Old Timers to Battle Akron Nine This Sunday Evening
The Akron league team hosts a reunion game Sunday July 31 at 8 00 pm in Akron park pitting notable former Akron players against the present squad old timers include Bill Enockson Howard Connors Peron Swalley Chick Merryman Ed Hennessey John Martin Phil Beaubien Bard Lilly Lefty Swift Harold Peck Armand Brown Emery Bob Tucker Cotton Hartmann Hap Davis and others Fans are urged to attend as the match promises a lively clash between yore and today with 50 cent adults 25 cent children under 12 admitted
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Akron League
Akron
Akron Park
Akron Diamond
Bill Enockson
Spencer
Iowa
Howard Connors
Vermillion, D
Peron Swalley
Sanborn
Chick Merryman
Hennessey
Sioux City
John Martin
Phil
Beaubien
Bard Lilly
Westfield
Lefty Swift
Harold Peck
Arden
Armand Brown
Emery
Bob Tucker
Cotton” Hartmann
Yore
Noble Reunion Held in Local Park July 17
The sixth annual Noble relatives reunion occurred at the Legion Hall on July 17 with large attendance from Illinois California Nebraska Minnesota Missouri and other parts of Iowa. Next year’s date was set for the third Sunday in July at the same location. The Sioux Valley Extension Club will meet at Mrs W J Davidson’s home on Friday July 29. Your Mysterys Sister will be revealed.
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Legion Hall
Linois
California
Nebraska
Minnesota
Missouri
Towa
Sioux Valley Extension Club
W. J. Davidson
Death Comes to Harry A Barker
Harry A Barker 63 died July 20 1955 at Hawarden Hospital following a life spent on the Preston township Plymouth county home farm after World War I service. Survived by brothers W E and Walter and Charles, sister Mrs George Fara. Funeral July 24 Plymouth Presbyterian Church with grave at Plymouth Cemetery. Members of Hoschler Post American Legion Akron aided, with a $900 grant from Federal Cartridge Corporation. Campers learn about natural resources through ISU staff and conservation officials guidance through field trips and lectures.
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Harry A. Barker
Hawarden
Mr. Barker
Isaac
Ann Barker
Preston Township
Plymouth
W. E
LeMars
Walter
Charles
Akron
George
Fara
George Barker
Plymouth Presbyterian Church
Charles Kruse
Victor Taylor
John Hillvichs
Andrew Hoagland
Jack McManaman
Walter Westergard
John Weyen
Plymouth Church
Hoschler
Iowa State College
State Conservation Commission
Immanuel Evangelical Church Bible Camp Plans
David J. Roy pastor guides Immanuel Church and union church notices for August camp sessions at Lake Okoboji and Walther League Camp. Activities include Sunday school, morning worship, infant baptism, and Luther League events with trips from Monday to Saturday August 1 to 6.
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Immanuel Eng. Luth
David J. Roy
Augustana Bible Camp
Lake
West Okoboji
Union Creek
Churce
Alcester Bandshell
Moe Parish
Luther League Bible Camp
Walther League Camp
Lake Ukeboji
Wesley Methodist Church Bulletin Time and Events
Wesley Methodist Church announces church school at 10:00 a.m. and morning worship at 11:00 a.m. Sermon titled The Robe as White as Light. Bible Conference for adults July 31 to August 7 at Camp Methods. Goodwill truck to Akron August 4 for clothing donations. Freshman camp August 14 to 21 at Methoji for 9th graders. MYF car wash next Monday and Tuesday in front of the parsonage to fund a Crystal Lake retreat. Appointment by calling 4391. Proceeds support youth retreat costs.
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Akron
Methoji
MYF
Crystal Lake
Local notes report births visits and injuries in town
Alfred Klemme hospital stay in Sioux City. Wichita visitors Jean Dixon. Meske trip to Brookings. Marta Jane Trotzig birth at Dakota Vermilion. legionaux delegates to Des Moines. Mortensen and Witt families hosting guests. Sunday guests from Wilmont Spencer and Denver. Harry Nelson attends National Town and Country Conference in Bloomington. Oralee McLane engaged to Roger Kasa. Gerald Krause injured by combine accident with fractures in toes. treatment at Akron Community Hospital.
