Westfield Items Chronicle updates and events
Special correspondence from Westfield reports multiple community happenings. Illnesses touch Mrs James Buckingham and her young daughter, while Ira Himes hosts visitors from the West hotel. A thirteenth birthday party for Clara Breech draws many friends and schoolmates. Numerous local moves include Small and Wilson dissolving partnership with Mr Small retiring, A A Wilson taking over and thanking patrons. The piece notes school elections, storm-impacted roads, and various residents moving, reopening businesses, or hosting social events. A basket supper at the old Lutheran church invites all, and township officers are elected with Boden as Supervisor and Peterson as clerk among others. A St Patrick dance is planned at Akron’s new opera house and other social and business updates fill the page.
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Old Lutheran Church
Hoyt School House
A. P. M. Peterson
Peter Shoulberg
A. L. Bennett
Peterson
Schneiderheinze
Dan Smith
John
Cal) Johnson
Halverson
Rossbach
John Fredell
Adaville Items Move and visits fill the week
Special correspondence notes Mary Brown visiting Neva Stinton and Ed Stinton's wife hosting a ladies aid meeting. A Y P C U social at Mrs Tindall attracted few due to bad roads. Laura Waddle visits brother Will in Webster SD. Quarterly U B church meeting led by Elder Miller. Ed Talbott family moves into Attrill house. L F Hoffman to occupy former home. Neva and Lester Stinton celebrate birthdays with friends. Hamilton brothers move to new farm near Potosi. Wilbur Morehead reelected district 6 school director. Ernest Attrill ill Sunday. Dr Davis called, then sick himself for two days.
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Ed. Talbott
Harry Attrill
L. F. Hoffman
Neva
Lester Stinton
Main Street
Gil
Hamilton Brothers
Potosia
E. E. Mellen
Alvin Brown
Chebanse
Illinois
John Mitchell
Sioux Falls
Harry Beckett
Mitchell
Croup
Union Creek Ripples Report on Bad Roads After Rain
Special correspondence notes roads in worst condition in years after heavy Thursday rain. Mentions Uncle Tom's Cabin and Friday's Ralph Riggs Co. performance of The Mikado, praised despite short notice. Mentions M S Reeves visiting from Sioux City to oversee matters.
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Union Creek
Hawarden
Hilder Johnson
Beresford
Uncle Tom
Ralph Riggs Co
Town Council Minutes Record Regular Session
City minutes show Mayor presiding with Councilmen Fields Seamands Wade Burrill Whitfield present Kennedy absent. Appointed Kuborn Barr Schafer to fill department vacancies and referred Von Hagel machinery issue to street committee. Curfew ordinance third reading passed two thirds with Whitfield Fields Seamands Wade Wooton voting yes Burrill no. Dog license date changed to April 1 with all members voting yes. Boiler inspector found pumping station boiler in good condition. Bills approved: Hansen 30.32. Lodwick 134.31. Swift 12.75. Coffin 8.75. Symms Powers 2 (referred). E H Younaszrom, Clerk.
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Wooton
Fields
Seamands
Wade
Burrill
Whitfield
Kennedy
M. Kuborn
Clarence Barr
Geo. Schafer
A. von Hagel
Nays
N. M. Hansen
Lodwick Bros
W. Swift
R. H. Coffin
Symms-Powers Co
Water Works Committee
E. H. Younasrzom
Akron Hardware Co. notices and local events
Local notices report Chris Johnson resigning as section foreman to return home near Worthing. Several social events and visits are listed, plus March 16 basket social by P and C EB at Frank McFarland home. March 19 St Joseph’s school concert and various community movements are noted, including church calls, farm sales, and local theater reviews.
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Chris
Johnson
Worthing
Akron Hardware Co
Frank McFarland
B. F. Round
Hawarden
T. J. Reeves
Akron Curfew Ordinance Restricts Youth Street Presence
Akron Iowa enacts curfew prohibiting any person under sixteen from being abroad from nine to five during March 15 to November 15 and eight to five November 15 to March 15 unless with a parent guardian or employer or on written permission. Violations allow arrest. second offenses lead to magistrate trial with fines up to five dollars or up to five days in jail. Ordinance to take effect after publication in the Register-Tribune.
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Akron
Iowa
Akron Milling Co
Register-Tribune
Lowa
G. H. Wooton
E. H. Younastrom
Akron Iowa Town Council Amends Ordinance on Dog Tax
At the March 5 1906 meeting Akron town council adopted an amendment to Ordinance No 11 changing the deadline for dog tax payment from before August 1 to before April 1 each year The amendment takes effect upon publication in the Register Tribune Akron Iowa Mayor KK A Younasthom Clerk signed the resolution
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Akron
Iowa
Register-Trmipune
G. H. Wooton
KK. A
Younasthom
Szal
Birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Tresler
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Tresler on Monday March 6 1906. The birth adds a new member to the family in the local community.
