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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
4
Milnerville residents share Christmas happenings news of a baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Frank Mathwig of Bronx City. Community updates include visits, school programs, illnesses, church events, and plans for demonstrations. Several locals travel to Sioux City for holidays while others prepare trips to California and South Dakota as winter continues.
The Union Creek Lutheran church schedules New Year’s Eve wake and midnight devotional with all welcome. Sunday services proceed as usual and a Luther League program follows a day event at 1 am with lunch. January 3 and 4 feature Ladies Aid gathering and annual Lutheran congregation business meeting with elections and reappoints. Other community notices list visitors and holiday excursions among local families.
Pleasant Hill News reports no services or Sunday school next Sunday. Several families hosted and visited during Christmas including Welch, Wick, Heasley, Hamilton, Reagan, and others. Christmas Eve and Day gatherings occurred with Wensley, Peck, Bubp, Kerr, Hofstad, and Kerr relatives traveling between homes in North Platte and Sioux City.
Seitz enjoyed banket dinner at the Wm Kerr home on Christmas Day. Wim Peck and family, Mr and Mrs George Peck, Mrs Butcher and children, and Mrs Waterman and children were entertained at the Floyd Peck home. Mrs Wilson Heasley and children left Tuesday to spend the week with her mother Mrs Joseph Gardner in Akron. Mr and Mrs Albin Anderson, Wm Bubs and family, and Mr and Mrs Albert Bubs visited the Fred Wang home Monday. Elmer and Emil Klemme and families spent Christmas Day with their parents H F Klemme. Fayette Kerrly visiting cousin Olive Hofstad. Wm Kerr called at Sever Eidem's in Brule Tuesday. Mrs Grover Vick and son visiting friends in Akron this week.
Westfield reports Christmas visits from Sloan to Elk Point families and Sioux City. Grace Gosting hosted guests from Wynot and Hawarden. church program at Congregational praised with Santa Claus giving candy and nuts. Local birthdays, visitors, and Sunday school attendances noted along with a memory of D. F. Connolly's father. Basketball results show Westfield teams defeating Jefferson. Agricultural piece notes dairying improving local finances and fewer farm bankruptcies in dairy regions.
First Baptist Church announces Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. and Junior and Senior GB, Y. P. Tf. at 6:30 p.m. No preaching services due to the pastor's absence. Pastor J. Be Prewitt.
A Washington National Geographic bulletin outlines a grand progressive holiday tour through western Europe Greece Yugoslavia Romania Bulgaria Asia and Africa tracing Christmas and New Year celebrations from January 1 to Chinese and Mohammedan New Years. It notes how calendars diverge and the Julian and Gregorian reforms shifted the start of the year.
A 19th or early 20th century poetic greeting by L M Thornton from Orange Judd Parmer urging readers to welcome the new year with good deeds and kind intents. The verse emphasizes personal effort to make the year blessed and memorable through earnest endeavor and generosity.
A MaClura Newspaper Syndicate feature surveys a dozen men’s New Year resolutions from staying out late to marrying, quitting clubs, spending wisely, and avoiding relatives’ quarrels. It questions whether these intentions will last, noting the universal wish to reform but doubtful follow through.
Fragmentary text describes a Liberty candy recipe with steps to boil water, rinse ingredients, chop and grind components, mix sugar, spices, and nuts, then form into squares on a sheet and cut once firm. Names and measurements are garbled but indicate a confectionery preparation.
Iowa farmers from Plymouth County compete for county silver trophies and a $1,500 state prize at the 1th annual State Corn Show during the farmers short course in Ames. The event, organized by the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association, features 10,000 ears of corn and exhibits from each department of the State college. Entries for corn and grain may win cash premiums and a large silver cup. entries must contact the Ames secretary for details.
Dre Rubber Association of America announces a broad plan to curb fraud and misclaims by assessing defective tires only on general appearance and condition upon return. Owners must submit a standard claim form, and warranties will appear on price lists and packaging. if defect is due to material or workmanship, the company may repair or replace the tire at a charge reflecting service rendered.
Plymouth County dog licensing law requires all dogs three months and older to be registered with the County Auditor by January 15, 1922. After that date unlicensed dogs are deemed wild. peace officers may kill such dogs, and any licensed dog may be killed for worrying or injuring livestock or poultry. Signed by County Auditor W. Stamp. public notice dates December 1, 8, 18, 26.
Notice is given that the Annual Meeting of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Union County South Dakota will be held Tuesday January 3 1922 at 11 o clock at the School House District No 64 Ble Springs Township Union County South Dakota. Edward Leafstedt Secretary.
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