December 10 meeting at the Mellen home. Roll call responses feature quotations from Merchant of Venice. Program includes History chapters 4 5 6 Magazine pieces Venetian literature and science Doges of Venice by Mrs Gao Hyland and notes on Roman and Italian powers in 1300 including Venice Milan Florence Geneva Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay View
Akron B
Barbarrosa
Frederick II
Cola de Rienzi
Crugades
Italy
Venice
Milan
Florence
Geneva
Rome
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Holiday
Ag At
Cobb’s Drug Store
Whitfelds
City Bakery
Wade's
Jim
Whitfields
W. B. Miller
J. C. Mollen
M. P. Jenkins
A. 0
Texas
Ottomyn
Towa
Antrum
Yankton
D. C
L. Chamberline
Wade’s
Whit Reids
Wade
Ladies’ Aid Bazaar
Jack Tressler
Kendall
Farmers’ Loan & Trust Cas Bank
New Hampshire
George Farrin
Center Point
Chicago
Sturgish
Michigan
Chamberlin
H. C. Marshall
The
Sons Anti-Saloon Psague
Akton M. B
George Wabb
B .E. Mellen
Hutchison, Kansas
Congregational Church of
Tony Weidenfeller
J. J. Bauerly
Adaville
Mill Pond
Chas Kluckhohn
Ladies Aid Bazaar
Cobb's
Doc” Chapman
Elmer O'Reilly
R. R. McCorkell
Sioux ‘City
Chamberlin’s
Alero
Susie “ Carlton
Hos. Snyder
Colorado
Portland Township Farmers Ag
Anderson
Drs. Clark and
Cilley
Frank Robbins
John Caskey
Alf
Tressler
North Dakota
Parsons
Mia
Olive E.kendall
Hartley
Is .c
Klauer
Seaamands
Iocal
Fitz & Webster
Opera House
D. D. Parker
St. Paul
H. L. Waterbury
General Stars
J.F
Fred E. Waterbury
H.L. Waterbury
Mead’s City Drug Store
Remem
Bered
C. M. Hilliker & Son
H. W. Hamilton’s
Milwaukee
J.W. Sturdevant
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