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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1927
Page
9
A 1927 notice from Plymouth County bankers announces a 50 cent monthly service charge starting January 1928 on checking accounts with balances below 60 dollars. Exemptions include trusted, charitable, farm, religious, fraternal, and educational organizations, plus savings accounts.
The Methodist Church Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meets this afternoon at Mia. John Kael-ke, then hosts a Community Christmas Tree next Sunday evening at 8 30 in the basement of the public school. The night features cantata Star of Hope and special music by the young people's choir. Sunday morning the pastor speaks on What Se and Hare Is Hell. Christmas tree exercises are set for Friday night December 23 under Pastor Wilson Gow.
The Plymouth County Farm Bureau will hold its tenth annual meeting in LeMars on Monday December 19. Business sessions include reports from committees on Membership Cooperative Marketing Home Project Work Livestock Clubs Legislation Girls Club Work and Constitution and By-Laws followed by officer elections for 1928. Banquet and musical program at the Methodist church basement feature Crowley’s orchestra and speakers on Home Project Work with potential attendance by Henry Havfland of Sergeant Bluff.
The Akron chapter of the National Red Cross held its annual meeting at the First National Bank. Officers were elected including treasurer Henning Shoulberg. Board members G Thorson Dr H Smith FJ Swangon and J B Cunningham. Relief committee members Walter Mellan RF L Younestrom Mrs Emil Johnson Mrs WJ Brunner. Membership total reported as 61 with one unnamed member paying fee. Lists numerous named members including J J Ralfs Lydia Aldrich Albin Anderson Gary Anderson Elmer Anderson Ernest Anderson and others.
Plymouth County supervisors awarded two contracts to Gaynor Lumber of Sioux City for snow fence at seven dollars per hundred feet to protect the primary road system. The county owns a rotary snow plow and a Wandseheer unit to clear drifts, with two push plows on trucks ready for use. Northwestern counties prepare with forty foot snow fences and standard equipment to keep 13 miles of primary roads open, aided by ten road patrolmen and multiple districts.
Iowa State College students topped 81 colleges at the Chicago International Livestock Exposition. The livestock judging team won, with Theodore Besh of Waterloo as top individual judge. The meats judging team also won first among 11 colleges, and others earned high placements. Iowa State dominated in drafts, sheep, and cattle with numerous ribbons and awards.
A compact meditation on minutes and eternity. The speaker recalls eight minutes as a trigger for choice and consequence, noting limits and accountability. The verse contrasts fleeting moments with the vast reach of eternity and personal responsibility.
Typewriter ribbon assortment for all makes available at Register. Carbon paper and typewriter paper in stock for immediate purchase.
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