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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1958
Page
5
The Akron Hospital Auxiliary announces its annual meeting in the Immanuel Lutheran church basement on Monday evening June 23. All members and interested parties are urged to attend with Mrs. Alfreda Polly, hospital administrator, as speaker. Cor Secy Emma Allen notes the details.
Fourteen Plymouth County 4-H Club girls and two leaders will travel to the 29th annual Girls State 4-H Convention on June 18 through 21 at Iowa State College in Ames. About 1,600 girls and leaders from across the state will participate. Nancy Wendt will attend a pre-convention workshop at the Camping Center on June 15 to prepare.
The Wesley Methodist Church lists Vacation Church School sessions Friday morning and evening with a sharing service, a Saturday bake sale to fund youth campers, and a Sunday start to summer schedule with worship led by Dr Samuel Walsh. Activities include North Iowa Annual Conference and a church music camp at Cornell College Mt Vernon.
Brule Creek Church notes list a June 15 worship at 10 30 a m with Luther League at 8 p m welcoming new members. Program committee Dallas Wilken Gary Quam hostesses Mrs Donald Powell Mrs Howard Powell. June 19 Ladies Aid at 230 p m with hostesses Nels Quamn Elton Shedd Roy Abraham. Cradle Roll leader Mrs Olaf Abrahamson. Selmer J Hil Moe pastor Elk Point S D
Local residents report Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Boetger leaving for a southern Canada vacation and fishing trip. Mrs. Minnie Vanderbeek entered Methodist Hospital in Sioux City on June 3. Bake sale planned by Methodist WSCS in Iowa Public Service office on June 14. Various visits and travel noted including Haldeen family from Panora and Long family events. A silver certificate was awarded to Municipal Light Plant workers for Ground Observer Corps service. Several families vacation at West Okoboji Lake, christening attended in Odebolt. Bridge delay near Akron tied to railroad crossing requirements. officials urged prompt action.
The Akron Swimming Pool plans a July 4 opening with lessons starting July 7. Registration closes June 28 with a $2 fee per child and a parent signature. Lessons run five to six weeks, one hour per session, three mornings weekly, with possible five mornings if enrollments rise.
Trinity Lutheran Married Couples hosted a Golden Age Party for parish seniors over 65 with singing, piano pieces by youth, a special reading, and writing games. Thirty nine attendees shared lunch at a U shaped table.transportation and rides were arranged. Pastor Luther A. Meyer urged other groups to honor senior citizens.
Slade Baker returned last Thursday to Chicago where he has employment. He assisted his father R. J. Baker with farm work the past several weeks.
Talkie chatter announces The Restless Breed at Norka Theatre with Scott Brady Anne Bancroft in a color frontier drama about gun smuggl ing along the Texas Mexico border. A tense love story pits Brady a lawyer against a half breed Indian girl while marshal Jay C Flippin and gunman Jim Davis shape a perilous plot.
Admissions list Akron residents including Mrs Snyder Mrs Conley Hisel Mrs Beeck and others in Akron Westfield Jefferson Elk Point and Kansas City Mo Dismissals and new births noted A follow up on a Disaster and Evacuation Institute demonstration held at Akron Hospital with hospital staff and Akron Fire Department present a prepared bulletin distributed to employees
A Saturday afternoon meeting of Freedom Lodge No. 434 A F and A M is announced for June 14 with a follow up regular meeting on Monday the 16th at 8 00 PM A bake sale is planned at Dr Garvin s office on June 21 by the Union Creek Luthor League The public s patronage is requested
Eleanor Seamands, 81, longtime Akron area resident, died May 19 1958 at her Hettinger North Dakota home. Born April 25 1877 in Macon Illinois, she married Charles A Seamands in 1895 and raised six children. Survived by three sons, a daughter, 20 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and siblings. Funeral held May 24 in Hettinger Methodist church. The Living Word church program notes and ministerial message included.
The Music Mothers' Club will run a refreshment stand for audience convenience. Junior Band members will sell candy, popcorn, and soft drinks with proceeds to the Band Uniform Fund. We still need adult players for the summer band. Junior band meets Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m. in June and July.
Dr L E Chancellor of the state health department presented certificates of merit to Plymouth County officials and Akron registrars for a perfect 100 percent prompt reporting record for births and deaths in all four quarters of 1957. Remer credited doctors hospitals and funeral directors for cooperation. Worth County showed 70 percent deaths and 50 percent births, while Plymouth led the state with full compliance.
Mr and Mrs James L Wren and children from Wheat Ridge near Denver, Colorado visited last week with their parents Mr and Mrs Eric Wedmark. The children will spend the summer with their grandparents.
Hoschler Post No 186 American Legion held its regular meeting last week electing Commander Robert Pollock Vice-Commander Mae Thorson Sergeant at Arms Arnold Hitzemann Chaplain Richard Witt Historian Otto C Larsen Service Officer Fred Claesson Finance Officer Gordon Kilstrom and an Executive Board comprising Lloyd Willer Jack Smith Dan Blake Jr Malcolm Brodie and Wm Meinen for the ensuing year.
A weekly update lists visits by members and relatives visiting from Grand Forks Seattle Dallas and St Louis plus a teenage Future Homemakers delegate from Jefferson. It notes a marriage at Brule Creek Lutheran Church and a six day North Iowa Methodist conference in Cedar Rapids with 725 churches and 140000 members. A Los Angeles family visit includes a city park picnic and a February 12 centerline painting by the Iowa Highway Department to reduce accidents. Memorial Day dinner guests from Sioux City Sergeant Bluff and Akron are listed alongside the Gale family from Huntington Park and El Monte California.
Miss Mary Neville becomes bride of Richard Jacoby at Evangelical United Brethren Church Moville Iowa on June 5. Attendants include Jackie Andrews Nygaard and Danet Polson. Best man Len Berg with groomsmen Conrad Forrest and John Groethe. A 300 guest reception followed. both teach at Elk Point High School.
An ad in the Want Column promises fast responses. The snippet urges readers to place a small classified advert to obtain prompt results.
Two Akron High School graduates, James Dennis Klauer and Thomas J. Dalton, will be among 1250 degrees awarded at State University of Iowa Spring Commencement Friday at 9 30 a m in the University Fieldhouse. James D. earns Doctor of Medicine and Thomas J. Bachelor of Science in Commerce. Francis O Wilcox will deliver the address on The Soviet Challenge and American Education. Other Plymouth county students include four from Remsen, two from LeMars, and one each from Kingsley and Merrill. Radio WSUT will broadcast the on scene coverage starting at 9 15 a m on 910 kilocycles.
With schools out for summer, more children are on city streets and drivers should be vigilant to prevent accidents. Two young children recently escaped serious injury, and parents are urged to teach crossing streets carefully and to avoid play in traffic lanes. A single fatal accident would cause great grief to all involved.
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