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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
5
Local notices from Akron and vicinity recounts includes travel, family visits, and community events. January 11 features Chick Perkins at The Little Prospector. Posts report meetings, church activities, school staff changes, farm trades, and neighbors visiting relatives across South Dakota and Iowa.
Extensive clearance listing women s wear including wraps corsets cloaks and print remnants with many items half price or lower. Men s and boys coats under discount plus fabrics and groceries such as pancake flour maple syrup corn and rice with assorted prices and sample teas.
Tony Salem, nephew of Hol Salem, had his right hand amputated at the wrist after his hand was drawn into a corn sheller while cleaning cobs near town. He was taken to Akron. doctors say he is past the critical period and improving. His mother had just arrived from the old country the day of the accident.
Louis Olson a well known farmer west of town in Union county was seriously injured last Saturday when a cow tossed its head and a horn pierced his eyeball. Dr H H O’Cilley dressed the wound noting the site was destroyed and Olson is progressing as well as can be expected. Friends offer sympathy in his affliction.
Akron enjoys a strong year for trade and construction in 1907 with notable public and private projects. The First National bank building, nearly finished, will cost at least 15000 dollars, while the public school addition and Farmers elevator each run about 6000. The Milwaukee depot and passing track were completed, and remodeling at the New Kendall hotel by Martin totals over 1600. Numerous residential improvements also noted in the district.
Notice to AN members of the Akron Cornet Band urgently requests attendance at the regular practice at the school house next Monday evening. New players should attend every practice to benefit from the instructions and help give Akron the best band the town has ever had. Secretary
Leonard Smith packed his grip and left last Friday for a visit to friends in Eureka Illinois. Listen to the bells and enjoy fine sleighing as winter scenes unfold in the town.
East of the Akron German Lutheran church a lost brown horse blanket is reported. The finder should return it to John Kluever who is described as a poor man, or to Rev. F Maske. The note mentions Chick Perkins in The Little Prospector at the opera house on January dd.
An advertisement notes six Duroc Jersey boars for sale, citing breeding from Goldie 040th and show-line stock. It highlights Royal Plummer progeny, prizes at Kansas City 1903, and a 23 month old boar weighing 1120 lbs that sold for 85000. Contact Burgess by phone or letter. A Pleasant Home Gathering at the New Kendall hotel hosted 26 relatives including W H Martin Cedar Rapids and N J Thompson families with Hawarden connections.
Misa Maggie Kandert of LeMars attends the State Teachers meeting in Des Moines December 31 through January 3. She has taught in Akron public grammar for years and pursues advanced methods offered by leading educators, with Waya showing the results of these efforts.
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