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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1940
Page
2
Akron Iowa announces weekly publication with post office entry as second class mail matter dated September 26, 1901, indicating formal mailing status and schedule.
Special Correspondence reports residents visiting relatives in Sioux City Merrill Akron and Waterloo during the Fourth. The Han cock township school board re elected Mrs. W. E. Cowell and Mrs. T. A. Ross. Local farms, 4 H camping plans, dances, and crop progress are noted along with a First National Bank Akron 1940 condition report showing assets of 348 344.80 and FDIC guarantee.
District Court of Plymouth county Iowa appoints Irene Burnight as administratrix of the Katherine Hitze man estate. All debts must be paid to the estate and all claims presented for allowance. Publish dates July 4 11 and 21 1940. Attorneys Roseberry and Pitts filed for the estate.
On the third day of July 1940 the undersigned Plymouth County Iowa Administrator with will annexed of the Estate of Andrew Hanson deceased requests payment to the undersigned and urges those with claims against the estate to present them legally authenticated to the court for allowance. Dated July 3 1940 J K Brady Administrator with will annexed Thomas V Dalton Attorney for Executor Publish July 11 18 and 25 1940.
Mr and Mrs Alve Erickson and Family Mr and Mrs Albert Anderson and Family Albert ina Gassman express gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness during their mother and sister’s illness and death and for memoriam and floral gifts. The notice ends with an advertising line for the Register-Tribune Want Ad.
County Coroner 8, H. Luken at LeMars received a letter from W. R. Howard of Estherville Iowa suggesting the twenty three human skeletons dug up on the Woolworth farm east of James may be from an emigrant train bound for California during the 1848 49 gold rush. The note recounts wagons along the Oregon trail attacked near the Big Sioux river with many killed and buried in haste, a possible overlooked historical incident.
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