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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1929
Page
7
A state health bulletin urges proper adjustments to heat for comfort and productivity. It recommends lighter clothing, air circulation with fans, keeping cool at night, staying hydrated, reducing fatty foods, moderating pace for active people, and maintaining a positive attitude amid heat.
Obituary notices Alonzo C Jenkins a longtime Akron resident dies at 71 after paralysis and strokes. He helped run Portlandville House and worked on Milwaukee railroad lines. Funeral held under Masonry rites with family from Sioux Falls and Sioux City attending. Also an ordinance granting Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. a 25 year franchise to lay and maintain lines in Akron with election planned for July 1 1929.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude to neighbors and Magente officers for kindness after the illness and death of the Jenkins patriarch. Ross family reunion near seventy five at Florence Banks home on the Broken Kettle, Plymouth county, featured a picnic, games, and prizes for the furthest traveler, with hopes for another gathering soon.
Citizens invited to an eight o clock meeting featuring State Commander Gen Prichard and Mrs Prichard, a committee woman from the Big Eleventh District. Mr and Mrs Prichard of Onawa will attend along with entertaining speakers and a following dance for all attendees.
Plans for Sioux City Swedish Mid-Summer Festival in Riverside Bark aim to feature speeches sports and entertainment on Saturday June 22. Highlights include two soccer teams contests for men women and children a Swedish Glee Club concert Monahan Post Band performance and ample parking with tables benches for a full day of festivities. Local drivers will travel from miles around to enjoy the event with thousands of cars expected.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will meet with Mrs A Schleuter Friday afternoon. Sioux City district Epworth League convention meets at LeMars next Tuesday and Wednesday June 25 and 26. Leagues to send delegates plus pastor and wife. entertainment on the Harvard plan with room for extra attendees. Daily Vacation Bible School closed with a fine program. fifteen baptized and sixteen received, ninety enrolled, average daily attendance seventy seven. Appreciation to teachers, officers and donors. Children’s Day offering to Board of Education. Perfect attendance awards next Sunday morning. Union services Sunday evening at the Baptist church with National Defense program by the American Legion and Auxiliary at the Legion Hall. Akron want ads for June 27. Pleasant Hill L. B. Church invites all to Sunday school at 2 p.m. and Divine worship at 3 p.m. Pastor Wm A Sauer extends cordial welcome.
Plymouth county supervisors will receive bids June 18 for grading the county road from Primary No. 5 north to the Sioux county line on the Perry Creek road. Specifications call for 103,688 cable yards of excavation and 65,000 station yards of overhaul with thirty-nine box culverts and two I-beam bridges. The extension will link with gravelled primary roads to Akron LeMars and Sioux City.
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