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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1943
Page
2
The Akron Iowa publication lists annual subscription at 2 dollars six months at 1 dollar and three months at sixty cents. Issued weekly on Thursdays and entered as second class mail at Akron post office since September 26, 1901.
Dinner guests at the Vernon Sayles home Sunday included Mrs. Lovina Jeffries and her daughter and son Jack from Elk Point, Mrs. Iva Fennel and daughter from Omaha, Glenn Sayles, Margaret Brunner, and Miss Hattie Sayles who called during the afternoon.
Anne Harrington returns from Omaha with family. Westfield residents host and visit relatives in Sioux City and Vermillion. As You Like It club held bridge tables. Opal Hummel won high, Eva Lilly drew prize, Katherine Brown low. Guild plans and meetups noted. 4-H club hosts pot-luck. Local youths enlist in the Marine Corps as World War II service continues.
Mr and Mrs Frank Vondrak announce the approaching marriage of daughter Evelyn to Sgt Clark Hansen of Indianapolis Indiana set for June 6. The wedding will be in the post chapel at Indianapolis. Three Hinton girls Lois Held Lois Helm and Roberta Hasek win offices at Morningside College for next year. Dorothy Brown has been president of Kappa Zeta Chi this year. The community notes athletic talent from Milnerville and Morning side College. Arden Brown sold a load of cattle in Sioux City. Relatives of Allard learn of a Philippines death of William Allard a seaman first class reported missing a year ago and later confirmed by prisoners held by the Japanese. Iowa experiences a warm spell with temperatures in the nineties though rainfall remains below normal. Priscilla Milner visits for a holiday weekend. Mrs L B Foster and daughter shop in Sioux City. Mrs Henry Husted also shopped. Mrs LaBahn, caregiver to Mrs Richard Milner, moved to another case, while Audrey and mother were ill. Mr Milner and Audrey traveled to Sioux City for supplies. Milnerville No 4 school closed for the week. Memorial Day weekend was warm but wet enough to deter cemetery visits for some. Liberty 4-H club meets June 10 at Doris Baer’s home. Harvey Muecke sold two lots of Cantonite in Chicago, topping market twice. Vincent Feauto now a pilot with a Buffalo NY aircraft firm. the Feauto family once lived in Milnerville. Mrs Robert Dreeszen returns from an army camp in Virginia. Robert Dreeszen is their grandson. Glenn Bernhardt is recovered and may return to work soon.
Mr and Mrs Floyd Fletcher and son and Mr and Mrs Dalt Ballinger of Elk Point called on Mrs Flossie Bright of Alcester Sunday. Miss Maude Fletcher left for Denver for the summer. Lora Fletcher will teach in Garretson next fall. Mrs Charles Mark of Compton and Mrs Robert Cates of Jefferson were guests of Mrs Jessie Bihlmeyer. Ray Fletcher and children and Betty Johnson visited Lawrence Fletcher Sunday. Dewey Maynard and William Meeves hosted supper guests.
Miss Beatrice Roth of Geddes wed Patrick Gant in a May 24 nuptial mass at St. Anne's Geddes. The bride, a Mitchall nursing graduate, wore white satin with diamonds.attendants Viola Roth and Ray Gant wore blue. A three course dinner followed at St Anne's school with thirty guests.
An elaborate three tier cake served as the center of attention for a wedding attended by out of town guests including Mr and Mrs Frank Roth and son Albert of Elgin Nebraska John Roth of Hartington Nebraska Sylvester Roth of Fordyce Nebraska Mr and Mrs Hubert Hermes of Wynot Nebraska Mr and Mrs Hubert Gartner of Platte South Dakota Father Healy of Platte South Dakota Mrs T A Dennison and daughter Helen of Westfield Indiana Mrs Wm Connolly of Big Point South Dakota Mrs Steve Gant W B Gant and sons Bill and Pan of Akron Indiana and Eileen Gant of Sioux City The couple departed on a two week wedding trip.
Chevrolet dealers report 8,648,254 pounds of scrap collected in the last month, with nine month total at 206,303,360 pounds. Iron and steel and other metals reach 191,506,456 pounds, while 14,796,905 pounds come from other scrap and materials. The Victory Service League promotes patriotism, blood donation, War Bond sales, and support for war programs through Chevrolet dealers and its vast membership.
The article outlines three fundamentals for high quality milk cleanliness temperature and delivery frequency. It notes summer challenges and offers practical tips such as sun drying cleaned utensils and new two minute separator washing methods. It stresses udder cleaning, pond hygiene, rapid cooling, and daily delivery for whole milk plants.
Brig General Grahl head of the Selective Service in Iowa urges all young men to pursue mechanical training at war production centers during induction. He says much of the war is mechanical and such training aids progress in the armed services. He notes training is available at the New Government plant War Manpower Commission NYA Division at 100 Division Street in Sioux City Iowa and urges patronage of local merchants.
Akron area men enter military service and training in 1943. Cpl Arlo R Baier, son of Mrs Olga Baier of Akron Iowa, arrives at Army Air Forces Technical Training Command Post Scott Field Illinois for radio operating and mechanics training to join bomber crews. Philip Eugene Aalts, 21, son of Clarence J and Mrs. Aalts Akron Iowa, completes Camp Barkeley Officer Candidate School class XVI and earns a commission as a second lieutenant in the Medical Administrative Corps. New officers to receive 10 day graduation leaves before assignments, under Brig Gen Roy C Heflebower and Col George E Armstrong with Major Miles G Bell.
Vermillion Plain Talk reports Mrs. G. W. Pratt, a 105-year-old resident of 418 Cottage Avenue, turned over five handmade pillows to the local American Red Cross. Having lived through the Civil War Spanish-American War World War I and now witnessing the present conflict she contributes as part of the women's home front.
St Patrick's Akron schedules Holy Mass on the first, third, and fifth Sundays at 8:00 a.m. and the second and fourth Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Confessions are at 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Saturdays before the first, third, and fifth Sundays, with confessions at 9:30 a.m. on the other weekends and 8:00 a.m. before Mass on the second and fourth Sundays. Father C Ernst is pastor.
Iowa Plymouth County probate notice informs Sade M. Scott and others that a will purportedly of Winfield Finley Scott was filed May 11 1943. Final proof and hearing are set for June 14 1943 at 10:00 a m at the District Court Clerk's office. Earl F. Remer is Plymouth County District Court Clerk.
On June 1 1943 Cor a Johnson was named Administratrix of the estate of Jimetine Meether deceased by the District Court of Plymouth County Iowa All creditors must file claims with authentication for court allowance and debtors must pay the estate Publish dates June 3 10 and 17 1943
Executrix Roseberry and Pitts seeks debts for the Louis Meether estate in Plymouth Iowa with May 11 1943 filing. A Sioux City naturalization tally reports 113 new citizens on May 23 including multiple nationalities. no soldier petitions noted.
One repatriation note lists nine Plymouth county residents gaining naturalization. Among them two hail from Akron area, including John Henry Miniets from Germany and Gustafe Oscar Ragnar Johnson from Sweden, with A. J. Claeys advertising poultry at Tri-State location and phone 4511.
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