Akron Home Scene Of Pretty June Wedding
The J. Fred Dirks home in Akron hosted the wedding of Miss Marion W. Dirks and Clifton Lee Schmidt of Le Mars Iowa at 2 pm on Thursday June 26 1941 The ceremony performed by Rev Ernest G Svenson followed a three tier cake reception The couple plans to reside in Chicago Illinois after visiting Schmidt’s parents in Martin North Dakota The bride attended Alain High School and Iowa State Teachers College and taught a term in Webb Iowa The groom a Western Union College graduate worked at Fairmount Creamery Le Mars The wedding party included Miss Jean Parman as bridesmaid flower girl Patricia Dirks and ring bearer John Dirks The couple departed for Martin ND and planned to settle in Chicago Many relatives and friends offered best wishes Also mentioned are Mrs Cora Berlin visiting and returning to Clearwater California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Fred Dirks
Akron
Marion W. Dirks
Clifton ‘Lee Schmidt
LeMara
Iowa
Bilide
Jean Parman
Waterloo
Patricia
Dirks
John Dirks
Areplace
F. William ‘Timmins
le Mars
Misa Laverne Anderson
Mendelssohn
Ernest G. Svenson
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Jenny ‘Myers
Lenora Popken
Chdoean
Alain
Augustana
Sioux Falls
Cedar, Falls
Webb
Pabor
Western, Union College
LeMars
Fairmount Creamery
Martin
Ito
Chicago
Schmidt
And
Hawarden
Bernadette Davis
Schoola
Monroe
Madison
Misa Margie Bentley
Sac City
Richie Davis
Kenneth Hamm
Lohingrin
Rose Wedeking
Harry W. Davis
Rev. W. Witter
Milo Roberts
Adelyn Lundberg
Gale Davis
Edward Toomer
Raymond Wedeking
Uarry Davis
Nemalia High School
Buena Vista College
Storm Lake
Ed. Lundberg
Hewarden High School
Los Angeles Junior College
D. D
Lundberg
Adelyn
Wayne Lundberg
A. J. Anderton
Mary Ann
Axel Lundberg
Aleyster
Oscar Lundberg
Lake City
Charles Lundberg
Groton
8. D
Esther Ricson
Doyle
Sioux City
Akron Man Weds Westfield Girl at Sioux City Church
Patrick Bur night of Akron and Catherine Langle of near Westfield unite in marriage at St Josephs Catholic Church Sioux City. Rev Father Parle officiates. The couple's reception and dinner follow at relatives homes. Groom formerly of Akron and employed by Ade Paint Glass Co. Bride a Westfield graduate. They are well regarded locally with best wishes from friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Sioux City
Town
Patrick Burnight
Ed. Burnight
Akron
Catherine Langle
Frank Langle
Westfield
Father Parle
Normann
Norman Tucker
Weat‘Flight School
Methodist Church Notes Urges Youth Involvement And Union Services
The Methodist church promotes the Upper Room devotional book for the next three months and invites youth to attend Epworth League Institute with sessions July 7 to 19. Union services will be at City Park Sundays at 8 pm in July and August, with the pastor as speaker, plus School Band and Farm Ladies Chorus. Regular services, Sunday school, and worship follow, urging reader participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League Institute
Union Shurch
Methodist Church
Farm Ladies
Akron Band Street Concert July 9 Program
Akron Band under Ken Shoulberg presents a July 9 street concert with selections from McCaughey and Rosenkrans Zimmermann. Pieces include Over the Top Thalia Waltz Triumphal March Western Spirit Blue and Gold Overture Governor Goethala Altamont Fidelity and National Anthem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Ken. Shoulberg
McCaughey Thalia
McCaughey
Goethala
Mareh
Rosenkrans -Zimmermann
Vietor
King Berkeley
Richards
Local Notes on Camps and Visits Across Plymouth County
Mary Lou Ross attends Morningside College Summer Music Camp at Lake Okoboji. The Sioux Valley Extension club will meet Friday at Chris Lucht home. Visitors from Sioux City and LeMars were hosted by the Kni bur family. Alfred Klemme travels to Burlington Wis for a three day Murphy Products Co convention. Food stamp relief in Plymouth County delayed. plan may not start until statewide. A marriage license issued to Blair K. Hunter of Akron and Willa Ruth Wagner of Traer Iowa. Family visits and summer trips described, with travel through Yellowstone and West Okoboji. Robert Mentzer returns to teach History at Limon, Colorado, attends summer school for master’s degree. Gerald Smith visits relatives in South Dakota for fishing and notes bumper crops and favorable rains across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Ross
