Akron high school senior class to present annual play
The Akron High School class of 1944 stages the three act comedy Hivery Family Has One on Tuesday May 9 at 8 pm in the New Auditorium. The Reardon family misfits and Frankly funny escapades unfold as Nana and Lily plot to outwit the wealthy Parker family and reunite Marcia with her true love.
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Akron High School
Hivery
Reardons
Laura
Marcia
Shelwin Parker
Reardon
Penelope
Warry
Eugene O'Neill
Reginald
Nana
Parkers
Nanna
Lily
Mighty
Crosby Records
Hir
Methodist Church Notes and Upcoming Events
The Utile Dulce club meets May 11 at 8 p m in the J A Johnson home. Rev Wm Zabilka of Merrill will deliver the Women’s Society Thank Offering at 11:00 a m on May 7. Forty-four men attended the church dinner despite rain. A School of Missions is at First Church Sioux City May 12 from 9:30 a m to 3:30 p m. Albert A Howh is the pastor.
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Methodist Church
J. A. Jonson
Kingdom of God
Wm Zabilka
Merrill
School of Missions
First Church
Sioux City
Women's Society
Albert A. Howh
Baptist Church Notes May Services and Meetings
Sunday May 7 at 10:30 a.m. communion service. Wednesday May 10 at 2:30 p.m. Ladies Association meets in Primary room hosted by Mrs James Cole nan and Mrs Emery Tucker. Mother's Day program planned. Thursday 8 p.m. Prayer and Bible study at the parsonage. J Olen Kennell, Pastor.
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Ladies’ Association
James Cole
Nan
Emery Tucker
J. Olen Kennell
Local News Notes and Upcoming Events
Regular meeting of ip No. 61 O B S planned for Friday evening May 12 with balloting. Mrs. Joe Kellett of Sioux City visited relatives in town. Emery James of Rapid City visited H L Smith family. Senior class play Every Family Has One to be staged at New Auditorium May 9 at 8 pm. Mrs. Fred Beckman left for Oakland to join husband in Sea Bees. Ronald J. Dirks, recently commissioned in the Air Corps, spent furlough with family. Claude Seamands A S, finished boot at Farragut, Idaho, visiting relatives. Pvt Norman Degen at Fort Sam Houston spent furlough with mother and grandmother. Paul L. Von Hagel AS R, Coast Guard, visiting after emergency leave due to grandmother's death. Unusually wet week with rain and a 76 degree day. 2.11 inches in first three days of May, then cold with light snow flurries. Farm work delayed by weather. moisture welcomed.
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New Auditorium
Fred Beckman
Sioux City
Oakland
Calif
Seabees
Ronald J. Dirks
Air Corps
Carlsbad Army Air Field
Carlsbad
N. M
Henry Dirks
Claude Seamands
A/S
U. S. Naval Training Station
Farragut
Idaho
A. L. Seamands
Norman Degen
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Laura Degen
Hawarden
Anna Degen
Marie Degen
Degen
U. S
India
England
Paul L. von Hagel
U.S. Coast Guard
Quoddy Head
Lubeo
Maine
Albert von Hagel
Lena von Hagel
Pleasant Hill A. B. Church Sunday Services Schedule
Pleasant Hill A B Church announces Sunday school at 7 45 p m and the evening gospel service at 8 30 led by Pastor Donald Thissell.
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Pleasant Hill
A. B
Donald Thissell
Akron High Musicians Sweep State Contest Wins
Members of Akron High school's Music department earned two first place championships at the State High School Music Contest in Carroll Iowa last Friday and Saturday. Lorraine Johnson won mezzo soprano and the girls sextet placed first, while Virginia Tucker soprano Maybelle Bur till brass sextet also competed among over a thousand entrants. Instructor Misa Lorraine DuSard led the group to a strong showing, earning community congratulations for the school's achievement.
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Akron High School
Carroll
Iowa
Akron High
Lorraine Johnson
Virginia Tucker
Audrey Fry
Kathleen Kennedy
Phyllis Stryzewski
Frances Scott
Akron
Maybelle Bur- Till
Anderson
Elwin Conner
Alan Arkin
Marianne Kerr
Maybelle Burvill
Death summons widely known woman Sunday
Lena Von Hagel a longtime resident of Alan and vicinity died at her home Sunday evening April 30 1944 after a brief illness at age 77. Born January 15 1867 in Ostfriesland Germany she came to America in 1886 and married Albert Von Hagel in 1888. She left four sons three preceded her, two daughters, 16 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren, and other relatives. Funeral services were held at the family home and Trinity Lutheran church with burial in Riverside cemetery.
