Chatsworth Chats Special Correspondence Social Callers
Charles Hendricks and Wes Crow visited Sioux City Hawarden and Akron last week. Local visits included Mr. and Mrs. Jack Popken of Akron and Mrs. Dorothy Kaufman of Correctionville visiting Popken family. Henry Collmann, Tricia’s birthday, and multiple dinner and Sunday gatherings highlight a bustling social week across Chatsworth Alcester Akron Ireton Hawarden and Mason City references. Eighty eight year birthday for Henry Collman drew relatives from many towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hendricks
Wes Crow
Sioux City
Hawarden
Akron
Dick Popken
Jack Popken
Dorothy Kaufman
Correctionville
Mr. Popken
Jack Hendricks
Alcester
Henry Collmann
F. Hemmelrick
John Ludwigs
Tricia
Elsie Jacobs
Opal Hemmelrick
Tim Repp
Lawrence Ludwigs
Les Ludwigs
Arthur Jones
Ireton
Ruben Buchmans
Cass Dennison
J. J. Steckelberg
Elk Point
Henry Collman
Mr. Collman
Mason City
Cherokee
Hartley
le Mars
Omaha
Chatsworth
Craig
Good Turn Bags To Be Distributed In Akron Saturday
The Prairie Gold Area Council urges Akron residents to fill Good Turn Day Bags with clothing and items for handicapped workers at Goodwill Industries. Cub Scouts under Jim Henrich will distribute bags this Saturday, May 19, with collections by 8 30 a m on May 26. Do not include newspapers or magazines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Gold Area Council
Jim Henrich
Akron
Goodwill Industries
Boy Scouts
Westfield News Special Correspondence Highlights Community Events
Esther Moffatt returned from Missouri and Oklahoma with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Harkness of Le Mars visiting Dave Moffatt in Joplin and Tahlequah to see Bessie Elliott. Westfield High plans Baccalaureate May 20 with Fr. Stone as speaker. Vale dictorian Jules Banks and Salutatorian Allen Heyer. Graduation May 22, 8 p.m.. 8th Grade Promotion May 23, and last day May 24. Mrs. William Kruse earned a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from the University of South Dakota on May 12, followed by a reception. Families Mr. and Mrs. Ed Faust and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Caskey honored mothers at local gatherings. Mrs. Nora Kamradt visited in Sioux City. Kitchen Chat mentions butter and splatter tips and a flour trick for hot fat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther Moffatt
Missouri
Oklahoma
Everett Harkness
le Mars
Dave Moffatt
Joplin
Tahlequah
Bessie Elliott
Westfield Community High School
Stone
Jules Banks
Allen Heyer
William Kruse
University of South Dakota
Ed Faust
Helen Faust
Fife and Drum
Sioux City
Joe Caskey
Marie Caskey
Darius Smith
Harry Porch
Nora Kamradt
Lowell Kamradt
Nursing home notes mark unusual quiet week
A sequence of visits highlights a quiet week at the Home as many families from Ireton Sioux City Hawarden Le Mars Chatsworth Sutherland Bruns ville and other towns visit mothers and housekeepers. Mother's Day events include cheerfully given favors and a bowling meeting thanks to Akron businessmen and the Women's Bowling Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Grosenheider
Ireton
Laura Jurgensen
Robert Jurgensen
Sioux City
Lavonne Baack
le Mars
Walter Huebner
Hawarden
Hattie Bultman
John Bultman
Chatsworth
George Bultman
Ronald Huls
Wayne Huls
Verle E. Barwick
William van Wyhe
Lizzie Tindall
Lizzie
Alfred Wilken
John Wilken
John Osterbuhr
Brunsville
Albert Osterbuhr
Lois Graving
West Bend
Andrea Simonetti
Andrea
Gordon Bryant
Sutherland
Alice Bryant
Adaville Church
Eldon Bryant
S. Dak
Betty Miller
Alice Hanson
Margaret Hartman
Mickey Jespersen
Allen Ferurhelm
William Ferurhelm
Marel Bennett
Verna Lewison
Betty Heyl
Peter Hoffman
Westfield
Arnold
Clark
Spencer and
Berrien
Akron
Women's Bowling Association
Meet this Sunday for town softball at the ball diamond
The community hosts a Sunday May 20 meeting at 2 00 PM for anyone interested in playing town softball. Also a bake sale and car wash proceeds go to the Methodist Junior choir robe fund and a memorial service is planned at Pleasant Hill Chapel with Dr T P Solem at 2 00 PM on May 20 1973.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red's Ford
Methodist Junior Choir
Pleasant Hill Chapel
T. P. Solem
Engagement announced for Eugena Loetz and Wayne Blake in Akron
Mr and Mrs Francis Loetz announce the engagement of their daughter Eugena to Wayne Blake son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Blake both of Akron An early fall wedding is planned Eugena is a 1973 Briar Cliff College graduate Wayne a 1972 University of South Dakota Springfield SD alumnus
