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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
3
Special correspondent notes Mrs E H Spaulding’s illness the heat taking a toll on patients and Ak ron visitors James Burnight owns Westfield’s first car. Several locals travel to Iowa City Ethan S D for a 70th birthday and to Topeka and Seattle. Congregational church ice cream social set for August 6 with Rev James ordination service. Dr Bushnell buys a new automobile that balks on Main Street.
Frank Clark returns to Schumacher meat market work as Adventist tent meetings open locally. D K Bennett visits Hawarden show and Orange City school plans unfold. The Battle of Life to be staged at Chatsworth opera house on August 2 with Hillard Amber Wight company.
Elmer Jacobson and Nels Tollefson repair threshing rigs as harvest peaks with winter wheat complete and spring wheat and oats cut this week. Grandma Tollefson visits from Wisconsin with Mrs Parker. Mrs L Green visits W B Wilkenson's home, returning to Sioux City with niece Flossie Wilkenson. Mr and Mrs Antone Jacobson visited their daughter near Akron and met a new granddaughter last week.
Reading contains scattered items: L. N. Cru endled on his mother Monday afternoon. The hard rain that visited us Saturday night was much needed. Mrs. Harkness of Akron visited her granddaughter, Mrs. Job French, last Sunday.
Special correspondence notes harvesting underway in Adaville. Mentions visits by Mr. Mauer of LeMars and Rev. G W Mills from Sioux City. Akron residents Kenaston and Fay Bradley visit, plus Mrs Anna Green and Misse from LeMars. Quarterly U S church meeting set for Friday night August 7. Ice cream social at Grebner home netted $18.15. Hawarden visitors Mia and Will Sullivan with sister-in-law Mrs Louis Hauswali. Plymouth County Sunday School remains active.
Notices announce sealed bids for Chatsworth Iowa school building sale excluding furniture with bids due August 1 1908 and bid opening at 1 pm. Also proposed school house erection bids due by August 7 1908 with plans available in Chatsworth Iowa and contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Both notices date July 8 1908 signed H B Pau and H B Para respectively.
Notice warns threshers hay stackers and others that rural telephone wires must have sixteen feet clearance over public crossings and twelve feet over private crossings. The Alison Telephone Co manager says wire-breakers will be held liable for labor and repair costs.
Notices advertise 6 cent per line rates for trade items and sales. Entries include a gold watch for a typewriter, a six-room house on a corner, two young bulls Hereford and shorthorn, and residence property in Akron with eight acres for fruit growing or poultry. Inquiries directed to the REISTER-TRIBUNE office.
The schedule shows trains departing from The Table TRAINS GOING NO WUT. No. 101 Passenger at 11 08 a m and No. 103 at 6 06 p m. Sunday No. 31 at 11 03 a m. Freight No. 08 at 8 37 a m and No. 71 at 8 55 p m. Southbound No. 122 Passenger 12 42 a m and No. 106 at 8 29 p m. Sunday No. 36 Passenger 8 29 p m. Freight No. 92 at 1 80 p m plus No. 72 at 7 00 a m. Runs daily except Saturdays and Sundays per listed patterns.
A Missouri newspaper man was perforated by buckshot from a local grocer over a misprinted advertisement. The grocer intended a phrase about a fresh stock of dairy butter but a printer altered a letter, inflaming the dispute.
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