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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1950
Page
4
Akron Register Tribune supplement dated July 27 1950. Contains local notices and society items from Akron Iowa with brief notices, society columns, ads, and community announcements typical of mid-century small-town newspapers.
Local news brief highlights community farming supply promotions at McLane's Cash & Carry and Waterbury's Dairy. A string of visits from Gary Indiana and Sioux City guests, a July picnic at Laurel Nebraska, and Augustana Placement Bureau news note Elinor Winquist’s new teaching post in Anthon Iowa. Many regional families listed with travel and kinship.
Notice announces a Des Moines Register and Tribune want ad service through Akron office. It offers information on ads, writing help, and mailing. Emphasizes broad reach for farm land sales, farm sales, and equipment in Des Moines surrounding counties.
Waterbury's Dairy offers Half and Half at 25c per pint while Harpo Woodworks promotes picket fences. Mc Lane's Cash and Carry advertises daily savings. Dr Gerdes Optician hawarden and Glasses refund if not fitting. Farmers Co-Op Akron touts fresh linseed oil at new low price. Mm-mm good.
Dorothy Heasley, 18, granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Heeren of Vancouver and daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Heasley of Ridgefield, chosen as pioneer sweetheart for Vancouver 125th anniversary celebration. She attends Ridgefield High School, height 5 feet 4 inches, 108 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Dorothy, a senior who starred in the play Love Is Too Much Trouble in April, served as Pep Club president, Ridgefield Future Homemakers of America secretary, and was elected carnival queen last year. She graduated from high school last Friday after attending Battle Ground and LaCenter schools.
The Spink Livestock Club met at the L.8 S. Tweet home on July 11 with two members absent. The next meeting will be at the August Huebner home on August 1. Achievement Day is set for August 16-17 at Alcester. Members will begin constructing the float at the next meeting and are urged to attend.
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