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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1968
Page
2
The Akron Register-Tribune of Akron Iowa lists GERALD F. SMITH as Owner and Publisher. The weekly paper is published every Thursday in Plymouth County Iowa and has held second class mail status since September 26 1901.
The notice lists subscription pricing: $2.50 per year, six months $1.25 for Plymouth, Sioux and Woodbury Counties in Iowa and Union County in Iowa Territory, and $3.00 per year elsewhere. The formatting reflects historical regional pricing and geographic terms.
Westfield residents shared Thanksgiving with extended kin from Omaha Wheeling and Sioux City. multiple households hosted relatives including Banks Lilly Hawks Moffatt Bern Harrington Dimitro Olson Joseph Knapp and others. gatherings occurred across Jefferson Alcester Ponca and Elk Point with baptisms and farm-sitting duties noted.
A long list of Thanksgiving homecomings and visits across Chatsworth Ghats includes Clara Satthoff in Akron with her father, Gary Moller returning from Cedar Falls, and many others from Sioux Center to Cedar Rapids. The community extends sympathy to the Hendricks family on Don Lowell’s death. The piece closes with a Christmas-season meditation on the birth of Christ and the joy of the holiday for children.
A Christmas Seals design this year shows a plump partridge in a pear tree, linking gift giving with a year round drive to fight emphysema tuberculosis and air pollution. The message urges using Christmas Seals to spread life and breath.
Theda Nelle Scott discusses blanket choices wool acrylic and cotton noting warmth durability and care labels. She follows with Christmas toy guidance for ages two to six detailing safe simple play for toddlers and preschoolers including push pull toys blocks bicycles and creative kits. The Iowa State Highway Commission announces sealed bids due December 11 for 4.4 acres near U S 20 in Sioux City. Alexander Hamilton died in a duel with Aaron Burr on July 11, 1804 in New Jersey.
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