Local Notices and Social Roundup from Akron
Local items include tax payments at Akron Savings Bank visits from Loo A Douglass and Walter Ross to Sioux City, and multiple town residents visiting relatives in Hawarden, Sioux City, and Elk Point. Community news covers new farm staffing, a Van Brunt drill sale via Waterbury, expansion of a steam laundry enterprise, and a social gathering hosted by Mr and Mrs Boyson Ross and Mr and Mrs B H Youngstrom with progressive whist. Dr. B A Seemann mourns wife’s death in Sioux City after cancer surgery. funeral attendance from Akron noted.
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Walt
Ross
Sioux City
Ogden
Clifton
Meckling
M. V. Seamands
Wrs
Becker
LaMare
T. &. Burnight
James Ruble
Akron
D. L. Sesnon
J. B. Cunningham
F. Smythe
E. A. Tone
Cora Maxeon
Misa Florence Searla
Chas. Knudson
I. Knudson
Rake
Minnesota
Clair Biddlecome
Hawarden
Janesville
Waterbury
Fay Ross
University At
Vermillion
John Smith
Lucas
M. D
Akron Opera House
Chris Brann
Plymouth
Colorado
Trautt Brothers
Scott Farm
T. L. Burr
Thos. Ryan
Elk Point
Grant Smith
Cherokee
Z. P. Barber
Marshal Chas. Vargason
Crystal Lake
Hancock County
Iowa
Chas. Wise
Sid
Aberdeen
Waterloo
Strable
Boyson Ross
B. H. Young
B. A. Seemann
Ember
Frederick
Howard
Helen
Detroit
Seemann
Sioux City Journal
Henry Manning
Leander Menning
Will Menning
Ssemann
Municipal Election Changes in Iowa Town Governance
The Iowa legislature restructured city government for the coming municipal election on the first Monday in March. Changes include reducing council from six to five, mayor no longer voting except on ties, town clerk appointment by council, and mayor appointing health officer streets commissioner marshal with potential deputies. Mayor treasurer and assessor elected biannually, two new council seats this spring serve two years, others extend to align terms in 1910. All officers and council members barred from direct or indirect contracts with the city.
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Iowa
Strees
School concert program highlights and pupil lineups
Program notes list piano duets and solos by Grace Wade Esther Brady and Grace Wisnow with selections such as March Wind and General Gage. Recitations and glee numbers feature No 2 Hatchet Drill and Chicoa de lunk performed by No 3 and 4, plus Columbia the Gem of the Ocean by No 6. Admission 109, 450.
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Seeeracees
Columbia
Gem of the Ocauny Secreees
Grace Wade
General Gage
Boston Boys
Oleo Ratcliffe
Ten Years Ago From Akron Tribune Highlights
Ailes of Akron Tribune recalls March 1898 items. Farm seeds began, city hotel sold for 82000, Bradley family matriarch ill after stroke, MWA banquet attended by over 100, Fuller Lumber Co. buys J N Ratah lumber, Tim Sullivan sole mayoral candidate, local phone system expanding to forty, George Hamm dies of kidney trouble aged 68, town funds water fountain at Savings Bank corner, Westfield bully Zack Gleason involved in a scuffle, river expected to rise, minimal flood fears, ducks and geese migrate northward as spring arrives.
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M. W. A. Lodge
J. N. Ratah
Fullerton Lumber Co
Tim Sullivan
George Hamm
Akron
Good Templars Lodge
Savings Bank
Zack Gleason
Westfield
Alkron
Auction Sale at Button Music Store Akron
J C Button will sell at auction at his music store in Akron on Saturday afternoon March 7. Entire stock includes Baldwin pianos organs sheet music folios office fixtures six head work horses four driving horses four second head baggies six double harnesses two nearly new wagons. Cash or liberal terms. Sale begins 2 pm. Auctioneer J J Aanrs.
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J. C. Button
Geis
Akron
Baldwin
J.J. Aanrs
Akron Drops Close Season Finale Against Sioux City
Akron's basketball team fell 27 to 25 to a Sioux City lineup from Morningside College the Y M C A Midgets and Warriner's Business College. Goodwin led Akron with several missed chances and five free throws, while Smylie and Hicks starred for the visitors in a tight opera house matchup watched by a large crowd.
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Akron
Sioux City
Morningside College
Warriner
Business College
Opera House
Goodwin
White
Beverly White
Bushman Bleaten Co
Jones
Hicks Montigue
Ber'ly
Smylie
Heverly
Hicks
Bree
O, Moore
Madden
Theoctorcon praised at home talent play at the opera house
Attendees at the home talent show last week hailed Theoctorcon as excellent and unsurpassed by most. Organizers expect a packed house for the second production on St Patrick's Day March 17 at the opera house.
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Opera House
St. Patrick’s Day
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Miller's Bakery
L.A. Agnes
J. A. Agnes
Agnes
Pragtigal Auctioneers
First National Bank of
I. Martin Smythe
Vicinity
Jorge
Amall
Silas Moore
Wasmer Laundry
Basket Losves
Beck & Burrill
Sioux City Daily Tribune
The
Akron Savings Bank
Loo A. Douglass
Mesdames M. V. Seamands
Ed. Klauer
Klauer
Klauer- Swanson Co. Hd
Blg Bros
Whitfield & Whitfield
A. J. Struble
Centerville
Ailes
Akron Tribune
Farmara
John Bliss
Old City
Anton Henke
H. J
James Bradley
Ruth, Craven
Harry L. Beck Stock Co
Bess OF
Idaho
Miss Craven
Bess
Dora Thorne
Akroo
First National Bank of Akron
N.im, Hansen
Cail
F. A. Seemann
Jackson
Leeds
Horton's Old Stand
N. J. Williams
Douglass
J. R. Kline
Axron Savings Bank
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