Postal rates rise as ten cent letter fee set January fifth
Shorty Postage notes price hikes affecting all mailed letters with a ten cent charge starting January 5. The writer laments higher costs, hopes rates hold until March 5, 1974, and stresses zip codes for proper routing. An Akron ad finally arrived via Hawarden Independent. windows at Akron Register were cleaned, revealing a clearer street view. New Year resolutions are mentioned as Christmas passes.
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Wenden
Akron
Ohio
Colorado
Hawarden Independent
Register
John Hill
Local Newspaper Masthead and Subscription Rates
Published every Thursday at Akron in Plymouth County Iowa entered as second class mail matter September 26 1901. Subscription rate five dollars per year six months two fifty in Plymouth Sioux and Woodbury Counties Iowa and Union County South Dakota six dollars per year elsewhere.
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Akron
Plymouth County
Iowa
Plymouth
Sioux
Woodbury
Union County
S. D
Chatsworth Chatter Special Christmas Visitors
Local notes recount Christmas visits and gatherings in Chatsworth South Dakota Hawarden and surrounding areas. Names include Mr and Mrs Jack Lake Sioux City G Moller Gary Jim Collmann De Raad Repp Hendricks Moehlmann Ludwigs Satthoff McKee Bakker and others with hospital and church events noted.
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Jenry Collmann
Jack Lake
Sioux City
Hawarden
Arthur de Raad
Skinner
Tim Repp
Ken Miller
Arthur DeRaad
H. Liston
Mr. Liston
Jon Liston
Albert Moehlmann
Edythe Packard
George Moehlmann
Eilene
Akron
E. Repp
Clara Satthoff
Henry Ludwigs
le Mars
St. Luke's Hospital
Dick Burley
Cambridge
Minnesota
4. DeRaad
F. McKee
Fanny McKee
Guy Bakker
Fairview
Dakota
Marlon 5S
Chicken Little Tops Club News and Holiday Events
The West Port Farm Bureau Women shared a Christmas luncheon at Carol Kroksh’s home with eleven members. Other clubs held December gatherings including the Senior Citizens with 40 members and four guests, and the Friendship and Service Club with a Christmas party at Joyce Thorson’s. Reports highlighted library books donated, Gov. Ray's Energy Day, and a program by Ramona Vander Helm. A dieting tip feature and November contest results followed, noting Norma Beech’s 6% loss and Kathy Beech’s 94 lb month win. Next meetings set for January at listed members’ homes.
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West Port Farm Bureau
Carol Kroksh
Heth Finzen
Marlene Pridie
Friendship and Service Club
Joyce Thorson
Pegey Mclane
Chicken Little Tops Club
Norma Beech
Julie Calkins
Fern Dreezen
Marie Heeren
Kathy Beech
Kathy
Marie
Peg McLane
Remsen vandals admit defacing town water tower
Two young Remsen men Scott Feeck and Steve Bunkers have confessed to vandalizing the town water tower with black paint. They told police chief Harold Henson and officer Bill Feeck last week and have been charged with defacing public property in magistrate’s court.
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Remsen
Scott Feeck
Steve Bunkers
Harold Henson
Bill Feeck
Christmas visits and carols at West nursing home
Residents and visitors share Christmas cheer with nursing home events. Ideline Simon Agnes Claassen served cake and ice cream while Wayne Hall Bertha Bouvin and John Axelson from West nursing home socialized. FFA girls handed out apples candles and fruit. 4-H sang carols and handed out candy canes. Various families and pastors visited, with holiday greetings and New Year wishes noted. Weather noted as very cold and some colds among members.
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Ideline Simon
Agnes Claassen
Wayne Hall
Bertha Bouvin
John Axelson
West Nursing Home
FFA
Johnson Jr
East
West Nursing Homes
Bernice Less
Ella Willer
Daryl Boetger
John Schuchard
Ron Schroeder
Marie Degen
Forest Williams
Ida Johnson
Sigwadt Kalstad
Spink
S.D
Bertina Williams
Earl Merrigan
Vermillion
Margaret Hartmann
Alfred Wilken
Art Dahlman
le Mars
John Wilken
Roy
Marian Postlewait
Elsa Strobel
Westfield
Minnie Postlewait
Fred Anderson
Ponca
Nebr
Marvin Ketterling
Brule Creek
Edward
Sophia Larson
Bettina Williams
Anna Meyer
Henry Burnight
Chatsworth
Lizzie Gibbons
Ed Nelson
Harry
Lois Nelson
Obituary of Mrs. Harry Nelson 1897 1970 Akron Iowa
Mrs. Harry Nelson 76 of Akron Iowa died December 20 at an Akron nursing home. Funeral held December 22 at Wesley United Methodist Church Akron with Rev. Ralph Burdette officiating. Burial in Riverside Cemetery Akron under Schroeder Funeral Home guidance. Survived by husband, four sons, a foster son, and five grandchildren. Mrs Nelson born November 30 1897 in Union County. She and husband ran Nelson Hatchery until 1971 after farming. Member of Eastern Star PEO American Legion Auxiliary and Akron Hospital board.
