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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
4
A call for continued expansion of American railroads argues the system has set world standards through public service, capital investment, and worker merit. It urges billions more for tracks, stations, cars, engines, signals, safety devices, and grade-crossing elimination to meet rising national needs.
Union Creek News notes regular Sunday morning service at the Lutheran church and a 7:45 PM Sunday school festival. It records the Luther League secretary and treasurer elections, local visits, farm moves, holiday visits, school events, and home improvements among residents including Olson, Johnson, Petry, Renberg, Stoutenburg, and Hultgren.
Local notes from Pleasant Hill recount Sunday school and preaching at U B church. Residents include Ludwig Sommerveld recovering from pneumonia and Miss Ethel Kerr teaching West Union school during a two week holiday. Numerous visits and tempers of travel among Goodroad, Bly, Boetger, Ringsrud, and Wang families, plus a Christmas sock social at the Pleasant Hill school.
Milnerville residents share winter updates from Sioux City to Jefferson. Obituary news notes the death of Mrs Lindsay in Minneapolis while births, holiday events, and local visits fill the week. Residents travel for markets, sales, and Christmas errands amid winter travel.
All accounts due the Standard Oil Co must be paid before January 1, 1920 and will be checked up on that date. This is my last notice and I insist on payment. All counts are at Akron Savings Bank, Lewis Bly.
Official notice states all Joint Stock Land Banks cannot finance their March business due to bonds failing to float. Consequently 16 million in bonds accepted in Iowa and Nebraska will reenter the market. First Trust & Savings Bank Akron Iowa says they can supply the funds if contacted promptly.
Local notes report Mr. Wm Seiler’s Christmas trip to Oklahoma to visit his mother and a successful Community Hall box social hosted by Grade pupils with over $100 from baskets. People move, visit, and attend church events as families and guests arrive for holidays.
Bible school and children sermon at 10 a.m. Preaching at 11 a.m. Sermon The Star Boarders of the Church and What to Do With Them. C E society at 6 15 p m Preaching at 7 30 p m Sermon Would You Spend the Last Thirty Minutes of Life as You Spend Them Today The evening service will be a farewell to the old year with its successes and its failures its joys and SORROWS Jerome E Emanuel Pastor all are welcome to worship and work with us
At Sunday morning service the Bible school presented the White Gifts program for the King. Each class offered a gift of food clothing or money while music and singing enhanced the hour. Proceeds aid orphanages and bring joy to less fortunate children in Akron during the holiday season.
Advertises hauling services offering all kinds of hauling with a team and wagon. Mentions phone number 143 and lists the proprietor Sieben Siebens.
A fragment lists sale dates and names across multiple towns including Akron Hinton Westfield South and Adaville. Entries include Wm H Morse and individuals such as Bradstreet Richmond Bliss Buryanek Harkness Swiegel and Anderson with dates in January February and March.
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