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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1949
Page
6
July 4 crowd near 2500 watches Vermillion Eagles overpower Akron Indies 11 to 6. Lefty starters struggle. Molstad and Horning power the late rally, Horning clearing the bases with a grand homer over left field.
Miss Ruth Van Alstine reports progress in Plymouth county tuberculosis case finding. Tests and chest X-rays will be offered at a July conference run by the State Health Department and the Iowa Tuberculosis and Health Association. Early detection offers the best chance for cure and public health officials urge those exposed to get tested.
Trinity Lutheran Church announces Sunday school and Bible class at 10:00 a.m. Divine worship at 11:00 a.m. A Father-Son banquet is planned for 6:30 p.m. in the church parlors. Mission Circle meets in Beresford. choir practice Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. Luther League on the church lawn Wednesday evening attended by Maryin and Lester Meske. Ladies' Aid meets Thursday afternoon hosted by Mrs. Stryzewski. Mary Lou Pollock and Mabel Long attend Luther League Training School at Cedar Falls. Religious pictures Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Ruth and Stephen shown at the Methodist church.
The notice lists a 7 00 p m divine worship service a 8 00 p m Father Son banquet at Trinity on Sunday evening and an 8 00 ice cream social at Chatsworth on Thursday evening July 14 inviting all to worship with the church communities.
Church school at 10 06 a m led by Mrs John Winquist superintendent. The Ladies Association will meet in the church parlors on Wednesday at 2 30 p m with Mrs J H Kerr as hostess. Program Things We Like to Do directed by Mrs Truman Campbell and Mrs Chas Allen.
Local residents share visits and vacations across multiple states and towns. Mrs. Freda Popken visits Hawarden. Karl Silkebakken and sons Dennis and Don vacation in the Jack Hills area. Mrs. Henry Meinen of Emery visits daughter Richard Frerichs.
Officers and Akron city officials unite to stage a proactive anti fly drive urging households to assemble refuse for Monday pickup July 11. Residents advised to use fly tight cans and wrap garbage, while streets and alleys will be sprayed with a DDT fog. A fly control committee led by Dr. C. R. Mason and Robert Adams directs the effort.
The Immanuel Lutheran Church announces services led by Pastor David J. Roy. Sunday includes Sunday school at 10:15 a.m. and Bible class at 11:20 a.m. Morning worship at 8:00 p.m. features messages from the films Ruth and Stephen at the Methodist church. Wednesday Missionary Society meets at 2:30 p.m. in church parlors with hostess Mrs. Lester Parker and program chair Mrs. Brie Olund.
Friday evening at 8 hosts Emil Kochs welcome church board in the church parlors. Sunday services include 9 55 morning worship and 11 o clock Sunday school and Bible class. Evening worship at 8 features films Ruth and Stephen at the Methodist Church. Thursday at 2 30 ladies aid in church parlors hosted by Mrs Lloyd Baum and Mrs Albin Carlson.
The Adaviel Evangelical United Brethren Church invites worship on Sundays with regular services and choir practice. Big Springs Baptist Church lists morning worship, Sunday school, and Union service with events including a motion picture, summer camps at Swan Lake, and a week of hot, dry weather with temperatures near the high 90s.
The Norka Theatre will show a western Singin Spurs with the Hoosier Hot Shots Patricia White and Kirby Grant a drama Alaska Patrol and a drama with music The Sun Comes Up in technicolor on July 8 9 and 10 11 The bill includes a comedy Hired Wife with Rosalind Russell and Virginia Bruce plus cast listings and musical numbers featuring Jeanette MacDonald and others
Akron Commercial Club urges a city wide clean-up starting immediately to curb promiscuity and improve hygiene. Citizens must clear yards and property of rubbish by Monday morning July 11, 1949, with alleys sprayed and trash wrapped in fly proof cans for disposal. Health officer will inspect after spraying and owners may be charged for removal of remaining filth as a public nuisance.
Mrs Hazel Constantine visited Sioux City on Tuesday. Ada Jordan of Onida South Dakota stayed with her nephew and niece Mr and Mrs D G Ross. Arden E Ross of Tulsa Oklahoma visited relatives and looked after business over the weekend. Mrs W B Christenson of Sioux City visited her sister in law. Mrs William Loudenslager of Sioux Falls visited over Sunday and the Fourth at the Adams home. Mr and Mrs Harold Rossbach and grandson Van Flanders of Ann Arbor Michigan arrived by auto Saturday for a week at the Rossbach home and with relatives nearby.
Akron baseball fell 4 to 3 in ten innings to Vermillion Eagles on the Vermillion field. Key pitching by Jack Whipple and Thesenga kept the game tight, with Akron tying it at 3 on a homer by Swift in the eighth. Final rally in the tenth produced the winning run as Blanchard drove in Des Crider's hit for Vermillion.
Plymouth Presbyterian Church sets Sunday school at 10:00 a m and morning worship at 11:00. Guest speaker Mr Robert Knapp of Denison Iowa will discuss the National Association of Presbyterian Men. Communicant class meets Monday at 1:00, Session at Koch home Tuesday 8:00, Family Night Thursday July 14 sponsored by the Westminster Fellowship. All invited. Robert Rushing minister.
Methodist church announces 10:00 am church school 11:00 am morning worship sermon Man's Barometer 8:00 pm union worship movies Stephen Ruth junior high youth Wednesday 7:30 pm choir rehearsal senior high camp July 10 16 junior high camp August 7 13 Goodwill pickup day Friday bags at parsonage porch church Vanguard of Democracy minister Orville N Nelson ad ends with a call for quick results.
A son was born to Mr and Mrs Norman Siebens east of town at Akron Hospital on July 1 1949 and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Raymond Gibbons of Hawarden on June 23 1949.
Cedar Rapids visitors Gene and Don Harkness stay with grandpa and relatives as Ira Sargent Floyd Hamilton of Keota Oklahoma visits. Others include Miss Nettie Wilcox returning from Canton South Dakota to help ill family. Births, engagements, hospital news, and a California death are noted with multiple local names and places.
The Akron baseball club lost 4 to 3 in Spencer Iowa as Spencer Cardinals, featuring players from Indiana Notre Dame and Town Universities, held off a late Akron rally. Red Kenney and Lefty Swift pitched. Akron twice stranded baserunners and turned sharp double plays to stymie Spencer in a closely contested game before the Cardinals clinched in the ninth.
Mrs. Della Thiel of Santa Monica California is making an extended visit with relatives and friends in Vermillion South Dakota, staying during her trip and enjoying local hospitality as she spends time with family.
Vermillion Bees defeated Akron 16 to 5 on the Akron diamond under a hot sun. Vermillion used strong hitting for 13 safeties and forced four Akron errors to seize the lead by the fourth inning. Akron pitchers Morehead Blum and Anderson shared duties with Anderson finishing the game. Burbank visits for a league game on Sunday July 10 at 2:30 p.m.
Ply mouth county Iowa owners and those in possession or control are reminded of the amended weed law printed on another page. The law requires no further notice before the County Weed Commissioner destroys weeds after 80 days of publication, with all costs assessed against the landowners.
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