Akron Notes on Vacations, Streets, and Local Praise
Shorty Vacations visits, Kansas City trip smooth, highways praised, air conditioning welcomed, and return to cooler air discussed. Locals comment on bright street stripes reducing parking, demand for closer lines, and loss of spots. Compliments for First National Bank, Akron Lumber Co, and newspaper coverage follow. Garden vandalism, curfew, and scheduling notes close out with church notices request.
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Akron
Main Street
First National Bank
Akron Lumber Co
Akron Register-Tribune details and pricing note
Akron Register-Tribune published in Akron Iowa by Good News Inc with Shorty Hazel as manager lists subscription rates of 6.00 per year six months 4.00 within Plymouth Sioux Woodbury and Union counties and 7.00 per year elsewhere. The paper is a weekly Thursday issue established in 1901 and circulated in multiple counties across Iowa and South Dakota.
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Akron
Plymouth County
Iowa
Plymouth
Sioux
Woodbury
Union County
S.D
Chatsworth social notes travel and visits
Mrs Henry Salim-ona and Mrs Henry Collmann with G Moller attended a dinner and luncheon in Hartley Iowa. Jim Moller called at the Collmann home. Mrs E Repp and Mrs Clara Satt hoff were business callers in Orange City. Mrs Henry Collmann and Mrs Jack Lake of Sioux City visited Sioux Center for business. Tim Dennison left for YMCA Camp Foster Spirit Lake for a week. Dennison party visits Chamberlain South Carolina over the 4th. Mrs Charles Hendricks took Don Hendricks family sightseeing in Chicago. Visitors at the Bultman home for the 4th included Franklin Hemmerick and family Tom Steene and family. Mrs Shirley Lowell and son Michael were dinner guests at the Hendricks home. E Repp and Clara Satt hoff called Alcester South Carolina. The Ludwigs family of Cambridge Minnesota spent the weekend with Henry and family. H B Schweisow of Hawarden visited George Moehlmann. Mrs G Moller made a Sioux City business call last week.
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E. Repp
Clara
Thoff
Orange City
Henry Collmann
Jack Lake
Sioux City
Sioux ‘Center
Tim Dennison
Foster
Spirit Lake
H. C. Steckelberg
Charles Hendricks
Lynn Carlson
St. Charles
Don Hendricks
Chicago
Dennis Bultman
Franklin Hemmerrick
Tom Steene
Shirley Lowell
Michael
Clara Satthoff
Alcester
S.C
Lowell Ludwigs
Cambridge
Minn
Henry Ludwigs
H. B. Schweisow
Hawarden
George Moehlmann
G. Moller
Western Iowa Tech Board Sets July 14 Meeting
The Board of Directors of Western Iowa Tech Community College will meet Monday, July 14, in the campus board rooms at 4647 Stone Avenue, Sioux City. The session begins at 7:30 p.m.
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Western Iowa ‘Tech Community College
Stone Avenue
Sioux City
Hometown paper delight continues despite years away
A subscriber from Akron, now living elsewhere, sends a renewal check and expresses continued enjoyment of the hometown paper. The note notes familiar names and faces in local news and mentions their daughter Colleen Hall, a UCLA student chosen for Education Abroad. She departs August 12 for a year of study at Gear-August University in Goettingen, Germany, to continue anthropology.
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Akron
Colleen Hall
UCLA
Gear-August University
Goettingen
Germany
All Class Reunion of 1975 Thanks Akron Community
A note extends gratitude to Akron and vicinity for a wonderful day Saturday June 28 1975. It credits the planning committees and the town including the school board golf club and local churches for making the All Class Reunion of 1975 a memorable success for the class of 1934.
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Akron
Sona Horton Granted Junior Membership in Angus Association
Sona Horton of Akron, listed as a junior member of the American Angus Association at St Joseph Missouri, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Wayne Horton. The membership allows register at regular rates and privileges until age 21 with conversion to lifetime membership later. Seventeen three youths nationwide received junior memberships last month.
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Sona Horton
Akron
Community Calendar of Meetings and Circles
Community calendar lists meetings from July 10 to July 16 including Commercial club and School board on July 10, Hospital board on July 11, First Baptist WBMS Namoni and Sarah circle on July 16 at 1:30 p.m. and Westport Farm Bureau women at 2 p.m. on July 16.
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Commercial Club
First Baptist Wbms
Namoni
Sarah Circle
Westport Farm Bureau
Open house marks 25th anniversary in Akron
Mr and Mrs Claytons celebrate 25th wedding anniversary with open house Sunday from 2 to 5 p m at Akron Legion hall hosted by their children Michael and Annette Hoesing Thomas and Karen Small Joesph and Karen Small. Marilyn Davis and Clayton Small wed July 10 1950 in Laverne Minnesota.
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Claytons
Small
Sibley
Iowa
Akron
Akron Legion Hall
Michael
Annette) Hoesing
Thomas Small
Sioux City
Karen
Hawarden
Joesph
Marilyn Davis
Clayton Small
Laverne
Minnesota
Smith Lorensen Smith Lorensen vows in Akron ceremony
Mr and Mrs Gary Lorensen Smith Lorensen united in marriage on June 21 1975 at 2 pm in Immanuel Lutheran Akron. Rev David J Roy officiated the double ring ceremony. The couple will reside on a farm near Akron with families named from Beresford Hawarden and Akron.
