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An unreadable OCR fragment yields sparse readable pieces about a local event. Names, dates, and places are missing or garbled, leaving only partial terms and unclear context for reporting.
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
8
An unreadable OCR fragment yields sparse readable pieces about a local event. Names, dates, and places are missing or garbled, leaving only partial terms and unclear context for reporting.
Special correspondence notes regular services at the Lutheran church on Sunday forenoon with Sunday school after the service. The Ladies Aid meetings at Mrs. J Hultgren senior’s home Wednesday afternoon will be the last for the year and reports will be read.
Miss Minnie and Sarah Peterson hosted about twenty girl friends at a linen shower in honor of Miss Minnie Johnson who will wed Francis Peterson on Wednesday. Contest work and games entertained attendees with prizes for best worker won by Miss Esther Olson. A fine luncheon followed, with the Peterson girls praised as adept entertainers. Conrad Johnson, builder of a top auto, bought a four cylinder Buick. Walfred Anderson visited Sioux City Tuesday. Frank Olson spent Sunday at Beresford.
Special correspondence notes Rev. Chipperfield leading Bethel church services. Families from Merrill Westfield and nearby areas visited Frank DeRocher’s on Thanksgiving. Cassen clan traveled from Sioux City for country air and Thanksgiving meals. Ahern Fursee and Jacobson families also appear in town updates. Millner, May, Moreness, Carlisle and Harding figures mentioned with market and farm notes and a Fullerton Lumber Co storm sash advertisement.
Dozens attended the Thanksgiving dance at Rubie hall and reported a good time. Various locals were noted visiting relatives in Akron and Pipestone. Alex Klemme and John Frerichs provided music while Rudolph Erks planned a trip to Germany.
Major Barr of Elk Point visited friends here Friday. Patrick and Ida Boden of Akron spent Thanksgiving with sister Mrs A C Tillotson. Miss Jennie Moe from Sioux City visited her parents Mrs John Conway and Mrs Tracy in Hawarden. Earl Mohr and Arch Lilly played for a dance in Elk Point last Thursday night. Mrs Chas Tillotson visited Akron Friday. The Misses Gillian of Sioux City spent Sunday with friends here. Mr and Mrs Frank Simeon of Akron visited Tuesday afternoon. Andrew P Johnson left Wednesday for Sioux City to join his family in Chicago after selling his clothing stock to M Doyle. Mrs F Hendricks returned Saturday from visits at Tayxaco Chicago and other Illinois points.
Akron Creamery owner Aug Papritz advertises repair services for De Laval Separators old and new style and accepts all kinds of machines as part payment toward a new unit. He promises to keep on hand repairs and parts for both styles.
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