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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1934
Page
4
School notices invite families to Friday carnival in the gym with a popularity contest a big minstrel show and other amusements. Twenty high school students sign up for Declamation under Miss Reisser as season opens with basketball Friday December 14 Elk Point and Ire ton. Cast lists announced for the operetta plus honor rolls and class achievements across grades.
The Dramatic division winners are Dorothy Montagne Eunice Burket Mary Ann Barnett and Ethel Ross The school begins work on Oratorical and Humorous divisions and these contests will be held soon Gratitude is extended to the school and board by students and faculty
Second and third graders enjoyed a Thanksgiving party after selling tickets for their operetta. Charles Wetzeler performed piano selections. nine students made the Dental Honor Roll with plans to add eleven more. Third grade read Our Wide Wide World and wrote a Brownie Health Rules booklet.
A column of small-town items notes Bert Easton’s nail injury at a mill, a birthday party for Louis and Emma Hitze man with Olive Kendall at the organ, Akron may gain a brick yard, births in Westfield township, an Edison phono graph concert that drew no crowd, a large music box exhibit, first winter spell with freezing temps and blizzard, Edison Kinetoscope shown at Akron opera house, snowmelt and rain harming roads, Mrs. Margaret Styles dies of heart trouble, Miss Anna Jenkins leaves R J Hauck store for Chatsworth, RE J Hammer buys Mrs M A Biddlecome’s confectionery, and local store changes.
Ch E Rippy sheriff of Plymouth County Iowa will sell at public auction on December 12 1934 at 10 am at the north door of the LeMars Court House the real estate described as Lots 7 8 9 10 11 12 Block 88 Sargents Addition Akron Iowa to satisfy a judgment in favor of Anna Issenhuth against Henning Shoulberg executor including $997.27 debt $50.00 attorney fees and $421.25 costs plus accruing costs.
Local doctors report little illness this season while a heavy Thanksgiving snowfall followed by sub zero temperatures marked the period. Several births announced: Kulvik, Semple, Mount, Coleman families welcomed newborns near the end of November and early December 1919. Kendall Hotel dining room and cafe reopen after remodel. Elk Point city park lakes project advances toward a skating rink, with a 150 by 300 foot lake holding about 1,000,000 gallons water and a depth up to 10.14 feet, filled via a 2 inch main.
Last week the Remsen Bell Enterprise published the annual tax sale notice for Plymouth County occupying about four and a half pages. Many properties show delinquent amounts for more than one year, and as in the previous year there were no bidders for these parcels.
Annual tax sale set for December 3 at 10 a m in the court house office of Treasurer A Langhout in LeMars with Remsen taxpayers urged to obtain copies from the treasurer if missed. Two Remsen residents died in recent auto crashes and several others were injured but expected to recover.
Governor Herring cites district bureau data showing Iowa with $2,069,000 of a $5,118,000 federal highway allotment or 40 percent followed by Nebraska at $1,609,000 equal to 38 percent. Spencer men Guy Pullen and Max Manning sold popcorn for $45,500 to a Chicago dealer after raising over 500,000 pounds earlier. Neighbors held out for five cents a pound as prices fell. Old newspapers and greeting cards advertised for sale at the Register-Tribune office.
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