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Harry Nelson
Akron
Iowa
Wesley United Methodist Church
Ralph Burdette
Riverside Cemetery
Schroeder
Lois Knapp
Union County
Onawa
Nelson Hatchery
Nelson
Order of the Eastern
PEO
American Legion Auxiliary
Akron Hospital
David
Allen VanderHelm
Farm Home Administration loans expand rural housing aid
A new eligibility change widens Farm Home Administration rural housing assistance. The maximum adjusted income rises to 20 400 with 5 percent of gross income and 300 per minor child deducted. Interest can be 8 percent for up to 33 years, with credits possible for incomes under 7 000. Loans cover construction, purchase or repair in towns under 10 000 or rural areas served by Le Mars and Orange City offices.
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Home Administration
Dennis Benna
Plymouth
Sioux
le Mars
241St Street
ASCS
Orange City
Boy Scouts Recognized In National Bicentennial Program
The Boy Scouts of America have been officially recognized as part of the national Bicentennial program for a four year effort involving about 6.5 million youths and adults. The ARBC notes Scouting links active participation to Bicentennial spirit through programs 1973 to 77, with national themes and local projects aimed at character, citizenship, and welfare.
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Boy Scouts of America
America
ARBC
BSA
Bicentennial Commission
Scouting
Sive
VA benefits and 4-H club notes from December 1973
Veterans questions cover burial plot and funeral cost rules as well as education benefit eligibility notices. The 4-H Portland Preston Pillars meet December 11 1973 with weigh-ins for market beef December 27 28 and a January 5 1974 workshop followed by senior winter camp January 18 20 at Madrid Iowa with a electricity safety program and lunch served.
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Portland
Preston Pillars
Portland Preston Pillars
Mark Molten
Robert Koch
Madrid
Iowa
Fred Talbott
Mark Molzen
Molzen
Way Back Yonder Items of interest from 1903 to 1964 Akron
The column surveys decades of local life with marriages births and events in Akron. Notes announce weddings in 1903 and 1914 1923 1944 1964, multiple births, car accidents, business changes Waterbury Bros sale of stock to Chamberlin and Wise, a new bakery with an electric mixer and Hubbard oven, and community hockey games. Includes anniversaries 50th and civic contests.
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Arta Belle Eagington
Clyde
Belknap
Clara Tucker
John Jordin
A Weidenfeller
Frank McCusker
Alfred Irwin
Waterbury Bros
Cl, Chamberlin
Chas
Ida May Warren
Fred O. Husted
Mary Chris. Jansen
Howard Searls
John Skogsberg
Gus. Martin
Wm. Simeon
Otto Anderson
Hubbard
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New Abpea
Club News
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Stene
Sophie Stene
Eunice Kiemme
Sioux County Board of Supervisors
Sioux County
Mid-Sioux Opportunity
Peter Hart
Emmetsburg
Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc
Dave Disher
Region I Council of Governments
Mid Sioux
Upper Des Moines
Nisher
Nine County
Area I Planning Council
Clarence Jonker
Rodney Matz
League of Women Voters
American Association of University Women
Joanne Severson
League of Women Voters of
Elnora Gostas
League
Iowa Civil Rights Commission
Iowa Commission
Shorty Jerry
Ahron Register Tribune
Nursing Home News
Fran Cindy
Farm Home Administration
Boy Scouts
Veterans Administration
Department of Defense
Akron Register-Tribune
Alvan Register-Tribuune
Lawrence Gale
Martin Vanderham
Akron Hockey Club
Frank Burke
Eldon Brady
Baptist Church
Harold Jammerthal
Orin Blake
Vernon Pendleton
Mabel Webb
Wiliam Specht
Anz Aalfs
Lester Schaff
Akron Hockey
Edmund Blum
Lawrence Frisch
A.L. Bennett
Frank Stinehart
Charles M. Hilliker
Wm. Seabrack
Magdaline Mohrhauser
Alden Pollock
Dorothy Milbrodt
Donald Koch
Helen Lewison
Joseph Eidem
Elaine Qunen
Conrad Hull
Elwood Dams
Albert Beech
Leonard Dirks
Edmund Leckley
Dale Leckley
George Hummel
Art Friedrichs
American Legion
Judy K. Schmid
Archie D. Port
Marietta Myrtle Day
Dennis Ray Wilken
Duane Langle
Harold Kliebauer
Gary Hartmann
Arvin Finzen
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