Akron Area News Notes and Local Weather Specials
Local items cover barrel salt prices at Hedges Elevator, farm visits from Sioux City, a range of goods from lawn mowers to oil stoves sold by Krauer Bros, and a flood storm that damaged town streets and rail track north of Westfield. Memorial Day gatherings, visits among relatives, and a postponement of an auction are also noted, along with Akron baseball results.
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Hedges
W. W. Burrill
Sioux City
Klauer Bros
Ethan Allen Monr
Farmers Grain Co
Orn Barr
A. G
Akron
M. B. Legate
Mena
Ark
J. G. Snyder
Elmer Greenleaf
A. G. A. Palm
Mr. Palm
Ethan Allen
Jos. Pelroy
Wagner
Jessie Williams
Hawarden
Papritz
Clair Biddlecome
H.R. Anderson
H. Shoulberg
McKillips
Fred Dudley
Sioux Falls
Qua. W. Dudley
Alex. Card
L. Barrington
Sanitary Plumbing & Heating Co
Priscilla Lamoureux
Delia Lacroix
Salix
Iowa
Ed. Lamoureux
M. A. Keniston
Lemmon
M. D
A. Strobel
Westfield
Akron Stockyards
Honor Nation's Soldiery Memorial Day Observance
Memorial Day ceremonies drew large crowds despite light rain. Veterans groups led processions from Savings Bank corner to Riverside and Catholic cemeteries, placing floral tributes and saluting flags. Lincoln Gettysburg address and Harding proclamation were read, taps sounded, and prayers offered. A later Memorial Sunday service at Immanuel Lutheran featured Rev. Wrenn, Rev. Lindeblad, and Rev. Prewitt with a male chorus and patriotic hymnody.
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Women's Relief Corps
American Legion and
Women's Auxiliary
Savings Bank
J. W. Kennedy
Lincoln
G. H. Taylor
the Legion
Harding
L. L. Burrill
Hoschler Post
American Legion
R. E. Mellen
Relief Corps
Legion
Antos
Wrenn
Riverside
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Union Memorial
G. A. R. W. R. C. American Legion and Women's Auxiliary
W. A. Lindeblad
Carl Hammer
W. B. Prewitt
Lindeblad
End of Year School Program Honors Prompt Pupils
All district parents and others gathered at the school last Friday for a short program by the children. A lunch followed and ice cream and cake were served. Several pupils were neither absent nor tardy in the last month, with Ruby Bradley honored as the one scholar who was never absent or tardy for the whole year. The Third grade finished their weaving baskets in the last week of school. ETHEL KERR, Teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nannie
Ellen
David Peterson
Marlon
Marie
Dorothy
Kenneth Hultgren
Edna
Wilma Olson
Ruby
Harlan Bradley
Lloyd Johnson
Floyd Wilcox
Harold Peck
Violet Anderson
Levi
Lester Kapfer
Ruby Bradley
Ethel Kerr
Commencement Week at Akron High School Events
Commencement week features a Baccalaureate service at the Baptist church with Rev. Carl Hammer delivering Building a Life to eight graduates of Akron High School. Senior class play And Home Came Ted airs at the opera house tonight, followed by the commencement exercises tomorrow with six women and two men receiving diplomas, address by Prof. B. Shimek of Iowa State University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clase
Baptist Shurch
Carl Hammer
Akron Weigh School
Union Choir
H. Shouberg
John W. ‘Ay
Ted
Opera House
Akron High School
Carmel C. Coyle
Evelyn E. Edgar
Besse L. Stoutenburg
Lucy E. McConville
Margaret B. Cunningham
Viola Rossbach Kanago
Carl Elmer Hammer
Arthur A. Montagne
Shimek
State University of Iowa
Portland Schools Picnic Delights County Friends
Editor invites space as Portland Indépendent District hosts Picnic Day on Friday May 20. about 100 pupils joined the event with songs America and patriotic decorations. Teachers receive praise for planning, and Mrs Schmidt brings a hayrack display. Community notes on church activities follow.
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Portland
Hegister Tripune
Bugsy
Robt. Schmidt
Stony Point School
Iowa
America
Methodist Church Notes Miss McCormick Speaks Sunday Evening
Miss McCormick will speak Sunday evening at eight o'clock about the dire conditions in Armenia. She has studied the reports of Turkish oppression and the famine and killings affecting the Armenian people. Attendees are urged to attend for this informative talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss McCormick
Armenia
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J. Searls
A. Ginsberg
Ida Cohen
Wthel Moir
Maurice
C. R. Moir
Henry Tripp
Ehubbard
Nebr
J. G. Clayton
Bert Port
Olive Mills
C. J. Lennon
Mobridge
A. L. Yeadton
J. B. Memming
J. L. Caskey
Kate Marley
Nelie Hammer
Gladys Prewitt
Elk Point
Maude Fletcher
C. M. Hilliker & Son
Vermillion
Riversioux Park
Automatic Telephone Co
H. 8
H. S
Clifford Aalfs
Skully
Metz
HE. S
L. Koch
H. Feltis
M. Hitzeman
Orlan Moore
Empress Theatre
Tom MIX
Wm. S. Hart
William
Hart Productions
Hart
West
Hart Loveg
Great Southwest
Soming
Wesley-Freckles
Barry
Dinty
Jack London
Elsinore
Bryant Washburn
Laugster
West Union School Notes
Ity Tao
LeMara
Ladies' Aid
Mesdames Wendt
Weldon
Sykes
Epworth League
VESTA
Akron-Electric-Coaeron
Methodist Church
Hamilton-Brown
A. Metz
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