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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1933
Page
2
Local notes from Westfield cover visits from Dorothy Callahan Catherine Seyler and Mrs Mills plus a Community party crowd. Basketball results show Westfield boys beat Jefferson 32 21 while the girls lost 19 18 Remsen travels and a 39 18 Westfield win. Events include a dance, Ladies Aid meeting and PTA, with a Jan 27 basketball showcase in Community Hall.
Special correspondence notes small town life in Chatsworth. Families visit relatives near Hawarden and Akron. Courtship, illness, and travel appear as residents care for relatives and attend events. Frank Farnsworth party awaits, while a book review and club meetings fill week. Flu and pneumonia edge into community health updates.
Mrs Thos J Redmond expresses sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for acts of kindness and offers of help during illness and after her husband’s death. She thanks Dr Kerr for untiring services and sympathy, and notes appreciation for floral offerings. Birthday cards encouraged from Register Tribune office.
A report argues birds show talking ability beyond parrots. Experiments indicate intelligence, not just vocal mechanisms, governs talking. Birds like jackdaws magpies cockatoos and crows can be trained to talk, with starlings and other species mimicking sounds and even misdirecting humans for amusement during nesting.
The piece argues human nature remains, but capacity and expertise grow. It contrasts Shakespeare’s era with today, noting unchanged emotions yet vast advances in science and crafts. Sidney Smith’s remark on progress frames a thousand leagues of advancement since his time.
A Colonial New England tale describes a builder fined 10 shillings in Marblehead Massachusetts in 1687 for building on town land. The punishment offered a strange exchange: cut off the long hat from his head and half the fine would be waived and the site granted. The case shows statutes used to punish offenses not indictable under them.
A mother gave her three year old son a spoonful of brown sugar after medicine. The child, used to the bitter taste, asked for more sugar when told the medicine was finished, saying perhaps it would do just as well.
A note underscores that anyone may observe and judge your conduct. It advises acting to gain approval and avoid offending others, highlighting the impact of impressions on your future.
Australian Coraki natives near Sydney danced the Charles Ton tango waltz and one step to an accordion at a birthday party. No corroboree or war paint. John A. Bennett calls coast natives sophisticated and predicts old tribal dances and music will soon fade to memory.
Services at Union Creek church Sunday morning at 11 80 and Sunday school at 10 80 o clock. Women’s Missionary bake sale at Weidenfeller’s market in Akron Saturday afternoon January 28 to aid missions. Union Creek Ladies’ Aid meets February 2 at Mrs John Hultgren’s home. Visitors and family updates follow, with birthdays, hospital visit in Sioux City, and neighbors attending gatherings.
Special Correspondence reports the Friendship Club meeting at Dorothy and Daryl Taylor’s home last Friday with officer elections led by James Gabel as president and Vernon Braun as vice president. A flood of local social visits and birthday reminders follow amid community events, sales, and family gatherings across nearby towns.
A 600 acre farm on the Surrey Sussex border in England is owned by a three man syndicate and billed as the world's most up-to-date. Electricity runs at least 67 uses including electrically warmed beehives and electrically operated equipment for grooming, milking, incubation, hay drying, insect destruction, and plowing.
Ball Bros. trucked hogs and cattle to Sioux City Monday night and motored there Tuesday to see them sold. Mr and Mrs Henry Busch and daughters Verla Verdga and Erma are mentioned among readers.
Harry and Julia Ball and Mrs Menga Wilkens were guests at Richard Ball's home Sunday. Lester Fickbohm called at Dick Hamilton's home. Mr and Mrs Eddie Lewison and family visited Levert Sommervold's home. Stella Fickbohm visited George Mickbohm. Miss Vetla Busch visited Fern Hamilton. Wesley Heereni and sons spent Sunday evening at Ralph Fickbohm's. Dick Hamilton and daughter Fern and William Skinner drove to Sioux City Monday to take Martha Barington to Twin Falls Idaho for an extended stay with her daughter Louis Peterson.
Mrs. Mabel Greene of Sioux City visited in the W. J. King home over the weekend. Mrs. Anna Greene visited in the Charles Greene home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brodie and children of near Merrill were Sunday afternoon callers in the W. J. King home. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Carley of Sioux City were callers in the Richard Tindall home one evening last week. Dr. and Mrs. Johnson and Mr. and
Visitors from Mrar L and LéMats joined Richard Tindall’s party last Friday evening. 4-H Club girls gathered at Richard Sindall’s home. Pearl Orickson of Bronx City underwent appendectomy at St Joseph Hospital last Monday. Trelyn Gabel to lead Christian Endeavor services Sunday evening on What Good is Our Church Doing. U B Latire’s Aid Society meets at Mrs Thomas Kenney’s Thursday afternoon. Katherine Ryan, Union County resident 60 years, died at Die Point aged 81. born Janesville Wisconsin. survived by two sons Thomas H and William J Ryan of Die Point and three daughters Mrs Antoine Smythe Sioux City, Alice Ryan Chicago, Anna May Ryan Die Point. Funeral services held Catholic church Die Point Tuesday morning.
Mr and Mrs Lester Heyl express heartfelt thanks to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy during illness and after the death of their beloved son including appreciation for the beautiful floral offerings.
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