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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1908
Page
5
Hawarden and area residents are noted traveling for business visits to Elk Point Sioux City and Rushton Minnesota. A variety of local topics include theater plans auctions sales and social visits with several moves and household updates.
Chas. D. Guigan died at his daughter Mrs. H. B. Smiths home northeast of town Wednesday morning February 5 1908 aged about 69 years. He had lived with his daughter for two years after a paralytic stroke and heart trouble recently caused his death. Survived by one son and three daughters with Miss Winnie Guigan arriving from Sioux City to visit yesterday. Remains taken to Sioux City for interment where the family lived for many years. Friends extend sympathy to the bereaved.
For Rent. Five improved farms offered at $2 to $2.80 per acre. Contact J. O. Burton for details and location information.
Melvin J. Muth of Hawarden and Miss Catherine L. Sullivan of Sioux City wed in Sioux City Iowa in 1908. The bride’s family and Akrona friends send best wishes as the couple begins housekeeping on a farm seven miles southeast of Akron.
A list notes births for several local couples with districts such as south of town, Akron, northeast of town, east of town, and near Adaville. Entries specify a son born on specific Wednesdays in January and February of 1903 and 1908, naming the parents and their general locale.
Our Bargain Tables reveal remnants of ladies shoes with regular values from 2.50 to 4.00 now sold in two lots priced at 1.95 and 2.65. A value snap you cannot afford to miss.
A Tuesday blaze at LeMars destroyed the Semi-Weekly Sentinel and Le Mars Printing Co. with reported losses of 15,000 for the printing firm, 4,000 for the Sentinel, 5,000 for the building and 2,000 for insurance. An employee saved the subscription and advertising ledgers. The Sentinel will publish temporarily from the Globe Post Office.
W H Morse liveryman faced assault and battery charges in Justice A H Smith's court but received a one week continuance. He had rented out a team and buggy to Christopherson and Everhart who with two young men, Vernon and party, allegedly were driven toward Westfield. Morse allegedly overtook them three miles south of town, forced them to walk, and returned the rig to the barn while the party seeks action for a horsewhip and improprieties.
Akron teachers hosted Miss Crouch of LeMars when a lunch spread vanished from the Bennetts home. Large footprints in the snow pointed to a portly young businessman and a brawny Sunday school teacher as the culprits in a humorous kitchen theft that also touched the Bennetts’ Sunday meat. In Primghar, Henry P. Smith died when a 600 pound ice cake from a freight car toppled him.
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