Shall Akron Celebrate the Glorious 4th
A meeting of citizens will be held tomorrow evening May 16 at 7 30 in the Council Chamber to decide the celebration. All interested are urged to attend. A large turnout is requested.
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
5
A meeting of citizens will be held tomorrow evening May 16 at 7 30 in the Council Chamber to decide the celebration. All interested are urged to attend. A large turnout is requested.
Local items report A. L. Yeaton in Bronx City on business, Cobb's ads for paints wallpapers and sunproof paints, plus prices on shell and chicken feeds. Relatives visit, travels to Sioux City, Chicago and Illinois towns. farm news notes bumper corn planting, creamery needs, and ball team loss. Community announcements include wallpaper sales, temperance sermons, and preparations for Epworth League program.
Akron band members plan a musical and vaudeville entertainment and a basket social at the opera house on Tuesday evening, May 26. Proceeds will buy a complete new band outfit costing 255 dollars, to be owned by the organization. The program will include local talent, vaudeville sketches, and a one act farce, with baskets on sale.
Sanitas Underwear reports customer satisfaction as a new shipment arrives. Straw hats come in four large lots priced 10, 25, 35, and 50 cents each.
The Western Tourist Party of 1905 gathered at Dy and Mrs. H. H. Cilley’s home for a 6 o’clock dinner on Tuesday. Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Cilley, Etta Ross Klauer, Clarice Maxson Hughes, Eva Lillibridge Jessup, Avis Williams, Hstalline Rhodes, and Josie Agnes attended. Mrs. Burr Hughes’s visit helped organize the reunion. Honorary members Hughes, Jessup, and Klauer attended. Klauer was present. The event recalled western days with humorous place-card cartoons. the Cilley party’s pleasures rival those of the Taft party. An ad in the Want Column is a profitable investment.
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