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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
9
A school bulletin recalls kindergarteners enjoying a half holiday and a Thanksgiving reading by First 8. It lists students with spelling honors, notes a fourth grade fruit shower for Miss Davis, and reports on Fifth and Ninth Grade activities including experiments, fish names, skeleton drawings, and weather study.
Seventh Grade students are presenting book reports and studying conversations. They are ready to begin the third term of arithmetic while Fowler has not yet given a six week test. History covers colonies and navigation. Iowa leads in improved land. Eighth Grade English work continues with writing.
Des Moines and Washington finger printing for pupil identification is to be completed this week under Elmo Fletcher who heads the committee. The Sociology class surveyed 27 homes noting Akron averages exceed national norms on electricity running water stove heat irons refrigerators radios cars and home ownership. English 11 studies include Washington's Farewell Lincoln's Second Inaugural War Message and Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address and broadcasts from WWII start. English 12 completes Macbeth and readings from Pilgrim's Progress. Typing class prepared a Thanksgiving recipe booklet and will begin a Christmas project after a week of regular work.
Special correspondence reports morning services at 11 in Union Creek with Sunday school at 10. The school children will bring items and stay for lunch and practice for the Christmas program. A 4-H club meeting is planned for Tuesday, December 19, at Jean Claassen’s home. Numerous local families visited Thanksgiving, with many attending Esther Hultgren and Theckla Johnson funeral services in Sioux City and Augustana Lutheran church.
Sympathy is extended to the Taylor family on the death of L. F. Taylor and Miss Patricia. Numerous local visits, Thanksgiving observances, showers, and social gatherings with neighbors from Morris Minnesota and Merrill Wisconsin are noted. Hospital, travel, and employment updates include Miss Eleanor Root’s appointment as clerk in Plymouth county welfare office at LeMars.
Miss Laurabel Kehrberg has taken a position in Sioux City. Miss Root has served as secretary in the office of Superintendent of Schools Kluckhohn there for the past two or three years. Pattern Tracing Carbon Paper for sale at Register-Tribune office. Large sheet ten cents.
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