Sioux City Firm Wins Akron Street Paving Contract
At a special town council meeting five firms bid for black-top paving of about 100 blocks of Akron streets. Hareo Construction Co. Sioux City won with 59,447.50, narrowly beating Hargrave Construction Co. Cedar Rapids by 89.50. Work to begin as soon as gravel and clay are secured, expected complete in six weeks in favorable weather. Corner lot curb and gutter installations proceed alongside the paving, improving appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Hareo Construction Co
Sioux City
Hargrave Construction Co
Cedar Rapids
Day W. Craig’ Co
Minneapolis
Hargrave Co
Hareo Co
Newspaper to publish early for rural readers
The Register-Tribune will be issued Wednesday afternoon next week to reach rural readers before Saturday. Mail carriers will not go out on Friday July 4. Advertising and news matter should be in the office a day earlier than usual. Patronize your home merchants.
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Register-Tribune
Akron Man Elected State President of Eagles
Lowell L. Burrill of Akron was elected state president at the Fraternal Order of Eagles convention in Clinton Town. About 2,000 members attended the three day gathering, with Burrill serving previously as state treasurer and vice president and as northwest Town district chairman.
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Akron
Lowell L. Burrill
Order of Eagles
Clinton Town
Walter H. Bease Davenport
Merlo. Cox
Sioux City
R. F. O’haran
Waterloo
George M. Beals
Cedar Rapids
Larry Lichty
Iowa City
U Matthews
Northwest
Seria
George Ross
Wilson Geary
Aerie
Dalton
Clinton
Burrill
Mra
Bundles for Britain progress reported from Akron and Westfield
May and June shipments include Jayettes sweaters socks and 10 clothing items from Akron, plus 26 diapers hospital pants and bags from Westfield. Donations mention $12.20 from Land of Liberty movie and a $1.90 check. A Bundles tea hosted by Mrs Davidson featured talks by Mrs Stewart and Mrs Davis and daughter from Sioux City, urging six inch knitted yarn squares.
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Britain
Akron
Bundles For
Smith
Westfield Group
Westfield
Mra
Arkin
Local News Notes Clear Lake Iowa Item Highlights
Mrs Anha Lemen and Mrs Mc Clenahan visited Mrs P J Heeger, Allan in OmahaNebraska. G M Co store repainting. Miss Marian Gusman to Milwaukee. Clifton Schmidt and Marion Dirks receive marriage license in LeMars. John McInnis returns with wife from hospital. Cemetery meeting June 29 to adopt by laws. Naomi Klauer and sisters visiting KLauer parents. Big Sioux gravel pit drag line shipped to Little Rock Iowa. LeMars boosters caravan disappoints kids no souvenirs. Northwestern Bell to build new 16 by 16 brick structure for dial phone system. existing exchange building to be sold for business use.
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Anha Lemen
McClenahan
P. J. Heeger
Allan
Qmeha
Nebr
G.M. Co
Marian Gusman
Milwaukee
Wis
LeMars
Clifton Schmidt
Marion Dirks
Fred Dirks
Akron
John McInnis
Sioux City
Methodist Hospital
Pleasant Hill U. B
Menga Wilkens
Naomi Klaner
Honolulu
Gertrude Klauer
Hollister
Calif
Julia Klauer
Iowa
Graves Construction Co
Melvin
LeMars’ Boosters
le Mars
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Dial
Bell Company
Exchange
Nighthawks Open Season With 16 14 Win In Softball
Akron's newly formed softball league opened with the Nighthawks defeating the Cardinals 16 to 14 after a seesaw game. Mayor Ralph Brown started opening ceremonies and a later schedule details several midseason matches and a special grandstand entertainment on July 1.
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Akron
Ball Park
Akron High School
Ralph Brown
Nighthawks
Cardinals
Orioles
Hoth
Owls
Canaries
Fowler
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Services and Activities
Ernest G Svenson pastor announces events for Saturday Junior Mission Band meets at 2 pm with Lorraine Johnson host. Sunday Sunday school at 10 am worship at 11 with sermon This Thy Brother Was Lost and Is Alive Again based on Luke 15 11 32 ant drum choir. Evening service at 8 sermon and impressions from Synodical Convention by pastor with music and refreshments. Mrs Oscar Oake hostess. Confirmation class and families depart after service for River View Park Sioux City picnic.