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Alfred Klemme
Lutheran Hospital
Sioux City
John Dixon
Jean
Wichita
Kansas
Vivian Waterbury
August Meske
Brookings
S. C
L. Rickless
Marta Jane
Jos. P. Trotzig
Dakota Hospital
Vermilion
Orville Johnson
Robert Pollock
Des Moines
State
American Legion Auxiliary
Henry J. Mortensen
Holly and
Harold
Santa Ana
California
Chris Mortensen
Spencer
Iowa
Albert C. Witt
Mortensen
Witt
A. W. Johnson
E. F. Grant
Wilmont, Minn
Bert Kilpatrick
Spencer, Iowa
Grant
Kirkpatrick
Johnson
Roy
Lloyd Johnson
Richard
William
Denver
Colorado
Amelia Johnson
Ellen Johnson
Alvin Johnson
Dean and David
Junction City
Harry Nelson
Bloomington
Ind
The
Methodist Church
Nelson
University of Indiana
Neil G. McLane
Oralee Ann
Roger Kasa
Henry Kasa
Northfield
Minnesota
McLane
Augustana College
Sioux Falls
Gerald Krause
Amelia Krause
Savas
Gerald
Akron Community Hospital
Akron and Sioux Center Battle Inning by Inning Baseball Tilt
In a Northwest Town league game Akron lost to Sioux Center 8 to 5 after a high scoring first four innings. Grotenhuis and Borchers pitched for Sioux Center and Akron respectively as Grotenhuis hit a homer and W Juffer led Sioux Center with a triple. Fielding highlights included Cliff Miller’s one handed catch.
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Akron
Sioux Center
Jack Borchers
Grotenhuis
S. C
R. Juffer
Sandhutte
Juffer
DeRuyter
Sandhule
W. Juffer
Sandbulte
Tucker
Lihadis
Feauto
Gale
Cliff
Miller
de Vos
Faust
Milbrodt
Dirks
Borchers
Eee Beg
Sioux
Sandhulte
de Ruyter
Lihudis
Kraykes
DeVos
Beernink
Tweet
Beefnink
M. McCarthy
D. McCormick
First Church of Christ to Hold Sunday Services
The First Church of Christ will hold Sunday services at 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. with an evangelistic service at 8:00 p.m. Pastor G. W. Swan will preach at the West Des Moines church in his absence Brother Dan Peters son will lead the pulpit.
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Duble
West Des Moines
Dan Peterson
Akron Community Hospital
Gerald Blake
Harold Peck
Marvin Klemme
Local notes mark visits and anniversaries in Brule area
No Vesper Clu meet this month. Erven Smid returned home after two weeks in a Sioux City hospital. Several residents traveled to visit relatives in Ottumwa Iowa City and El Paso Texas. A July 24 picnic at Esther Hultgren’s included multiple families. Brule Creek church honors Rev J G Hastad and wife on 20th anniversary July 31. July heat records rise with 102 and 101 F, good for corn.
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Erven Smid
Sioux City
Welton Barr
Ottumwa
Iowa
Wm. Reaney
Holiday Ahoy talent show sails to Akron Ball Park
Big home talent production Holiday, Ahoy! opens Thursday and Friday at Akron Ball Park with curtain at 8 07. Spon sored by Akron Commercial Club to raise funds for Booster Day on August 12. Seventy five to a hundred locals portray TV radio and movie stars plus sailors cowboys and an island tribe. Cast includes Jim Klauer Mary Lundberg Marvin Klemme Marilyn Huebner Karl Silkebakken and others in colorful lively scenes with humor and song.
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Akron Ball Park
Akron Commercial Club
Akron
Fiji Islands
Okel Devkel
Jim Klauer
Chris Carver
Fred Claesson
D Jr
Dave Garroway
Ot TV
TODAY
Mary Lundberg
Panama Hattie
Marvin Klemme
Jim Jameson
Marilyn Huebner
Jane Froman
Karl Silkebakken
Barnacle Bill the Sailor
Milton Anderson
Arvin Finzen
Mae Thorson
Johnny Dirks
Lowell Nall
Lee Anderson
Jack Baker
Bill Hall
Sandy Broderson
Paul Woscoff
Claude Brown
Sally Rand
Clark Arnott
Tallulah Bankhead
Henry Stryzewski
Sophie Tucker
Ford Hansen
Gypsy Rose Les
Harold Baker
Mae West
Dale Sypherd
Marilyn Monroe
Akron Junior Legion Baseball Team Breaks Even
The Akron Junior Legion squad split two games last week. They lost 3 to 0 to Yankton Junior All Stars at Yankton, South Dakota, then won 17 to 12 against Hawarden Juniors. Battery were Brown and Krause against Yankton. Heyl Lucken and Brown plus Krause catching against Hawarden. Elk Point Juniors visit August 1 with Akron hosting August 8. Akron Midgets enter Sub-District tournament soon at Sioux Center.
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Akron Junior Legion
Yankton
Krause
Elk Point
Akron
Sioux Center
Trinity American Lutheran Church Weekly Services and Camp
The Trinity American Lutheran Church announces weekly services and events under Pastor Luther A. Meyer. Services on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. in one location and 8:30 a.m. in another, with Sunday school at 9:16 and 9:30 respectively. Wartburg College Junior Bible Camp runs July 31 to August 4 for ages 11 to 14. Church council and staff changes noted, Ladies Aid meets Thursday at 8 p.m. Charity box and welfare slides featured. St Luke verse cited.
