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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
7
Public school notes show kindergarteners learning color names red blue brown and green and practicing letters with J while writing numbers to seven and making Christmas pictures. First graders finish 1-20, tackle simple combinations, study Wild Animals and How Nature Protects Animals, attend a movie, sing carols, and prepare solo or group performances.
Mrs Esther Hultgren and Ione attended a gathering with Helen Lewison Dennis as chairman. Mr and Mrs Stanley Johnson plan a radio play. Harlow, son, home from a weeks visit with relatives in New York City. The Harold Roaschich family visited from Ann Arbor Michigan, former residents of this community.
Special correspondence itemizing dinner guests at Elmer Hultgren and Arnold Halseth homes include Pastor Leslie Olson Faith Fickbohm Daryl Donad Arliss Wendell Milo Audrey JoAnn Clifton Waterbury and others. Additional notes list Sioux City shoppers and visits by Ericson Halseth Anderson and Hultgren families across multiple evenings.
Edna Smizer is appointed Administratrix of the estate of Benamiter defeated by the District Court of Plymouth County Iowa. Creditors must file their claims with the court and debtors pay the estate. Published December 7 14 and 21 1944 in the Register Tribune Want Ada.
Cpl. Ellis W. Hammer, former Akron lad and son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Hammer, writes from Headquarters Company of the 6 U S Ordnance Battalion on the German front. In a Thanksgiving letter from Holland he describes limited personal detail, mentions being moved frequently, and notes there is plenty of turkey.
A December 3 1944 letter to Ray from Bernard A Markus a former local baker now serving in the U S Navy at Norfolk Virginia expresses concern about overconfidence at home warns of tougher times to come and sends Thanksgiving and Christmas wishes. He mentions wishing to return to Aleron and notes cold weather.
A reader near the bay reports snow, biting wind from the water, and cold temperatures. He mentions mid January deployment, asks for a Christmas ad to be written, and asks to resend Akron news, signing Bernard A Markus from Camp Bradford Norfolk Virginia with a promotion for Defense Savings Bonds.
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