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Tina Smith
Gary Lorensen
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Akron
David J. Roy
Robert Anderson
Beresford
S.D
Margaret Anderson
Hawarden
Orville Sorensen
Cindy Chriswisser
Barb Vande Pol
Jeanne Johannsen
Rick Lorensen
Mark Horton
Mark Klemme
Jill Horton
Jeff Lorensen
Troy Anderson
Todd Giffin
Russel van Beek
Virgil Gabel
Vanita Olson
Gary Tucker
Rick Sorensen
William Young
Peoria
Roger Hodgson
Kathryn Carr
Lindy Anderson
Cleo Westling
Robin Giffin
Union Clay county Farm Bureau picnic date set
Union Clay county Farm Bureau picnic will be held Sunday July 13 at the 4 H building in Vermillion. Pot luck dinner at 12 30. Bring your own dishes and silver coffee will be furnished.
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Union-Clay County Farm Bureau
Vermillion
Pressure canner gauge testing across three towns
Union county residents may have pressure canners tested for accuracy on July 9 at the Beresford Bank basement 9 30 am July 10 at Elk Point city auditorium and July 11 at North Sioux City hall Canners are tested through a full canning cycle and must bring the entire unit including seals lid and petcock There will be educational displays on food preservation and appointments are advised If unavailable contact the Extension office for individual testing times
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Union County
Beresford Bank
Elk Point City Auditorium
City Hall
Sioux City
Snow Engagement Announces Mary Snow to Randy Wilms
Mr and Mrs Wendell Snow announce the engagement of their daughter Mary to Randy Wilms son of Mr and Mrs Henry Wilms of rural Akron. The couple plans an August wedding. Mary is a 1975 Akron Community High School graduate and Randy a 1974 graduate and is engaged in farming.
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Wendell Snow
Mary
Randy Wilms
Henry Wilms
Akron
Akron Community High School
Randy
Maria Stroms piano students recital at First Baptist Akron
A summer piano recital was presented by Maria M. Strom and her students at 2 30 p m on Sunday July 6 at the First Baptist Church in Akron. Participants included Brenda Barinsky DeeDee Carlson Chris Miller Michelle Strom Cynthia Klemme Kathy Klemme Jennifer Smith Hawarden Sandy Ryan and Chris Schoenfelder of Westfield.
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Maria M. Strom
First Baptist Church
Akron
Brenda Barinsky
DeeDee’Carlson
Chris Miller
Michelle Strom
Cynthia Klemme
Kathy Klemme
Jennifer Smith
Hawarden
Sandy Ryan
Chris Schoenfelder
Westfield
Fletcher family reunion in Akron hosts many relatives
The Fletcher family reunion was held June 29, 1975 at the Akron Legion hall. Attendees included Edgar Fletcher and multiple Fletcher relatives from Des Plaines Enceno Batavia Elk Point Sioux City Palatine Dell Rapids and more. Akron area members also attended. Another reunion is planned for the first week in August 1977.
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Fletcher
Akron Legion Hall
Akron
Edgar Fletcher
Dick Fletcher
Des Plaines
Jim Fletcher
Enceno
Calif
Gene Moehling
Batavia
Ill
Tom Fletcher
Quigley Fletcher
Palatine, Jr
Curt Johnson
Dell Rapids
S.D
Bill Busker
Former teacher visits student after 60 years
Mrs. Hazel Nelson of Hyde Park Utah visited Mrs. Clara Wetrosky at her home reconnecting after 60 years. Nelson had taught Wetrosky at the Johnson Township Center School and the two had not seen each other since.
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Hazel Nelson
Hyde Park
Utah
Clara Wetrosky
Wetrosky
Johnson Township Center
Bredall Family Reunion Marks 14th Gathering in 1974
The 14th annual Bredall reunion was held June 22 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Franz Schneider in Le Mars. Attendees traced lineage to J. C. Bredall and Maren Bredall Juhl, with relatives from Akron, Remsen, Alcester, Spencer, Hawarden, and other towns. Letters of greeting came from relatives in California, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado. The next reunion will celebrate the 100th anniversary year of Christian J. Bredall’s arrival in America.
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Neil McLane
Ahentes
Akron
Roger Kasac
Huron
S.D
Richard Olson
Minneapolis
Birk
Sioux Falls
Mike McLane
Bloomington
Minn
New York City
Bredall
Franz Schneider
North Ovens
Christian Jensen
Union County
South Dakota
Schleswig
Denmark
J. C. Bredall
Dewey Bredall
Spencer
Andre Bredall
Glen Ivens
James Ivens
Madisonville
Tenn
Doug Jane
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Chicago, Sr
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Wauseca, Minn
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Worthington
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Ellwood City
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Murray, Ia
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Ray Andresen
Jane
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Holly
Albany
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Yankton
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Riversdale
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Johnson Home
Fla
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Wash
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Sheldon
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Arden Johnson
Boni
Wendi
Kathy
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Ian Quelle
Scott
Bear Lake
Harley Lewison
Jo-Ellen (Heyl)Baack
Sheila
Lois
Heyl
Rosse
Oregon
Lyle Baldwin
Alexandria, la
Kenneth Small
Sibley, Ia
Basil Blum
Lawton, Ia
Roscoe Small
Kevin of
le Mars
Ramona
Renee Going
Lawton
Jerome Blum
Mary Snow
Maria Strom
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