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A. J. Tresler
Farm for Sale at Bargain in Castlewood Hamlin County
John Walkin offers 320 acres four miles out with good soil and gentle rolling terrain in a German settlement. Price is 26.50 per acre with 1500 cash and remaining balance at 6 percent. Seed corn 28-4w on offer. The Gate way Nursery Co LeMurs Iowa Free Catalogue.
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John Walkin
Castlewood
Hamlin County
Lost gold locket with initials found
A gold locket with initials P. I. 9 is missing and believed to be lost. Return to Rueanster TaBoay office for a liberal reward.
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Rueanster-TaBoay
Harness Oil Best Quality At 5500 Per Gallon
Harness oil of best quality offered at 5500 per gallon at the office of C F Horton and N Mead located at the rear of Burgess and Smiths.
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C.F. Horton
N. Mead
Burgess & Smith
Buildings for Sale Near Store Front
Store owner Simeon of Wa announces three small rear buildings are for sale at a very low price. Listing highlights inexpensive property adjacent to the shop, with buyer inquiries encouraged.
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Simeon
California Winter Summer Garden and Overland Limited
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railway publishes an illustrated leaflet on California attractions and the three day trip of The Overland Limited from Chicago to San Francisco. The 2800 mile journey follows the Argonauts route of 1849 and includes a new Salt Lake bridge and enhanced passenger comfort and entertainment.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
California
Chicago
San Francisco
Union
Argonauts
Salt Lake
Chicago Journal
F. A. Miller
Good Horses for Sale at Byrnu Farm
Several head of fine driving and draft horses for sale at right prices. Come and see what I have to offer at my farm 414 miles east of Akron Gero. Byrnu.
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Akron
Gero
Byrnu
Wood For Sale At Farm North Of Akron
Soft wood priced at 3.60 per cord and hard wood at 4.50 per cord. Located at the farm 14 miles north of Akron. Cordwood length specified as B tf Isaac Waternury.
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Akron
Carpet Weaving by Mrs Sarau A Lyons Akron Iowa
Mrs Sarau A offers carpet weaving services in Lyons Akron Iowa with satisfaction guaranteed. Contact details are not provided in the fragment.
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Sarau A
Lyons
Akron
Iowa
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Mira Crumkine
Elk Point
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Small & Wilson
Small
A. A. Wilson
G.B. Crumline
Anna Chapman
Prodie
J.P. McCaustland
Council Bluffs
M. Hogeboom
Ed. Goodroad
Nash
Harry
Richard Amos
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Thos. Amos
M. E. Small
Thorn
Cherokee
James Eastwood
Sioux City
Will Martin
Noble Theatre Co
New Opera House
Bertel Shoulberg
Gunard Fredell
St. Patrick
Adaville
Mary Brown
Neva ‘Stinton
Ladies’ Aid Society
Ed. Stinton
Laura Waddle
Will
Webster
U. B
Miller
Everett Stinton
le Mars
Wilbur Morehead
Ernest Attrill
Davis
M.S. Reeves
Council Proceedings
Louis Bly
A. J. Wright
John O. Douglass
Storm Lake
St. Joseph’s School
Opera House
Fred Peterson
Patrick Neary
G. W. Koch
Herbert A. Johnson
Samaritan Hospital
Henry Raish
Geo. N. Putman
Chas, Vargason
Mr. Putman
Muhs
Arthur
Pierre
F. Meske
Pine Ridge
Meske
E. A. Fields
Plymouth County
A. B. Cummins
LeMars
Rae
J. O. Douglass
J. G. Hays
Wm. Simeon
Laura D. Hall
Minn
Enterprise
Chas
John Bennett
Bloomfield Avenue
Paterson
New Jersey
Ella M. Drummond
Prestige
Niagara Falls
R. D. Clark
N.S. Moore
Chas. Vargason
Boyson Ross
H. H. Cilley
H. W. Fields
A. H. Smith
M. A. Agnes
I. Knudson
B. F. Wintersteen’s
C. J. Slick
Slick
Pextrock's
Wintersteen
Mr. Slick
Ralph Riggs
Weatfield
Riggs
Ian
Holden
Gateway Nursery Co
Towa
Buster Brow
iGk
Auian
Buster Brown
Tige
R.F. Outcault
Beck and Burrill
Noble Theatre Company
Akron’s New Opera
March Bros
Drug
Dreas
St. Paul
Overland
Isaac Waternury
Lie- Mars
Colorado
the Gateway Nursery
LeMars, Iowa
Doin
Alexander
Imy Residende
Lowe
Church of Christ
Fred Lindenmier
Christian Church
John I. Nicholayn
Nicholson
M. B
Brethern
Hoyt
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