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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1933
Page
4
LeMars officials move to protect county money with an in office electric alarm system and weaponry including a machine gun and sawed off shotguns to deter holdup men as county treasurer Langhout holds cash in the safe. Patronize your home merchants.
Funeral services for Alex Card Jr 37 were held Friday with Rev J N Oatley presiding. Born December 28 1896 in Elk Point township he died March 8 1933 in Sioux City of pneumonia with a weak heart. He served at Great Lakes and was discharged 1921. Survived by widow Mona Lavera Dailey and two children, plus three brothers, one sister. Burial with military honors in Ike Point cemetery. Memorials suggested by community.
Des Moines Iowa farmer Clyde M Buckley argues that Iowa lost as much as four million dollars at current hog prices due to poor feeding practices and advocates using tankage protein concentrates. He cites high corn costs, notes that mixing tankage with meal and alfalfa meal improves gains, and urges farmers to advertise and adopt protein feeding to unlock millions in potential earnings.
Congress passed a broad beer measure awaiting President Roosevelt’s signature. It legalizes 8.2 percent beer and 4 percent wine, imposes a $6 per barrel federal tax, preserves state regulation, upholds the Webb Kenyon act in dry states, and sets license fees for brewers wholesalers and retailers. It also adjusts dry laws for Hawaii Alaska and Puerto Rico, permits advertising, and preserves Volstead penalties. A separate card of thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy after John A Jones’s death.
A Pleas ant Hill school notes item reports a declamatory contest tryout with judges and visitors, a township spelling contest on March 18 with ten spellers from five schools, and the Pleasant Hill participants Merle Offerdahl Bertha Overby Dorothy Greenwood and Helen Larson earning top oral and written results. Additional items cover the Y C L speaking contest divisions and the March 8 school program. Birthdays, attendance notes, and spring curriculum updates are included along with a note on a LeMars resident’s clipping about Mr P C Weir’s death and funeral in Langton Mill.
By special execution issued from the District Court clerk, the real property of Hartzhe Van Buskirk et al becomes subject to sale. The description covers lands in Section 6 and Section 1, Township 92, Ranges 48 and 49 West, with railroad right of way exclusions. Sale set for April 1, 1938 at 10 am at the courthouse north door in DeMars, Plymouth County Iowa, to satisfy a debt of 29208.18 dollars plus 368.68 costs and accruing costs, to the highest bidder for cash. Sheriff R. B. Rippy announces the action. Stason & Knoepfler, attorneys. Published March 16 and 23, 1933.
Iowa farmers expect to reduce corn acreage by 704000 acres or six percent this spring, per the Iowa Department of Agriculture. Across cultivated crops a 2.6 percent reduction is indicated, with corn, spring wheat, barley and soybeans leading the decrease. Oats, flaxseed, potatoes and tame hay are expected to rise. Weather conditions and price changes influence these shifts.
The crop bureau notes may alter trade in Alton. The Register-Tribune emphasizes high grade job printing services and urges readers to engage local providers for quality printing needs.
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