27 Jan 1938
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1938
Page
1
The Register-Tribune lists subscription rates: 1 year two dollars, 6 months one dollar, 3 months eighty cents. Published every Thursday in Akron, Iowa, and entered at the post office as second class mail matter on September 26, 1901.
Special Correspondent reports on a social week in Milnerville. Mrs. Everitt Orr enters Methodist hospital for major surgery with a good prognosis. Mr. Orr returns home between visits. Mrs. Walden Fry hosts the Ladies Aid gathering. Lois Shuck receives a linen shower in Sioux City. Tague family visits. Clyde James leaves for Rapid City after funeral. Milner updates on Priscilla Milner and Mrs. Milner’s health, Agros fuel use, and local road conditions.
Garland residents shared weekend visits with relatives across the region. Clifford Nygard and Joe Powell visited Howard Powell. Dick Hamilton visited Wm Skinner. Eugene Hilton and Mrs Swanson returned from Earl Heasley’s near Miller. Ole Sommervold and sons toured Sioux City. Art Swanson visited Albin Carlson. Fickbohm family visited Yankton. Skinner families hosted Roy Skinner at supper. Herman Jacobs Jr visited C A Hamilton and Wyatt Heyl.
Ruble and family visitors populate Thursday and Sunday gatherings as Mrs August Borchers Mrs Lizzie Nannen and Walter Marie, and others call on John Whallsen Herman Reemts Al bert Witt and John Tapper homes. Filert Miller on sick list. Local ad pitches Register-Tribune and Path Finder offer for 2.35 with national news weekly.
Remsen defeated Akron 22 to 21 in a hard fought overtime game after a tense fourth quarter. Faber scored the decisive jumper as time expired, with Horton hitting key baskets for Akron to stay in contention. The article notes Remsen’s lack of a traditional gym and praises the East End team’s grit despite training facilities.
The Iowa department of public instruction issued a bulletin inviting public and parochial schools to submit Centennial State Fair poster designs. Entries must be received by March 1, with the best poster from each school advancing to a Des Moines final. A committee of Iowa art teachers will judge, chaired by Kenneth J. Arisman. The project aims to foster creativity and familiarity with the centennial celebration.
A fragmented editorial fragment warns drivers against speeding, arguing that reckless driving risks life and headlines. It questions the value of saving minutes at the expense of safety, illustrating with a hypothetical fatal crash and the moaning of injured victims.
A fragment describes an accident scene with distressed onlookers and a broken leg, then urges readers to find it with a Want-Ad in the Register-Tribune and to patronize local merchants.
Verna Schlepp says her skin cleared after using Adlerika with pimples and blerushes disappearing. Adlerika is said to wash both bowels and relieve constipation that aggravates complexion, according to Cobb and Greenleaf, druggists.
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