Local items from Akron area and surrounding communities
Daughters born to Mr and Mrs Herman Hitzamann and Mrs Mary Bly among the August 1898 events. A three year old Pol lock child injures his arm in an accident. A nine pound boy joined the Palm household on July 30 1898. Crop prospects reported favorable with no rain needed for a rich yield. Roy Adams bicycled from Akron to Marshalltown Iowa for the Iowa Good Templars grand lodge session. William Lewis farm hand dies of heart disease at M O’Meara home east of Chatsworth on July 31 1898. Boys anticipate Uncle Dave Smiths melon patch and the two week hookin season. Mary Bly mother of Wm and Frank Bly dies Aug 1 1898 in Akron aged 65. A D McGinnis returns to Akron and opens a cigar factory in the old Plymouth hotel block site. Akron Belle and Plymouth cigars are named first. Portland township Republicans caucus names delegates for county convention at LeMara led by Geo A Jeffers with F W Sargent H Campbell James Roas John Ruble Hoyson Ross Geo L Gear R R Pollock A H Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
eRoy Adams
Akron
Marshalltows
Iowa
Good Templars Grand Lodge
William Lewis
M. O'Meara
Chatsworth
Dave" Smith
Mary Bly
Frank Bly
A.D. McGinnis
Plymouth
Portland Township
Geo. A. Jeffers
LeMara
F. W. Sargent
Rev. H. 3. Campbell
James Roas
John Ruble
Hoyson Ross
Geo. L. Gear
R. R. Pollock
A. H. Smith
James Rasmussen
Hansa
Marathon
Wif
Ida Grove
Rats
Muskrats
M. A. Agnes Farm
Harl Chandler
Ed. Neary
Ade Smith
Will Ross
Pete” Smythe
Neary
Ross
Mrrors
I. R. M. Beeson
St. Louis
Christian Home
Council Bluffs
H.R. Lemen
Boy's Life Saved By Remedy Fight Dysentery
William 8 Strovine of Carbon Hill Alabama credits Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving his four year old son after two doctors gave up. He urges giving it with chamomile as directed and claims it cures many children yearly. An advertisement appears in the Want Column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Carbon Hill
Als
Cobb
Local mentions and notices from Akron and area
Local readers hear about livestock milk prices and sales at Akron Creamery. Various residents travel to Sioux City, Kimball and Yankton for business and visiting friends. A hail storm damages crops in Johnson Township while post offices urge proper road maintenance for rural delivery. A local baseball novelty game entertains town folks as church events and community notices appear in the Akron column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pupritz Brothers
P. X. O'Rilley
Sioux City
Mies Muriel Ross
Kimball
Akron Creamery
C. M. Hilliker & Son
Henke & Son
Quartz gold deposit found in Union county farm
Albert Waterbury reports a quartz vein on his father George Waterbury’s farm five miles NW of town in Sioux Valley township. A 12 foot vein over roughly 80 acres yielded about eighty cents in gold per ton per assay, with further testing planned. Local coal along Big Sioux valley remains nonpayable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union County
D. D
Albert Waterbury
George Waterbury
Sioux
Valley Township
Waterbury
Guartz
Bluffs
Big Sioux Valley
Embroidery Club Entertains Guests At Home
Embroidery club ladies and their husbands entertained at the Brady home for visiting guests Mr. and Mrs. Myatt of David City Nebraska and Mrs Lafayette March of Cedar Falls Iowa. A long lawn table was decorated with sweet peas and nasturtiums and forty guests dined at seven. The event featured spelt games and a religious supper followed by social time on the lawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Embroidery Club
Brady
Neil Robertson
Lafayette Murch
Karl Myatt
and Fields
Searls
Also Mentioned on This Page
T. F. Rush
THE
Hanford Produce CO
John Martin
Akron Station
New Kendall Hotel
G. H. Wooton
Oftve
Clark-Dilley Building
N.J. Brown
Successon
A. Gur
Wamme, Sammis & Bradley Attorneys AT Law
Trial Aid
First Nat'l Bank
Lemars
Lowa
Farrington
Farrington Land Co
N.D
Hettinghr
North Dakota
N. J. Williams
BE. Douglass
L. J. Conger
Baker Building
Hirst
1St National Bank
Akron Tribune
Herman Hitzamann
A. G. A. Palm
Akron Milling Company
Miller's
Kendall
Jesele Searla
Miss Swett
Elk Point
Hanford Co
Okie Morford
Midland
Edith Martin
Johnson Township
Mound
Cobh
H. D. Mohr
Antrum Jenkins
Yankton
8. D
Carl W. Carlson
East Reed Street
T. P. Guernsey
Theodora
G. Yeaton
Richard Gardner
W. T
Frankin Rust
Muria
Walter McCorkell
Jos
McCorkell
Wm. Hyink
Alton
Libbie
Nellie Searls
Rockford
Pecatonica
Illinois
Migs Fern Anderson
D. J. Searls
Peter Becker
Justice Smith
Carl Bryant
Merrill
Carl
W. C. Bryant
Vermillion
M. A. Agnes
Henry
Plankinton
S. D
Agnes
Ketray
Old Hoga
Hve Young
Ernest Ostrom
Wesfield _township
Edgington
Biddledome
Western Union College
Norman Deranacan
Lk Music
Vaice
LY. Turner
D. E. Thomas
Our Savings Bank
Akron Savings Bank
Tuos. Suisvos
Pres
Geo Way
C.G. Brapt
B. H.younesmom
Asat
Akron Lumber CO
Akrog and Chatsworth
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