03 Feb 1938
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1938
Page
1
The Pegister Tribune is published every Thursday at Akron Iowa. Subscriptions cost $2 per year, $1 for six months, and $0.50 for three months. It is entered as second class mail matter at the Sward Place post office, with Ray A. Smith listed as publisher.
Special Correspondence from Milnerville reports Mrs Harry Cooper’s couple enjoying a sunny South tour completing New Orleans and Miami visits then heading north through Georgia and the Carolinas. The piece also covers Hancock township PTA play Aaron Slick at Pumpkin Creek, hospital plans, illnesses, marriages, moves, and local social notices with community names and brief events.
Westfield township hosts a seventy birthday with about ten families invited by L F Taylor. Guests enjoyed cards games and a birthday cake noting his years as assessor. Mrs Taylor and Johny Smith returned from a Denver trip. Other items mention a silver wedding in Storden Minnesota and local illness.
Leonard and Janet McCorkell relocate to LeMars as Leonard takes a Geo. & Pew job. Harringtons and Harrington niece’s husband Hartley Lewis funeral in Sioux City noted. Jordan hosts Westfield faculty for Virginia Jordan’s second birthday dinner. Michael and Spaulding visit LeMars for business. Junior class play Black Cats under Johnson and Superintendent Jordan rehearsals. Mrs Brundeen ill but improving. Gertrude Harrington assists at home. Surprise gathering planned by Nulty Talley Mills and others for Mrs Harrington in Rivers Sioux area.
A meeting of the board of education considered installing a stoker with the school heating system and drafted a resolution to add it to the plumbing contract. Local social events included bridge games, club meetings, and visits as families and friends shared meals and conversation.
An advertisement promises a national news weekly deal for $2.35, urging readers to act quickly and order now before the opportunity slips away. It emphasizes a special price and urges immediate subscription.
Washington reports suggest the pending farm bill offers little to celebrate. No mandatory corn loans except with marketing quotas, no broad control until production plus carryover exceeds 2.792 billion bushels, and varyingly applied penalties or loans. Prairie States push for rehab funds, seed and livestock aid, and speedier passage.
A terse report notes the discovery of an elaborate supply of Sioux corn in one of the city’s stores. The item appeared recently as local shoppers observed the goods on display.
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