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Loetz
Eugena
Wayne Blake
Kenneth Blake
Akron
Briar Cliff College
Wayne
University of South Dakota At
Springfield
Open House Marks First Year Of Plains Area Mental Health Center
May eight attendance at the Plains Area Mental Health Center open house in Le Mars highlighted the center’s first year of operation. Board members were elected and re-elected, with Dr Chas Lemke as Chairman and Arian Beech as Vice-Chairman. The center expanded to five days a week, saw 166 patients, and plans to grow services in Plymouth County while seeking certification from the Iowa Mental Health Authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains Area Mental Health Center
Plymouth County
Floyd Valley Hospital
le Mars
Shirley Pavlie
George Phelps
Ralph Burdette
Tom Balm
Richard Bauerly
Arlan Beech
Kay Dull
Robert Embree
Iowa Mental Health Authority
Plains Area Mental Health, Inc
Howard Marty
Cherokee
Chas. Lemke
Arian Beech
Mildred Kurtz
Bruce Mauer
Mailbox improvement week set for May 21 26
Postmaster Arden Johnson announces mailbox improvement week May 21 through 26 to urge rural and urban routes to inspect and improve mailboxes. Guidance covers standards for weather protection neat appearance proper numbering and winter adaptations to aid carriers and customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arden Johnson
Postal Service
Johnson
Way Back Yonder Akron Glimpses of town history
Items from the Akron Register-Tribune files recount anniversaries births and marriages over decades. Entries note a mill shutdown due to high river water surges, riverfront survey work, and a long-running flood problem in the southwest. A snowswept crossing accident and local business reopenings appear among brief local notices.
Briar Cliff honors Eugena Loetz with science degree
Eugena Marie Loetz received a bachelor of science in natural science from Briar Cliff college at commencement on May 12. She participated in the freshman honors program and served on the yearbook staff. A Akron Community high school graduate, she is the daughter of Francis G. and the late Mrs. Loetz of Akron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugena Marie Loetz
Briar Cliff College
Miss Loetz
Briar Cliff
Akron Community High School
Francis G. Loetz
Akron
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Akron Register-Tribune
Iowa
Good News, Inc. Owners & Publishers
Shorty" Hazel
Deborah Singer
Bill Miller
Plymouth
Sioux
Woodbury
Union County
S. D
LE Inpape
Westfield News
Nursing Home News
Donna Leekley
Jules
Kevin Rohmiller
Pat Brown
Steve. Minnis
Marcia
Leekley
Rick Pearson
Robinson
Vincent “Pavlik
Joe Evenson
Mniohnette Rusk
Allan Heyer
Edward Waddell
Kevin
Moffatt
Mike
Vrana
Orris
Huron, S.C
Robert
Dakota Bible College
Robert Hoogensen
Jennifer and
Stephen
Mason City, In
Marion Morehead
Mr. Hoogensen
St. Joseph
P. H. Chapel
Erma Carlson
Neil McLane, Sr
Roxanne Elizabeth Olson
Richard Olson
Minneapolis, Minn
Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church
Minneapolis
Olson
Patricia McLane
Melane
Alan Oetken
Mervin Oetken
Richard Oetken
Toby
Staci
Castle Inn
Vermillion
Alan
Marlene Hitzemann
Marlene
Rickey Lorensen
Mesdames
Frances Miller
Corriene Horton
Irene Gabel
Jo Lorensen
Beverly Lorensen
Judy Lorensen
Kyle Sand
Helen Snow
Shirley Hillrichs
Marge Willer
Lois Willer
Plains
Dr. Trotaig
Akron Hospital
Herb Yates
Dr. Trotzig
Pastor Roy
Akron Ambulance
Ed Dirks
Father Shot
P.S. Culhaine
Ellen Johnson
Arnold Ericson
Akron Milling Co
Hines
Geo. Hitzemann
Wm. Simeon
Lyman Edward Harding
Louis Koch
Wm. Strobelin
Flora M. Beck
R. Vinton Ellis
Dick Bohlken
Milltreet
Vinton Moffatt
Delbert Hoffman
Elihu Blickem
Ed. C. Johnson
Ernie Luce
Curtiss Brown Bean
T. Cummins
C. Metz
J. W. Hedges
Kewanee
Edith Gertrude Curtis
Alfred G. Nelson
Jerry Smith
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C
Bernice Reid
Andrew Johnson
Miriam K. Keane
Donald A. Barclay
J. O. Kennell
George A. Johnston
C. J. Carper
Harry Hills
Donald Huygens
State University of Iowa
Art B. Thomas
Eagles' Auxiliary
M. P
Opal Lamoureux
Maxiene Thomas
Hyman Gusman
Geo. Harkness
Allan M. Smith
John Willis Nelson
Art Coon
Akron Ball Park
Maurine Borchers
John Laux
Richard Hedeby
Linda Larsen
Eugena Loetz
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