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Lena von Hagel
Alan and
Lena Kiebing
Quehde
Gaeska Fiebing
von Hagel
Grant
Union County
Akron
Trinity Lutheran Church
Trinity Ladies’ Aid
American Legion Auxiliary
Gert
Albert
John
George
U. S
England
Henry Hlrtzemann
Anna Long
Henry Fiebing
St. Paul
Minn
George Fiebing
Alcester
S. D
Chris Carstensen
Merrill
Iowa
Krie Fiebing
J. A. Pannkuk
Misa Phyllis Stryzewski
Jesus
August Meske
Chas, Jurgensen
Henry Steinert
Ralph Brown
Victor Anderson
Frank Grabarski
Riverside Cemetery
Trinity Lutheran Church weekly schedule and messages
Sunday school and Bible class at 9 a.m. Divine worship at 11 a.m. Confirmation class Saturdays 1 to 4 p.m. Mission Circle meets Tuesday, Violet Jacobs hostess. Luther League meets Thursday, Carl Hitzemann in charge. Church Council Wednesday 8 p.m. Gifts for Lutheran World Action welcome with envelopes. Welcome to worship.
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Mission Circle
Church Council
Lutheran World Action
Christ
Pannkuk Leads Lutheran Church Chaplaincy Service
Sunday church notes from T MATH LUTH Chatsworth list Sunday school at 10 a m and divine worship at 9 a m. Members are urged to bring offerings for Lutheran World. The message invites all to worship and join in action on Sunday.
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Lutheran World
Paramount Week at Novka Theater Shows Variety Program
The Novka Theater offers a week of program with a western, a college play, a war drama and a Russian musical. May 5 and 6 present Pirates of the Prairie and All American Co ed as a double feature. May 7 and 8 feature Song of Russia with Robert Taylor Susan Peters and others in a love story set in prewar USSR. May 10 screens There s Something About a Soldier with Tom Neal Evelyn Keyes a wartime drama about two classmates at an anti aircraft officers candidate school.
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Talking Picture Entertainment
Novka Theater
U. S
Tim Hart
Cliff. Edwards
Nel O’day
Russia
Mrs. Miniver
Robert ‘Taylor
MGM
Susan Peters
Ussr
Robert Taylor
Robert Benchley
Miss Peters
John Eholiak
Felix Bressart
Michael Chekhov
Darryl Hickman
Jacqueline White
Tschaikovsky
Shostakoviteh
Tom Neal
Evelyn Keyes
ORL Ie
Big Springs Baptist Church May Schedule and Call to Worship
The Big Springs Baptist Church announces a May schedule with services on Friday May 6 at 8 30 p m for a Good Fellowship Society event, Sunday May 7 prayers and worship including a debt offering for Swan Lake Assembly, reception of new members and Lord s Supper, Sunday school at 11 30 a m, evening service at 8 p m, and Tuesday May 9 mid week meeting at 8 30 p m. A warm welcome is promised at the white church on the hill.
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Good Fellowship Society
Swan Lake
Senior class play at New Auditorium May 9 8 o clock
Local notices recap visits of Henry Fiebing Lena Von Hagel Rev Paul Meyer and others. Chicago and Sioux City relatives arrive. Auction of Service Record booklets offered by Auxiliary at Thorson Drug Store. Proceeds aid families with relatives in service. Purchase through Mrs. Hos H Sweeney within ten days. price 30 cents.
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Henry Fiebing
St. Paul
Minn
Lena von Ha‘gel
Paul Meyer
Grimes
Iowa
T. Meyer
John Decker
Cheiago
Emil Johnson
Ione
Lewis Abrahamson
Mark Coleman
Sioux City
Emil Berg
Amy Nylund
Akron Hospital
Irvin Bergland
Sioux Falls
Abel Bergland
Welcome
Fairmont
Bergland
Thorson Drug Store
Akron Honor Roll honors local service members on city lawn
Akron's Honor Roll, mounted on a lawn north of City Hall, lists families from Akron and nearby areas serving in the U S armed forces. The exhibit, lit at night and funded by Hoschler Post 186 American Legion the Akron Commercial Club and the Town, was designed and built by Fred Reinders of Hospers Iowa.
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Akron
United States
Hoschler Post, No. 186
American Legion
Akron Commercial Club
Fred Reinders
Hospers
Iowa
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Nana Reardon
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Essie
Ted Lamoureux
Sherwin Parker
Peedekda
Teleea
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Andrey Fey
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Cyril Larsen
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Joe Kellett
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Frank Trautt
Emery James
Rapid City
H. L. Smith
J. A. Pannhuk
T. Math. Luth
Chatsworth
Talbie Chatter
Big Springs
Oswar F. Breitharth
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Willard Brundeen
Arthur Bryan
Benj. H. Bryan
Clyde A. Bryant
Harold Bubbs
Howard C. Burker
LeRoy K. Burker
Wilson C. Burnight
Clayton Burnight
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Claude W. Burris
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