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Trinity American Lutheran Church
Luther A. Meyer
Trinity
Akron
Wartburg College
Church Council
Math
Luth
Chatsworth
Emil Anderson
Brule Creek Lath Church Marks 20th Wedding Anniversary
The Brule Creek Lath Church observes the twentieth wedding anniversary of Rev. and Mrs. I G Hastad with an open house from 2:00 to 5:00 p m at the church parlors. Sunday worship at 11:00 led by Pastor I G Hastad. Friends and relatives invited.
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Brule Creek
I. G. Hastad
Pleasant Hill church announces services and social
Pleasant Hill Evangelical United Brethren Church lists Sunday school at 10:00 a m and worship at 11:00 a m. Announcements mention a social in the church basement on August 5 at 8:00 p m. Mrs Paul Papritz is superintendent and Pastor Layen R Adelmann.
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Pleasant Hill
The Register-Tribune Birthday Issue and Local Visits
The Register-Tribune marks Volume 69 with community notes on visits and travels. Darlene Wakeman visits relatives in Sioux Falls while Grover Rollins tours Sioux City family. Mrs Silkebakken heads to San Francisco for kin and friends on the west coast. Regular Legion Auxiliary meeting set for August 2 at Akron City Park. Absent long read: several residents and visitors from Hettinger, Rawlings, Long Beach, LeMars, Massillon, and Westernville appear in social notes. Erven Krause promoted to first lieutenant in the U S Air Force in England, and Arnold Krause likewise a first lieutenant recently reassigned to Montgomery Alabama. The Dirks and Sampson families travel to Rockford to visit CG Leg Schmidt and family and see the Little Brown Church in Nashua, returning home Monday.
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The
Register-Tribune
Darlene Wakeman
Sioux Falls
Dwight
Grover Rollins
Sioux City
Ray Hebeler
Karl Silkebakken
Teft
San Francisco
Galif
West
Mary Brownmiller
Akron Community Hospital
Legion Auxiliary
Akron City Park
Andrew G. Andresen
Lois
Donna
Margaret Anderton
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minn
B. R. Chandler
Hettinger
N. C
Lauren Chandler
Rawlings
Wyo
Clara B. Raish
Clarence Hummel
Bud Waterbury
Harry R. Green
Long Beach
Calif
Ernest Boysen
Arlene Boysen
LeMars
Corley Cavanaugh
Westernville
N. Y
Miss Cavanaugh
New York
Erven Krause
Amelia Krause
U. S. Air Force
England
Arnold Krause
Air Corps
Lincoln
Nebr
Montgomery
Ala
J. Fred Dirks
Charles
John
Joy Sampson
Rockford
Iowa
CG. Leg Schmidt
Little Brown
Vales
Nashua
Dirks
Akron Booster Day Promises Free Festivities For All
Arrangements for Akron's Booster Day on Friday August 12 feature a 1 00 p m street parade with floats bands and Davy Crockett. A 2 00 p m free baseball game Akron vs Remsen follows, then races and sports with prizes. A 5 00 p m free horse show and a park picnic with free ice cream precede an evening address by Don Cunningham at 7 30 p m and two free dances at 9 00 p m sponsored by the Akron Commercial Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Frei
Davy Crockett
Remsen
Don Cunningham
Sioux City
Ball Park
Don
Akron Commercial Club
Akron Youth Selected for State 4-H Conservation Camp
Alan Lucken 16 of Akron and Donna Peterson 17 of Washington Workers club were chosen by Plymouth County Extension to attend Iowa's seventeenth Annual State 4-H Conservation Camp at the State 4-H Camp near Madison July 25 to 29. Lucken has six years in 4-H and soil and water work. Peterson has seven years and her farm demonstrates contouring. The camp is conducted by Iowa State Extension Service. FIRST PLYMOUTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH announcements note services and meetings with a special offering for the Presbyterian camp.
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Alan Lucken
Akron
Iowa
Donna Peterson
Plymouth County Extension Office
Fred Lucken
Alan
Fred
Washington Workers Club
Albert J. Peterson
Donna
Madi
The
Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Extension
Ser
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Gary Hurst
Hulst
Town Public Service Company
IPS
Northern Natural Gas Company
Northern
2. W. Swangon
Iowa Public Service Company
Mr. Swanson
Swanson
First Church OF Christ
Dolliver State ‘Park
Fort Dodge
Swan
G. W. Swan
Berline Lamoureux
Claudia
Joe Hidem
el Paso
Texas
L. J. Cross
Iowa City
Harold Crain
J. G. Hastad
Junior Legion
Gbrule Creek
Bernard Harwig
Kay and
Robert
Massillon
Ohio
Herb Cummins
Ernest W. Johnson
First Plymouth Presbyterian Church
Town
Brotherhood
Ladies’ Aid
Charles R, Kruse
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