Local News Notes From Akron Area December Happenings
Akron area items report purchases of Rhode Island Red cockerels and fur buyers, visits between Sioux City and local families, Christmas gift shopping at Klauer Bros and Akron Variety Store, a Santa appearance, trains restored on Milwaukee line, social and school events at Pleasant Hill and No. 8 Preston, holiday travel, and community programs at Immanuel Lutheran and nearby churches.
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Rhode Island
Charles Reames
Lionel Eustace
Sioux City
Thos. Haynes
August Kaelke
James Bradley
O'Neill
Nebr
Stone
Ginsberg & Uroff
Santa Claus
Akron
Ed. Fletcher
Preston Township
Emma Pallutz
Gus
Sand
Susie
Helen
Muskegon
Mich
C. A
August Swanson
John Sand
Stanley Bashaw
Morningside College
Rev
M. E. Spahr
Milwaukee
Dad
Paul Wendt
Clive ‘Worth
March
Thorson
Clark
Isaac Harris
Navy Victory Button Program Expands In Des Moines
Limited supply of Victory Buttons is available at the Navy Recruiting Station in Des Moines Iowa. Former regular Navy or Reserve Force personnel who served on active duty between April 6 1917 and November 11 1918 may obtain by presenting discharge. Reserve members on inactive duty apply to their Naval District commander. Active duty sailors will receive instructions from their commanding officers.
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Navy
Navy Recruiting Station
Old Post Office
Des Moines
Iowa
Naval District
Obituary and civic notices mix in Iowa City paper
Mrs Betta Crick died at her daughter’s home near town on December 14 1919 aged 79. Funeral services were held at 2 30 p m Tuesday with Rev M J Spath officiating. Burial in Union Creek cemetery. Also a health bulletin warns hog owners of necrotic rhinitis and enteritis and urges yard rotation and sanitation. The paper calls for Christmas gifts for Perkins Hospital children and adoptees detailing box contents and contact for donations.
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Marel Bennett
State Normal School
Madison
James Blake
Bradley
Dan Blake
D. Rosa
Sioux City
Floyd Rice
First Trust & Savings Bank
P. A. Foley
Miller
Thos. Foley
L. F. Root
Blaine Root
Marguerite Brown
The
State University
Iowa City
M. J. Brown
Magonie Hall
Luther
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Lindeblad
Immanuel Church
Spahr
Methodist Church
Prewitt
Baptist Church
Betta Crick
F. M. Latham
Kentucky
Hame
Iowa
M. E. Church
M. J. Spath
Akron M. BE
Union Creek
K. W. Stouder
Extension Veterinary Department
Town State College
Joint Stock Land Banks Face March 1 Financing Failure
Official notice states all Joint Stock Land Banks cannot finance their March 1 business due to bond default. As a result 15 million dollars in loans accepted in Iowa and Nebraska will return to the market. First Trust & Savings Bank Akron Iowa offers to arrange such loans now.
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Towa
Nebraska
First Trust & Savings Bank
Akron
Rural Carrier Examination for Plymouth County Iowa
The United States Civil Service Commission announced a rural carrier examination for Plymouth County Iowa. The test will be held in LeMars and Hawarden on January 10, 1920 to fill carrier positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Civil Service Commission
Plymouth
Iowa
LeMars
Hawarden
Civil service examinations for rural carrier positions
Vacancies may arise on rural routes in Akron and LeMars and other county post offices. Open to citizens domiciled in the county with Form No 1977 requirements. Women admitted as widows or wives of service members injured in duty. Obtain forms from local offices or the U S Civil Service Commission in Washington. Submit applications to Washington as soon as possible.
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Akron
LeMars
U. S
United States Civil Service Commission
Washington, D.a
Commission
Washington
Public notice of Dr Layman's Goods agency transfer
To the public I have taken the agency of the Dr Layman's Goods formerly held by Mrs Bliss Goods delivered promptly Mrs Melvin Muth Phone 340 18-2
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Ed. Lamoureux
Vera Warner
Percy Kistle
Klauer
Adaline Logan
Davidson Bros
O. K
Klauer Bros
Hanford Produce Co
Wm. Simeon
J. F
Waterbury
Clifton
Joe Boyd Bradley
T. L. Burnight
Bobbie
Catherine Burnight
H. A. Ervin
Wesley Small
Dewey County
Avery Small
Pleasant Hill School
Olive Ringsrud
Luete March
Sioua City
J. F. March
Phylathea
A. L. Bennett
Ames
William Jewell
Heary Callaghan
Perkins Hospital
University of Iowa
Children's Hospital
Charlotte Eastman
Towa City
Empress Theatre
Constance Talmadge
Paul
Pathe Review
Fish Ferguson
Harold Lloyd Comedy
Rainbow Comedy
Current Events
Hwimo the Mighty
Lina Cavaleri
Briggs
Ramona
Diamond LaVallieres
Beckman & Paulsen
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