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Lorraine Johnson
Trinity
Chor
Oscar Oake
River View Park
Sioux City
Big Springs Baptist Church Service and Meetings
R A Dahlquist pastor leads morning worship at 10 30 with Sunday school at 11 45. Bible Study Prayer and Fellowship Hour set for Tuesday July 1 at 8 pm. The W S C 8 meets at Methodist church parlors on Wednesday July 2 with committee in charge.
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Big Springs Baptist Church
R.A. Dahlquist
W.S. C
Methodist
Norka Theatre Week Highlights Action Packed Screen Fare
The Norka Theatre offers a week of talking pictures with action driven Friday and Saturday shows featuring the Joe Louis versus Billy Conn fight film in New York last week. Ragtime Cowboy Joe stars Johnny Mack Brown and others. Loretta Young leads The Lady from Cheyenne Sunday to Monday. A schoolteacher fights for women's suffrage amid town politics and a land auction. Matinee Sunday at 2 30. Take a Chance night returns Tuesday with ten cent admission. So You Won't Talk features Joe Brown in a dual role Wednesday and Thursday July 2 and 3.
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Norka Theatre
Talking Picture
Joe Louis
Billy Gonn
New York
The
Norka
Joe
Johnny Mack Brown
Fuzzy Knight
Nell O'Day
Marilyn Merrick
Lady
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Joe B Y Brown
Jon
Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday services and local notes
Sunday school at 7 pm and preaching at 7:45 pm. Local notes report travel to Centerville Iowa and Marcus Iowa, July lodge vacation, a Sioux City license issued to Patrick Burnight and Catherine Langle, and various family visits. Several hometown residents are listed with travel, visits, and confirmations at Brule Creek Lutheran church with a large gathering of relatives and friends attending.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Clarence Meade
Centerville
Iowa
J. H. Harnest, Jr
Marcus
Larrabee
Freedom Lodge
A. F
A. M
J. 3
Arkin
Lynn
Joy Dean
Alan
Omaha
Pleasant Hill U. B
Menga Wilkens
Sioux City
Patrick Burnight
Catherine Langle
Westfield
Dennis
Dicky Dennis
Rock Island
Ill
J. D
Missionary Will Speak At Baptist Church Sunday
The Baptist church hosts a Bible and Missionary Conference on Sunday June 20 with Rev. Errold B Street a former Ethiopian resident and Sudan Interior Mission official. He recounts wartime Ethiopia experiences and the hardships faced by missionaries during the Italian invasion. Services at 11 AM 3 PM and 8 PM cover faithfulness totalitarianism and a lord is it.
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The
Baptist Church
Errold B. Street
Ethiopia
Sudan Interior Mission
Waterloo Bible Institute
Street
Huaili Selassie
Prigonal
Addis Ababa
Sudan Interior
Rev. Street
John, Meyer
Arlein's Market July Prize Contest For Local Youth
Arlein's Food Market in Akron offers a July prize contest with three awards. Grand prize is a five-tube super hot radio shaped like a baseball, valued at 16.05. Second prize is a genuine feathered full-size falder’s glove and third is a regulation baseball bat. Prizes on display. entries via Arkin's for full details. Watch next week's paper for more on the contest.
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Akron
Arlein
Arkin
Local notes and notices from town events and changes
Town updates cover residents traveling to Burbank for work, a W R C meeting set for July 1, a new post office clerk appointment, Red Cross yarn donations, a visit to relatives in South Dakota, a club meeting to adopt bylaws, and a picnic menu at Union County Park. Also noted are theater construction work trips, honey bee colony gathering, and expanded evening mail service via the Arrow train with lobby hours extended.