Morningside ‘College
Lake Okoboji
Sioux Valley
Chris, Lucht
Lord
Wm. .Gundberg
Sioux City
Glenn Wood
LeMars
L. Ki. “Burker
Alfred Klemme
Nebr
Blair K. Hunter
Akron
Willa Ruth- Wagner
Traer
Towa
Hunter
State. College
Ames
Wm. Horton
W. H. Lease
Methodist Camp
West Okoboji
California
Yellowstone National Park
Robert Mentzer
Struble
Limon
Colo
State Teachers’ College
Wayne
Neb
Robert
David Mentzer
Gerald Smith
Mt. Vernon
Barbara
Postmaster Examination Opened for Akron Vacancy
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive exam for Akron postmaster with a $2,200 yearly salary. Applications close July 11, 1941, at Washington, D C. Eligible applicants must be US citizens, residents of Akron for at least one year, in good health, and between 21 and 63, with veteran preferences possible. Examinations at Eldora Hawarden Rock Rapids West Liberty, and final Senate confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
United States Civil Service Commission
Washington, D.C
Iards
Iowa
Eldora
Hawarden
Rock Rapids
West Liberty
United States
Congress
Civil Service Commission
Senate
United States Civil Services Commission
Washington, D. C
Postal Service
Norka Theatre Weekly Program Features Slapstick Love Crazy
The Norka Theatre dieses a week of laughs with Love Crazy starring William Powell and Myrna Loy on Friday and Saturday, July 4 and 5, hailed as a season laugh riot. Also features The Great American Broadcast in Metroscope form on Sunday to Tuesday, July 6–8, tracing radio history with Alice Faye and Jack Oakie, plus Affectionately Yours on July 9–10 with Merle Oberon Rita Hayworth and Ralph Bellamy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Obatter Norka Theatre
Norka Theatre
Aid
Wi Iam Powell
Myrna Loy
Powell
Norka
Peta Smith
Alice Faye
Jack Oakie
John Payne
Cesar Romero
Romero
Merle Oberon
Dannis Morgan
Rita Hayworth
Ralph Bellamy
Pho~stery
Concemka
Mrs Peter Shoulberg Dies In Akron After Hip Injury
Mrs Peter Shoulberg 89 died at 1 15 p m Wednesday at Akron Hospital where she had been treated for a fractured hip from a fall in her room about three weeks earlier. An early pioneer of Sioux Valley township Union D 8, she had lived in Akron with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs S W Fredell since her husband’s death. An obituary will appear next week. funeral plans not yet made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Shoulberg
Akron Hospital
Shoulberg
Sioux Valley Township
Union County
Akron
W. Fredell
Local notes from Akron area July and August lodge and visits
Freedom Lodge No. 434 AF and AM plans vacation regular meetings in July and August. Rev and Mrs John J Meyer and family left Thursday for a few days visit with relatives at Spencer Town Raymond. Raymond’s son of Mr and Mrs Alve Brieson northwest of town had a tonsillectomy at Akron Hospital. Mr and Mrs L J Crammond of Sioux Falls visited in the home of her parents Mr and Mrs George Wakeman north of town. Margaret Lease attends Methodist Camp Lake Okoboji Cease cottage while at Morningside College Summer Music Camp for six weeks. Carroll Fredrickson formerly with G M Co Store now at Skaggs Store Sioux Falls. He visited home folks Sunday. Mrs Alvin Bly and daughter Marilyn of Long Beach Calif came last week for a few days visit with cousins Mr and Mrs Louis Bly west of town en route home in a new car from Detroit Mich. Mrs Bly’s husband formerly lived in Akron with his parents Mr and Mrs Wm Bly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freedom Lodge
A. M
John
Meyer
George Wakeman
Margaret Lease
Lake Okoboji
Cease Cottage
Morningside College
Carroll Fredrickson
G. M. Co
Skaggs
Sioux Falls
Howard Sears
Brooklyn
Iowa
E. F. Cobb
Louis Bly
Detroit
Miah
Alvin Bly
Akron
Wm. Bly
Akron Indica Defeats Cardinals In Debut Game
