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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1935
Page
4
Mr and Mrs Marvin Rounds and son express heartfelt thanks to neighbors friends and relatives for kindness and sympathy during illness and after the death of their baby Daryl Harper. They thank Rev Meske for comforting words the choir for their selections and for floral offerings.
The McCorkell family offers thanks to neighbors and friends for sympathy and acts of kindness during the illness and after the death of their beloved wife and mother. They acknowledge the floral offerings and note advertisements from Akron merchants in the Register-Tribune urging reading to save money by spending at home.
Public library notes summarize March additions including 34 purchased books and 6 donated, 29 repaired, 11 new borrowers, and circulation figures with 1,648 loans and a 97 average daily rate. The four weeks added fiction and non fiction titles including Dark Canyon and Oliver Twist. The year ending March 31, 1935 shows 2,726 volumes, 298 additions, 474 repairs, 13,009 loans, and 176 new borrower cards issued, with a silver tea donation funding a new cataloging typewriter.
The AAA, via County Agent C H Thompson, announces changes to the ecorn hog production adjustment contract. Small producers without a hog base or with low storage production may breed one litter for home use but receive no hog payment. Signers with an average 1932-33 production of six hogs or less and no hog payment may slaughter excess pigs for home use, up to one litter under contract, without altering market hog limits. Affected growers may not exceed market limits but may use excess farrowed pigs for home consumption.
About twenty Akron High Seniors visited the University of South Dakota for Play Day with exhibits tours and a campus swimming display. The event concluded with a university and high school dance in the Armory.
At a LeMars board of supervisors meeting on Monday a contract was approved for a new bridge across the Floyd river on the road one mile north and east of Seney. The span will be 150 feet, the second largest in Plymouth county, with Harry Noel of Peterson, Iowa, the successful bidder at $12,150. Several bids came in within the engineer’s estimate.
At a May 7 1935 council meeting it was moved to publish a notice for all Light and Water Works customers who have not paid monthly statements since January 1 1936 to pay the balance in full by May 20 and to settle future statements by the 10th of each month. The superintendent was ordered to discontinue service after that date for noncompliance. This does not cancel accounts prior to January 1 1935. Signed by Mayor Dick Bolken and councilmen U T Wetzeler Aug Lundgren N J Brown J Dirks A W Jungon.
A heated letter to the Register-Tribune argues Akron laborers would fill jobs if wages rose, condemns city policy on pay, cost of piping to Akron Hospital, and suggests working men would spend earnings locally if conditions improved. The writer contends relief programs rise from hard times and urges merchants and workers to support each other.
A reader laments laborers being shut out as the city council and merchants fail to support workers. He accuses Mars or Des Moines of deciding priorities, noting pipe work was hurried and wages spent elsewhere. He calls Akron dead for labor, urging local action for jobs.
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