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Carl Thomas
Burbank
Cal
W. R.C
Alice Campbell
Idelline Simeon
J. C. Kennedy
Red Cross Knitters
Pleasant Hill
A. B
P. J. Heeger
L. J. Heeger
Lester Heeger
Sioux City
Myron Heeger
Lottie Ling
Chicago
Holland P. Anderson
Gordon
Kathleen Boden
Auto
West Yallowstone
Idaho
Kansas
Lester Dewey
Akron
Gamble
Dewey
J. ©. Kennedy
Arrow
Independence Sunday and Epworth League institute plan
Methodist church notes urge all to pick up the Upper Room next Sunday as third quarter ends. Honor Roll starts the following Sunday while the budget rests on collective cooperation. Epworth League Okoboji Institute begins in a week, touted as ideal for youth.
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Epworth League Okoboji Institute
Baptist Church
Bis
Ethiopia
Indianola
Baptist Church Notes Sunday Services and Bible Study
Sunday Bible school at 10 a m Morning worship at 11 a m P A at 7 16 p m Evening service at 8 o'clock Bible study and prayer meeting at 3 30 p m Thursday John 8 Meyer Pastor
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John
Meyer
Ellendale Boy Drowns in Sandpit West of Adaville
Ellen dale boy Harvey Tooker 16 son of Mr and Mrs Harold Tooker of Non dale in this county died after drowning in a sandpit a mile and a half west of Adaville Wednesday afternoon. A rail tipping spilled seven boys into twelve foot water. Rescue by Will Blankenburg Marshal West Barr George Von Hagel and coroner Luken found the body after about two hours. Rescue efforts saved others including Oscar Swanberg who nearly drowned. Navy man Rayford Skogman northwest of here in Union county is reported drowned last Sunday in the Panama Canal Zone. body recovered Wednesday with few details. Funeral plans not yet completed.
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Harvey Tooker
Harold Tooker
Nondale
Adaville
W. J. Brunner
Will ‘Blankenburg
Marshal West
Barr
George von Hagel
Luken
LeMars
Oscar Swanberg
Merrill
Akron
Iis
Rayford
John Skogman
Union County
D. D
U.S. Navy
Panama Canal Zone
First Church Bible School and Services Schedule
The First Church of Christ offers Bible school at 10 a.m. Communion and preaching at 11 a.m. Junior Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p.m. Leader Lorraine Blanchley. Vacation Bible School closed with strong enrollment and parent interest. Pastor W. J. Zane urges continued attendance at weekly Bible School to learn the way of life and be ready for church work.
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FIRST
Church OF Christ Bible School
Lorraine Blanchley
W. J. Zane
Legion Juniors Lose Three Tilts
The Akron Legion Junior baseball team dropped three close games last week. They fell 11 to 3 at Sioux Falls to the South Dakota state champion, then 3 to 2 to Kingsley in LeMars after leading 2 to 1 until the seventh. Tuesday the LeMars Juniors edged Akron 4 to 3 on a disputed last inning call, earning a spot in the tournament final against Kingsley.
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Akron Legion
Sioux Falls
Legion
Dakota
South Dakota
Plymouth County American Legion
LeMars
Akron
Kingsley
Nore
Plymouth County Legion
LeMars Grounds
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Barco Construction Co
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C. E
L. L. Burrill
Canaries and
Nellie Melheim
Akron Savings’ Bank
West
Yellowstone National Park
Jack Warrick
Jackie
Bobby
Janet
Meadow Grove
Frances
Ann Gregg
Hawarden
Warrick
Rath Hofland
Olaf Krose
Florence
Donald Lee Paulson
Brule Creek Lutheran Church
W. I. Aamoth
Joe Widem
Martin Kjosé
Alfred Kjose
Lee Paulson
Joe Ness
Richard Olson
Norma Stolpe
Obert
Mattie ‘Hansen
Elk Point
Harold , Hansen
Rath
Willmar
Minn
Harold B
Union Creeee Churoch
Bible School
Woman's Home
Foreign Massionary Society
Ladies’ Aid
Luther Hall
Lawrence Ericson
Robert Knockson
Luther League
Albin Carlson
Alfred Swanson
Lloyd Baum
Chester. Johnson
Methodist Church
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