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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1954
Page
4
Waterbury Dairy promotes a birthday gift idea by saving lids from Cot tage Cheese and trading four lids for a Lazy Susan at $2.59 plus Setax. The ad touts value and attractiveness and provides phone contact 4781 for the Register-Tribune Want Ad.
Remsen resident Terry Reilly visited his grandmother Mrs Emma Allen last Thursday. Mrs Jessie Arthur of Minneapolis toured the Arnatt home. Frank March, a Cedar Falls drugstore pioneer, died May 27. Akron neighbors attended a weekend gathering with the Treslers and Berfiends. Miss Mary Ellen Wetzeler, daughter of Yetta Wizeler, set August 14 for her wedding to James Olson. A Northwestern Bell manager described a damaged rural cable from a bullet that disrupted service to 200 rural lines. Akron Lumber opened a showroom with a large open house and door-prize drawings. Memorial Day plant orders were advertised by John Winquist and Akron Cleaners. Several families visited relatives in Minnesota and Iowa, and a week of cool, wet weather brought 1.82 inches of rain. Weather totals for May reached 3.37 inches, near normal. Local baseball at Akron on June 6 featured the Sioux City Criddles. Vernon Squires, 39, son of former residents, died near Jackson, Minnesota, from a heart attack. funeral attended by local relatives. Storm warnings preceded a damaging tornado east of LeMars and another near Norfolk, Nebraska, causing extensive farm damage and four fatalities. Late spring storms are common in this region.
Lloyd E. Caulkins of Northwest Iowa Cooperative notes many bidders, mostly from out of state, present at the highway letting in Le. The turnout signals broad interest and competition for the project contract.
Akron School District and Akron Town announce construction bids for a new Public Library adjoining the Bus Barn at the school site. Plans on file with Robert J. Tucker. bids due by 6:00 p.m. June 10, 1954. LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE. Help boost Akron Buy from your home town merchants.
John Schuchard announces Akron's June games with Sioux City Remsen Paullina Primghor Alton LeMars Orange City and Open dates including rainouts. Also listing Big Springs Baptist Church services and events led by Minister D A Miller with times for worship Sunday school Y P and Crusader Gospel midweek choir rehearsal and prayer meetings.
In the South Dakota primary Ralph Smith won the Democratic state senate race in Union Clay counties with 89 to 406 over Herman Jacobs Jr. Johnson led the Republican state representative contest in Union county with 728 votes, Fickbohm 499, Jensen 247.
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