The newly organized Akron Indica beat Sioux City's Mann's Cardinals 14 to 1 on a grass field as Peron Swalley pitched nine innings with twelve strikeouts. Akron exploded for nine runs in the sixth inning aided by seven hits and three errors by the Cardinals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron Indica
Mann
Cardinals
Sioux City
Akron
Peron Swalley
Westfield
Brosamle
Yanes
Doug Bogenrief
Brown Brothers
Jas
Martin
IE. Tucker
H. Peck
J. Beaubien
Hawarden
Akypon
Laup
Cole
Renter l
McGoff
Arm
Brown
Peck
E. Tucker
Lyle
Hovis
Tucker
Ard. Brown
Jas. Martin
Arm. Brown
A. Beaubien
Swalley
Local News Notes and Community Updates
Local items report Lila Claassen becoming office girl at the Akron doctors clinic. Ed Borchers of Akron tops Sioux City hog market with 24 head, 290 pounds at 10.60. Miss Ione Lease returns from Britt Vacation Bible School and attends Sunday services in City Park starting next Sunday at 8 PM through July and August. Earl Chandler visits Akron relatives. Hinton postmaster race heats up with candidates Bogenrief, Eberhard, Schneider, and Vondrak for a 1200-dollar-a-year job. Akron Junior Legion beats Beresford 4 to 1. upcoming games listed. Privates Arnold Nall and Kenneth Zierath visit from Camp Claiborne, among 24 Co K soldiers on furlough until July 8. Nine Plymouth county men ordered to Fort Crook July 8. list includes Worth, Masuen, Lubben, Bogen, Behrens, Pitts, Octken, Case, Papenhausen. Highest draft number drawn 470. no July calls. Transport slated leaving Plymouth County for Omaha at 6:36 AM July 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lila Claassen
Doctors’ Clinic
Borchers
Akron
Sioux City
Ione Lease
Britt
Iowa
Union
City Park
Earl Chandler
Hettinger
N. D
Clara Raish
Fred E. Waterbury
Earl
Hinton
Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
R. Franklin Bogenrief
Carl David Eberhard
Sadie Sehneider
Annie M. Vondrak
Hawarden
LeMars
Vermillion
Arnold Nall
Kenneth Zierath
Camp Claiborne
Co. K
133Rd Int
34Th Div
Plymouth County
Fort Crook
Nebr
Louis Nicholas Worth
Richard Nicholas Masuen
Henry Sebastian Lubben
Harry Earl Bogen
Gordon Everett Behrens
Westfield
Melvin Clarence Pitts
Elmer William Octken
Leland Lavene Case
Kingsley
Leonard Paul Papenhausen
Church Notes Map Out July Activities Across Local Congregations
Baptist Church schedules Sunday school at 10, worship at 11 with communion, Bible study Thursday at 7, Mission Circle and Aid Association meetings planned with hosts Mrs. Ora Bringman, Mrs. C Kjose and others. Mt Olivet Association reports expected. Union Creek set worship and Sunday school for July 6, with Bible school program and women’s and junior societies. Pleasant Hill notes add a Ladies Aid social and musical program on July 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Church
Mission Circle
Ora Bringman
Aid Association
Mra
C. Kjose
J. Myers
Mara
Kerr
David
Mt. Olivet
John 8. Meyer
Union Creek
Junior Mission Society
Pleasant Hill Church
Ladies’ Aid
Akron Teacher Weds Madison Man On June 22
Akron grade teacher Bernadette Davis, of Akron, married Monroe Lundberg, from Madison, South Dakota, at the Nemaha Iowa Methodist church. The ceremony featured a bridal party, Lohengrin march, and a reception. the couple will reside in Madison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Madison, S. D
Bernadette Davis
M. Lundberg
Nemaha, Ta
Drivers License Deadline July 5 in Iowa
Saturday evening July 5 marks the renewal deadline for auto drivers licenses in Iowa. In Plymouth County, nearly 1,000 daily applications are expected this week to meet the wire. Sheriff Frank Scholer arranged Akron banks to issue renewals during the closing days to ease late applicants. Patronize your home merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Plymouth County
le Mars Sentinel
Des Moines
Frank Seboler
Sherif Scholer
Akron
LeMars
Also Mentioned on This Page
Clifton L. Schmidt
Cora Berlin
C. H. Maxson
Clearwater
Calif
Jas, Martin
Bengtson
J. Gale
E Swaliey
Mann's
AB Hansen
Keens Bogenrief
Rf P Cole
Merryman
Hochs
Benter
Hf McGoff
Seon
Yanef
Houts
Ard
Hansen
Hoefs
Brosaiile
Yenet
Bogenrief
Brosaivile
Chester Johnson
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