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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
8
Snow continues to fall as Big Springs residents report routine events. Pastor Nilson leads Friday worship and plans for an old year’s end observance and an upcoming Christmas festival. Local notables like Henry Rossbach and the Ericson family are noted with rural routes, farm leases, and social visits amid smallpox care and community activities in Akron and Hawarden.
Weather changeable as Mr. Micawber. Presiding Bilder Trimble absent from Sioux City meetings. Sickness reported Geo. Millner ill Dr Cilley summoned Beech Massey very ill with lung fever. Grandma Wilson visiting from Akron. Mrs N F Hansen and children visited Sioux City. Farmers busy hauling produce. roads in good condition. Ed Husted visited Akron Thursday.
Mrs H J Dick left Saturday for Bradley North Carolina to join her husband who has moved out with household goods and will set their future home there. L Jones moved out Tuesday to return to Wisconsin with large property interests. Geo Jones went through planned moves.
Local shoppers flock to Chamberlin's as season bargains draw buyers seeking nuts and candies with promotions and free offerings.
Infant Milo Mills’s child ill but improving while Mrs. Soloman Crumerice faces danger. Dr. Cilley of Akrona attends. E. M. Doyie goes to LeMars for incorporation petition hearing before Judge Wakefield. Corn at 55 cents a bushel spurs market talk. Rev. O E Ticknor drives to Nebraska to visit relatives over holiday. The Twenty First Century club plans a supper for members Friday at Neil McFarlan’s home. A W Stevens relocates merchandise to Chapman building ahead of Saturday opening. W Rabids builds an engine room for a new gasoline engine. Mrs. Frank McDonald attends Royal Neighbors meeting in Akon.
Akron Eas Chamber hosts a holiday display featuring a large assortment of Christmas candies. The event highlights seasonal sweets and draws visitors seeking festive confections and gift ideas from local shops.
December 11 1901 testimonial certifies a Deere and Munger four hole horse power sheller purchased from J C Button is a perfect running machine that shells corn without breaking cobs and saves all the corn with a capacity of 2500 bushels per day D V Vanpernam. We are prepared to furnish these shellers to all who wish both band and horse power J C Burton.
Miss Besgie Collins visits Moscow High School. Cora and Pearl Nickel say farewell before moving to Mexico. Board gifts a set of randoms to Primaries. Marle Milnes ill with mumps. Grammar and Intermediate report strong days. Christine Frederickson left for German school until Christmas. December 18 program includes song, declamation, impromptu, duet, papers, analyses, readings and a debate on Christmas versus Fourth of July. Coleman Gilmore returns. Mamie Paulson ill. Jay and Lee Hammer enroll in First Primary.
The following program will be given by the Good Templars at their rooms in the Clark-Cilley block Monday evening December 16. Roll call answered by quotations naming authors. Select reading. Mr M M Talbot to spelling in English. Affirmative Miss Williams, Lillibridge. Negative Mesdames Wits and Mubs. Critic's report.
Auction text notes requiring shoeing for horses to haul when paving becomes common. Hilliker and Son advertise Nuaver-Slip horseshoes and prompt shoeing before rush. The Old Reliable Shop invites customers to bring horses for service.
Akron camp No. 2095 Modern Woodman of America held its annual officer election Tuesday evening with officers listed including W.G. E. J. Bredley W. AN A. Batchelder Clark B. H. Youngstrom Banker W. 3. Brown Sentry M. H. Higgins Watchman Grant Barr Munigers M. A. Aguas and two two year terms for Chas. Seid and C. L. Chamberlin plus physicians Dre H. H. Cifley and G. V. Bilis and Junitor P. M. Knobbie. The article notes Akron camp’s growth and mentions painter Frank’s enlarging and copying services and holiday photo gifts.
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